Lynn Redgrave – Georgy Girl of the 60s – dies of cancer | Film | The Guardian Lynn Redgrave – Georgy Girl of the 60s – dies of cancer Actor nominated for Oscar in 60s and 90s dies at 67, weeks after brother Corin's death Lynn Redgrave, who has died in New York, aged 67. Photograph: Evan Agostini/AP Close This article is 6 years old Actor Lynn Redgrave , the sister of Vanessa Redgrave, has died aged 67 after a lengthy battle with cancer, just one month after the death of her brother Corin. Her son Ben and daughters Pema and Annabel were at her bedside when she died at her home in Connecticut yesterday, her publicist Rick Miramontez announcedtoday. In a statement, her children said: "Our beloved mother Lynn Rachel passed away peacefully after a seven-year journey with breast cancer. She lived, loved and worked harder than ever before. The endless memories she created as a mother, grandmother, writer, actor and friend will sustain us for the rest of our lives." She is the third member of the Redgrave acting dynasty to die in just over a year.

Her niece Natasha Richardson, 45, daughter of Vanessa and wife of Irish actor Liam Neeson, died from head injuries suffered in a skiing accident in Quebec in March 2009. Redgrave, who shot to fame with the lead role in 1960s hit Georgy Girl, was the youngest of Sir Michael Redgrave and Rachel Kempson's three children. Though successful on film and stage – she received Oscar nominations for Georgy Girl and for 1998's Gods and Monsters – she never received the acclaim accorded to her sister. She would admit, in later life, her family did not have great expectations of her. "Vanessa was the one expected to be the great actress," she said in an Associated Press interview in 1999. "It was always, 'Corin's the brain, Vanessa the shining star, oh, and then there's Lynn." One of her last appearances in public was at the funeral of Corin, 70, an actor and leftwing activist, at the "actor's" church, St Paul's in Covent Garden, on 12 April.

Though looking extremely frail, supported by family and with her head covered in a black scarf, she raised laughter at the service when she recalled how he taught her to climb trees without telling her how to get back down again. She appeared in several other films in the 60s, including Tom Jones and Girl with Green Eyes, for which she was nominated for a Bafta. She married actor and director John Clark in 1967 – they divorced in 2000 – and moved to America and became a US citizen. She made her Broadway debut in 1967, but returned frequently to London's West End, where, in Three Sisters, she performed with Vanessa. She was better known in the US, where she appeared in television series House Calls, as well as in adverts for Weight Watchers. Her autobiography, This is Living, contained a candid account of her life, including her battle with bulimia. The book provided a basis for her one‑woman play, Shakespeare for My Father. In 2004, she released a book written with her daughter Annabel Clark about her fight against cancer, titled A Mother and Daughter's Recovery from Breast Cancer.

The 1990s saw a revival in her film career with 1996 hit Shine, as well as Gods and Monsters, which won a Golden Globe in 1998. Peter Pan, Kinsey and The White Countess – the Merchant Ivory production in which she starred alongside Vanessa and her niece Natasha – followed in the 2000s. She was awarded an OBE for services to drama in 2002. Last November she wrote and starred in another one-woman stage production, Nightingale, about her troubled past. She appeared seated throughout and read from a script, amid reports at the time that she was undergoing treatment for an undisclosed illness. Her most recent television credits included two hit American series, Desperate Housewives and Ugly Betty. Her personal life reached the front pages in 1998 when she discovered that the boy she had regarded as her grandson was, in fact, her husband's son. It emerged that her husband had fathered a child with the couple's personal assistant, and the assistant had then gone on to marry the couple's son, Ben. The messy fallout and subsequent divorce dominated the headlines.

Last night, director Michael Winner, who cast Redgrave as an extra in one of her first movies, Shoot to Kill, in 1960, said: "This is terrible news. I've known her for more than 50 years … She was a phenomenal actress, she could do comedy, tragedy – anything really – with absolute ease." Sir Michael Parkinson said: "She was maybe the jolliest and most likable of all the family. She was a lovely, funny, open character, she was very easy to get on with. She was a good actress, but being a Redgrave I suppose she couldn't help it – it's in their blood, in their marrow. She had a great comedic talent." Lynn Redgrave, who has died aged 67 following a long fight with breast cancer, enjoyed more than three decades of screen work.

Here are some of her best roles Published: 4 May 2010 Corin Redgrave - Biography - IMDb Corin Redgrave Jump to: Overview (4) | Mini Bio (1) | Spouse (2) | Trivia (23) Overview (4) 6' 1½" (1.87 m) Mini Bio (1) Corin Redgrave, a towering, award-winning force on the British stage but a lesser universally recognized third-generation scion of the acting dynasty, was the reddish-haired middle brother of his more internationally famous sisters, Vanessa Redgrave and Lynn Redgrave who achieved widespread celebrity during their course of work on the American stage, film and TV. Nevertheless Corin was a treasured actor in England and much less inspired to acquire the fame cast upon his sisters. The tall, amiably handsome actor built for an enviable career for himself on the British stage. Like Vanessa he was a fiery and impassioned political radical and embraced a host of liberal causes during his lifetime. Most notably, he was a potent member of the Workers' Revolutionary Party, and supported a motion to impeach Prime Minister Tony Blair following the British participation in the war in Iraq.

He also campaigned for the closure of the Guantanamo Bay detention camp. In 2004, he, along with Vanessa, founded the Peace and Progress Party in 2004, which offered several candidates for the 2005 national election. He strongly believed that his early political activism impeded his nascent progress as an actor at the time, explaining the late bloom of his career. The son of renowned actors Sir Michael Redgrave and Rachel Kempson , Corin William was born in London, England on July 16, 1939. The patriarch and matriarch of the acting family was his paternal grandparents Roy Redgrave and Margaret Scudamore . Educated at Westminster public school and at King's College at the University of Cambridge, he inherited his parents' intense passion for acting and was determined to follow in the family's natural acting ways. His career took longer to ignite than older sister Vanessa, who quickly became an international star. Corin's first stage appearance at age 22 occurred auspiciously, however, at London's famed Royal Court Theatre in 1961 portraying Lysander in "A Midsummer Night's Dream" that was produced by Tony Richardson , Vanessa's husband-to-be.

Following this he appeared in "Twelfth Night" and then appeared in "Chips with Everything" (also at the Royal) which eventually went to New York. Following theatre roles in "The Right Honourable Gentleman" (1964), "Lady Windemere's Fan" (1966) and "Abelard and Heloise" (1971), Corin joined the Royal Shakespeare Company for the 1972 season at Stratford and at the Aldwych, playing Octavius in both "Julius Caesar" and "Antony and Cleopatra," as well as Ephesus in "The Comedy of Errors". Under the direction of David Thacker , a prominent British director of Arthur Miller works, he appeared in the Miller plays"The Crucible" at the Young Vic. As for his early years on 1960s film, Corin appeared in several of his sisters' films. Making his debut in the unmemorable Crooks in Cloisters (1964), he showed up with Vanessa in the films A Man for All Seasons (1966), The Charge of the Light Brigade (1968), and Oh!

What a Lovely War (1969) and in Lynn's The Deadly Affair (1966). He actually fared better at the time in classier TV productions such as David Copperfield (1970); _a production of "Dracula" in 1969 (as Jonathan Harker); and in Antony and Cleopatra (1974) (as Octavius, his stage role). Corin enjoyed a rare lead movie role in the Australian-made Between Wars (1974) and also appeared in the well-received Excalibur (1981) before making a strong impression in the Daniel Day-Lewis starrer In the Name of the Father (1993). Often playing gentlemen of strong authority and nobility, his on-camera career seemed to hit its stride as a character performer in later years. Elsewhere, Corin and sister Vanessa founded the Moving Theatre company in 1993, that proved an exciting and creative outlet for their acting and directing ambitions. He went on to portray a critically acclaimed King Lear and also appeared opposite Vanessa and second wife Kika Markham in a successful revival of Noël Coward 's "A Song at Twilight".

Even better, he played the brutal prison warden Boss Whalen in the "lost" Tennessee Williams ' work "Not About Nightingales" for which he won a 1998 Olivier Award and was nominated for a Tony award a year later. In 2000 he appeared in Trevor Nunn 's production of Chekov's "The Cherry Orchard" at the National. An occasional playwright ("Bluntly Speaking"), Corin also authored a very well-received book about his tormented father, "Michael Redgrave: My Father," which was hailed for its candid examination of both his father's bisexuality and BBC "blacklisting" (for his alleged ties with the Communist party). Corin was plagued by illness come the millennium. He was diagnosed with prostate cancer in 2000 and suffered a serious heart attack in 2005. Rebounding however, he appeared in the one-man play "Tynan" in 2007, and made a triumphant return to the London stage in late March of 2009 playing the title role in "Trumbo," which is based on the life of blacklisted Hollywood screenwriter Dalton Trumbo .

The actor dedicated his opening-night performance to the memory of his niece, actress Natasha Richardson , who had just died earlier in the month of injuries sustained in a Canadian skiing accident. Redgrave's first marriage to former model Deirdre Hamilton-Hill (they divorced and she later died of cancer in 1997) produced son Luke and actress/daughter Jemma Redgrave . He subsequently married actress Kika Markham and had two more sons, Harvey and Arden. Thriving on stage, TV and film as late as 2009, the 70-year-old Corin died in a London hospital after a short illness in April of 2010. - IMDb Mini Biography By: Gary Brumburgh / gr-home@pacbell.net Spouse (2) Won the Laurence Olivier Award (1998) and a Tony Nomination for his role as Boss Whalen in Tennessee Williams ' "Not About Nightingales". Son-in-law of David Markham and Olive Dehn.

Was nominated for Broadway's 1999 Tony Award as Best Actor (Play) for Tennessee Williams ' "Not About Nightingales." Supported a motion to impeach British Prime Minister Tony Blair after the war "Operation Iraqi Freedom". Suffered a severe heart attack and is in a "critical but stable" condition in hospital. Has also been receiving treatment for cancer. (June 2005) Brother-in-law of Petra Markham . Diagnosed with prostate cancer in 2000. He and his sister Vanessa Redgrave both starred in films based on the legend of King Arthur. Vanessa played Queen Guinevere in Camelot (1967) while Corin played Cornwall in John Boorman 's Excalibur (1981). With his sister, Vanessa Redgrave , he was a prominent member of the Workers' Revolutionary Party. He died less than a month before his younger sister Lynn Redgrave .

Appearing in "Pericles" at Shakespeare's Globe, London [June 2005] Appeared in three films that were nominated for the Best Picture Oscar: A Man for All Seasons (1966), In the Name of the Father (1993) and Four Weddings and a Funeral (1994). Of those, A Man for All Seasons (1966) is a winner in the category. He, his mother Rachel Kempson and his two sisters Vanessa Redgrave and Lynn Redgrave all appeared in films that won the Academy Award for Best Picture: Rachel appeared in Tom Jones (1963) and Out of Africa (1985), Lynn also appeared in Tom Jones (1963) and Vanessa and Corin both appeared in A Man for All Seasons (1966). He was the great-uncle of Micheal Neeson and Daisy Bevan .

He, his father Michael Redgrave and his younger sister Lynn Redgrave all appeared in adaptations of the 1898 novella "The Turn of the Screw" by Henry James : Michael played the Uncle in The Innocents (1961), Lynn played Miss Jane Cubberly in The Turn of the Screw (1974) and Corin played the Professor in The Turn of the Screw (2009). The Redgraves: A Talented, Troubled Family At The Heart Of The British Stage And Screen | The Huffington Post The Redgraves: A Talented, Troubled Family At The Heart Of The British Stage And Screen 29/08/2012 13:31 | Updated 06 December 2012 “I can feel a sort of pride in all my family - Mum, Lynn, Corin, Tasha, my cousin Jemma - because, I think, how wonderful that this troop of gypsies can carry on telling stories.” Vanessa Redgrave with her daughters Natasha and Joely Richardson A troop of wandering storytellers was how Joely Richardson described her clan in conversation with HuffPostUK last year.

For such a bunch of wayfarers, they successfully set down roots at the heart of British theatre, and it is a claim they make no hint of relinquishing. It all really started with theatrical duo Michael Redgrave and his wife Rachel Kempson, a union that lasted 50 years and withstood Redgrave’s affairs with both men and other women. Redgrave, the son of a silent film actor, was a teacher before making his stage debut at the Liverpool Playhouse in 1934. With his move to London, he became a member of the country’s most glamorous club – the acting set that included Laurence Olivier, John Gielgud and Ralph Richardson. He made it in Hollywood, too, appearing in The Importance of Being Earnest and The Dambusters, and earning an Academy Award for Mourning Becomes Electra. The acting dynasty really took off with theatrical pair Michael (later Sir) Redgrave, and his wife Rachel Kempson They had three children – Vanessa, Corin and Lynn.

Vanessa became one of the acting forces of her generation, winning every plaudit going for roles on screen - including an Oscar for her role in Julia – and stage, where she has been awarded countless times for her interpretation of the classics. Corin and Lynn Redgrave also found success, mostly on screen. Lynn made it big in Hollywood, with Oscar nominations for Georgy Girl and Shine, while Corin became an acclaimed character actor. Vanessa continued the family tradition of marrying a wildly talented by unpredictable man – director Tony Richardson, with whom she had two daughters, Natasha and Joely. When she wasn’t winning plaudits for her extraordinarily compelling talents on stage, Vanessa was causing ripples with her revolutionary zeal, fighting for refugees, Palestinians and other highly political causes. Meanwhile, she had a son with Italian director Franco Nero, and Carlo is a film director and writer, too. Corin and Vanessa shared political leanings as well as theatrical plaudits Their familiar names demonstrate that Vanessa’s daughters haven’t dropped the baton.

Natasha Richardson, the more fragile of the two, was briefly connected with another great British acting dynasty when she married theatrical agent Robert Fox, but she later moved to Hollywood, making her mark in films such as Nell and The Parent Trap, and settling down to family life with actor Liam Neeson in upstate New York. Her sister Joely Richardson has also made her move across the Atlantic, gaining lasting recognition in US hit series Nip/Tuck, where her mother made a guest appearance. The pair most recently reunited on screen to play Queen Elizabeth I young and old in Roland Emmerich’s historical thriller Anonymous. Natasha settled in the States with husband Liam Neeson, but died after a skiing accident in 2009 The family has seen more than its share of tragedy in recent years. Vanessa lost her daughter Natasha in a skiing accident in 2009 and, while her family were still trying to come to terms with their loss, both Corin and Lynn died within a month of each other in 2010. But their memories will remain, like those of their family who went before, in their stage and screen triumphs, and serve to inspire those left behind.

As Joely reflected last year, “It’s more special to me now because of all the people who came before, it's very tribal, and I want to carry on for their sakes." The Redgrave Family Corin Redgrave, Actor and Activist, Dies at 70 - The New York Times The New York Times Theater |Corin Redgrave, Actor and Activist, Dies at 70 Search Continue reading the main story Corin Redgrave , a versatile actor and ardent left-wing political activist who, as the son of Michael Redgrave and the brother of Vanessa and Lynn Redgrave , was the prince of the royal family of English theater, died on Tuesday in London. He was 70. His death was announced by his wife, Kika Markham, The Associated Press reported. No cause was given. He had survived a heart attack in 2005. Mr. Redgrave was a less celebrated performer than his father, who was known for his Shakespearean eloquence, matinee idol good looks and turbulent personal life; or his sisters, who became internationally recognized figures, as glamorous as they were accomplished.

But he was a forceful, impassioned actor who became a veteran of the British stage, both in comedies and tragedies, and was especially at home in enduring works by Shakespeare, Chekhov, Noël Coward and Harold Pinter. He also appeared as a supporting character in many movies, including three for which he was probably best known to American audiences: “In the Name of the Father,” Jim Sheridan’s 1993 film starring Daniel Day-Lewis, about four people falsely accused in the I.R.A. bombing of a pub near London; “Four Weddings and a Funeral,” the popular 1994 comedy starring Hugh Grant and Andie MacDowell; and “Persuasion” (1995), Roger Michell’s adaptation of the Jane Austen novel. Photo Corin Redgrave in “Not About Nightingales” on Broadway. Credit Photofest But both early and late in his career, he made impressive appearances on the American stage. He played an aristocratic pilot who delivers a climactic speech in “Chips With Everything,” a play by Arnold Wesker about class divisions among Royal Air Force cadets that transferred to Broadway from the Royal Court Theater in London in 1963.

And in 1999 he returned to Broadway as Boss Whalen, a sadistic prison warden in Tennessee Williams’s “Not About Nightingales,” a performance for which he was nominated for a Tony Award . Reviewing the play for The New York Times, Ben Brantley wrote that Mr. Redgrave “plays the corrupt, lusty Boss Whalen with an outsize satanic gusto that is as unnerving as it is entertaining.” Continue reading the main story During many of the years in between, Mr. Redgrave devoted as much energy to political causes as he did to acting. An outspoken Trotskyist, he had close ties with far left organizations in Britain like the Socialist Labor League and the Workers Revolutionary Party; he was convinced he lost opportunities to work as an actor because of his radical views. Advertisement Continue reading the main story With his sister Vanessa, who shared many of those views, he founded the Moving Theater, a company that focused on political works. These included “Not About Nightingales,” a very early Williams play that had been unproduced and forgotten before Ms.

Redgrave became curious about it while researching a role in Williams’s “Orpheus Descending.” With the Alley Theater of Houston, the Moving Theater produced its world premiere at the Royal National Theater in 1998. Vanessa Redgrave managed to advance her career despite her controversial outspokenness (in support of the Palestinians , for example), but Corin struggled. The relationship between his two passions was a curious one, long discussed in performing circles, especially in the later, resurgent part of his career, when it was generally acknowledged that he was doing his best work. He never lost his radical fervor — in 2004 he was part of a movement urging the impeachment of Prime Minister Tony Blair over the war in Iraq — but in his later years his political and artistic sides seemed more in sync. Photo Corin Redgrave with his sister Vanessa on the set of Tony Richardson's film “The Charge of the Light Brigade” (1968). Credit United Artists, via Photofest “I see the renaissance of Corin’s career coinciding with the fall of the Berlin wall,” Mr. Michell, the film director, said in an interview with The Times in 1999.

“I don’t think the battle was lost, but the dogmatism was put to bed perhaps.” Corin William Redgrave was born in London on July 16, 1939, the second child of Michael Redgrave and the actress Rachel Kempson. (Vanessa was born two years before, Lynn four years later.) He went to Cambridge and made his theatrical debut in 1962 at the Royal Court Theater as Lysander in “A Midsummer Night’s Dream,” directed by Tony Richardson, who married Vanessa around that time. (Their children — Mr. Redgrave’s nieces — Natasha Richardson, who died last year, and Joely Richardson, became part of the Redgrave theatrical tree.) Mr. Redgrave’s first notable screen role was in the 1966 historical drama “A Man for All Seasons,” about the conflict between Sir Thomas More (Paul Scofield) and Henry VIII (Robert Shaw). Please verify you're not a robot by clicking the box. Invalid email address. Please re-enter. You must select a newsletter to subscribe to. Sign Up Privacy Policy Mr. Redgrave’s first marriage, to Deirdre Hamilton-Hill, who died in 1997, ended in divorce.

They had two children, a daughter, Jemma, and a son, Luke, who survive him. In addition to his sisters and his wife, Ms. Markham, survivors include his two sons with Ms. Markham, Harvey and Arden, and grandchildren. In 1995, Mr. Redgrave wrote a book, “Michael Redgrave — My Father,” which dealt frankly and movingly with their difficult relationship (including Michael’s bisexuality) and was made into a television documentary. In 2004, Mr. Redgrave stepped into his father’s enormous shoes when he performed the title role in “King Lear” with the Royal Shakespeare Company on the same Stratford-upon-Avon stage where Michael had played the role more than 50 years earlier. “But, while it is fashionably easy to suggest that his career was blighted by his political activities, I suspect his talent was intimately related to his radical political convictions,” the British critic Michael Billington wrote in The Guardian after Mr. Redgrave’s death.

“And, if he enjoyed a golden theatrical rebirth from the late 1980s onwards, it may have had less to do with politics than with his determination to inherit the mantle of his revered father.” Correction: April 8, 2010 An obituary on Wednesday about the actor Corin Redgrave misstated a detail in the plot of “In the Name of the Father,” one of the movies in which he appeared. The movie was about four people falsely accused in the I.R.A. bombing of a pub in Guildford, England, near London  not a pub in London. A version of this article appears in print on April 7, 2010, on Page B10 of the New York edition with the headline: Corin Redgrave, Actor and Activist, Dies at 70.

Order Reprints | Today's Paper | Subscribe Vanessa Redgrave | Biography and Filmography | 1937 Cast as Volumnia in the feature adaptation of Shakespeare's "Coriolanus," directed by Ralph Fiennes 2011 Voiced The Queen and Mama Topolino in the animated feature "Cars 2" 2011 Had a supporting role in the Bosnia-set political drama "The Whistleblower" 2011 Played Queen Elizabeth I opposite Rhys Ifans and David Thewlis in the drama "Anonymous" 2010 Played the title role in the Broadway premiere of "Driving Miss Daisy" opposite James Earl Jones; earned a Tony nomination for Best Performance by an Actress in a Leading Role in a Play 2010 Starred in "Letters to Juliet" opposite her husband Franco Nero 2009 Starred in the BBC remake of "The Day of the Triffids" with her daughter Joely 2007 Portrayed a dying woman reflecting on her youth in the ensemble film "Evening" 2007 Cast in the HBO Films adaptation of writer/actor Wallace Shawn's stage play "The Fever"; earned a SAG nomination for Outstanding Female Actor

 in a Television Movie or Miniseries 2007 Starred in a one-woman stage adaptation of Joan Didion's "The Year of Magical Thinking"; earned a Tony nomination for Best Performance by a Leading Actress in a Play 2006 Starred opposite Peter O'Toole in "Venus," a film directed by Roger Michell and written by Hanif Kureishi 2005 Appeared alongside her daughter Natasha Richardson and sister Lynn Redgrave in James Ivory's "White Countess" 2004 Guest starred opposite daughter Joely Richardson on several episodes of "Nip/Tuck" (FX); played the mother of Richardson's character 2003 Appeared on Broadway in her award winning performance in "Long Day's Journey Into Night" 2002 Co-starred with Albert Finney in the award winning BBC/HBO co-produced "The Gathering Storm"; earned Golden Globe and SAG nominations for Best Actress 2002 Made first stage appearance with daughter Joely Richardson in a British staging of "Lady Windermere's Fan"; portrayed mother and daughter 2001 Had featured role in Sean Penn's "The Pledge," co-starring Jack Nicholson and Robin Wright Penn 

2001 Appeared with brother Corin in a London stage prodction of "The Cherry Orchard" 2000 Delivered a dignified, heartbreaking turn as an elderly lesbian coping with her deceased lover's clueless family in the moving "1961" segment of "If These Walls Could Talk 2" (HBO); received Emmy Award 2000 Portrayed Prospero in staging of "The Tempest" at Shakespeare's Globe Theatre in London 1999 Acted opposite her brother Corin and his wife Kika Markham in a London stage revival of Noel Coward's "Song at Twilight" 1999 Had pivotal role as a psychiatrist in "Girl, Interrupted" 1999 Starred in the Italian opera "Eleanora" as the heroine and martyr of a 1799 Neapolitan uprising 1999 Directed by son Carlo Nero in "Uninvited" 1998 Adapted, designed, directed and co-starred with Rachel Kempson in "Sarah Bernhardt Comes to Town" 1998 Reteamed with Maximillian Schell as his wife in "Deep Impact" 1997 Offered

 a marvelous turn as the title character's mother in the biopic "Wilde" 1997 Offered a luminous turn as the title character in "Mrs.

Dalloway," the screen adaptation of Virginia Woolf's novel adapted by Eileen Atkins 1997 Teamed onscreen with her real-life mother Rachel Kempson in Henry Jaglom's "Deja Vu" 1996 Delivered an astringent cameo in "Mission: Impossible" 1996 Starred alongside Paul Scofield and Eileen Atkins in a revival of Ibsen's "John Gabriel Borkman" in London 1996 Conceived the costume design, directed and starred in a staging of "Antony and Cleopatra"; first performed at the Alley Theater in Houston and in 1997 off-Broadway at the Public Theatre 1994 Was moving as the dying mother of a hit man in "Little Odessa"; Schell was cast as her husband 1994 Played Vita Sackville-West opposite Eileen Atkins' Virginia Woolf in the off-Broadway play "Vita and Virginia" 1993 Co-founded Moving Theater with brother Corin 1993 Tracked down a previously unproduced play by Tennessee Williams, "Not About Nightingales"; presented by the Moving Theater Company starring Corin Redgrave in London

 and NYC in 1998 and 1999 respectively 1992 Had pivotal role as Ruth Wilcox in the Merchant Ivory version of E M Forster's "Howards End"; earned a Best Supporting Actress Oscar nomination 1991 Offered a fine performance as the mannish Amelia in "The Ballad of the Sad Cafe" 1991 Again played Isadora Duncan in Martin Sherman's stage play "When She Danced" 1991 Co-starred as the victimized Blanche opposite sister Lynn Redgrave in the TV-movie remake of "Whatever Happened to Baby Jane?" (ABC) 1991 Portrayed the Empress Elizabeth in the TNT biopic "Young Catherine," about the Russian ruler Catherine the Great; Maximillian Schell played Frederick the Great 1990 With sister Lynn and niece Jemma, acted in London production of Chekhov's "Three Sisters" 1989 Starred in Martin Sherman's play "A Madhouse in Goa" 1988 Acted opposite Charlton Heston in the TV remake of "A Man for All Seasons" (TNT) 1988 Cast as Lady Torrance,

 the heroine of Tennessee Williams' "Orpheus Descending" in a London production helmed by Sir Peter Hall; recreated part on Broadway in 1989; filmed for TNT in 1990 1987 Offered a scene-stealing performance as literary agent Peggy Ramsay in the Joe Orton biopic "Prick Up Your Ears" 1986 Portrayed transsexual Renee Richards, a former U.S.

Naval surgeon who competed as a woman in the U.S.

Tennis Association in "Second Serve" (CBS); received Emmy nomination 1986 Co-starred as the Czar's scheming half-sister Sophia in the NBC miniseries "Peter the Great"; acted opposite Maximillian Schell; received Emmy nomination in the supporting category 1985 Starred in David Hare's intriguing "Wetherby"; daughter Joely Richardson played her character in flashback sequences 1985 Cast as one of the women accused of witchcraft in the Salem trials in the three-part PBS miniseries "Three Sovereigns for Sarah" 1985 Starred with Jonathan Pryce in "The Seagull"; this time out played Arkadina 1984 Played Henry James' feminist heroine in the Merchant Ivory film version of "The Bostonians"; received fourth Best Actress Academy Award nomination 1984 Appeared opposite Christopher Reeve in the London stage production of "The Aspern Papers," a play by Michael Redgrave 1983 First film after four year absence from the big screen, "Wagner" 1982 Engaged to narrate a performance of Stravinsky's "Oedipus Rex" at the Boston Symphony Orchestra;

 performance canceled after BSO received bomb threats; Redgrave later sued 1982 Starred as a middle-aged woman who finds herself pregnant in "My Body, My Child" (ABC) 1980 American TV-movie debut, "Playing for Time" (CBS); portrayed concentration camp survivor Fania Fenelon who during her internment participated in an all-female orchestra; received Emmy Award 1979 Portrayed the mystery novelist Agatha Christie in "Agatha," which speculated about a period in the writer's life when she went missing 1977 Delivered luminous, richly detailed performance as "Julia" in the film based on Lillian Hellman's questionable memoir; received the Best Supporting Actress Academy Award; first film with Maximillian Schell 1977 Financed the documentary "The Palestinians" 1976 Offered a delightful turn as a cocaine addicted entertainer who meets Nicol Williamson's Sherlock Holmes in "The Seven Per-Cent Solution" 1976 Made Broadway debut in Ibsen's "The Lady from the Sea" 1974 Acted opposite Charlton Heston in "Macbeth" in Los Angeles 1974 Was among

 the all-star cast of "Murder on the Orient Express" 1973 First played the Egyptian queen in Shakespeare's "Antony and Cleopatra" in London 1970 Cast as a hunchback nun in Ken Russell's outlandish "The Devils" 1970 Co-starred in Michael Cacoyannis' "The Trojan Women"; played Andromacha 1970 Earned third Best Actress Oscar nomination in the title role of "Mary, Queen of Scots"; starred opposite Glenda Jackson who was cast as Elizabeth I 1968 Garnered second Best Actress Academy Award nomination for playing famed free-spirited dancer Isadora Duncan in "Isadora" 1968 Acted in "The Charge of the Light Brigade," directed by Tony Richardson 1967 Initial film with husband Tony Richardson, "The Sailor from Gibraltar" 1967 Made American film debut in "Camelot," an adaptation of the Lerner and Loewe stage musical 1966 Cast as Anne Boleyn in the award-winning film "A Man for All Seasons" 1966 Had title role in "The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie" in London 1

966 First film lead, "Morgan!/Morgan - A Suitable Case for Treatment"; earned first Best Actress Oscar nomination; sister Lynn was among her competitors for the prize for her work in "Georgy Girl" 1964 Won plaudits for her stage role of Nina in "The Seagull"; recreated on film in 1968 1961 Delivered an acclaimed performance as Rosalind in "As You Like It" at the RSC; recreated for British television in 1962 1958 London stage debut in "A Touch of the Sun" opposite her father Michael Redgrave 1958 Film acting debut in "Behind the Mask" (played onscreen daughter of Michael Redgrave) 1957 Lynn Redgrave Dead of Breast Cancer at 67 - ABC News ABC News Lynn Redgrave, Famed British Actress, Dies of Breast Cancer By Luchina Fisher Email British actress Lynn Redgrave , the star of "Georgy Girl" and "Gods and Monsters," has died at the age of 67.

Her publicist Rick Miramontez, speaking on behalf of her children, told The Associated Press that Redgrave died peacefully Sunday night at her Connecticut home surrounded by children Ben, Pema and Annabel. "Our beloved mother Lynn Rachel passed away peacefully after a seven-year journey with breast cancer," they said in a statement Monday. "She lived, loved and worked harder than ever before. The endless memories she created as a mother, grandmother, writer, actor and friend will sustain us for the rest of our lives. Our entire family asks for privacy through this difficult time." Play null Redgrave was a member of one of Britain's most celebrated theatrical families. Her death comes a year after her niece Natasha Richardson died from head injuries sustained in a skiing accident, and just a month after the death of her older brother, Corin Redgrave. In 2003, at the age of 60, Redgrave was first treated for breast cancer. For six months she kept her cancer a secret, receiving treatment at Manhattan's Sloan-Kettering cancer clinic.

Afterward, she released a statement saying, 'Thanks to a series of new and encouraging treatments, I am lucky enough to be cancer-free." Redgrave was the youngest child of actor-parents Sir Michael Redgrave and Rachel Kempson. Thought she never achieved the acclaim of her elder sister, Vanessa Redgrave, Lynn Redgrave did receive Oscar nominations for "Georgy Girl" and "Gods and Monsters," and Tony nominations for "Mrs. Warren's Profession," "Shakespeare for My Father" and "The Constant Wife." Play Actress Lynn Redgrave Dead at 67 "Vanessa was the one expected to be the great actress," Lynn Redgrave told The Associated Press in 1999. "It was always, 'Corin's the brain, Vanessa the shining star, oh, and then there's Lynn.'" She was also the aunt of actress Joely Richardson, Vanessa Redgrave's daughter and Natasha Richardson's sister.

In recent years, Redgrave also made appearances in the television shows "Ugly Betty," "Law & Order" and "Desperate Housewives." Lynn Redgrave Dead at 67 Redgrave was noted for her one-woman stage performances, including the recent "Nightingale," in which she wrote and starred about her troubled past. The show went on even though Redgrave was undergoing treatment for an undisclosed illness that required her to read from a script for the entire run of the show. In 1967, Redgrave married actor and director John Clark. The marriage ended in divorce in December 2000 after Redgrave learned that Clark had had an affair and fathered a child with his then-assistant Nicolette Hannah. Hannah would later marry Redgrave and Clark's son Ben and become their daughter-in-law. Redgrave also acknowledged that she suffered from bulimia and for years served as a spokeswoman for Weight Watchers.

With daughter Annabel Clark, she released a 2004 book about her fight with cancer, "Journal: A Mother and Daughter's Recovery From Breast Cancer." 0 Shares Vanessa Redgrave: I lost my daughter, sister and brother in months | Express Yourself | Comment | Daily Express Vanessa Redgrave: I lost my daughter, sister and brother in months FOR years journalists have ­complained that it’s imposs­ible to get Vanessa Redgrave to open up. 00:00, Fri, Jun 11, 2010 Vanessa Redgrave with her late daughter Natasha Richardson [] A pivotal member of one of the country’s great ­acting dynasties as well as a statuesque sex symbol since the ­Sixties, when she starred in such films as Blowup and Isadora, she has long fascinated the British public. Yet she famously refuses to discuss anything other than her work or her revolu­tionary socialist politics – and often insists on talking about one or the other but not both at the same time. Even Lynn Barber, an interviewer so legendary she has herself been the subject of an Oscar-nominated film, couldn’t penetrate the actress’s rigid guard.

“It’s as if Vanessa finds it safer to talk about politics than to talk about herself,” she complained. “She has a great mistrust of journalists and scans each question for hidden bear-traps before answering at tediously cautious length. She seems drawn to put the heaviest possible spin on everything.” Yesterday, however, all that changed. In a remarkable interview with Jenni Murray on BBC Radio 4’s Woman’s Hour the 73-year-old Academy Award-winner finally let the world in. In the candid conversation she not only showed a softer side to her publicly gritty personality as she grieves for the three family members she has lost in the past 15 months. She also revealed the extraordinary story of her rekindled romance with Franco Nero, the heart-throb Italian actor who first stole her heart on the set of the film musical Camelot more than four decades ago and who has now come back into what she is ­unembarrassed to call her old age. Her decision to allow the world to see a little of her private side after jealously protecting it for so long is undoubtedly related to the cruel sequence of family tragedies she has suffered.

In March last year her elder daughter, actress Natasha Richardson, died in a freak skiing accident at the age of 45. This April Vanessa’s actor brother Corin died at 70. Less than a month later their younger ­sister Lynn, an Oscar-nominee in her own right, also died aged 67. By coincidence, Vanessa had just confronted a similar situation in a one-woman stage show. She had app­eared as American writer Joan Didion in an adaptation of the latter’s bereavement memoir The Year Of Magical Thinking. Performed first on Broadway and then at London’s National Theatre it was a real-life account of losing two close family members in quick succession – in Didion’s case her husband and daughter. “Everybody who came to see that play said they realised we all go through these extraordinary experiences of walking into another country that we never imagined and couldn’t imagine – the country of having lost the member of the family whom we just adore,” she told Murray. “It’s a very strange country and it does strange things to your mind but among those strange things is the wonderful thing that you realise how important it is to be very, very grateful for the love you’ve had and all the wonderful things to remember.

“And things like that don’t end. The energy created by somebody like my sister, for instance. She poured out love, laughter and energy in whatever she did. She was passionate about her work and other people’s work and she was a trustee of the Actor’s Fund of America, which looks after not just actors but anyone in the theatre who needs help. She put a lot of work into it and all that doesn’t go away – at least that’s what I believe.” Her daughter Natasha, who once begged her mother as a six-year-old to spend more time at home rather than at socialist meetings, died in New York after sustaining head injuries during a ski lesson. She left behind her husband, Irish actor Liam Neeson, and their sons Micheál, 15, and Daniel, 14. Vanessa has never before discussed this cruel loss of her eldest child – she has two others, actress Joely Richardson and film director Carlo Nero – in public. “It’s something I find very difficult to talk about except inside the family,” she said yesterday. “But you have to think of the children, the grandchildren.

“There’s a lot of denial and magical thinking that comes with death but the great thing is that if you are ­thinking about the children and grand­children you’re also thinking a lot more deeply than perhaps you were before. I certainly realised what a gift Natasha was to everyone, certainly to me as her mum. Her boys have a wonderful father and that’s what she would most wish for.” She said the thing she missed most about her brother Corin, for years her comrade-in-arms in the Trotskyite Workers’ Revolutionary Party, was the humour they shared. “I miss our discussions but of all the things I miss I guess it’s the wacky laughter. He would make me laugh so much and I could make him laugh too – and likewise with Lynnie. “I’ve learned that it’s a real help to people when you can make a joke instead of an angry comment. It may be a sarcastic joke but you laugh at something and make someone else laugh about something that’s really bad. It’s a big help.” She explained that she had given herself a break from work for a while.

“I want to take time to think, to read, to garden with my daughter and be with my grandchildren more and, you know, take stock.” Such work as she has done, she said, were jobs she was very glad to do. They included a part in Ralph Fiennes’s film of the Shakespeare play Coriolanus, in which she plays the hero’s mother. As a prominent “anti-Stratfordian” who contests Shakespeare’s sole ownership of the plays that bear his name, she has also appeared in a German film which conjectures group authorship of the Bard’s work. She plays the old Queen Elizabeth I while Joely plays her younger self. Her other role is a key to the most remarkable revelation about her life. She stars in a film romance called Letters To Juliet, which opens this week (see Films, page 46). In it she returns to Italy in search of her long-lost love, played by Franco Nero. In real life she and Nero fell in love when they played Guinevere and Lancelot in the Oscar-winning film Camelot. She ended her first marriage to film director Tony Richardson and had a son with Nero.

In a sequel that mirrors the plot of the new film the pair are now back together – having quietly ­conducted a marriage ceremony at the end of 2006. “We never really separated,” she told Murray. “I mean, we had plenty of times when we weren’t speaking to each other or we were shouting at each other. Mostly the worst times were not speaking to each other.” She admitted that each of them had other lovers along the way. “All sorts of other people were involved. But we have a wonderful son and we’ve got grandchildren so there have been very strong ties. Franco and I, it’s been one of the most wonderful things, to have found our way through this and to have a complete trust and respect. But also you’re not trying to turn someone into being what they’re not. You’re just happy that you’re still around and alive and kicking.” She revealed that Carlo, who is now 40, put the ring on her finger and was effectively her best man. But in a typically unorthodox touch the marriage is not legally recognised.

“Through discussions with Joely, Natasha, Carlo and some friends, it was quite clear to us all that we didn’t want a marriage that is legal and has money involved and things like that,” she said. “The only way you can steer clear of the money business is staying clear of being legally married. But we’re married in front of family and friends with the greatest possible commitment of love.” The union is clearly giving Vanessa Redgrave strength at a time when bereavements might otherwise have robbed her of a stake in the future. “I think I’m terribly lucky, terribly lucky,” she said. Perhaps we are lucky too that she has finally opened up. Lynn Redgrave - Wansell journalism. Geoffrey Wansell: Daily Mail, 4th May 2010. Lynn Redgrave: The girl who just couldn't get along with being famous. The gentlest and most approachable of the Redgrave acting dynasty, and child of British theatrical star Sir Michael Redgrave, Lynn Redgrave - who died in the U.S. yesterday at the age of 67 - never quite received the plaudits she deserved.

The epitome of Swinging London: Lynn Redgrave in 1967's Smashing Time Her elder sister Vanessa, and elder brother Corin, who died last month, were always seen as the true inheritors of their father's genius. But that was less than fair. In fact, Lynn was an accomplished and serious actress who, though she wore the talent lightly, proved it in her performance as the naughty minded, freethinking Georgy Girl in the 1966 hit film that won her an Oscar nomination. In truth, she was never quite as outrageous as her hippy character in Silvio Narizzano's hit, but she failed to escape the 'kooky' image that the movie brought her. In reality, Lynn Redgrave was a serious, sometimes over-thoughtful actress, who disliked the celebrity given by her family's name, but she was also very much aware that it helped her create a reputation. Vanessa, born six years before her, was always regarded as the star but, in spite of that, Lynn managed against the odds to establish her own career. As she explained in 1999, 'Vanessa was the one expected to be the great actress.

It was always "Corin's the brain, Vanessa's the shining star, and then there's Lynn".' Which was far less than just. Lynn had a gentleness and charm that none of her siblings, nor even her talented mother Rachel Kempson, could match. But there is an element of darkness in the Redgrave dynasty that cannot be ignored. Lynn's death comes a year after the death of her niece Natasha Richardson in a skiing accident and barely a month after her brother Corin. Leading lady: One of her most famous roles was in the 1966 film Georgy Girl in which she starred alongside Alan Bates Her son Ben and her daughters Pema and Annabel were with her when she died peacefully on Sunday evening in her home in Connecticut. She'd fought a seven-year battle with breast cancer. 'She lived, loved and worked harder than ever before,' her children said in a statement. 'The endless memories she created as mother, grandmother, writer, actor and friend will sustain us for the rest of our lives'. It is a fitting tribute to an actress who never sought fame, but who simply loved to work.

Her determination and talent brought her an Oscar nomination not only for Georgy Girl, but also for Gods And Monsters, in which she starred opposite Sir Ian McKellen. Great honour: Redgrave after receiving her OBE from the Queen in 2002 Numerous other films, including the 1967 satire Smashing Time in which she starred with Rita Tushingham, were a critical success. She also received Broadway Tony award nominations for three shows, including Mrs Warren's Profession - currently showing in London with Felicity Kendall. In recent years, she made appearances in the TV shows Ugly Betty, Law & Order and Desperate Housewives. Her play Nightingale touched upon her marriage to John Clark, who had revealed he had fathered a child with the future wife of their son. Last year she finally accepted the inevitable and ended her 32-year marriage to the actor-director. With her striking red hair, easy manner and ebullient personality, Lynn was the least frosty of the younger Redgraves - not for her the Left-wing belligerence of Vanessa and Corin. In fact, she had what her acting colleagues called 'heart'.

Women of the Redgrave dynasty: Vanessa, Lynn, and Joely Richardson Tall, blue eyed and with a face so open that is almost defied definition, she wasn't afraid to wear her heart on her sleeve in roles like Black Comedy On Broadway in 1972 and two years later in My Fat Friend about an overweight young women who loses pounds to find love. It would impossible to imagine her sister playing the part. Born in London in March 1943, there was no escaping the family tradition and she ended up training at the Central School of Speech and Drama before making her debut in A Midsummer Night's Dream in 1963. Almost immediately ushered into the new National Theatre Company directed by her father's old friend - and rival - Laurence Olivier, she found herself working relentlessly throughout the 1960s acting explosion that became known as 'swinging London'. But it wasn't the theatre that brought her fame.

Family affair: Lynn (far left) with her niece Jemima and sister Vanessa during the play Three Sisters The way they were: Lynn (far right) in 1959 with father Michael, mother Rachel Kempson and brother Corin Doting mother: The actress with daughter Annabel at the 71st Annual Academy Awards in 1999 At the age of 23 it was a film about an unattractive girl fancied by her middle-aged-employer, played by James Mason, called Georgy Girl - where she was billed as 'the wildest thing to hit the world since the miniskirt'. Redgrave commented 30 years later: 'All the films I've been in - and I haven't been in that many attention-getting films - no one expected anything of, least of all me'. It made Redgrave a star. But over the next 20 years she struggled to sustain a career and to keep her weight under control, acknowledging she suffered from bulimia. The shadow of her famous father, who died in 1985, seemed to haunt her. 'I didn't really know him,' she said. 'I lived in his house.

I was in awe of him and I adored him, and I was terrified of him and I hated him and I loved him, all in one go'. It did not make for an easy personal life, though Lynn, appointed an OBE in 2001, did her best to conceal that fact. Wilful, talented, deeply sentimental and yet also an actress of astonishing determination, Redgrave may not have made quite scaled the heights of her father, mother, sister or brother, but she deserves to be remembered and loved for her frailty and compassion. Lynn Redgrave obituary | Culture | The Guardian Lynn Redgrave obituary Gifted actor with a flair for comedy from a celebrated British theatrical dynasty Though Lynn Redgrave was less politically engaged than her older siblings, Vanessa and Corin, she was no less a remarkable talent.

Photograph: Eamonn McCabe/The Guardian Monday 3 May 2010 14.40 EDT First published on Monday 3 May 2010 14.40 EDT Share on Messenger Close Even by the colourful standards of her own family's public profile and professional achievements, Lynn Redgrave, who has died of breast cancer aged 67, was an exceptional personality. Her death seems particularly cruel after the loss of both her niece, Natasha Richardson , after a skiing accident last year, and her brother, Corin Redgrave , last month. The third child of the actors Michael Redgrave and Rachel Kempson, Lynn was a gifted comedian who received her first Oscar nomination for a delightful, clownish performance in the title role of Georgy Girl (1966), one of the defining movies of the so-called swinging 60s. She went on to spend many years living and working in America. Less politically engaged than her older siblings, Vanessa and Corin, she was no less a remarkable talent. Her 1991 television remake of Whatever Happened to Baby Jane? with Lynn and Vanessa in the Bette Davis and Joan Crawford roles respectively, is a collector's item.

The sisters also starred together in a riotous and emotionally raw 1990 revival of Chekhov's Three Sisters at the Queen's Theatre , directed by Robert Sturua of the Rustaveli theatre in Tbilisi, Georgia. Vanessa played Olga, and the sisters' niece Jemma Redgrave (Corin's daughter) played Irena. Lynn's Masha was an unforgettable, frustrated bundle of nervous energy seeping through her cigarette smoke, musical wails and sudden cries. In her touring solo show, Shakespeare for My Father (1994-96), she exorcised her feelings of distance from the imperious Michael Redgrave by relating how she reached him only by becoming an actor herself. The lonely, lumpy child was transformed by her talent, and the evening, full of wonderful vignettes and speeches, reached a moving climax in the reconciliation scene of Lear with Cordelia. She turned her attention to her mother's life in a 2001 play for seven actors, The Mandrake Root.

In her later one-woman show Nightingale, which won the LA Drama Critics Circle award for best solo performance, she again explored the life of her mother, as well as her maternal grandmother, and also touched upon her own failed marriage. Lynn's legal battles and marital upheavals were the stuff of soap opera. In 1967 she married John Clark, a former child actor who played the title role in Just William on BBC radio. She settled happily in California in 1974, with Clark as her manager. In 1981 she sued Universal Television for wrongful dismissal and claimed she was not allowed to breast-feed her third child, Annabel, in her dressing-room during the filming of the CBS sitcom House Calls. The litigation lasted 13 years; she lost the suit and was declared bankrupt. 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.

Lynn battled with her weight and was a spokesperson for WeightWatchers in the 1980s. She was diagnosed with breast cancer in 2002, had a mastectomy the following year and wrote a journal of her recovery with photographs by her daughter Annabel. Lynn was born in London and, like Vanessa before her, attended Queen's Gate school, Kensington, and the Central School of Speech and Drama. Her first job was at the Royal Court in A Midsummer Night's Dream (1962). The director Tony Richardson (Vanessa's then husband) told her to play Helena "as a giraffe". She was one of the original 12 contract artists in Laurence Olivier's National Theatre, tragic as the daughter Kattrin in Mother Courage and hilariously dim as the gormless flapper Jackie Coryton in Noël Coward's own 1964 revival of Hay Fever – the one which had a cast, Coward said, that could play the Albanian telephone directory.

(Her co-stars were Edith Evans, Robert Lang, Maggie Smith, Robert Stephens and Derek Jacobi.) Before she left for California, she appeared in the West End transfer of David Hare's Slag in 1971 and at Greenwich in 1973 with Dave King in Garson Kanin's Born Yesterday. But her career, to British eyes at least, became unfocused. None of her films really matched the charm of early work in Tom Jones (1963) with Albert Finney; The Girl With Green Eyes (1964) with Rita Tushingham and Peter Finch; and, of course, Georgy Girl, with Alan Bates and Charlotte Rampling. There was the odd sighting on Broadway, from Peter Shaffer's Black Comedy with Michael Crawford in 1966 to Alan Bennett's Talking Heads in 2003. A London visit in 2001, when she took over Patricia Hodge's role as Dotty Otley in a revival of Michael Frayn's sensationally funny backstage farce Noises Off, reminded audiences of her zany brilliance.

Lynn played Dotty, the fast-fading rep actress in a floral housecoat, like some ridiculous parody of Gloria Swanson in Ashton-under-Lyne, refusing grandly to speak when constrained by a neck brace and dark glasses, or cutting loose maniacally in a symphony of hilarious postures and stricken pretensions, bearing plates of sardines around the stage as if they were the crown jewels. No Dotty was ever dottier, or funnier. Her films included such oddities as Woody Allen's 1972 version of a sex manual, Everything You Always Wanted to Know About Sex (But Were Afraid to Ask) and the title role in a low-budget version of Xaviera Hollander's The Happy Hooker (1975). One of her best screen roles was the jaded London hostess in Getting It Right, adapted by Elizabeth Jane Howard from her own novel, in 1989. She had fine and graceful supporting appearances in Shine (1996), opposite Geoffrey Rush as the tortured pianist, and in Gods and Monsters (1998), with Ian McKellen as the eccentric film director James Whale.

Her performance as Whale's longtime housekeeper was nominated for a best supporting actress Oscar. Later on, she appeared in such diverse films as the romantic comedy The Next Best Thing (2000), David Cronenberg's Spider (2002), Peter Pan (2003) and Kinsey (2004). The occasional glimpses and rare stage appearances only served to whet the appetite. For surely, in her own and very different way, Lynn was as great an actress as Vanessa. It just never really seemed like it. In an interview in the New York Times in 2003, she described her recurring stage nightmare, in which she starred in a production of Turgenev's A Month in the Country: "I walk through a door of a Russian house and suddenly I'm in the Colosseum in Rome. And there are huge crowds and I can't be heard. They're yelling, 'We can't hear you!' It's awful.

They keep yelling, 'We can't hear you.'" She appeared on Broadway in 2005 at the same time as both Natasha (in A Streetcar Named Desire) and Vanessa (in Hecuba), receiving the best reviews for her performance as Mrs Culver in Somerset Maugham's The Constant Wife at the Roundabout theatre. "Every night, for a couple of hours," she said, "I wasn't a person with cancer. You almost feel like yourself when there's so much evidence, mainly the mirror, to show you you aren't. It was true 'Doctor Theatre'." She was appointed OBE in 2002. Lynn is survived by her children Ben, Pema and Annabel, sister Vanessa, and six grandchildren. • Lynn Rachel Redgrave, actor, born 8 March 1943; died 2 May 2010 Actor nominated for Oscar in 60s and 90s dies at 67, weeks after brother Corin's death Published: 3 May 2010

Question: What was the name of the actor brother of Vanessa and Lynn Redgrave who died last year?
Answer: CORIN