Corin Redgrave
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Corin Redgrave reading Poems from Guantánamo at the Center for Constitutional Rights in 2007
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| Born |
Corin William Redgrave 16 July 1939 Marylebone, London, England |
| Died | 6 April 2010 (aged 70) Tooting, London, England |
| Cause of death | Prostate cancer |
| Resting place | Highgate Cemetery |
| Nationality | British |
| Alma mater | Kings College, Cambridge |
| Occupation | Actor, political activist |
| Years active | 1964–2009 |
| Spouse(s) | Deirdre Hamilton-Hill (1962–1975) Kika Markham (1985–2010, his death) |
| Children | 4; including Jemma |
| Parent(s) |
Michael Redgrave (1908–1985) Rachel Kempson(1910–2003) |
Corin William Redgrave (16 July 1939 – 6 April 2010) was an English actor and far-left political activist.
Redgrave was born on 16 July 1939 in Marylebone, London, the only son and middle child of actors Michael Redgrave and Rachel Kempson. He was educated at Westminster School and King's College, Cambridge.
Redgrave played a wide range of character roles on film, television and stage.
On stage, he was noted for performances by Shakespeare (such as Much Ado About Nothing, Henry IV, Part 1, Antony and Cleopatra, and The Tempest) and Noël Coward (a highly successful revival of A Song At Twilight co-starring his sister Vanessa Redgrave and his second wife, Kika Markham).
For his role as the prison warden Boss Whalen in the Royal National Theatre production of Tennessee Williams's Not About Nightingales, Redgrave was nominated for an Evening Standard Award, and after a successful transfer of the production to New York, he received a Tony Award nomination for Best Actor in a Play, in 1999. Two years later he starred in the original London production of The General from America as Benedict Arnold. When the play transferred to Broadway the following season Redgrave switched roles and portrayed George Washington .
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