Linguistic Society of America There are different sign languages all over the world, just as there are different spoken lan-guages. ASL and British Sign Language are differ-ent, mutually unintelligible languages. Because the American and British Deaf communities were not in contact with each other, the two languages developed independently.
[Source] Miranda Richardson (born 3 March, 1958) plays Rita Skeeter in Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire and Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 1.
Her other credits include the title role in a biopic of actress Rita Hayworth (born Margarita Carmen Cansino), titled Rita Hayworth: The Love Goddess (1983) and a variety of her own musical TV specials: Lynda Carter's Special (1980), Encore! (1980), Celebration (1981), Street Life (1982), and Body And Soul (1984).