Everything about Lynn Redgrave totally explained
Lynn Rachel Redgrave,
OBE (born
8 March,
1943) is two-time
Academy Award-nominated and
Golden Globe-winning
English/
American actress born into the famous
Redgrave acting family.
Biography
Early life and family
Redgrave was born in
London, England, the daughter of actors 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.
Career
After training in 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.
She was invited to join
The National Theatre for its inaugural season at the
Old Vic, working with such directors as
Laurence Olivier,
Franco Zeffirelli and
Noel Coward in roles such as Rose in
The Recruiting Officer, Barblin in
Andorra, Jackie in
Hay Fever, Kattrin in
Mother Courage, Miss Prue in
Love for Love, and Margaret in
Much Ado About Nothing which kept her busy for the next three years.
During that time she appeared in films such as
Tom Jones,
Girl With Green Eyes and
The Deadly Affair.In 1966, she appeared in the title role in
Georgy Girl, which earned her the
New York Film Critics Award, the Golden Globe and an Oscar nomination.
In 1967 she made her
Broadway debut in
Black Comedy with
Michael Crawford and
Geraldine Page. London appearances included
Michael Frayn's
The Two of Us with
Richard Briers at the Garrick,
David Hare's
Slag at the Royal Court, and
Born Yesterday, directed by
Tom Stoppard at
Greenwich.
In 1974, she returned to Broadway in
My Fat Friend. There soon followed Knock Knock with Charles Durning, Mrs Warren's Profession (for a Tony nomination) with Ruth Gordon, and Saint Joan. In the 1985/86 season she appeared with Rex Harrison, Claudette Colbert, and Jeremy Brett in Aren't We All? and with Mary Tyler Moore in A. R. Gurney's Sweet Sue. Outside New York, she was in Misalliance in Chicago with Irene Worth, (earning the Sarah Siddons and Joseph Jefferson awards), Twelfth Night at the American Shakespeare Festival, California Suite, The King and I, Hellzapoppin',
Les Dames du Jeudi,
Les Liaisons Dangereuses, and
The Cherry Orchard. In the early winter of 1991 she starred with
Stewart Granger and
Ricardo Montalban in a
Hollywood production of
Don Juan in Hell.
With her sister
Vanessa as Olga, she returned to the London stage playing Masha in
Three Sisters in 1991 at the
Queen's Theatre, London, and later played the title role in a television production of
Whatever Happened to Baby Jane?, again with her sister. Highlights of her early movie career also include
The National Health,
Everything You Always Wanted to Know About Sex,
The Happy Hooker and
Getting It Right. For American television she was seen in the series
Teachers Only,
House Calls,
Centennial and
Chicken Soup. She also starred in
BBC productions such as
The Faint-Hearted Feminist,
A Woman Alone,
Death of a Son,
Calling the Shots and
Fighting Back. She played Broadway again in
Moon Over Buffalo (1996) with co-star
Robert Goulet, and starred in the world premiere of
Tennessee Williams'
The Notebook of Trigorin, based on
Anton Chekhov's
The Seagull.
In 1993 she was elected President of
The Players, the famous theatrical club and historic bastion of American theatre history. 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 1993 she appeared on Broadway in the one-woman play
Shakespeare For My Father devised and co-written with her husband, who also produced and directed. She was nominated for the Tony Award for Best Actress in a Play.
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. She was also reported to be writing a one-woman play about her battle with
breast cancer, from which she's 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 is her third play to concern itself with a family member. She also performed the play in May 2007 at
Hartford Stage in
Hartford, Connecticut. In 2007, Redgrave appeared in an episode of
Desperate Housewives as Dahlia Hainsworth.
Personal life
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'd suffered from
bulimia, telling
People Magazine in 1992, "(bingeing and purging) felt like a great discovery, as I suppose it's to most people. People complimented me on my weight, but inside I felt like shit."
Redgrave was appointed an
Officer of the Order of the British Empire in 2001. She is a
naturalized citizen of the
United States. She narrated
Prince Caspian by
C. S. Lewis for Harper Audio.
Filmography
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