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Lynn Rachel Redgrave OBE (born 8 March 1943 in London) is an English actress born into the famous acting Redgrave family.
Her parents are Sir Michael Redgrave and Rachel Kempson, Lady Redgrave, her brother is Corin Redgrave and her sister is Vanessa Redgrave. She is the aunt of Natasha Richardson, Joely Richardson and Jemma Redgrave.
Lynn Redgrave's stage debut was in the role of Helena in Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's Dream, directed by Tony Richardson for the English Stage Company at the Royal Court Theatre in January 1962. Her first film role was in a small part in Tom Jones in 1963. In 1966 she was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Actress for Georgy Girl.
She has worked on television, the London stage, and Broadway, including Black Comedy/White Lies, My Fat Friend, Shakespeare for My Father, Aren't We All?, and The Constant Wife. She has been nominated for three Tony Awards and four Drama Desk Awards (winning for Talking Heads), and is the 1977 and 1995 winner of the Sarah Siddons Award for her work in Chicago theatre.
Other films include The Happy Hooker, Every Little Crook and Nanny, Everything You Always Wanted to Know About Sex (But Were Afraid to Ask), The Big Bus, Sunday Lovers, and Shine.
From 1979 to 1981, she starred in the American television series House Calls.
In 1983, Redgrave became very well known in the United States when she began starring in a long-running series of television commercials for Weight Watchers. Prior to this, she had suffered from the eating disorder bulimia, telling People Magazine in 1992, "(Bingeing and purging) felt like a great discovery, as I suppose it is to most people. People complimented me on my weight, but inside I felt like s--t."
In 1967, she made her Broadway debut in Black Comedy/White Lies. She was also nominated for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress for Gods and Monsters. In the film, Kinsey, which starred her nephew-in-law, Liam Neeson, she has a brief but poignant and widely praised role.
In 1993 she was elected President of The Players, the historic bastion of Anglo/American theatre history following the time when women were finally allowed to become members.
In 1989 she appeared on Broadway in Love Letters with her husband John Clark, and thereafter performed the play, only with her husband, around the country, and on one occasion for the jury in the OJ Simpson case.
In 2003 she appeared on Broadway in a one-woman play Shakespeare For My Father devised and co-written with her husband, who also produced and directed. She was nominated for Best Actress in a Play Tony Award.
In 2000, Redgrave divorced her husband of 33 years, when he revealed that he had fathered a child for a family friend in need. At the family's suggestion, the friend married, then divorced, Redgrave and Clark's son Benjamin in order to gain a green card, (after which she sued the family). Details are made available at Clark's website , in which he reveals his legal fights. In 2002, Redgrave announced that she has breast cancer. She has written a play, The Mandrake Root, in which she starred.
On 30 March 2005, the website of Quinnipiac University in Hamden, Connecticut states that she appeared in the play Sisters of the Garden, about the Mendelssohn and Boulanger sisters.
As of early 2005, she is reported to be writing a one-woman play about her battle against cancer, from which she is evidently in remission, and her 2002 mastectomy, based on her book Journal: A Mother and Daughter's Recovery from Breast Cancer with photos by Annabel Clark (Redgrave and Clark's youngest daughter) and text by Redgrave herself.
In September, 2006, she appeared in "Nightingale", the U.S. premier of her new one-woman play based upon her maternal grandmother Beatrice, at Los Angeles' Mark Taper Forum. This will be her third play to concern itself with a family member.
Redgrave was appointed an Officer of the Order of the British Empire, after she became a naturalized citizen of the United States. She narrated Prince Caspian by C.S. Lewis for Harper Audio.
Selected filmography
* Tom Jones (1963)
* Georgy Girl (1966)
* Smashing Time (1967)
* The Virgin Soldiers (1969)
* Everything You Always Wanted to Know About Sex (But Were Afraid to Ask) (1972)
* The Happy Hooker (1975)
* The Big Bus (1976)
* Centennial (1978)
* Morgan Stewart's Coming Home (1987)
* Shine (1996)
* Gods and Monsters (1998)
* Strike! (1998)
* How to Kill Your Neighbor's Dog (2000)
* Venus and Mars (2001)
* Spider (2002)
* Unconditional Love (2002)
* The Wild Thornberrys Movie (2002) (voice)
* Hansel & Gretel (2002)
* Anita and Me (2002)
* Peter Pan (2003)
* Kinsey (2004)
* The White Countess (2005)
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Lynn Redgrave Reads from "Nightingale" | VF Daily | Vanity Fair“Nightingale,” a one-woman play written and performed by Lynn Redgrave, is inspired by an unfamiliar figure in the actress's iconic family: her maternal grandmother, Beatrice. Weaving imagined stories of her grandmother's life into the ... Continue reading
Happy Birthday, Lynn RedgraveThe Happy Hooker. Happy birthday, Lynn Redgrave. You were terrific in “The Happy Hooker.” Your research into the role must have been exhausting. Continue reading
Capsule reviews: `The Bounty Hunter' and others | Ammo GamesTheater review: In 'Nightingale,' Lynn Redgrave recreates the grandmother she barely knew. `Survivor' winner says she took huge gamble quitting job for show, no plans yet for $1M prize. It's a girl!: McConaughey, girlfriend announce ... Continue reading
Celebrities With Breast Cancer | Autopilot MasteryOther survivors include Rue McClanahan, Linda Ellerbee, Jill Eikenberry, Ann Jillian, Lynn Redgrave, Cokie Roberts, and Shirley Temple Black. These breast cancer patients used conventional treatments as well as alternative treatments. ... Continue reading
Lynn RedgraveLynn may not have the poise, or frankly the cheekbones, of her older sister Vanessa but she's certainly a more spunky actress, often attacking parts with a delicious joie de vivre. Nothing terribly exciting coming up at the moment. Continue reading
Lynn Redgrave To Appear In Ugly Betty Opener « CrushableMs Redgrave is a real coup for the show, which has been on a real casting roll lately (Jamie-Lynn Sigler, Kristen Johnson, Yaya Dacosta (playing the new Nico) and The New Adventures of Old Christine's Hamish Linklater, amongst a strong ... Continue reading
the passionate moviegoer: an education in willful denialAnd it doesn't hurt that the material (based on Lynn Barber's memoir) evokes those late '60s, Carnaby-era Brit films that starred Alan Bates, Rita Tushingham, Charlotte Rampling and Lynn Redgrave. Yes, bliss. ... Continue reading
Sage Slowdive (The Supporting Actress): Best Actress 1966: Lynn ...Georgy Girl is a dated movie, it's one of those "had to be there" type movies that centers on the early 60s culture of London, and it's pretty obvious Lynn Redgrave's performance must be "groovy" in order to comply with this. ... Continue reading
The Muppet Show - The Complete Third Season Movie StreamingEPISODE 23: Lynn Redgrave. Veering away from the variety-show format, this episode is a 25-minute Muppet production of “Robin Hood,” with Kermit as Robin, Redgrave as Maid Marian, Fozzie as Tiny John and Gonzo as the Sheriff of ... Continue reading
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