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Dance with a Stranger at 40: Miranda Richardson on playing Britain’s last hanged woman

Dance with a Stranger at 40: Miranda Richardson on playing Britain’s last hanged woman

Four decades ago, the Oscar-nominated star became an overnight sensation for playing Ruth Ellis, a working-class woman sentenced to death for fatally shooting her upper-class lover. Sophie Monks Kaufman speaks to Richardson and her ‘Dance with a Stranger’ director, Mike Newell, about a classic of British cinema

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