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Actress: Gods and Monsters. Actress of both the English and American stage and screen, Lynn Redgrave was born in Marylebone, London, England, into one of the world's most famous acting dynasties. As the daughter of Rachel Kempson and Sir Michael Redgrave, sister of Vanessa Redgrave and Corin Redgrave, and granddaughter of Roy Redgrave and ...
- Actress, Soundtrack
- May 2, 2010
- March 8, 1943
Actress: Gods and Monsters. Actress of both the English and American stage and screen, Lynn Redgrave was born in Marylebone, London, England, into one of the world's most famous acting dynasties. As the daughter of Rachel Kempson and Sir Michael Redgrave, sister of Vanessa Redgrave and Corin Redgrave, and granddaughter of Roy Redgrave and ...
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- March 8, 1943
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- May 2, 2010
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Lynn Redgrave, (born March 8, 1943, London, England—died May 2, 2010, Kent, Connecticut, U.S.), British-born stage and screen actress who is perhaps best known for her breakout performance in the motion picture Georgy Girl (1966), for which she was nominated for an Academy Award. Although she never achieved the same fame as her elder sister, Vaness...
Lynn Redgrave was the third child of Michael Redgrave and Rachel Kempson, members of a distinguished acting dynasty that, in addition to Lynn Redgrave’s parents and siblings, included her grandfather, silent-film actor Roy Redgrave. She attended the Central School of Speech and Drama, London, and made her professional debut in 1962 as Helena in William Shakespeare’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream at the Royal Court Theatre, London. The following year she joined the National Theatre, London, and worked with such directors as Laurence Olivier, Franco Zeffirelli, and Noël Coward as well as the actors Peter O’Toole, Maggie Smith, her father, and others.
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In 1963 Redgrave made her screen debut, alongside Albert Finney and her mother, in Tom Jones. She gained international recognition for her performance in the romantic comedy Georgy Girl and went on to star in such movies as The Happy Hooker (1975), playing the Dutch call girl Xaviera Hollander; Getting It Right (1989), assuming the role of a lusty ...
Redgrave regularly performed onstage in Britain and in the United States, where she made her Broadway debut in 1967 in Peter Shaffer’s Black Comedy. Her other notable stage roles included Vicky in Charles Lawrence’s My Fat Friend (1974) and Masha in an acclaimed 1990 production of Anton Chekhov’s Three Sisters, which also starred her sister. In 199...
Redgrave starred in several television series in the United States, notably House Calls (1979–81) and Rude Awakening (1998–2001). She filed a lawsuit in 1981 against Universal Television, alleging that she had not been permitted to breastfeed in her dressing room during the taping of the former. Litigation dragged on for 13 years and was ultimately...
Redgrave was diagnosed with breast cancer in 2002 and had a mastectomy the following year. She wrote a journal about the experience, publishing it under the title Journal: A Mother and Daughter’s Recovery from Breast Cancer (2004), which includes photographs by her youngest daughter, Annabel Clark. Redgrave had two other children (Benjamin Clark and Pema Clark) with her husband and manager, John Clark (married 1967; divorced 2000). Redgrave died at the age of 67 in her home in Kent, Connecticut, one month after the death of her brother and about a year after the sudden death of her niece Richardson.
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Lynn edgrave was a British-born American actress who was a member of the esteemed Redgrave family of actors. She began her professional career in a production of Shakespeare’s well-known play ‘A Midsummer Night’s Dream’, playing the role of Helena.
May 3, 2010 · Lynn was born in London and, like Vanessa before her, attended Queen's Gate school, Kensington, and the Central School of Speech and Drama. Her first job was at the Royal Court in A Midsummer...
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May 4, 2010 · AP Photo. Actress Lynn Redgrave, whose resonant, deep voice and full figure propelled her to critical acclaim as the title character in the 1966 film Georgy Girl, died on Sunday. She was 67.
May 4, 2010 · Michael Kuchwara. Lynn Redgrave, an introspective and independent player in her family’s acting dynasty who became a 1960s sensation as the unconventional title character of “Georgy...
