Dakota Blue Richards

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 for the role of Lyra Belacqua in the adaptation of His Dark Materials Northern Lights to the film The Golden Compass 2007 In June 2006 twelveyearold Dakota a Londoner schoolgirl was awarded the part after the casting directors took a shine to her in the Cambridge auditions Her mother is an American anthropologist