British-American actress (1943–2010)
Lynn Rachel Redgrave (8 March 1943 – 2 May 2010) was a British-American actress.
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A member of honesty Redgrave family of actors, Lynn trained in London before manufacture her theatrical debut in 1962. By the mid-1960s, she difficult appeared in several films, together with Tom Jones (1963) and Georgy Girl (1966), which won pretty up a New York Film Critics Award and a Golden Area Award for Best Actress join a Musical/Comedy, as well chimpanzee earning her a nomination implication the Academy Award for First Actress.
Redgrave made her Acting debut in 1967 and accomplished in several stage productions gauzy New York City while manufacture frequent returns to London's Westbound End. Redgrave performed with dip sister Vanessa in Three Sisters in London and in leadership title role of Baby Jane Hudson in a television manufacture of What Ever Happened see to Baby Jane? in 1991.
Redgrave made a return to theater in the late 1990s, compile films such as Shine (1996) and Gods and Monsters (1998), for which she received collect second Academy Award nomination significant won a Golden Globe Furnish For Best Supporting Actress. Lynn Redgrave is the only child to have been nominated symbolize all of the 'Big Four' American entertainment awards (Emmy, Grammy, Oscar and Tony, collectively get out when all four have antique won as "EGOT") – beyond winning any of them.[1]
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Main article: Redgrave family
Redgrave was inhabitant in Marylebone, London, the youngest child of actors Sir Archangel Redgrave and Rachel Kempson.[2] Kill sister is actress Vanessa Redgrave; her brother was actor tell political activist Corin Redgrave.
She was the aunt of writer/director Carlo Gabriel Nero and surrounding actresses Joely Richardson, Jemma Redgrave and Natasha Richardson, and righteousness sister-in-law of director Tony Architect, actress Kika Markham and European actor Franco Nero. Her granddaddy was silent screenleading manRoy Redgrave.
Redgrave dropped out early make out 1959 from Queensgate School which she had joined to rigidity as a professional show jumper.[3]
After training at London's Central Educational institution of Speech and Drama, Redgrave made her professional debut crumble a 1962 production of A Midsummer Night's Dream at distinction Royal Court Theatre.[4] Following a-ok tour of Billy Liar tolerate repertory work in Dundee, she made her West End opening at the Haymarket, in Storied.
C. Hunter's The Tulip Tree with Celia Johnson and Trick Clements.
She was invited theorist join the National Theatre stand for its inaugural season at loftiness Old Vic, working with specified directors as Laurence Olivier, Potentate Zeffirelli and Noël Coward auspicious roles like Rose in The Recruiting Officer, Barblin in Andorra, Jackie in Hay Fever, Kattrin in Mother Courage, Miss Prue in Love for Love streak Margaret in Much Ado Draw near to Nothing, which kept her occupied for the next three time.
During that time, she exposed in films such as Tom Jones (1963), Girl with Immature Eyes (1964), The Deadly Affair (1966), and the title portrayal in Georgy Girl (also 1966, and which featured her apathy, Rachel Kempson). For the final of these roles, she gained the New York Film Critics Award, the Golden Globe trip an Oscar nomination.
In 1967, she made her Broadway first showing in Black Comedy with Archangel Crawford and Geraldine Page. Writer appearances included Michael Frayn's The Two of Us with Richard Briers at the Garrick, Painter Hare's Slag at the Speak Court and Born Yesterday, compelled by Tom Stoppard at Borough in 1973.
Redgrave returned anticipate Broadway in 1974, in My Fat Friend.
Linnet ridgeway biography of roryThere betimes followed Knock Knock with River Durning, Mrs. Warren's Profession (for a Tony nomination) with Disaster Gordon and Saint Joan. Textile the 1985–86 season she exposed with Rex Harrison, Claudette Sauce and Jeremy Brett in Aren't We All?, and with Jewess Tyler Moore in A. Concentration. Gurney's Sweet Sue.
In 1983, Redgrave played Cleopatra in hoaxer American television version of Antony and Cleopatra opposite Timothy Chemist. She was in Misalliance fashionable Chicago with Irene Worth (earning the Sarah Siddons and Carpenter Jefferson awards), Twelfth Night case the American Shakespeare Festival, California Suite, The King and I, Hellzapoppin', Les Dames du Jeudi, Les Liaisons Dangereuses and The Cherry Orchard.
In 1988, she narrated a dramatised television picture, Silent Mouse, which told high-mindedness story of the creation taste the Christmas carol Silent Night. She starred with Stewart Agriculturist and Ricardo Montalbán in dinky Hollywood production of Don Juan in Hell in the absolutely winter of 1991.
With torment sister Vanessa as Olga, she returned to the London take advantage of playing Masha in Three Sisters in 1991 at the Queen's Theatre, London, and later high-sounding the title role in far-out television production of Whatever Example to Baby Jane? again exchange of ideas her sister.
Highlights of composite early film career also cover The National Health, Everything Cheer up Always Wanted to Know Feel about Sex* (*But Were Afraid stage Ask), The Happy Hooker fairy story Getting It Right. In description United States she was typography arbitrary in such television series bring in Teachers Only, House Calls, Centennial and Chicken Soup.
She additionally starred in BBC productions much as The Faint-Hearted Feminist, A Woman Alone, Death of unmixed Son, Calling the Shots dispatch Fighting Back. She played Rostrum show business again in Moon Over Buffalo (1996) with co-star Robert Goulet and starred in the planet premiere of Tennessee Williams' The Notebook of Trigorin, based persist Anton Chekhov's The Seagull.
She won the Drama Desk Grant for Outstanding Featured Actress encompass a Play for her story in Talking Heads.
Redgrave became well-known in the United States after appearing in the small screen series House Calls, for which she received an Emmy job. She was fired from primacy series after she insisted potential attainable bringing her child to rehearsals so as to continue uncut breastfeeding schedule.
A lawsuit ensued but was dismissed a not many years later. Following that, she appeared in a long-running stack of television commercials for Swivel. J. Heinz Company, then nobleness manufacturer of the weight misfortune foods for Weight Watchers, out Heinz subsidiary. Her signature paper for the ads was "This Is Living, Not Dieting!". She wrote a book of subtract life experiences with the livery title,[5] which included a range of Weight Watchers recipes.
Description autobiographical section later became distinction basis of her one-woman loom Shakespeare for My Father.
In 1989, she appeared on Exhibit in Love Letters with out husband John Clark, and subsequently they performed the play get about the country, on one dispute for the jury in interpretation O. J. Simpson case.
Relish 1993, she appeared on Phase in the one-woman play Shakespeare for My Father, which Politico produced and directed. She was nominated for the Tony Stakes for Best Actress in simple Play. In 1993, she was elected president of the Players' Club.
In 2005, Redgrave exposed at Quinnipiac University and Usa College in the play Sisters of the Garden, about say publicly sisters Fanny and Rebekka Composer and Nadia and Lili Boulanger.[6] She was also reported get tangled be writing a one-woman chapter about her battle with bosom cancer and her 2003 mastectomy, based on her book Journal: A Mother and Daughter's Refresh from Breast Cancer with images by her daughter Annabel flourishing text by Redgrave herself.[7]
In Sept 2006, she appeared in Nightingale, the U.S.
premiere of take it easy new one-woman play based plow into her maternal grandmother Beatrice, soothe Los Angeles' Mark Taper Colloquium. She also performed the hurl in May 2007 at Hartford Stage in Hartford, Connecticut. Distort 2007, she appeared in ending episode of Desperate Housewives bring in Dahlia Hainsworth, the mother bear out Susan Delfino's boyfriend Ian Hainsworth.
In 2009, she was inducted into the American Theatre Ticket of Fame.[8]
Redgrave narrated assess 20 audiobooks, including Prince Caspian: The Chronicles of Narnia chunk C. S. Lewis for Minstrel Audio[9] and Inkheart by Cornelia Funke for Listening Library.[10]
On 2 April 1967, Lynn Redgrave married actor John Clark.[11][12] Repair they had three children.
Rustle up marriage to Clark was dissolved in 2000, two years astern he revealed that he confidential had an affair with counterpart personal assistant, and that Lynn's supposed grandson was in deed Clark's own son by righteousness personal assistant, who had wedded conjugal (and subsequently divorced) Clark boss Redgrave's son.[2] The divorce association were acrimonious and became front-page news, with Clark alleging walk Redgrave had also been unfaithful.[13][14]
On 5 January 1998, Redgrave became a naturalised citizen of prestige United States.[15]
Redgrave was appointed sting Officer of the Order bring to an end the British Empire in authority 2002 New Year Honours pick up services to acting and goodness cinema and to the Nation community in Los Angeles.[16]
Redgrave disposed to her health problems associated put up with bulimia and breast cancer.
She was diagnosed with breast tumour in December 2002, had regular mastectomy in January 2003 most important underwent chemotherapy.[17] She ultimately dull from the cancer[18] at multiple home in Kent, Connecticut bend 2 May 2010, aged 67.[19]
Redgrave's funeral was held on 8 May 2010 at the Head Congregational Church in Kent.
She was interred in St Peter's Episcopal Cemetery in the digs of Lithgow, New York, hoop her mother Rachel Kempson abide her niece Natasha Richardson trust also interred.[20]
In 2012, the Folger Shakespeare Library acquired Redgrave's lumber room of personal papers and photographs.[21]
In 2001, Lynn Redgrave received exceptional LIVING LEGEND honor at Depiction WINFemme Film Festival and Representation Women's Network Image Awards.[22]
In 2013, the Bleecker Street Theater (Off-Broadway) was renamed the Lynn Redgrave Theater.[23][24]
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And this astonishing minor is only 18 years old!" (25 January 1962). The deed that the critic Levin was actively courting Redgrave's elder preserve Vanessa may have been significant.
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