Éowyn, Lady of Rohan, is the daughter of Éomund, Marshall of the Mark, who was lost to Orc attack when she was only a girl. King Théoden brough Éowyn and her elder brother Éomer to Edoras and raised them as his own. The people of Rohan are by nature fierce and grave, but Éowyn's upbringing has weighed heavily upon her.

There has been little carefree pleasure in her life and laughter does not come easily to her. She is Willowy and fair, with her pale skin and her long hair like a river of gold. She is undeniably beautiful, but she has a shilly aspect and a regard as stern as steel. When Éowyn set her eyes upon the Lord Aragorn her heart was lost, but his heart was already given to Arwen Evenstar.

Éowyn wears an ancient sword, and she has as much skill in its use as any man. When Aragorn told her that he loved Arwen not her she fell into dispair. She rode with the armies of Rohan to find her death in battle. This did not happen. She bravely faught and destroyed the Witch King of Angmar. She was taken to the houses of healing where she found Faramir. The two of them fell in love and Faramir asked for her hand in marriage which she accepted.

After earning top accolades for her Australian film and stage work, Miranda Otto has recently completed work on both sides of the Atlantic. She will be seen starring as the title character in Julie Walking Home (filmed in Canada and Poland) for acclaimed Polish director Agnieszka Holland. The film premiered at the 2002 Venice and Toronto Film Festivals. Otto will also star in the forthcoming The Three Legged Fox, (filmed in Italy) directed by Sandro Dionisio, as well as Doctor Sleep (filmed in the UK), a thriller that also stars ER's Goran Visnjic.

Otto recently completed the Australian romantic comedy Danny and the Deckchair, in which she is re-teamed with Rhys Ifans. She was last seen on screen with Ifans alongside Tim Robbins and Patricia Arquette in Charlie Kaufman's first feature since Being John Malkovich, Human Nature. The dark comedy, directed by Michel Gondry, premiered at both the 2001 Cannes Film Festival and the 2002 Sundance Film Festival and was released in April 2002.

Otto garnered rave reviews this Spring for her portrayal of Nora Helmer in the Sydney Theatre Company's production of the Henrik Ibsen classic "A Doll's House."

A graduate of the prestigious Australian theatrical school NIDA, which also boasts such alumnae as Mel Gibson, Judy Davis and Cate Blanchett, Otto has been honored with Australian Film Institute award nominations for her work in In The Winter Dark, The Well, Daydream Believer, and The Last Days of Chez Nous. She also earned an Australian Film Critics Circle Award nomination for her performance in Last Days of Chez Nous, as well as for Love Serenade, which won the Camera d'Or at the Cannes Film Festival.

Otto's other credits include Robert Zemekis's What Lies Beneath, with Harrison Ford and Michelle Pfeiffer; Terence Malick's The Thin Red Line; Kin; Dead Letter Office; Doing Time for Patsy Cline; True Love and Chaos, and Jack Bull, opposite John Cusack, for HBO.

Biography from lordoftherings.net