Lynn Redgrave happens to be the aunt of Joely Kim Richardson well-known as Joely Richardson an English actress. She is known for her role as Julia McNamara in the FX drama series Nip/Tuck, and Queen Catherine Parr in the Showtime series The Tudors.
Joely Richardson aunt: Meet Lynn Redgrave
Lynn Rachel Redgrave OBE born Lynn Redgrave was an English actress. She won two Golden Globe Awards throughout her career. A member of the Redgrave family of actors, Lynn trained in London before making her theatrical debut in 1962
Redgrave was born in Marylebone, London, the youngest child of actors Sir Michael Redgrave and Rachel Kempson. She was born on March 8, 1943, in Marylebone, London, United Kingdom. She is white and hails from Britain.
Redgrave is a sister to actress Vanessa Redgrave, her brother was an actor and political activist Corin Redgrave. She was the aunt of writer/director Carlo Gabriel Nero and of actresses Joely Richardson, Jemma Redgrave, and Natasha Richardson, and the sister-in-law of director Tony Richardson, actress Kika Markham, and Italian actor Franco Nero. Her grandfather was silent screen leading man Roy Redgrave.
After training at London’s Central School of Speech and Drama, Redgrave made her professional debut in a 1962 production of A Midsummer Night’s Dream at the Royal Court Theatre. Following a tour of Billy Liar and repertory work in Dundee, she made her West End debut at the Haymarket, in N. C. Hunter’s The Tulip Tree with Celia Johnson and John Clements.
Redgrave narrated approximately 20 audiobooks, including Prince Caspian: The Chronicles of Narnia by C. S. Lewis for Harper Audio and Inkheart by Cornelia Funke for Listening Library.
On 2 April 1967, Lynn Redgrave married English actor John Clark. Together they had three children.
Redgrave was appointed an Officer of the Order of the British Empire in the 2002 New Year Honours for services to acting and the cinema and to the British community in Los Angeles. She was a naturalized citizen of the United States.
She was diagnosed with breast cancer in December 2002, had a mastectomy in January 2003, and underwent chemotherapy. She died from breast cancer at her home in Kent, Connecticut on 2 May 2010, aged 67.
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