British actress from a distinguished theatrical family, she won two Golden Globe Awards, was a two-time Oscar nominee and received Emmy, Grammy, and Tony nominations. 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.
She was the daughter of actor Sir Michael Redgrave (1908-1985) and his wife, actress Rachel Kempson (1910-2003). Her sister is actress Vanessa Redgrave; her brother was actor and political activist Corin Redgrave.
She made her stage debut in 1962 with films the following year. She was a star from her film Georgie Girl (1966) for which she gained the New York Film Critics Award, the Golden Globe, and an Oscar nomination. She only appeared once with her father, in Hamlet. She played the lead in The Happy Hooker (1975), and later co-hosted a talk show, Not For Women Only.
Tall at 1.78 m (5’10”), she was once up to 77 kg (170 lb) before she slimmed down. In the ’90s, she stepped up to the role as spokeswoman for Weight Watchers, appeared sleek and chic.
On 17 May 1994 Redgrave filed bankruptcy in Los Angeles with debts close to $1 million. For six years she had not been offered a decent role until 1996 when she played the astrologer-wife of pianist David Helfgott in Shine, an Oscar winning film. On 21 March 1999, at the Oscar-night, she was nominated for Best Supporting Actress in Gods and Monsters for which she had already won a Golden Globe.
She married actor John Clark in 1967, a year after they met, and had three kids. Redgrave lived in the U.S. for 25 years and became a citizen in 1998. On 1 March 1999, Redgrave filed for divorce from her husband of 32 years. He had disclosed at Thanksgiving that he had fathered a child in 1991 by his assistant, Nicolette Hannah, the woman who married their oldest son, 30-year-old Ben, four years later. Clark and Nicolette kept this secret until after Nicolette and Ben divorced in 1996. In crises, Redgrave and Clark accused each other of infidelities (she with Brian Dennehy) and Clark bemoaned erectile dysfunction for the past five years.
She began treatment for breast cancer in April 2003. Her niece, actress Natasha Richardson, died on 18 March 2009; a year later her brother, actor Corin Redgrave, died on 6 April 2010. Cancer took her life a few weeks later on 2 May 2010. She died at her home in Kent, Connecticut at age 67.
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