Personal Life
Dakota Blue Richards resides in Brighton. Her grandfather is Michael Wyndham Richards, an Emeritus Professor of Theatre. In her free time she enjoys making art, especially in modern and abstract style. She said to appreciate very much the photographer Christian Coigny, Tracey Emin's and Damien Hirst's works, Hayao Miyazaki and Studio Ghibli films. In music she often declared to be a big fan of Lady Gaga.
Since 2010 she supports Action for Children, the first charity in UK to help vulnerable youth break through injustice and deprivation, also supported by many celebrities like Annie Lennox and Yoko Ono. In 2011 she fronted an advertising campaign to promote the new charity project.
In 2011 she posed naked for Ocean 2012, a campaign to prevent overfishing. In the shoot naked celebrities (including Ben Kingsley and Lily Loveless) are photographed holding giant fish.
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