Lynn Redgrave
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Redgrave at the 2009 Toronto International Film Festival
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8 March 1943 Marylebone, London, England |
| Died | 2 May 2010 (aged 67) Kent, Connecticut, U.S. |
| Cause of death | Breast cancer |
| Resting place | Lithgow, New York, U.S. |
| Citizenship | British, American |
| Occupation | Actress |
| Years active | 1962–2009 |
| Spouse(s) | John Clark (m. 1967; div. 2000) |
| Children | 3 |
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| Website | www |
Lynn Redgrave, OBE (8 March 1943 – 2 May 2010) 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 (1963) and Georgy Girl (1966) 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 (1996) and Gods and Monsters (1998) for which she received another Academy Award nomination. Redgrave is the only person to have been nominated for all of the 'Big Four' American entertainment awards (Grammy, Emmy, Oscar, and Tony) without winning any of them.
Redgrave was born in Marylebone, London, to actors Sir Michael Redgrave and Rachel Kempson. Her sister is actress Vanessa Redgrave; her brother was actor and political activist Corin Redgrave. She was the aunt of writer/director Carlo Gabriel Nero and actresses Joely Richardson, Jemma Redgrave and Natasha Richardson and the sister in law of the director Tony Richardson, the Italian actor Franco Nero and the actress Kika Markham. Her grandfather was silent screen leading man Roy Redgrave.
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