Jemma Redgrave
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Jemma Redgrave reading Poems from Guantánamo at the Center for Constitutional Rights in 2007
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Jemma Rebecca Redgrave 14 January 1965 London, England, UK |
| Occupation | Actress |
| Years active | 1988–present |
| Spouse(s) | Tim Owen (m. 1992, separated 1997–98) |
| Children | 2 |
| Parent(s) |
Corin Redgrave Deirdre Hamilton-Hill |
Jemma Rebecca Redgrave (born 14 January 1965) is a fourth-generation English actress of the Redgrave family.
Born in London, she is the daughter of the actor Corin Redgrave and his first wife Deirdre Hamilton-Hill, a former fashion model. They divorced when Jemma was nine. She has a brother Luke Redgrave, who is an assistant cameraman, and two half-brothers, Arden and Harvey Redgrave. Her mother died of breast cancer in 1997 and her father died of cancer in 2010.
She is the niece of actresses Vanessa Redgrave and Lynn Redgrave and cousin of Joely Richardson, Carlo Nero and Natasha Richardson.
Jemma Redgrave enrolled at the London Academy of Music and Dramatic Art at the age of 18.
After graduation she landed acting roles in the 1988 stage production of Strindberg's Easter, in Lady Windermere's Fan in Belfast, Northern Ireland, as Emily in Thornton Wilder's Our Town, Irina in a 1990 revival of Anton Chekhov's The Three Sisters in London's West End with her aunts Vanessa Redgrave and Lynn Redgrave, in 1993 with Colin Firth in Alexander Griboyedov's Chatsky at the Almeida Theatre, London and in A Midsummer Night's Dream in 2001 at the Albery Theatre, London. In 2010 she appeared in New York's Public Theater in The Great Game: Afghanistan which featured seven hours of on-stage acting. Redgrave appeared in four of the twelve plays.
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