Ms. Redgrave was nominated for an Oscar for Best Actress for her portrayal of a plump and unloved young woman in "Georgy Girl'' in 1966.
Ms. Redgrave wrote three shows about her family: ‘Mandrake Root’‘Shakespeare for My Father’' and '‘Nightingale.’ She also produced a solo work, ‘Rachel and Juliet’ about her mother, Rachel Kempson, and her relationship with Shakespeare and the role of Juliet in particular. She also wrote a book with her daughter, Annabel Clark, about Ms. Redgrave’s experience with breast cancer called “Journal: A Mother and Daughter’s Recovery From Breast Cancer.”Lynn 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 had since performed in several stage productions in New York, while continuing to make frequent returns to the London West End. She performed with her sister Vanessa in Three Sisters in London, and in the title role in a television production of What Ever Happened to Baby Jane?. Redgrave 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.
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