Lynn Redgrave
Actor, Theater Actor
1943 – 2010
Who was Lynn Redgrave?
Lynn Rachel Redgrave, OBE was an English actress.
A member of the Redgrave family, Lynn trained in London before making her theatrical debut in 1962. By the mid-1960s she had appeared in several films, including Tom Jones, and Georgy Girl which won her a New York Film Critics Award and nominations for an Academy Award and a Golden Globe Award.
In 1967, she made her Broadway debut, and performed in several stage productions in New York while making frequent returns to London's West End. She performed with her sister Vanessa in Three Sisters in London, and in the title role of Baby Jane Hudson in a television production of What Ever Happened to Baby Jane? in 1991. She made a return to films in the late 1990s in films such as Shine and Gods and Monsters, for which she received another Academy Award nomination. Redgrave is the only person to have been nominated for all of the 'Big Four' entertainment awards without winning any of them.
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- Born
- Mar 8, 1943
Marylebone - Also known as
- Lynn Rachel Redgrave
- Lynn Rachel Redgrave, OBE
- Lynn Redgrave-Clark
- Parents
- Siblings
- Spouses
- John Clark
(1967/04/02 - 2000/12/22)
- John Clark
- Children
- Nationality
- England
- Profession
- Education
- Central School of Speech and Drama
- Died
- May 2, 2010
Kent - Resting place
- Millbrook
Submitted
on July 23, 2013
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