Lynn Redgrave
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Lynn Rachel Redgrave (8 March 1943 – May 2010) was an English and American actress.
She received Emmy and Tony awards, was a two-time Oscar nominee, and was a two-time nominee for both Golden Globe Awards. Lynn, a member of the Redgrave family of actors, studied in London before making her Broadway debut in 1962.
She had appeared in many films by the mid-1960s, including Tom Jones (1963) and Georgy Girl (1966), which earned her a New York Film Critics Award for Best Actress in a Musical/Comedy, as well as receiving a nomination for an Academy Award. She made her Broadway debut in 1967 and appeared in numerous stage productions in New York, as well as making frequent visits to London's West End.
In the title role of Baby Jane Hudson in a television series What Ever Happened to Baby Jane, she starred alongside her sister Vanessa in Three Sisters in London and in the title role of Baby Jane Hudson. In 1991, the country was still a republic in the United States.
She appeared in films in the late 1990s and 2000, including Shine (1996) and Gods and Monsters (1998), for which she received her second Academy Award nomination and received a Golden Globe Award for Best Supporting Actress.
Lynn Redgrave is the only one to have been nominated for all of the 'Big Four' American entertainment awards (Grammy, Emmy, Oscar, and Tony) without winning any of them.
Early life and theatrical family
Redgrave was born in Marylebone, London, and was the youngest child of actor Sir Michael Redgrave and Rachel Kempson. Vanessa Redgrave's sister is a playwright; her brother is 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, as well as the sister-in-law of director Tony Richardson, actress Kika Markham, and Italian actor Franco Nero. Roy Redgrave, her grandfather, was a silent screen leading man.
Personal life
Lynn Redgrave married English actor John Clark on April 2nd, 1967. They had three children together. Clark's marriage to Clark was dissolved in 2000, two years after she revealed that he had a relationship with her personal assistant, Nicolette Hannah, and that Lynn's ostensible grandson Zachary was in fact Clark's own son by Hannah, who had married (and later divorced) their son Benjamin. The divorce proceedings were bitter and became front-page news, with Clark claiming that Redgrave had also been unfaithful.
In the 2002 New Year Honours for services to acting and the cinema, as well as to the British community in Los Angeles, Redgrave was appointed an Officer of the Order of the British Empire. She was a naturalized citizen of the United States.
Career
Redgrave made her professional debut in a 1962 revival of A Midsummer Night's Dream at the Royal Court Theatre after attending Central School of Speech and Drama in London. 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, as well as Raymond in Andorra, Kattrin in Love for Love, Robert Keffirelli, and Nol Coward in roles such as Rose in The Recruiting Officer, Barblin, Margaret in Much Ado About Nothing, which kept her busy for the next three years.
She appeared in films including Tom Jones (1963), Girl with Green Eyes (1964), The Deadly Affair (1966), and Georgy Girl (1966), which also starred Rachel Kempson. She received the New York Film Critics Award, the Golden Globe, and an Oscar nomination for the last two years.
In 1967, she appeared in Black comedy with Michael Crawford and Geraldine Page. Born Yesterday, 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 1973.
In My Fat Friend, Redgrave returned to Broadway in 1974. Knock Knock Knock was soon followed by Mr. Warren's Profession (for a Tony nomination) and Saint Joan, before Ruth Gordon and Saint Joan. She appeared in Aren't We All?, Claudette Colbert, and Jeremy Brett in Aren't We All?, and with Mary Tyler Moore in A. R. Gurney's Sweet Sue in 1985-86.
Redgrave appeared in Cleopatra in an American television adaptation of Antony and Cleopatra opposite Timothy Dalton in 1983. Irene Worth, in Misalliance, Chicago, was attracted to the American Shakespeare Festival's Twelfth Night, The King and I, Hellzapoppin', Les Liaisons Dangereuses, and The Cherry Orchard. Silent Mouse, a dramatized television film about the creation of the Christmas carol Silent Night, was narrated by Hannah in 1988. In a Hollywood production of Don Juan in Hell in the early winter of 1991, she appeared with Stewart Granger and Ricardo Montalbán.
Vanessa as Olga, a 21-year-old girl from Three Sisters, returned to the London stage in 1991 as Masha in Three Sisters and later appeared in Whatever Happened to Baby Jane, a television series. With her sister, she and her brother travelled again. The National Health, Everything You Always Wanted to Know About Sex (*But We're Afraid to Ask), The Happy Hooker, and Getting It Right are among her early film highlights from her debut. She appeared in such television series as Teachers Only, House Calls, Centennial, and Chicken Soup in the United States.
She has appeared in BBC programs such as The Faint-Hearted Feminist, A Woman Alone, Death of a Son, Calling the Shots, and Combating Back. She appeared in Moon Over Buffalo (1996) with co-star Robert Goulet, and appeared in Tennessee Williams' The Notebook of Triguin, based on Anton Chekhov's The Seagull. She received the Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Featured Actress in a Play for her role in Talking Heads.
Since appearing in the television series House Calls, for which she was nominated by Emmy, Redgrave became well-known in the United States. She was booted from the series after refusing to bring her child to rehearsals in order to maintain a breastfeeding schedule. A case was brought to a conclusion, but it was dismissed a few years later. She appeared in a long line of television commercials for H. J. Heinz Company, then the manufacturer of the weight loss products for Weight Watchers, a Heinz affiliate. "This Is Living, Not Dieting!" Her advertisement slogan read was "This Is Living, Not Dieting." With the same name, she wrote a book about her life experiences, which also included a collection of Weight Watchers recipes. The autobiographical section became the basis of her one-woman play Shakespeare for My Father.
On one occasion for the jury in the O. J. Simpson case, she appeared on Broadway in Love Letters with her husband John Clark, and later on, they performed the role around the country. In 1993, she appeared in Shakespeare's one-woman play Shakespeare for My Father, which Clark produced and directed. She was nominated for the Tony Award for Best Actress in a Play. She was elected president of the Players' Club in 1993.
In the late 1990s and 2000s, she hosted segments for the Encore True Stories premium cable network.
In 2005, Redgrave appeared in the play Sisters of the Garden at Quinnipiac University and Connecticut College, about the sisters Fanny and Rebekka Mendelssohn, as well as Nadia and Lili Boulanger. She was also announced to be writing a one-woman play about her breast cancer and her 2003 mastectomy, based on her book Journal: A Mother and Daughter's Recovering from Breast Cancer, with photos by her daughter Annabel and text by Redgrave herself.
At the Mark Taper Forum in Los Angeles, she appeared in Nightingale, the United States premiere of her new one-woman performance based on her maternal grandmother Beatrice's maternal grandmother Beatrice. She appeared in the Hartford Stage in Hartford, Connecticut, in May 2007. Dahlia Hainsworth, the mother of Susan Delfino's boyfriend Ian Hainsworth, appeared in an episode of Desperate Housewives in 2007.
She appeared in an episode of ABC's television series Ugly Betty as well as an episode of Law & Order: Criminal Intent.
She was inducted into the American Theatre Hall of Fame in 2009 and in 2009.
For Harper Audio and Inkheart by Cornelia Funke for Listening Library, Redgrave narrated approximately 20 audiobooks, including Prince Caspian: The Chronicles of Narnia by C. S. Lewis.