For her very first film role in "The Golden Compass," 14-year-old Dakota Blue Richards had to look delicate but act feisty, sharing the screen with a talking bear and a malevolent monkey in an ...

Ten thousand English girls were called, but only one was chosen. Her name is Dakota Blue Richards. When director Chris Weitz finally made his casting choice of the 12-year-old actress who would pla… ...

Dakota Blue Richards is the seasoned film actress who stars in Warner Brothers' latest big-budget fantasy, 'The Secret of Moonacre'. Whether she's working the red carpet, on set with Nicole Kidman ...

Dakota Blue Richards is just like any other 13-year-old. She likes texting her mates, loves music, adores her iPod Nano, and constantly badgers her mother about getting a horse. Unlike most girls ...

Dakota Blue Richards (born 11 April 1994) is an English actress. Ten thousand girls turned up for open auditions in Cambridge, Oxford, Exeter and Kendal ...

At 13, the British schoolgirl beat out more than 10,000 other hopefuls at the open U.K. casting call last year to win the plum role of Lyra Belacqua, the young heroine of "The Golden Compass." ...