who plays lyra belacqua in the golden compass
Dakota Blue Richards Dakota Blue Richards (born 11 April 1994)[1] is an English actress. Her debut was in the film The Golden Compass, as the lead character Lyra Belacqua.[2][3] She was cast as the lead of two other films: Dustbin Baby, as wayward teenager April, and The Secret of Moonacre, as Maria, the latter of which was released February 2009.[4] She also played the character Franky Fitzgerald in the third generation of the E4 teen drama Skins.[5]
Nina Sosanya Sosanya played the character Alibe Silver in Treasure Island (2012). She has played a main character, Kate McKenzie, in series one to three of the BBC original drama Last Tango in Halifax during 2012â€“2015,[1] and a main character, Lucy Freeman, in the TV series W1A in 2014. In 2015, she starred with Catherine Tate and Mark Gatiss in a new play, The Vote, in the run-up to the UK 2015 General Election. In 2016, she started in the play Young Chekhov trilogy and as DCI Laura Porter in the ITV series Marcella.[1][5]