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Dateline: 3rd May, 2010
Lynn Redgrave (1943 - 2010) Actress Lynn Redgrave, sister of Vanessa and Corin and daughter of Michael Redgrave and Rachel Kempson, died yesterday (2nd May) at her home in Connecticut at the age of 67. She was diagnosed with breast cancer in December 2002 and has a mastectomy followed by chemotherapy in 2003. "Vanessa was the one expected to be the great actress," she said in Associated Press interview in 1999, talking of her family's attitude towards her. "It was always, 'Corin's the brain, Vanessa the shining star, oh, and then there's Lynn." However she was twice nominated for an Oscar - for best actress in Georgy Girl in 1967 (for which she received the New York Film Critics Award and a Golden Globe), and for best supporting actress for Gods and Monsters in 1999 - and was nominated for a Tony award for Mrs Warren's Profession in 1974. In 2001 she was awarded an OBE for services to Drama. She trained at Central and made her professional debut at the Royal Court in A Midsummer Night's Dream, then worked at Dundee and on tour before making her first West End appearance in N.C. Hunter's The Tulip Tree with Celia Johnson and John Clements. She was one of the inaugural members of the National Theatre at the Old Vic and she worked there for three years. During this time she appeared on film in Tom Jones (1963), Girl with Green Eyes (1964) and The Deadly Affair (1966) and, of course, Georgy Girl. She made her Broadway debut in Black Comedy with Michael Crawford and Geraldine Page (1967). In 1967 she married American actor, producer and director John Clark and became a naturalised American citizen. The marriage ended in divorce in 2000. Her final appearance was in 2007 in an episode of Desperate Housewives as Dahlia Hainsworth.
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