Lynn Redgrave

Biography

Lynn Rachel Redgrave, OBE (8 March 1943 – 2 May 2010) was an English actress. A member of the well-known British family of actors, Redgrave trained in London before making her theatrical debut in 1962. 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. 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. She performed with her sister Vanessa in Three Sisters in London, and in the title role in a television production of Whatever Happened to Baby Jane? in 1991. 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.

Known For

Peter Pan

as Aunt Millicent

Confessions of a Shopaholic

as Drunken Lady at Ball

Desperate Housewives

as Dahlia Hainsworth

The Nanny

as Lynn Redgrave

Everything You Always Wanted to Know About Sex *But Were Afraid to Ask

as Queen

Spider

as Mrs. Wilkinson

Shine

as Gillian

Kinsey

as Final Interview Subject

Murder, She Wrote

as Abby Benton Freestone

The Jane Austen Book Club

as Sky