Leading Ladies Lynn Redgrave
Georgy Girl/ Georgy
Tom Jones/Susan
Girl With The Green Eyes/ Baba Brennan
Gods And Monsters/ Hanna
Per Quinlan's Film Stars:
Warm, bouncy, extrovert, tawny haired British comedy actress , daughter of Sir Michael Redgrave and sister of Vanessa Redgrave. Her appeal was somewhat between Joyce Bullifant and Pauline Collins, and her Georgy Girl which won her an Academy Award nomination, was a tragi-comic tour de force.
Lynn Rachel Redgrave was born at London, England in 1943, the daughter of actor Michael Redgrave and from a theatrical family. Her sister was actress Vanessa Redgrave.
She trained in London before making her theatrical debut in 1962.
Ms. Redgrave made several films by the mid 1960's including Tom Jones (1963) and Georgy Girl (1966) and it was in the latter where she received an Academy Award nomination for Best Actress.as well as winning a New York Film Critics Award and a Golden Globe Award.
In 1967 she made her Broadway debut and performed in several stage productions in New York as well. She performed with her sister at London's West End in the production of Three Sisters.
She returned back to films in the late 1990's.
Some of the film roles of Lynn Redgrave were:
Tom Jones (1963) as Susan
Girl With Green Eyes (1964) as Baba Brennan
Sunday Out Of Season (1965-TV) as Elaine
The Deadly Affair (1966) as Virgin
Georgy Girl (1966) as Georgy
Smashing Time (1967) as Yvonne
The Virgin Soldiers (1969) as Phillipa Raskin
Last Of The Mobile Hot Shots (1970) as Myrtle Kane
Don't Turn The Other Cheek (1971) as Mary O'Donnell
Every Little Crook And Nanny (1972) as Miss Poole
Everything You wanted To Know About Sex - But Were Afraid To Ask (1972) as The Queen
The National Health 1973) as Nurse Sweet/ Nurse Betty Martin
Vienna 1990 (1974-TV Miniseries) as Berta Garland
The Turn Of The Screw (1974-TV) as Miss Jane Cubberly
The Happy Hooker (1975) as Xaviera Hollander
Daft As A Brush (1975-TV) as Josie
The Big Bus (1976) as Camille Levy
Centennial (1978-1979 TV Miniseries) as Charlotte Buckland Seccombe
Sooner Or Later (1979-TV) as The Teacher
Beggar Man, Thief (1979-TV) as Kate Jordache
Gauguin The Savage (1980-TV) as Mette Gad
The Seduction Of Miss Leona (1980-TV) as Miss Leone de Vose
Rehearsal For Murder (1982-TV) as Monica Welles
Antony And Cleopatra (1984-TV) as Cleopatra
The Bad Seed (1985-TV) as Monica Breedlove
My Two Loves (1986-TV) as Marjorie Lloyd
Walking On Air (1987-TV) as Mrs. Hepp
Morgan Stewart's Coming Home (1987) as Nancy Stewart
Getting It Right (1989) as Joan
Midnight (1989) as Midnight
The Great American Sex Scandal (1990-TV) as Abby Greyhousky
What Ever Happened To Baby Jane? (1991-TV) as Jane Hudson
Shine (1996) as Gillian
Toothless (1997-TV) as Rogers
Gods And Monsters (1998) as Hanna
White Lies (1998-TV) as Inga Kolneder
All I Wanna Do (1998) as Miss Mac Vane
Different (1999-TV) as Amanda Talmadge
Touched (1999) as Carrie
The Annihilation Of Fish (1999) as Poinsetta
A Season For Miracles (1999-TV) as Hon. Judge Nancy Jakes
The Simian Line (2000) as Katherine
The Next Best Thing (2000) as Helen Whittaker
Deeply (2000) as Celia
How To Kill Your Neighbor's Dog (2000) as Edna
Venus And Mars (2001) as Emily Vogel
My Kingdom (2001) as Mandy
My Sister's Keeper (2002-TV) as Helen Margaret Chapman
Spider (2002) as Mrs. Wilkinson
Unconditional Love (2002) as Nola Fox
Hansel & Gretel (2002) as Woman/Witch
Anita And Me (2002) as Mrs. Ormerod
Charlie's War (2003) as Grandma Lewis
Peter Pan (2003) as Aunt Millicent
Kinsey (2004) as Final Interview Subject
The White Countess (2005) as Olga Belinskaya
The Jane Austen Book Club (2007) as Mama Sky
Nurses (2007-TV) as Peggy Rice
Confessions Of A Shopaholic (2009) as Drunken Lady At Ball
Ms. Redgrave appeared as well on television in such programs as Comedy Playhouse, Armchair Theater, The Jerry Lewis Show, Love Story, A Touch Of Venus, The ABC Comedy Hour, BBC Play Of The Month, Kojak, House Calls, CBS Afternoon Playhouse, The Love Boat, Teachers Only, Fantasy Island, The Fainthearted Feminist, Murder She Wrote, Hotel, Screenplay, Great Performances, Chicken Soup, Screen Two, Calling The Shots, Rude Awakening, The Wild Thornberrys, Ms. Eloise, Desperate Housewives, Law & Order-Criminal Intent and Ugly Betty.
She played the role of Queen Elizabeth I in The Lost Colony outdoor drama in the summer of 2006 at Manteo, SC.
Ms. Redgrave was also active in recording voice books. She did about 20 which included Prince Caspian, The Chronicles Of Narnia ( by C. S. Lewis) and Inkheart ( by Cornelia Funke).
She was awarded and OBE (Officer Of The Order Of The British Empire) by Queen Elizabeth in 2001.
Ms. Redgrave was a naturalized citizen of the United States.
Lynn Redgrave was married to John Clark from 1967 to 2000. The marriage ended in divorce and the couple had three children.
Lynn Redgrave passed away in 2010 at age 67 from breast cancer.
Another of my favorite actresses, I enjoyed her in the films Georgy Girl, The Girl With The Green Eyes, The Happy Hooker, The Big Bus, Charlie's War, Gods And Monsters, Peter Pan, Centennial (TV) and Tom Jones.
Louie The Movie Buff