Lynn Redgrave
Biography
Lynn Rachel Redgrave, OBE (8 March 1943 – 2 May 2010) was an English actress. A member of the well-known British family of actors, Redgrave trained in London before making her theatrical debut in 1962. By the mid-1960s she had appeared in several films, including Tom Jones (1963), and Georgy Girl (1966) which won her a New York Film Critics Award and nominations for an Academy Award and a Golden Globe Award. In 1967, she made her Broadway debut, and performed in several stage productions in New York while making frequent returns to London's West End. She performed with her sister Vanessa in Three Sisters in London, and in the title role in a television production of Whatever Happened to Baby Jane? in 1991. She made a return to films in the late 1990s in films such as Shine (1996) and Gods and Monsters (1998), for which she received another Academy Award nomination.
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Movies (40)
Cruel, Usual, Necessary: The Passion of Silvio Narizzano
as Herself
2024
My Dog Tulip
as Nancy / Greengrocer's Wife (voice)
2010
My Dog: An Unconditional Love Story
as Self
2009
Confessions of a Shopaholic
as Drunken Lady at Ball
2009
The Jane Austen Book Club
as Sky
2007
Eloise Goes to School
2007
Little Miss Christmas
as Nanny (voice)
2006
The White Countess
as Olga Belinskya
2005
Kinsey
as Final Interview Subject
2004
Peter Pan
as Aunt Millicent
2003
Charlie's War
as Grandma Lewis
2003
The Wild Thornberrys Movie
as Cordelia Thornberry (voice)
2002
Anita and Me
as Mrs. Omerod
2002
Spider
as Mrs. Wilkinson
2002
Hansel & Gretel
as Woman / Witch
2002
Unconditional Love
as Nola Fox
2002
How to Kill Your Neighbor's Dog
as Edna
2002
My Sister's Keeper
as Helen Margaret Chapman
2002
The Simian Line
as Katharine
2001
My Kingdom
as Mandy
2001
Varian's War
as Alma Werfel-Mahler
2001
Venus and Mars
as Emily Vogel
2001
Porn Star: The Legend of Ron Jeremy
as Self (archive footage)
2001
Lion of Oz
as Wicked Witch of the East (voice)
2000
Deeply
as Celia
2000
The Next Best Thing
as Helen Whittaker
2000
A Season for Miracles
as Hon. Judge Nancy Jakes
1999
The Annihilation of Fish
as Poinsettia
1999
Touched
as Carrie
1999
The World of Gods and Monsters: A Journey with James Whale
as Self
1999
Different
as Amanda Talmadge
1999
Gods and Monsters
as Hanna
1998
Strike!
as Miss McVane
1998
White Lies
as Mrs. K.
1998
Indefensible: The Truth About Edward Brannigan
as Monica Brannigan
1997
Toothless
as Rogers
1997
Michael Redgrave: My Father
as Self
1997
Shine
as Gillian
1996
Timmy's Special Delivery: A Precious Moments Christmas
as Narrator / Feline the Cat / Barkley (voice)
1993
What Ever Happened to Baby Jane?
as Jane Hudson
1991
TV Shows (10)
Me, Eloise
as Nanny (voice)
2006
Ugly Betty
as Olivia Guillemette
2006
Desperate Housewives
as Dahlia Hainsworth
2004
JoJo's Circus
as Miss Blathers (voice)
2003
Law & Order: Criminal Intent
as Emily Huntford
2001
The Wild Thornberrys
as Cordelia (voice)
1998
Rude Awakening
as Trudy Frank
1998
The Wonderful World of Disney
as Rogers
1997
Calling the Shots
as Maggie Donnelly
1994
The Nanny
as Lynn Redgrave
1993