Lynn Redgrave won two Golden Globe Awards during her career.
32 Facts About Lynn Redgrave
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Lynn Redgrave made a return to cinema in the late 1990s, in films such as Shine and Gods and Monsters, for which she received her second Academy Award nomination and won a Golden Globe Award For Best Supporting Actress.
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Lynn Redgrave is the only person to have been nominated for all of the 'Big Four' American entertainment awards without winning any of them.
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Lynn Redgrave was born in Marylebone, London, the youngest child of actors Sir Michael Lynn Redgrave and Rachel Kempson.
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Lynn Redgrave's sister is actress Vanessa Redgrave; her brother was actor and political activist Corin Redgrave.
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Lynn Redgrave's grandfather was silent screen leading man Roy Redgrave.
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Lynn Redgrave was invited to join the National Theatre for its inaugural season at the Old Vic, working with such directors as Laurence Olivier, Franco Zeffirelli, and Noel Coward in roles such as Rose in The Recruiting Officer, Barblin in Andorra, Jackie in Hay Fever, Kattrin in Mother Courage, Miss Prue in Love for Love, and Margaret in Much Ado About Nothing which kept her busy for the next three years.
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Lynn Redgrave returned to Broadway in 1974, in My Fat Friend.
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In 1983, Lynn Redgrave played Cleopatra in an American television version of Antony and Cleopatra opposite Timothy Dalton.
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Lynn Redgrave starred with Stewart Granger and Ricardo Montalban in a Hollywood production of Don Juan in Hell in the early winter of 1991.
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Lynn Redgrave starred in BBC productions such as The Faint-Hearted Feminist, A Woman Alone, Death of a Son, Calling the Shots and Fighting Back.
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Lynn Redgrave played Broadway again in Moon Over Buffalo with co-star Robert Goulet, and starred in the world premiere of Tennessee Williams' The Notebook of Trigorin, based on Anton Chekhov's The Seagull.
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Lynn Redgrave won the Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Featured Actress in a Play for her performance in Talking Heads.
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Lynn Redgrave became well-known in the United States after appearing in the television series House Calls, for which she received an Emmy nomination.
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Lynn Redgrave was fired from the series after she insisted on bringing her child to rehearsals so as to continue a breastfeeding schedule.
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Lynn Redgrave wrote a book of her life experiences with the same title, which included a selection of Weight Watchers recipes.
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Lynn Redgrave was nominated for the Tony Award for Best Actress in a Play.
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Lynn Redgrave hosted segments for the Encore True Stories premium cable network in the late 1990s and 2000s.
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In 2005, Lynn Redgrave appeared at Quinnipiac University and Connecticut College in the play Sisters of the Garden, about the sisters Fanny and Rebekka Mendelssohn and Nadia and Lili Boulanger.
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Lynn Redgrave was reported to be writing a one-woman play about her battle with breast cancer and her 2003 mastectomy, based on her book Journal: A Mother and Daughter's Recovery from Breast Cancer with photos by her daughter Annabel and text by Redgrave herself.
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Lynn Redgrave performed the play in May 2007 at Hartford Stage in Hartford, Connecticut.
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On 2 April 1967, Lynn Redgrave married English actor John Clark.
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The divorce proceedings were acrimonious and became front-page news, with Clark alleging that Lynn Redgrave had been unfaithful.
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Lynn Redgrave was appointed an Officer of the Order of the British Empire in the 2002 New Year Honours for services to acting and the cinema and to the British community in Los Angeles.
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Lynn Redgrave was a naturalised citizen of the United States.
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Lynn Redgrave discussed her health problems associated with bulimia and breast cancer.
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Lynn Redgrave was diagnosed with breast cancer in December 2002, had a mastectomy in January 2003, and underwent chemotherapy.
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Lynn Redgrave died from breast cancer at her home in Kent, Connecticut on 2 May 2010, aged 67.
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Lynn Redgrave's funeral was held on 8 May 2010 at the First Congregational Church in Kent.
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Lynn Redgrave was interred in St Peter's Episcopal Cemetery in the hamlet of Lithgow, New York, where her mother Rachel Kempson and her niece Natasha Richardson are interred.
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In 2013, the Lynn Redgrave Theater was opened Off-Broadway in New York City; it was previously known as the Bleecker Street Theater.
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In 2001, Lynn Redgrave received a LIVING LEGEND honor at The WINFemme Film Festival and The Women's Network Image Awards.