Dakota Blue Richards

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Dakota Blue Richards (born April 11th, 1994) is an English actress. Her debut was in the recently-released film The Golden Compass, as the lead character Lyra Belacqua, having beaten 10,000 other girls to the part. She was also cast as the lead of another two movies, Dustbin Baby and The Secret of Moonacre, the latter of which was released February 2009. She also plays the main character "Franky", in the "Third Generation" of the E4 television series Skins.