1. Joyce Redman received two Oscar nominations for Best Supporting Actress for her performances in the 1963 film Tom Jones and the 1965 film Othello.
11 Facts About Joyce Redman
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Joyce Redman was born into an Anglo-Irish family, and educated by a private governess in Ireland, along with her three sisters.
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Joyce Redman trained in acting at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art in London, graduating in 1936.
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Joyce Redman's acting roles were primarily in the theatre and in television films.
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Joyce Redman made a big success in New York in 1949 playing Anne Boleyn opposite Rex Harrison as Henry VIII in Maxwell Anderson's play Anne of the Thousand Days, and, in 1955, she joined Stratford-upon-Avon's Shakespeare Memorial Theatre to play Helena in All's Well That Ends Well and Mistress Ford in The Merry Wives of Windsor.
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In 1974, Redman played Sophie Dupin, the mother of George Sand, in the BBC serial Notorious Woman.
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Joyce Redman was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress for her work in Tom Jones ; and again for Othello, in which she appeared as Emilia to the Desdemona of Maggie Smith and the Othello of Laurence Olivier.
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Joyce Redman married Charles Wynne Roberts in New York City in 1949; he predeceased her.
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Joyce Redman is survived by their three children and five grandchildren.
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Joyce Redman's son-in-law is the investment manager and media personality Justin Urquhart-Stewart.
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Joyce Redman died in Pembury, Kent, England, on 9 May 2012 at age 96 from pneumonia.