lynn redgrave
Specializing in comedic roles, Lynn Redgrave made significant contributions to her illustrious family’s five-generation-long reputation for producing fine British actors. [1]
On 2 April 1967, Lynn Redgrave married the English actor John Clark. [2]
Her sister is actress Vanessa Redgrave; her brother was actor and political activist Corin Redgrave. [3]
By the mid-1960s she had appeared in several films, including Tom Jones (1963), and Georgy Girl (1966) which won her a New York Film Critics Award and nominations for an Academy Award and a Golden Globe Award. [2]
Tall, likeable and endearing actress of both the English and American stage and screen, Lynn Redgrave was born on the 8th of March 1943 in London, England to one of the world’s most famous acting dynasties. [4]
The daughter of actors Sir Michael Redgrave and Rachel Kempson and the sister of actors Corin and Vanessa Redgrave, the London-born Redgrave studied acting at the Central School of Music and Drama. [...] Her work earned her an Oscar nomination and a Best Actress award from the New York Film Critics and led to her playing leading roles in a number of films on both sides of the Atlantic. [1]
She was also reported to be writing a one-woman play about her battle with breast cancer and her 2003 mastectomy, based on her book Journal: A Mother and Daughter’s Recovery from Breast Cancer with photos by her daughter Annabel and text by Redgrave herself. [...] A member of the well-known British family of actors, Redgrave trained in London before making her theatrical debut in 1962. [3]
Daughter of Sir Michael Redgrave and sister of Vanessa Redgrave and Corin Redgrave, surprisingly her early aspirations were to become an equestrienne or a chef and it wasn’t until the age of 15 that she became more and more involved in acting and her father’s stage performances. [...] It wasn’t until her lovable role as the ugly-duckling in Georgy Girl (1966), that she was taken notice and as a result won both the Golden Globe, New York Film Critics Circle Award and a nomination for the coveted Best Actress at the 1967 Academy Award s. [4]
John Lithgow highlights the supporting cast as Kinsey’s repressed and moralistic father, while Chris O’Donnell, Peter Sarsgaard, and Timothy Hutton play members of Kinsey’s research team and Tim Curry appears as an IU faculty member at odds with Kinsey’s teachings. [5]
As a result she took time to write “Journal: A Mother and Daughter’s Recovery from Breast Cancer” with her youngest daughter in 2003 and tragically lost her 7 year battle on 2 May 2010 (aged 67) in her family home surrounded by her loved ones. [4]
In 1989 she appeared on Broadway in Love Letters with her husband John Clark, and thereafter they performed the play around the country, and on one occasion for the jury in the O. J. Simpson case. [...] In 2005, Redgrave appeared at Quinnipiac University and Connecticut College in the play Sisters of the Garden, about the sisters Fanny and Rebekka Mendelssohn and Nadia and Lili Boulanger. [3]
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[1] Lynn Redgrave: Information from Answers.com
[2] Lynn Redgrave - Wikipedia
[3] Lynn Redgrave
[4] Lynn Redgrave - Biography
[5] Lynn Redgrave Movies