In 1974, she returned to Broadway in My Fat Friend. London appearances included Michael Frayn‘s The Two of Us with Richard Briers at the Garrick, David Hare‘s Slag at the Royal Court, and Born Yesterday, directed by Tom Stoppardat Greenwich in 1973. In 1967 she made her Broadway debut in Black Comedy with Michael Crawfordand Geraldine Page. For the last of these roles she gained the New York Film Critics Award, the Golden Globe and an Oscar nomination. She 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 Noël 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.ĭuring that time she appeared in films such as Tom Jones (1963), Girl with Green Eyes (1964), The Deadly Affair (1966) and the title role in Georgy Girl(also 1966, and which featured her mother, Rachel Kempson). Hunter’s The Tulip Tree with Celia Johnson and John Clements. Following a tour of Billy Liar and repertory work in Dundee, she made her West End debut at the Haymarket, in N.
Redgrave is the only person to have been nominated for all of the ‘Big Four’ American entertainment awards ( Grammy, Emmy, Oscar, and Tony) without winning any of them.Īfter training in London’s Central School of Speech and Drama, Redgrave made her professional debut in a 1962 production of A Midsummer Night’s Dream at the Royal Court Theatre. 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. She performed with her sister Vanessa in Three Sisters in London, and in the title role of Baby Jane Hudson in a television production of What Ever Happened to Baby Jane? in 1991. 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. 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. Lynn Redgrave, OBE (8 March 1943 – ) was an English actress.Ī member of the Redgrave family, Lynn trained in London before making her theatrical debut in 1962. Redgrave at the 2009 Toronto International Film Festival