14 Facts About Corin Redgrave

Corin Redgrave was educated at Westminster School and King's College, Cambridge.

Corin Redgrave played a wide range of character roles on film, television and stage.

In 2005, Corin Redgrave had just finished an engagement playing the lead in King Lear with the Royal Shakespeare Company in London when he suffered a severe heart attack.

Corin Redgrave took the lead part of Sir George Grey in the New Zealand TV miniseries The Governor.

Corin Redgrave wrote a play called Blunt Speaking, in which he performed at the Minerva Theatre between 23 July - 10 August 2002.

Corin Redgrave was a defender of the interests of the Romani people.

Corin Redgrave was part of the third generation of a theatrical dynasty spanning four generations.

Corin Redgrave's parents were Sir Michael Redgrave and Rachel Kempson; Vanessa and Lynn Redgrave were his sisters.

Corin Redgrave wrote a memoir about his strained relationship with his father, Michael Redgrave - My Father, which incorporates passages from Michael's diaries.

Corin Redgrave was diagnosed with prostate cancer in 2000, which continued to affect him until he died in 2010.

In March 2009, Corin Redgrave returned to the London stage playing the title role in Trumbo, based on the life of the blacklisted Hollywood screenwriter Dalton Trumbo.

Corin Redgrave died on 6 April 2010 in St George's Hospital, Tooting, South West London.

Corin Redgrave's funeral was held on 12 April 2010 at St Paul's, Covent Garden, London, and he was interred on the eastern side of Highgate Cemetery.

Markham's memoir of her husband, Our Time of Day: My Life with Corin Redgrave, was published in 2014.