Lynn Redgrave
Lynn Rachel Redgrave OBE (8 March 1943 – 2 May 2010) was a British-American actress. She won two Golden Globe Awards during her career.
Lynn Redgrave
2 May 2010 (aged 67)
St. Peter's Episcopal Cemetery
Lithgow, New York, U.S.
United Kingdom
United States
Actress
1962–2010
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Vanessa Redgrave (sister)
Natasha Richardson (niece)
Joely Richardson (niece)
A member of the Redgrave family of actors, 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 a Golden Globe Award for Best Actress in a Musical/Comedy, as well as earning her a nomination for the Academy Award for Best Actress.
Redgrave made her Broadway debut in 1967 and performed in several stage productions in New York City while making frequent returns to London's West End. Redgrave 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.
Redgrave made a return to cinema in the late 1990s, in films such as Shine (1996) and Gods and Monsters (1998), for which she received her second Academy Award nomination and won a Golden Globe Award For Best Supporting Actress. Lynn Redgrave is the only person to have been nominated for all of the 'Big Four' American entertainment awards (Emmy, Grammy, Oscar and Tony, collectively known when all four have been won as "EGOT") – without winning any of them.[1]
Personal life[edit]
On 2 April 1967, Lynn Redgrave married actor John Clark.[9][10] Together they had three children. Her marriage to Clark was dissolved in 2000, two years after he revealed that he had had an affair with her personal assistant, Nicolette Hannah, and that Lynn's supposed grandson Zachary was in fact Clark's own son by Hannah, who had married (and subsequently divorced) their son Benjamin.[11] The divorce proceedings were acrimonious and became front-page news, with Clark alleging that Redgrave had also been unfaithful.[12][13]
On 5 January 1998, Redgrave became a naturalised citizen of the United States.[14]
Redgrave was appointed an Officer of the Order of the British Empire in the 2002 New Year Honours for services to acting and the cinema and to the British community in Los Angeles.[15]
Death[edit]
Redgrave discussed her health problems associated with bulimia and breast cancer. She was diagnosed with breast cancer in December 2002, had a mastectomy in January 2003 and underwent chemotherapy.[16] She ultimately died from the cancer[17] at her home in Kent, Connecticut on 2 May 2010, aged 67.[18]
Redgrave's funeral was held on 8 May 2010 at the First Congregational Church in Kent. She was interred in St Peter's Episcopal Cemetery in the hamlet of Lithgow, New York, where her mother Rachel Kempson and her niece Natasha Richardson are also interred.[19]
In 2012, the Folger Shakespeare Library acquired Redgrave's collection of personal papers and photographs.[20]
Legacy[edit]
In 2001, Lynn Redgrave received a LIVING LEGEND honor at The WINFemme Film Festival and The Women's Network Image Awards.[21]
In 2013, the Bleecker Street Theater (Off-Broadway) was renamed the Lynn Redgrave Theater.[22][23]