Lynn Redgrave
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London, England, UK
Specializing in comedic roles, Lynn Redgrave made significant contributions to her illustrious family's five-generation-long reputation for producing fine British actors. The daughter of actors Sir Michael Redgrave and Rachel Kempson and the sister of actors Corin and Vanessa Redgrave, the London-born Redgrave studied acting at the Central School of Music and Drama. She first appeared on-stage in a 1962 production of A Midsummer Night's Dream at the Royal Court Theatre. She was next invited by Sir Laurence Olivier to become one of the first members in Britain's National Theatre. There she appeared in Hamlet opposite her father and Peter O'Toole for three years as well as in many other prestigious productions. Redgrave made her feature-film debut in Tony Richardson's ribald Tom Jones (1963). She then had a starring role in The Girl With Green Eyes (1964), but did not become an international star until she played the plump and pathetic protagonist in Georgy Girl (1966). Her work earned her an Oscar nomination and a Best Actress award from the New York Film Critics and led to her playing leading roles in a number of films on both sides of the Atlantic. In 1974, Redgrave immigrated to the U.S. She eventually lost a lot of weight and became a fine comic actress, noted for her unabashed naughty sense of humor. For a while, she was a popular guest on the television talk show/game show circuit as well as a popular spokesperson for the Weight Watchers diet organization. Her '70s film appearances ran the gamut from Woody Allen's Everything You Always Wanted to Know About Sex, But Were Afraid to Ask (1972) to playing the title role in The Happy Hooker (1975). Redgrave also appeared in television movies and in the series House Calls (1979-1981), Teachers Only (1982-1983), and Chicken Soup (1989). In the late '90s, Redgrave staged a successful one-woman show, Shakespeare for My Father. In 1996, Redgrave won acclaim for her portrayal of the loving astrologer who married troubled pianist David Helfgott in Scott Hicks' Shine. Redgrave died of breast cancer at age 67 in May 2010.
Highest Rated Movies
Filmography
MOVIES
RATING | TITLE | CREDIT | BOX OFFICE | YEAR |
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90% | My Dog Tulip |
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$0.3M | 2010 |
26% | Confessions of a Shopaholic |
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$44.3M | 2009 |
66% | The Jane Austen Book Club |
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$3.4M | 2007 |
No Score Yet | Winter Dreams |
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— | 2006 |
49% | The White Countess |
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$1.7M | 2005 |
90% | Kinsey |
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$10.3M | 2004 |
77% | Peter Pan |
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$48.5M | 2003 |
No Score Yet | Venus & Mars |
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— | 2003 |
80% | The Wild Thornberrys Movie |
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$39.8M | 2002 |
38% | My Kingdom (Mi Reino) |
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— | 2002 |
67% | Anita & Me |
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— | 2002 |
0% | Hansel & Gretel |
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$0.2M | 2002 |
85% | Spider |
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$1.3M | 2002 |
58% | How to Kill Your Neighbor's Dog |
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— | 2002 |
No Score Yet | My Sister's Keeper |
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— | 2002 |
14% | Unconditional Love |
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— | 2002 |
No Score Yet | Petula Clark: This Is My Song |
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— | 2001 |
20% | Deeply |
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— | 2001 |
0% | Venus and Mars |
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— | 2001 |
No Score Yet | Varian's War |
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— | 2000 |
67% | The Annihilation of Fish |
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— | 2000 |
19% | The Next Best Thing |
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— | 2000 |
22% | The Simian Line |
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— | 2000 |
No Score Yet | Lion of Oz and the Badge of Courage |
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— | 2000 |
No Score Yet | A Season for Miracles |
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— | 1999 |
95% | Gods and Monsters |
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— | 1998 |
67% | Strike! |
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— | 1998 |
No Score Yet | Precious Moments: Timmy's Special Delivery |
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— | 1998 |
No Score Yet | Toothless |
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— | 1997 |
91% | Shine |
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— | 1996 |
No Score Yet | Beatrix Potter: Artist, Storyteller & Countrywoman |
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— | 1993 |
No Score Yet | Whatever Happened To...? |
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— | 1991 |
No Score Yet | The Turn of the Screw |
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— | 1990 |
No Score Yet | Jury Duty: The Comedy |
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— | 1990 |
No Score Yet | Silent Mouse |
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— | 1990 |
67% | Getting It Right |
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— | 1989 |
No Score Yet | Midnight |
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— | 1989 |
No Score Yet | Morgan Stewart's Coming Home |
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— | 1987 |
No Score Yet | Here We Go Again! |
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— | 1987 |
No Score Yet | My Two Loves |
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— | 1986 |
No Score Yet | Rehearsal for Murder |
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— | 1982 |
No Score Yet | The Shooting |
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— | 1982 |
No Score Yet | Antony and Cleopatra |
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— | 1981 |
No Score Yet | To Love Again |
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— | 1980 |
No Score Yet | Gauguin the Savage |
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— | 1980 |
No Score Yet | The National Health |
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— | 1979 |
No Score Yet | Sooner or Later |
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— | 1979 |
No Score Yet | Centennial |
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— | 1978 |
64% | The Big Bus |
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— | 1976 |
No Score Yet | The Happy Hooker |
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— | 1975 |
No Score Yet | Don't Turn the Other Cheek |
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— | 1974 |
No Score Yet | The Turn of the Screw |
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— | 1974 |
No Score Yet | Antony and Cleopatra |
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— | 1973 |
No Score Yet | Pygmalion |
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— | 1973 |
No Score Yet | The National Health, or Nurse Norton's Affair |
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— | 1973 |
88% | Everything You Always Wanted to Know About Sex * But Were Afraid to Ask |
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— | 1972 |
No Score Yet | Every Little Crook and Nanny |
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— | 1972 |
No Score Yet | Viva la muerte... tua! (Don't Turn the Other Cheek) (Long Live Your Death) |
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— | 1971 |
No Score Yet | Last of the Mobile Hot Shots (Blood Kin)(The Seven Descents of Myrtle) |
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— | 1970 |
No Score Yet | The Virgin Soldiers |
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— | 1969 |
100% | Smashing Time |
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— | 1967 |
91% | Georgy Girl |
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— | 1966 |
No Score Yet | The Deadly Affair |
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— | 1966 |
80% | Girl with Green Eyes |
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— | 1964 |
82% | Tom Jones |
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— | 1963 |
No Score Yet | Sunday Lovers |
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TV
RATING | TITLE | CREDIT | YEAR |
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No Score Yet |
Law & Order: Criminal Intent
2001-2011
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97% |
Ugly Betty
2006-2010
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72% |
Desperate Housewives
2004-2012
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No Score Yet |
The Wild Thornberrys
1998-2004
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No Score Yet |
Murder, She Wrote
1984-1996
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No Score Yet |
House Calls
1979-1982
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100% |
The Muppet Show
1976-1981
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No Score Yet |
Kojak
1973-1978
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Quotes from Lynn Redgrave's Characters
Camille Levy: | No pictures! No pictures! |