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family – the one without the bisexual husband, the revolutionary politics, or indeed the brilliant career; in the 1990s, however, she began to rival her better-known siblings, Corin and Vanessa, both in terms of her career and her unorthodox private life. </h2> </div> <div class="oneHalf gutter"> <div class="headerOne"> </div> <div class="story"> <div class="byline"> <p> Published: 6:26PM BST 03 May 2010</p> <p> Comments <span class="num"><a href="#comments">14</a></span> | <span class="placeComment"><a href="#postComment">Comment on this article</a></span></p> </div> <div class="slideshow"> <div class="ssImg"> <img src="https://web.archive.org/web/20100506121244im_/http://i.telegraph.co.uk/telegraph/multimedia/archive/01628/lynn-redgrave_1628602c.jpg" width="460" height="288" alt=""/> <div class="imageExtras" style="width:460px"> <span class="caption">Lynn Redgrave in 1964</span> <span class="credit">Photo: SPORTSPHOTO/ALLSTAR</span> </div> </div> </div> <p> For much of her life, Lynn Redgrave was defined by who she was not. Her father, the actor Michael Redgrave, had invested all his energies in his first two children, Vanessa and Corin, and expected little of his younger daughter. When Lynn found his diaries many years later and looked up the day of her birth, she found a lunch appointment and a note of the night's performance, but no mention of her own arrival. When the Redgrave children acted out the Anglo-American "special relationship", Vanessa was the President, Corin the prime minister; Lynn was the President's dog. </p> <p> Tall, with grey-blue eyes and an intelligent, attractive face, Lynn Redgrave made her mark, aged 23, as the plump and pathetic protagonist in Silvio Narizzano's <i>Georgy Girl </i>(1966). Her sympathetic yet comic performance in the title role earned her an Oscar nomination, a Golden Globe Award and a Best Actress award from the New York Film Critics. </p> <div class="related_links_inline"> <div class="headerOne"> </div> <h4 class="header">Related Articles</h4> <ul>  <li><h2><a href="/web/20100506121244/http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/obituaries/5017759/Natasha-Richardson.html">Natasha Richardson</a></h2></li>  <li><h2><a href="/web/20100506121244/http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/celebritynews/5013887/Natasha-Richardson-Obituary.html">Natasha Richardson: Obituary</a></h2></li>  <li><h2><a href="/web/20100506121244/http://www.telegraph.co.uk/comment/personal-view/5286960/Luvvies-with-a-cause-should-be-applauded.html">'Luvvies' with a cause should be applauded</a></h2></li>  <li><h2><a href="/web/20100506121244/http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/celebritynews/5020675/Natasha-Richardsons-uncle-pays-tribute.html">Natasha Richardson's uncle pays tribute</a></h2></li>  <li><h2><a href="/web/20100506121244/http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/celebritynews/5013649/Natasha-Richardson-dies-after-skiing-accident-in-Canada.html">Natasha Richardson dies after skiing accident in Canada</a></h2></li>  <li><h2><a href="/web/20100506121244/http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/celebritynews/5007799/Natasha-Richardson-flown-to-US-for-treatment-after-skiing-accident.html">Natasha Richardson flown to US for treatment after skiing accident</a></h2></li> </ul> </div> <p> "Give a cheer all you 'Uglies' for Lynn Redgrave," wrote Ann Leslie in the <i>Daily Express.</i> "Up the Fatties!" The film led to her playing roles in a number of films on both sides of the Atlantic. In 1974 she emigrated to America with her new husband, John Clark – the BBC's first Just William in the 1940s. She had children and the invitations began to dry up. </p> <p> Then, in the mid-1990s, the film director Scott Hicks offered her a part in a small film, playing the wife of the brilliant, mentally ill Australian pianist David Helfgott. <i>Shine </i>won numerous awards and became a mini-blockbuster. A couple of years later she took the part of Hanna, the frumpy and religious Hungarian housekeeper in <i>Gods and Monsters </i>and earned another Oscar nomination, a second Golden Globe and the London Film Critics Circle Award. </p> <p> But at about the same time, her personal life began to fall apart. In 1998 she discovered that the little boy she had regarded as her grandson was, in fact, her husband's son. In 1991 he had had a clandestine affair with her assistant, Nicolette Hannah; Nicolette had a baby, Zachary; she kept the father's identity secret, but then fell in love with Ben, Lynn Redgrave's son by Clark, and married him. </p> <p> When Nicolette and Ben's marriage failed, John Clark began to pursue her again; Nicolette took out a restraining order against him, threatening to tell Lynn who Zachary's true father was. In the end, it was unnecessary. Clark bared his soul at a family Thanksgiving dinner in 1998 and Lynn Redgrave, after 32 years of marriage to the man she had described as her "mainstay and support through fat and thin", decided that enough was enough. </p> <p> The divorce, messy even by Hollywood standards, was front page news for months. She accused him of being cheap, penny-pinching and controlling, making her wear second-hand clothes, clean their swimming pool and tend the garden. He accused her of turning his children against him, destroying his career as a director and refusing to try to save the marriage. She persuaded a judge to send him to prison on his 68th birthday for his failure to produce vital financial documents in court; he complained that the £40,000 alimony she offered to pay him was inadequate – his psychotherapy bill alone amounted to some £10,000 a year. </p> <p> But Lynn Redgrave regarded the experience as a liberating one which allowed her to take a more dispassionate look at her own life, not only her relationship with her estranged husband, but also with the strange, talented, dysfunctional family into which she had had the privilege of being born. </p> <p> Lynn Rachel Redgrave was born on March 8 1943, the youngest of the three children of Sir Michael Redgrave and his wife, the actress Rachel Kempson. Sir Michael, a bisexual who had a long-term affair with Noël Coward, had little time or affection to spare for his younger daughter. A desperately shy and rather sickly child, it seemed she was not destined to follow the family trade and her father offered her no encouragement; at school her acting experience was limited to a performance as a shepherd in a Nativity play. She perceived herself as boring and dumpy beside her more glamorous siblings, and found pleasure only in the company of her beloved pony. </p> <p> Yet she was enthralled by the theatre. An accomplished mimic, she would borrow her father's tape recorder and record an entire performance of <i>Journey Into Space</i>, doing all the characters, then play it back to Vanessa and Corin, to entertain them. </p> <p> Lynn did not enjoy her time at Queensgate School and dropped out early in 1959, hoping to train as a professional show jumper. She enrolled on a cookery course, planning to raise the necessary funds by cooking gourmet meals for the rich, but soon concluded that this was impractical and gave up. </p> <p> The family usually spent their summers at the annual Shakespeare Festival at Stratford upon Avon and it was Dorothy Tutin's performance in <i>Twelfth Night </i>in 1959 that convinced Lynn that she wanted to become an actress. She trained at the Central School of Speech and Drama, then, aged 18, joined the Royal Court Theatre as a general dogsbody. She made her debut as Helena in <i>A Midsummer Night's Dream</i>, directed by her future brother-in-law Tony Richardson, appeared in <i>Twelfth Night</i>, toured with Dundee Rep in <i>Billy Liar </i>and made her West End debut in <i>The Tulip Tree</i>, starring Celia Johnson. </p> <p> As director of the rumbustious <i>Tom Jones</i>, Richardson cast her in the minor role of the barmaid Susan. Her performance, which consisted of a scene in which she runs across the set screaming "Rape!", impressed Sir Laurence Olivier who invited her to audition for the new National Theatre Company. </p> <p> She joined the company in 1963 and played Ophelia opposite her father and Peter O'Toole. In 1964 she attracted favourable reviews for her performance as Barblin in Max Freisch's <i>Andorra</i>, and as the featherbrained flapper Jackie in Noël Coward's <i>Hay Fever</i> she impressed critics with her flair for comedy. </p> <p> In 1965, as Kattrin, the deaf and dumb daughter in Brecht's <i>Mother Courage</i>, she moved some in the audience to tears. </p> <p> Taking time off from the stage, she appeared in <i>The Girl With Green Eyes </i>(1964) as Rita Tushingham's brash room-mate. Though she was no sylph, she had to gain 18 pounds for <i>Georgy Girl</i>, a part that had been rejected by a number of better-known actresses, including her elder sister Vanessa. </p> <p> After her success in this role, Lynn Redgrave made her Broadway debut in 1967 as the eccentric debutante in Peter Shaffer's <i>Black Comedy</i>; took a supporting role in Sidney Lumet's spy thriller <i>A Deadly Affair</i>;<i> </i>and co-starred with Rita Tushingham in <i>Smashing Time.</i> In 1967 she married John Clark, who became her agent and manager. </p> <p> By now she was established in the public mind as a comedienne, and in the 1970s Lynn Redgrave appeared in Woody Allen's <i>Everything You Always Wanted to Know About Sex, But Were Afraid to Ask </i>(1972) and took the title role in <i>The Happy Hooker </i>(1975). </p> <p> Towards the end of the decade her film career was in the doldrums, though she had regular work in television comedies and miniseries, including the American shows <i>House Calls </i>(1979-81), <i>Teachers Only </i>(1982-83), <i>Chicken Soup </i>(1989) and the BBC's <i>Faint-hearted Feminist </i>(1984). She was also a popular guest on the television talk and game show circuit and made her mark in television commercials. </p> <p> Lynn Redgrave was always known as the non-political Redgrave: during the 1991 Gulf War she and her sister Vanessa had a very public falling-out while they were performing together in Chekov's <i>The Three Sisters</i>, when Vanessa condemned the Americans as imperialist pigs and Lynn said she could not cope with her sister's views and was thinking of changing her name. Yet in her own quiet way, Lynn Redgrave probably achieved more for gradual social reform than her siblings ever achieved for the Workers' Revolution. </p> <p> In 1981 she launched a lawsuit against Universal Television, claiming she had been sacked from the sitcom <i>House Calls </i>because she was not allowed to breast-feed her baby during breaks in shooting. </p> <p> The case involved her in a 13-year legal wrangle which cost her some $500,000 and ended up in a tangle of cross-complaints, countersuits and allegations of legal malpractice. The case became a <i>cause célèbre </i>for American working mothers, and she was called to give evidence to congressional committees. As a result, American politicians began to feel that they had to include statements about child care in their election manifestos. </p> <p> Lynn Redgrave also became a role model for women with weight and emotional problems. She confessed how, in her youth, she had suffered from the eating disorder bulimia and, after a determined effort to shed the pounds she had put on for <i>Georgy Girl</i>, for almost a decade she was the public face and body of Weight Watchers. </p> <p> In 1991 Lynn Redgrave began to bounce back from comparative obscurity when she starred with Stewart Granger and Ricardo Montalban in <i>Don Juan in Hell</i>, her first Hollywood production. She then returned to the theatre. </p> <p> In 1993, she launched a new career as a actor-playwright with a one-woman show, <i>Shakespeare For My Father</i>, a moving, cathartic and sometimes painful exploration of her complex relationship with the father who had rejected her. It played to packed audiences across America and enjoyed a successful run at the Theatre Royal, Haymarket. </p> <p> She went on to write <i>The Mandrake Root</i>, exploring the relationship between mothers and daughters in a tale of a dyspeptic 80-year-old actress whose arrival on her daughter's doorstep spurs an attempt to reclaim the past. </p> <p> Again, there was much of Lynn Redgrave's own life in the play – her relationship with her mother, Rachel Kempson, and with her own daughter, Kelly, who had come out as a Buddhist lesbian before finding a husband and having two children. Lynn Redgrave's third play, <i>Nightingale</i> (2002), told the story of a pinched, disappointed woman whose past is slowly revealed. </p> <p> After her divorce Lynn Redgrave starred in Michael Frayn's farce <i>Noises Off </i>(Piccadilly Theatre, 2001). She also starred with Madonna in <i>The Next Best Thing</i>; with Kenneth Branagh in <i>How to Kill Your Neighbour's Dog</i>; and with Jonathan Pryce and Rupert Everett in <i>Who Killed Victor Fox?</i> In 2003 she starred with Ralph Fiennes and Miranda Richardson in David Cronenburg's <i>Spider.</i> </p> <p> In September 2006 she appeared in the American premiere of her one-woman play <i>Nightingale</i>. 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Many years later I saw her in London, with sister Vanessa and niece Jemma in "The Three Sisters." She always performed with such utter, translucent honesty. She will be missed. <br/></p> </div> <div class="oneSixth"> <div class="author">Mitchell</div> <div class="date">on May 05, 2010</div> <div class="time">at 06:00 AM</div> <div class="report"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20100506121244/mailto:newsfeedback@telegraph.co.uk?subject=Posting Complaint: COMMENT 7680349 Posted by Mitchell on May 05, 2010 06:00 AM">Report this comment</a></div> </div> <div class="cl"></div> </li> <li class="gutterUnder"> <div class="oneHalf gutter"> <p>Lovely Lynn Redgrave. Maybe she was the least-favoured but she had grace, radiance and was very good-looking; of course, she had talent too. A terrible time for her children,grandchildren, her sister and the rest of her remaining family. May she rest in peace.</p> </div> <div class="oneSixth"> <div class="author">Franziska100</div> <div class="date">on May 04, 2010</div> <div class="time">at 04:53 PM</div> <div class="report"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20100506121244/mailto:newsfeedback@telegraph.co.uk?subject=Posting Complaint: COMMENT 7678006 Posted by Franziska100 on May 04, 2010 04:53 PM">Report this comment</a></div> </div> <div class="cl"></div> </li> <li class="gutterUnder"> <div class="oneHalf gutter"> <p>Thank you for reminding me of her role in ''Shine'' . Very good part that was and much more than a cameo .</p> </div> <div class="oneSixth"> <div class="author">John Fogarty</div> <div class="date">on May 04, 2010</div> <div class="time">at 12:34 PM</div> <div class="report"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20100506121244/mailto:newsfeedback@telegraph.co.uk?subject=Posting Complaint: COMMENT 7676750 Posted by John Fogarty on May 04, 2010 12:34 PM">Report this comment</a></div> </div> <div class="cl"></div> </li> <li class="gutterUnder"> <div class="oneHalf gutter"> <p>"Hey there Georgie girl" Lynn's best movie in the 60's</p> </div> <div class="oneSixth"> <div class="author">linda nathan</div> <div class="date">on May 04, 2010</div> <div class="time">at 07:37 AM</div> <div class="report"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20100506121244/mailto:newsfeedback@telegraph.co.uk?subject=Posting Complaint: COMMENT 7675473 Posted by linda nathan on May 04, 2010 07:37 AM">Report this comment</a></div> </div> <div class="cl"></div> </li> <li class="gutterUnder"> <div class="oneHalf gutter"> <p>Thank you Lynn...for inspiring so many with your talents. Lynn was not only a wonderful performer but a truly genuine and caring friend. My thoughts are with Vanessa and the family. </p> </div> <div class="oneSixth"> <div class="author">Matthew Howe</div> <div class="date">on May 04, 2010</div> <div class="time">at 06:02 AM</div> <div class="report"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20100506121244/mailto:newsfeedback@telegraph.co.uk?subject=Posting Complaint: COMMENT 7675284 Posted by Matthew Howe on May 04, 2010 06:02 AM">Report this comment</a></div> </div> <div class="cl"></div> </li> <li class="gutterUnder"> <div class="oneHalf gutter"> <p>My sympathy goes to the family. i LOVED Lynn Redgrave acting and will miss her. </p> </div> <div class="oneSixth"> <div class="author">Alice Sercy</div> <div class="date">on May 04, 2010</div> <div class="time">at 05:59 AM</div> <div class="report"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20100506121244/mailto:newsfeedback@telegraph.co.uk?subject=Posting Complaint: COMMENT 7675300 Posted by Alice Sercy on May 04, 2010 05:59 AM">Report this comment</a></div> </div> <div class="cl"></div> </li> <li class="gutterUnder"> <div class="oneHalf gutter"> <p>To Sofie, <br/>Natasha was her daughter. <br/>Lynn was her sister <br/> <br/>her brother died recently. <br/> <br/> <br/> <br/> <br/> <br/> <br/></p> </div> <div class="oneSixth"> <div class="author">Alice Sercy</div> <div class="date">on May 04, 2010</div> <div class="time">at 05:59 AM</div> <div class="report"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20100506121244/mailto:newsfeedback@telegraph.co.uk?subject=Posting Complaint: COMMENT 7675301 Posted by Alice Sercy on May 04, 2010 05:59 AM">Report this comment</a></div> </div> <div class="cl"></div> </li> <li class="gutterUnder"> <div class="oneHalf gutter"> <p>@Sophie <br/> <br/>Actually, it was Vanessa's daughter, Natasha, who died last year. </p> </div> <div class="oneSixth"> <div class="author">Kathy Walton</div> <div class="date">on May 04, 2010</div> <div class="time">at 05:59 AM</div> <div class="report"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20100506121244/mailto:newsfeedback@telegraph.co.uk?subject=Posting Complaint: COMMENT 7675294 Posted by Kathy Walton on May 04, 2010 05:59 AM">Report this comment</a></div> </div> <div class="cl"></div> </li> <li class="gutterUnder"> <div class="oneHalf gutter"> <p>The loss of a great lady and actor. She had class. <br/>So sad for Vanessa with all these losses lately. <br/> <br/>My thoughts to all the family at this very sad time.</p> </div> <div class="oneSixth"> <div class="author">freda barley</div> <div class="date">on May 03, 2010</div> <div class="time">at 11:31 PM</div> <div class="report"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20100506121244/mailto:newsfeedback@telegraph.co.uk?subject=Posting Complaint: COMMENT 7675041 Posted by freda barley on May 03, 2010 11:31 PM">Report this comment</a></div> </div> <div class="cl"></div> </li> <li class="gutterUnder"> <div class="oneHalf gutter"> <p>Sad news, but happy memories from a very long time ago, as two fourteen-year olds giggling all the way back from lacrosse practice, waving at following lorry drivers from the back of the school coach. Supposedly being schooled to be young ladies  I think it worked for you Lynn. Bon voyage.</p> </div> <div class="oneSixth"> <div class="author">Claire Belton</div> <div class="date">on May 03, 2010</div> <div class="time">at 09:55 PM</div> <div class="report"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20100506121244/mailto:newsfeedback@telegraph.co.uk?subject=Posting Complaint: COMMENT 7674820 Posted by Claire Belton on May 03, 2010 09:55 PM">Report this comment</a></div> </div> <div class="cl"></div> </li> <li class="gutterUnder"> <div class="oneHalf gutter"> <p>Am I missing something here ? I knew Vanessa one of Redgrave's daughters died last year, but 2 daughters and a son ? hen did that happen ?</p> </div> <div class="oneSixth"> <div class="author">Sophie Shepherd</div> <div class="date">on May 03, 2010</div> <div class="time">at 07:58 PM</div> <div class="report"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20100506121244/mailto:newsfeedback@telegraph.co.uk?subject=Posting Complaint: COMMENT 7674444 Posted by Sophie Shepherd on May 03, 2010 07:58 PM">Report this comment</a></div> </div> <div class="cl"></div> </li> <li class="gutterUnder"> <div class="oneHalf gutter"> <p>Very sad to hear this. <br/>Actually I was looking at a few clips of the Redgrave sisters today on Youtube. Both of them were great actresses. <br/>My sympathies to Vanessa. Tough yesr for her losing her brother,sister and daughter. <br/></p> </div> <div class="oneSixth"> <div class="author">John O Callaghan</div> <div class="date">on May 03, 2010</div> <div class="time">at 07:48 PM</div> <div class="report"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20100506121244/mailto:newsfeedback@telegraph.co.uk?subject=Posting Complaint: COMMENT 7674414 Posted by John O Callaghan on May 03, 2010 07:48 PM">Report this comment</a></div> </div> <div class="cl"></div> </li> <li class="gutterUnder"> <div class="oneHalf gutter"> <p>I am so very sad to read about the death of Lynn Redgrave, the Georgie Girl of my youth. My sympathy and very best wishes go to Vanessa Redgrave who has had the kind of year that one dreads. The Redgrave dynasty has played such a large part in our theatrical history and now it is almost gone. 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