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Lynn Redgrave

Lynn Redgrave

Birthday: 1943-03-08 | Place of Birth: London, England, UK

Lynn Rachel Redgrave, OBE (8 March 1943 – 2 May 2010) was an English actress. A member of the well-known British family of actors, Redgrave 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 in a television production of Whatever 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.

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Known For

Acting

Year
Title

Role

2010
My Dog Tulip

as    Nancy / Greengrocer's Wife (voice)

2009
Confessions of a Shopaholic

as    Drunken Lady at Ball

2007
2006
Little Miss Christmas

as    Nanny

2005
The White Countess

as    Olga Belinskya

2003
Peter Pan

as    Aunt Millicent

2003
Unconditional Love

as    Nola Fox

2002
The Wild Thornberrys Movie

as    Cordelia Thornberry (voice)

2002
2002
Spider

as    Mrs. Wilkinson

2002
Hansel & Gretel

as    Woman / Witch

2001
My Kingdom

as    Mandy

2000
Deeply

as    Celia

2000
The Next Best Thing

as    Helen Whittaker

2000
Lion of Oz

as    Wicked Witch of the East (voice)

1999
A Season for Miracles

as    Hon. Judge Nancy Jakes

1999
The Annihilation of Fish

as    Poinsettia

1998
Gods and Monsters

as    Hanna

1998
Strike!

as    Miss McVane

1997
Toothless

as    Rogers

1996
Shine

as    Gillian

1993
Calling the Shots

as    Maggie Donnelly

1987
Morgan Stewart's Coming Home

as    Nancy Stewart

1985
The Bad Seed

as    Monica Breedlove

1982
Teachers Only

as    Diana Swanson

1982
Rehearsal for Murder

as    Monica Welles

1981
Sunday Lovers

as    Lady Davina (sketch 'Maître en la demeure')

1979
House Calls

as    Ann Anderson