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Vanessa Redgrave: Tony Richardson
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Redgrave returned to films in 1966, making an unbilled appearance as Anne Boleyn in Fred Zinneman's all-star adaptation of A Man for All Seasons, and co-starring in Karel Reisz's comedy Morgan. In the same year, she played a small but key role as the girl in the photograph in Michelangelo Antonioni's first English language film, Blow-Up. In 1967, Redgrave appeared in the first of several films directed by her husband, Red and Blue and The Sailor from Gibralter. Also in 1967, she made a radiant Guenevere opposite Richard Harris' King Arthur in Joshua Logan's adaptation of the stage musical Camelot. That same year, Redgrave divorced Richardson on grounds of adultery. She had two children, Joely and Natasha Richardson, by him, and in 1969 had a child by her Camelot co-star Franco Nero.
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Redgrave was born in London, United Kingdom, the daughter of actors Sir Michael Redgrave and Rachel Kempson (Lady Redgrave). She was educated at The Alice Ottley School in Worcester. Her siblings, Lynn Redgrave and the equally outspoken Corin Redgrave, are ... acclaimed actors. Redgrave's daughters, Natasha Richardson and Joely Richardson (by her 1962-1967 marriage to film director Tony Richardson) have also built respected acting careers. Redgrave's son Carlo Nero (né Carlo Sparanero), by her relationship with Italian actor Franco Nero (né Francesco Sparanero), is a writer and film director. She met Nero while filming Camelot in 1967, the year in which she divorced her husband Tony Richardson.
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By 2000 and beyond, Redgrave’s film career had settled into a regular pattern of supporting and lead roles in a wide variety of genres and styles. Turns in big budget productions like the campy TV miniseries “Bella Mafia†(1997) in which Redgrave was the female head of a mob family; the sci-fi disaster film “Deep Impact†(1998); and “Girl, Interrupted†(2000) were accompanied by stellar work in quieter fare like Sean Penn’s “The Pledge†(2001) and “A Rumor of Angels†(2000) with Ray Liotta. Redgrave’s turn as a sixties-era lesbian who loses her long-time partner in the tragic “1961†episode of HBO’s “If These Walls Could Talk 2†earned her a Golden Globe and an award for Excellence in Media from GLAAD. She followed this with an Emmy-nominated turn as Clementine Churchill, wife of famed British prime minister Winston Churchill in “The Gathering Storm†in 2002. In 2003, she received her first Tony Award for a Broadway production of “A Long Day’s Journey Into Night.â€
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VANESSA REDGRAVE was nominated for the 2007 Tony Award for Best Actress in a Play for The Year of Magical Thinking. Ms. Redgrave appeared on Broadway in the landmark 2003 production of Long Day's Journey Into Night, for which she received the Tony Award for Best Actress in a Play. Her other Broadway appearances include the acclaimed revivals of Tennessee Williams' Orpheus Descending and Ibsen's The Lady From the Sea. Off-Broadway, Ms. Redgrave performed in the Public Theater production of Antony and Cleopatra, which she ... directed, and Vita and Virginia, in addition to scores of major roles on the stage in her native England. In 1998, she and her brother Corin co-produced an early Tennessee Williams play, Not About Nightingales, which Ms. Redgrave discovered at the Royal National Theatre; directed by Sir Trevor Nunn, it then played at Circle in the Square. In 2005, Ms. Redgrave played Euripides' Hecuba for the RSC, directed by Tony Harrison, at the Kennedy Center and then at BAM.
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Vanessa performed at the Goli Otok Theatre Workshop for the Ulysses Theatre Company Croatia. Vanessa made her first appearance in the very sucessful NIP/TUCK TV show for Fox & Sky One alongside her daughter Joely Richardson, playing her on screen mother. Vanessa ... starred in cameo roles in the films SHORT ORDER directed by Anthony Byrne and THIEF LORD directed by Richard Claus. Vanessa filmed THE WHITE COUNTESS directed by James Ivory for Merchant Ivory with her sister Lynn Redgrave and daughter Natasha Richardson and Ralph Fiennes soon to be released.
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Vanessa and Lynn's brother, Corin Redgrave, has worked with well-known film directors including Tony Richardson and Nicolas Roeg. He ... starred in Jim Sheridan's seven-time Academy Award-nominated film "In the Name of the Father" (1993) and played Andie MacDowell's husband in the Academy Award- nominated film "Four Weddings and a Funeral" (1994).
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