Lynn Redgrave - Biography

Last Editor: xcarx				Lynn Redgrave Biography -   Name : Lynn Redgrave Profession : Actress Birth Details : born March 8, 1943 in London, England Birth name : Lynn Rachel Redgrave Height : 5' 10" (1.78 m) Personal quotes : "Looking at my horrible ugly bulk on a huge screen was the turning point in my life." Spouse : John Clark (2 April 1967 - 22 December 2000) (divorced) 3 children

Lynn Redgrave Trivia -

Granddaughter of Roy Redgrave Children, with John Clark: Ben, Kelly Clark, Annabel Clark. Daughter of Michael Redgrave & Rachel Kempson, Sister of Corin Redgrave & Vanessa Redgrave Aunt of Natasha Richardson, Joely Richardson, Luke Redgrave and Jemma Redgrave. Tony award nomination for "Mrs. Warren's Profession" [1976] Became a naturalized U.S. citizen. Awarded an OBE, or Officer of the Order of British Empire, by Queen Elizabeth II in the New Year's Eve Honors List 2001. Both she and her sister, Vanessa Redgrave, were nominated for the 1966 Best Actress Academy Award. Lynn was nominated for Georgy Girl (1966), and Vanessa was nominated for Morgan: A Suitable Case for Treatment (1966). They both lost out to Elizabeth Taylor, who won for Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? (1966). Aunt of Carlo Gabriel Nero Was one of the judges in the 1972 Miss Universe pageant. Has twice been nominated for Broadway's Tony Award as Best Actress (Play): in 1976 for George Bernard Shaw's "Mrs. Warren's Profession;" and seventeen years later, in 1993, for "Shakespeare for My Father," her one-woman show about her relationship with her father, Michael Redgrave. Won the 2004 Barrymore Award (honoring Philadelphia theater) for Outstanding Leading Actress in a Play for "Collected Stories." Played "Final Interview Subject" in Kinsey (2004) as well as "The Queen" in Everything You Always Wanted to Know About Sex * But Were Afraid to Ask (1972), which was inspired by the sex manual by Dr. David Reuben, Everything You Always Wanted to Know About Sex (But Were Afraid to Ask) (1969), three years after the Masters & Johnson study Human Sexual Response.

Lynn Redgrave Detailed Biography -

Lynn Rachel Redgrave OBE (born March 8, 1943 in London, England) is a British–American 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 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. She has twice been nominated for Tony Awards 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 Morgan Stewart's Coming Home. From 1979 to 1981, she starred in the American television series House Calls. In 1998 she appeared in Strike! and was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress for Gods and Monsters. In her latest film, Kinsey, which starred her nephew-in-law, Liam Neeson, she has a brief but poignant and widely praised role. In 2000, Redgrave divorced her husband of 33 years, producer John Clark, when it was revealed that he had fathered a child with his assistant. The assistant eventually married, then divorced, Redgrave and Clark's son Benjamin. Several years ago, Redgrave announced that she has breast cancer. She has written a play, The Mandrake Root, in which she will star. As of March 23, 2005, the website of Quinnipiac University in Hamden, Connecticut states that she will be appearing live on stage in the play Sisters of the Garden, about the Mendelssohn and Boulanger sisters, on March 30, 2005. 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's youngest daughter) and text by Redgrave herself. Redgrave was appointed an Officer of the Order of the British Empire, although she later became a naturalized citizen of the U.S.. She narrated Prince Caspian by C.S. Lewis for Harper Audio.