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Vanessa Redgrave is the Oscar, Emmy and Tony award-winning actress who has starred in dozens of films over several decades, but how many of those titles are classics? Let’s take a look back at 15 of her greatest movies, ranked worst to best.

Born in 1937, Redgrave was almost destined to become a performer: her parents were Sir Michael Redgrave and Lady Redgrave (Rachel Kempson), her siblings were Lynn Redgrave and Corin Redgrave, her daughters are Joely Richardson and the late Natasha Richardson, and her son-in-law is Liam Neeson. So when it comes to the Redgraves, acting definitely runs in the family.

Redgrave earned her first Oscar nomination in 1966: Best Actress for “Morgan! A Suitable Case for Treatment.” She won 11 years later as Best Supporting Actress for “Julia” (1977) and competed four more times.

Unfortunately, her Oscar victory is best remembered for her controversial acceptance speech than for the performance itself:...

Oscar-winning actress and longtime activist Vanessa Redgrave will be honored this year with the European Film Academy’s Lifetime Achievement Award. Redgrave will receive the honor at the 36th European Film Awards in Berlin on Dec. 9.

An acting icon who has deftly straddled theater, film and television in a career that has spanned more than six decades, Redgrave first made her name on the stage as a member of the Royal Shakespeare Company, before breaking into film work in 1966 with Karel Reisz’ Morgan: A Suitable Case for Treatment. The role, which won her the best actress prize in Cannes, launched her international career. A multitude of acting prizes have followed since including another best actress prize in Cannes, two Emmys, a Tony, two Golden Globes and two BAFTAs.

She has been nominated for an Academy Award six times — for performances in Morgan: A Suitable Case for Treatment (1966), Isadora (1968), Mary, Queen of Scots...

The Captive Heart

The Captive Heart, 4pm, Talking Pictures TV (Freeview Channel 82), Tuesday, February 1

This drama set against the backdrop of a PoW camp was one of the first of its type, arriving less than a year after Ve Day and speaking to those who were fully aware of the real thing. Like Das Boot, which is also in our selection this week, there's a real sense of the tedium of camp life as well as the trouble. It features nuanced performances by Jack Warner and Mervyn Jons as friends before the war facing this together. The standout, however, is Michael Redgrave, as a man who claims to be a British officer - having stolen the dead man's identity - and who soon falls under suspicion leading him to write to the dead man's wife (played by Redgrave's real life wife Rachel Kempson) with unexpected consequences. Although Basil Dearden occasionally.

This moody, unsettling whodunnit benefits from sensitive cinematography, fine direction and a perfectly-cast group of players. Stephen Boyd gets a worthwhile starring role, backed by some good names and a nice debut from Judi Dench. What I don’t understand is why Pamela Franklin, possibly the most talented and versatile young English player ever, didn’t become a major star. She’s more than half the picture here.

The Third Secret

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1964 / B&W / 2:35 / 103 min. / / Street Date February 25, 2019 / available from Powerhouse Films UK / £17.77

Starring: Stephen Boyd, Pamela Franklin, Diane Cilento, Richard Attenborough, Jack Hawkins, Paul Rogers, Alan Webb, Rachel Kempson, Freda Jackson, Judi Dench, Peter Copley, Nigel Davenport, Charles Lloyd Pack, Barbara Hicks.

Cinematography: Douglas Slocombe

Film Editor: Frederick Wilson

Original Music: Richard Arnell

Written and Produced by Robert L. Joseph

Directed by Charles Crichton

Trying to keep up a production schedule during the cash-flow crisis of Cleopatra,...

Vanessa Redgrave celebrates her 82nd birthday on January 30, 2019. The Oscar, Emmy and Tony award-winning actress has starred in dozens of films over several decades, but how many of those titles are classics? In honor of her birthday, let’s take a look back at 15 of her greatest movies, ranked worst to best.

Born in 1937, Redgrave was almost destined to become a performer: her parents were Sir Michael Redgrave and Lady Redgrave (Rachel Kempson), her siblings were Lynn Redgrave and Corin Redgrave, her daughters are Joely Richardson and the late Natasha Richardson, and her son-in-law is Liam Neeson. So when it comes to the Redgraves, acting definitely runs in the family.

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Redgrave earned her first Oscar nomination in 1966: Best Actress for “Morgan! A Suitable Case for Treatment.” She won 11 years later as Best Supporting Actress for “Julia” (1977) and competed four more times.

Lynn Redgrave burst to stardom with this fine study of romance vs. reality in swinging London circa 1966. Georgy thinks of herself as a plain Jane next to her popular roommate, played by Charlotte Rampling. Alan Bates is the flighty boyfriend and James Mason the old millionaire making indecent proposals. How can a good girl get somewhere in life? As sometimes happens, the song by The Seekers has retained more fame than the movie.

Georgy Girl

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1966 / B&W / 1:85 widescreen / 99 min. / Street Date November 26, 2018 / available from Powerhouse Films UK / £14.99

Starring: James Mason, Alan Bates, Lynn Redgrave, Charlotte Rampling, Bill Owen.

Cinematography: Ken Higgins

Film Editor: John Bloom

Art Direction: Tony Woollard

Original Music: Alexander Faris

Written by Peter Nichols, Margaret Forster from her novel

Produced by Robert A. Goldston, Otto Plaschkes

Directed by Silvio Narizzano

Georgy Girl likely first existed in our minds as a hit song, with...

To mark the release of The Captive Heart on 4th January, we’ve been given 3 copies to give away on DVD. Produced by Ealing Studios, starring Michael Redgrave and his wife Rachel Kempson and directed by Basil Dearden mere months after the end of the war, The Captive Heart is one of the first films

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Constance Cummings: Stage and film actress ca. early 1940s. Constance Cummings on stage: From Sacha Guitry to Clifford Odets (See previous post: “Constance Cummings: Flawless 'Blithe Spirit,' Supporter of Political Refugees.”) In the post-World War II years, Constance Cummings' stage reputation continued to grow on the English stage, in plays as diverse as: Stephen Powys (pseudonym for P.G. Wodehouse) and Guy Bolton's English-language adaptation of Sacha Guitry's Don't Listen, Ladies! (1948), with Cummings as one of shop clerk Denholm Elliott's mistresses (the other one was Betty Marsden). “Miss Cummings and Miss Marsden act as fetchingly as they look,” commented The Spectator. Rodney Ackland's Before the Party (1949), delivering “a superb performance of controlled hysteria” according to theater director and Michael Redgrave biographer Alan Strachan, writing for The Independent at the time of Cummings' death. Clifford Odets' Winter Journey / The Country Girl (1952), as...

I don’t know about you but I’ve been having way too much fun poring over the videos the Academy has put up online. For instance, here is 1967 – all...

Legendary actor and life-long activist Vanessa Redgrave on bad habits, brother Corin and why the battle for the beleaguered Travellers of Dale Farm matters so much to her

When Corin Redgrave suffered a heart attack while pleading with councillors not to evict Travellers from Dale Farm in Essex in summer 2005, his sister, Vanessa, was thousands of miles away in the Us. "If it wasn't for a Traveller giving him mouth to mouth, he would have died," she says. "As it was he had such loss of oxygen to his brain that he had extreme short-term memory loss. Forty Travellers came to the Basildon hospital to pray for him."

So is her current support for the Travellers due to be evicted from Dale Farm later this month to honour her dead brother? "Oh very, very, very much so. The Dale Farm Travellers are inseparable from him for me. It's totally personal.

Friends and family of Lynn Redgrave, including her sister Vanessa Redgrave and Liam Neeson, turned out to pay their last respects to the actress at her funeral on Saturday, May 8. The Oscar-nominated "Georgy Girl" star died at her home in New York last week following a seven-year battle with breast cancer.

Mourners paid their respects to the actress during a private ceremony on Saturday at the First Congregational Church of Kent in Connecticut. Redgrave was later laid to rest in a wicker coffin covered in spring flowers at St. Peter's Cemetery in Lithgow, New York - the same place her mother Rachel Kempson Redgrave was buried in 2003, as well as her niece Natasha Richardson following her death in a ski accident last year.

Richardson's husband Neeson joined Lynn Redgrave's mother, Vanessa, and her niece, Joely Richardson, at the ceremonies. Also at the service was Redgrave's "Gods and Monsters" co-star Brendan Fraser,...

Friends and family of Lynn Redgrave, including her sister Vanessa Redgrave and Liam Neeson, turned out to pay their last respects to the actress at her funeral on Saturday.

The Oscar-nominated Georgy Girl star died at her home in New York last week following a seven-year battle with breast cancer.

Mourners paid their respects to the actress during a private ceremony on Saturday at the First Congregational Church of Kent in Connecticut.

Redgrave was later laid to rest in a wicker coffin covered in spring flowers at St. Peter's Cemetery in Lithgow, New York - the same place her mother Rachel Kempson Redgrave was buried in 2003, as well as her niece Natasha Richardson following her death in a ski accident last year.

Richardson's husband Neeson joined Lynn Redgrave's mother, Vanessa, and her niece, Joely Richardson, at the ceremonies.

Also at the service was Redgrave's Gods And Monsters co-star Brendan Fraser, who said of the actress, "Lynn had a real quiet bliss about her, and enthusiasm. I think if I ever saw her sad, it was in a performance."...

Vanessa Redgrave's late sister, the Oscar-nominated actress Lynn Redgrave, was laid to rest in upstate New York today. Lynn's funeral was held in Connecticut, and she was buried in the same New York cemetery as her mother, Rachel Kempson, and her niece, the late actress Natasha Richardson. Vanessa, her daughter Joely Richardson and son-in-law Liam Neeson (Natasha Richardson's widower) were among those who said goodbye to their loved one at the funeral, says the Associated Press. Lynn passed away last Sunday at the age of 67 after a seven-year battle with breast cancer. She received two Oscar nods during her acting career, earning a Best Actress nomination for 'Georgy Girl' in 1967 and a Best Supporting Actress nom for 'Gods and Monsters' in 1999.

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"I like the whole thing of transforming into other people," Lynn Redgrave told Back Stage's Dany Margolies in 2006, when Redgrave was starring in "The Importance of Being Earnest" at the Ahmanson Theatre in Los Angeles. "I like the search for it. And I like the hours of the day that are spent in some of their company—some more than others. Some characters, I like their company so much that I literally grieve for their loss when I'm done; others not."We will certainly grieve for the loss of this magnificent actor, who died May 2 at the age of 67. She first came to prominence as the daughter of classical stage actors Michael Redgrave and Rachel Kempson and as the younger sister of the better-known Vanessa and Corin. Her stage debut was as a member of the ensemble in "A Midsummer Night's Dream" at London's Royal Court Theatre. Her first film was "Tom Jones,...

Lynn Redgrave, an introspective and independent player in her family's acting dynasty who became a 1960s sensation as the unconventional title character of "Georgy Girl" and later dramatized her troubled past in such one-woman stage performances as "Shakespeare  for My Father" and "Nightingale," has died. She was 67.Her publicist Rick Miramontez, speaking on behalf of her children, said Redgrave died peacefully Sunday night at her home in Kent, Conn. Children Ben, Pema and Annabel were with her, as were close friends."Our beloved mother Lynn Rachel passed away peacefully after a seven year journey with breast cancer," Redgrave's children said in a statement Monday. "She lived, loved and worked harder than ever before. The endless memories she created as a mother, grandmother, writer, actor and friend will sustain us for the rest of our lives. Our entire family asks for privacy through this difficult time.

Actor nominated for Oscar in 60s and 90s dies at 67, weeks after brother Corin's death

Actor Lynn Redgrave, the sister of Vanessa Redgrave, has died aged 67 after a lengthy battle with cancer, just one month after the death of her brother Corin.

Her son Ben and daughters Pema and Annabel were at her bedside when she died at her home in Connecticut yesterday, her publicist Rick Miramontez announcedtoday.

In a statement, her children said: "Our beloved mother Lynn Rachel passed away peacefully after a seven-year journey with breast cancer. She lived, loved and worked harder than ever before. The endless memories she created as a mother, grandmother, writer, actor and friend will sustain us for the rest of our lives."

She is the third member of the Redgrave acting dynasty to die in just over a year. Her niece Natasha Richardson, 45, daughter of Vanessa and wife of Irish actor Liam Neeson,...

Death of actor nominated twice for an Oscar comes a month after that of her older brother, Corin Redgrave

The actor Lynn Redgrave has died, her family said. She was 67.

Her publicist Rick Miramontez said she died on Sunday night at her apartment in Manhattan.

Often viewed as an introspective and independent player in her family's acting dynasty, Redgrave became a 1960s sensation as the freethinking title character of Georgy Girl, which won her nominations for an Oscar as well as a Golden Globe award.

"Our beloved mother Lynn Rachel passed away peacefully after a seven-year journey with breast cancer," said her children in a joint statement.

"She lived, loved and worked harder than ever before. The endless memories she created as a mother, grandmother, writer, actor and friend will sustain us for the rest of our lives. Our entire family asks for privacy through this difficult time."

Her death...

Lynn Redgrave, Alan Bates in Silvio Narizzano’s Georgy Girl Lynn Redgrave died Sunday, May 2, at her home in Connecticut. She had been fighting breast cancer for seven years. The two-time Oscar nominee, four-time BAFTA Award nominee, two-time SAG Award nominee, New York Film Critics award winner, two-time Golden Globe winner, daughter of Michael Redgrave and Rachel Kempson, and sister of Vanessa Redgrave and Corin Redgrave, was 67. Lynn’s death is the third in the Redgrave acting dynasty in a little over a year: Corin Redgrave died only a month ago, while Natasha Richardson, daughter of Vanessa Redgrave and the late Oscar-winning director Tony Richardson, died in March 2009 following a skiing accident. Lynn Redgrave’s two Oscar nods were [...]...

Even by the colourful standards of her own family's public profile and professional achievements, Lynn Redgrave, who has died of breast cancer aged 67, was an exceptional personality. Her death seems particularly cruel after the loss of both her niece, Natasha Richardson, after a skiing accident last year, and her brother, Corin Redgrave, last month. The third child of the actors Michael Redgrave and Rachel Kempson, Lynn was a gifted comedian who received her first Oscar nomination for a delightful, clownish performance in the title role of Georgy Girl (1966), one of the defining movies of the so-called swinging 60s. She went on to spend many years living and working in America. Less politically engaged than her older siblings, Vanessa and Corin, she was no less a remarkable talent.

Her 1991 television remake of Whatever Happened to Baby Jane? with...

English actress Lynn Redgrave has passed away at the age of 67 after a long battle with cancer.

Lynn was most recently on television's 'Ugly Betty' but enjoyed a career spanning decades that moved her from an Academy Award nomination on the big screen to Broadway and London's West End.

"Our beloved mother Lynn Rachel passed away peacefully after a seven year journey with breast cancer," the Redgrave family said in a statement. "She lived, loved and worked harder than ever before. The endless memories she created as a mother, grandmother, writer, actor and friend will sustain us for the rest of our lives. Our entire family asks for privacy through this difficult time."

Lynn also came from a family of actors; her father Michael Redgrave was an accomplished actor who married actress Rachel Kempson. Lynn's older sister Vanessa Redgrave won an Academy Award and her older brother Corin...

Lynn Redgrave, who shot to international fame for her performance as a free-spirited bird in 1966's "Georgy Girl," died Sunday at her home in Connecticut after a battle with breast cancer. She was 67.

Redgrave's turn as a chubby, childlike Londoner pursued by her father's middle-aged boss (James Mason) won her an Oscar nomination for best actress and the New York Film Critics Circle Award. She garnered another Academy Award nomination for supporting actress in "Gods and Monsters" (1998), playing a testy housekeeper.

Redgrave hailed from a venerable theatrical family. She was the younger sister of actress Vanessa Redgrave and actor Corin Redgrave and the daughter of Michael Redgrave and Rachel Kempson.

Her death comes a year after her niece Natasha Richardson died from head injuries sustained in a skiing accident and just a month after the death of Corin. Redgrave was diagnosed with breast cancer in December 2002, had a mastectomy in January 2003 and underwent chemotherapy.

Lynn Redgrave, veteran actress with more than 95 acting credits to her name, has died. She was 67. Rick Miramontez spoke on behalf of her children, saying that Redgrave died on Sunday night at her Manhattan apartment. Redgrave had been treated for breast cancer in 2003. This comes a year after Natasha Richardson, her niece and wife of Liam Neeson, died from head injuries which were sustained during a skiing accident. Her older brother Corin died a month ago. Lynn Redgrave, sister to Vanessa Redgrave, was the youngest child of Michael Redgrave and Rachel Kempson, receiving an Oscar nomination for both "Gods and Monsters" as well as "Georgy Girl" and "Gods and Monsters.." The actress was also nominated for Tony awards for "The Constant Wife," "Mrs. Warren's Profession" and "Shakespeare for My Father."...

David Thacker, artistic director of the Octagon theatre and the man who masterminded Corin Redgrave's return to the stage, remembers the actor, who died this week at the age of 70

I first saw Corin's work at a special event at the Liverpool Playhouse. Corin, Vanessa, their father Michael and their mother Rachel Kempson were performing a variety of extracts from Shakespeare's plays and some of their favourite sonnets. It made a huge impression on me for a number of reasons. Michael was seriously afflicted by Parkinson's disease, and had by this time very limited short-term memory. I shall never forget Vanessa and Corin standing next to him, feeding him lines which he then delivered with astonishing sensitivity. The "seven ages of man" speech from As You Like It was performed with a depth of understanding that was completely new to me. Corin's contribution to the evening was equally memorable.

Corin Redgrave, member of the British acting dynasty, fell ill on Easter Sunday and died Tuesday, April 6, at St. George’s Hospital in London. He was 70. Redgrave had been in poor health for several years, having survived both prostate cancer and a massive heart attack in 2005. Though less famous than sisters Vanessa Redgrave and Lynn Redgrave, or their father, Michael Redgrave, Corin did star in numerous stage productions and appeared in a few films as well. His mother was actress Rachel Kempson, who was featured in a handful of British films. His daughter is actress Jemma Redgrave. One niece, actress Natasha Richardson, died last year following a skiing accident. Another niece, Joely Richardson, has starred in numerous movies and [...]...

A political radical, as an actor he excelled at playing tortured establishment figures

Corin Redgrave, who has died aged 70, was both a formidable actor and a strenuous political activist. But, while it is fashionably easy to suggest that his career was blighted by his political activities, I suspect his talent was intimately related to his radical political convictions. And, if he enjoyed a golden theatrical rebirth from the late 1980s onwards, it may have had less to do with politics than with his determination to inherit the mantle of his revered father. Before he suffered a severe heart attack in 2005, Redgrave's later years yielded some of his finest work.

Redgrave was born, in London, into the theatrical purple. His father, Sir Michael, was both a great classical actor and a popular film star; his mother, Rachel Kempson, was also a distinguished actor. Educated at Westminster school, Redgrave won a scholarship to King's College,...

By Brent Lang 

Corin Redgrave, a member of one of England's most famous acting dynasties, has died. He was 70.

Redgrave, the son of acclaimed stage actors Michael Redgrave and Rachel Kempson and the brother of Oscar winning actress Vanessa Redgrave, was best known for his work in theater, but managed to create a number of memorable film roles in a career that spanned four decades.

He won an Olivier Award and a Tony nomination for his leading role in Tennessee Williams "Not A...

British film and stage icon Corin Redgrave died Tuesday aged 70, his family announced. The British actor -- best known for his role in hit movie Four Weddings and a Funeral -- passed away at a London hospital after being taken ill in the early hours of Sunday morning. A statement issued by his wife, Kika Markham, said: "He died very peacefully surrounded by his family. We will miss him so very much." Redgrave was born in Marylebone, London, the son of actors Michael Redgrave and Rachel Kempson.

London -- Corin Redgrave, a member of a British acting dynasty that includes his sisters Vanessa and Lynn, has died at the age of 70.The Redgrave family said the actor died Tuesday after falling ill at home on Sunday. His wife, Kika Markham, said he died in a London hospital, "surrounded by his family."Corin Redgrave was less famous than his sisters, but still had success on stage and screen, appearing in dozens of television shows and movies, including "A Man for All Seasons," and "Oh! What A Lovely War" and "Four Weddings and a Funeral" - in which he played Hamish, the hapless groom of wedding number three.Known also for his radical political stands, Corin Redgrave was a Marxist who protested against the Iraq War, campaigned for the closure of the Guantanamo Bay detention camp and spoke out in defense of political dissidents. He was a longtime member...

Although she receives the crowning accolade from her peers tonight, the great radical has had the worst of years following the death of her daughter

When Vanessa Redgrave receives her Bafta fellowship this evening from Prince William, it will be a moment rich in theatrical potential. First, there is the pathos: the great veteran actress, still vibrant at 73, bestowed with a crowning professional accolade one year on from the death of her daughter, Natasha Richardson, in a skiing accident.

Then the dramatic irony of the revolutionary Marxist accepting the award from a prince. And finally the dreadful tension: what will she say in her speech?

Redgrave does not boast the most tactful history of acceptance speeches. Four years ago, having been recognised for her lifetime's achievement by the Transylvania film festival, she dedicated the award to a group campaigning against a gold mine in Romania owned by one of the festival's sponsors.

Vanessa Redgrave called off an engagement when she was 23 because her family feared that the relationship would affect her career. The Times reports that letters in the family's archive reveal that Redgrave planned to marry Gavin Welby. "I have something very special to tell you," she wrote to her father. "I am going to marry a sweet, darling man called Gavin Welby." However, Redgrave's parents, Sir Michael Redgrave and Rachel Kempson, feared that Welby was a "rotten piece of work" and were suspicious of their daughter's assurances that he had (more)...

Vanessa Redgrave's family forced her to call off her engagement to a man in the 1960s - for fear it would damage her Hollywood career.

The veteran actress began dating Gavin Welby when she first started out in the Royal Shakespeare Company aged 23 and told her father, Sir Michael Redgrave, she planned to marry her sweetheart.

But Sir Michael, along with the star's mother Rachel Kempson, feared she would become a housewife and sacrifice her movie career if she wed, according to previously unseen letters in the archives of the famous acting dynasty.

Kempson wrote to her husband, “Vanessa is completely infatuated... I only pray we can prevent marriage.”

Her parents' disapproval worked - the actress eventually ended the relationship.

She told her father, “I have decided not to marry Gavin because, although I do love him, for various reasons I know it wouldn’t work... I had a talk with Mum this evening and realised that it is the only thing to do.”

Redgrave went on to marry film director Tony Richardson in 1962 before they divorced five years later. She wed Italian actor married Franco Nero in 2006.

A funeral service for late actress Natasha Richardson, who died last week after suffering head injury from a skiing accident, was held Sunday afternoon, March 22, in Millbrook, N.Y., where she married actor husband Liam Neeson back in 1994. The funeral opened only for family and close friends of the Tony Award-winning actress.

Liam, who arrived at the service alongside sons Micheal Richard Antonio and Daniel Jack, whom he has with Natasha, was among the pallbearers who carried his wife's coffin into St. Peter's Episcopal Church. Natasha's mother Vanessa Redgrave and sister Joely Richardson were also in attendance.

Among Natasha's celebrity friends who paid their final tribute to the film and stage actress were Uma Thurman, Ralph Fiennes and Mia Farrow. Alan Rickman and Laura Linney, both of whom co-starred with Liam in the 2003 romantic comedy film "Love Actually", also attended the service.

Natasha's remains were buried at St. Peter's Cemetery,...

Family members shared a final farewell to Natasha Richardson at her funeral service on Sunday in the New York town where she wed Liam Neeson.

The tragic actress died after a fall while skiing on the slopes of Mont Tremblant in Montreal, Canada on Monday that left her with a serious brain injury.

She was flown to New York by her husband Neeson on Tuesday where relatives, including her actress mother Vanessa Redgrave and sister Joely Richardson, stayed by her bedside until her life support machine was switched off on Wednesday. She died hours later, aged 45.

The actress' mahogany casket, marked on its side with an Irish symbol representing friendship, love and loyalty, left Manhattan, New York at approximately 9:30am local time on Saturday, after a one-day wake.

Neeson was among the pallbearers for his wife's coffin at the private service on Sunday afternoon at St. Peter's Episcopal Church in Millbrook, New York - near the home where they exchanged vows in 1994 and raised their two children.

The actor arrived with sons Micheal, 13, and Daniel, 12, and mother-in-law, Vanessa Redgrave. Richardson's aunt, Lynn Redgrave, and sister Joely Richardson followed.

Actor Ralph Fiennes was also at the funeral, which was open to family and close friends.

Richardson will be laid to rest at a nearby cemetery where her grandmother, Rachel Kempson Redgrave, was buried in 2003.

Family and friends of Natasha Richardson said their final goodbye to the star of stage and film during a funeral at St. Peter's Church in Millbrook, N.Y., on Sunday. Under bright sun on a cold spring day, Richardson's husband Liam Neeson, their sons, Micheal, 13, and Daniel, 12, her mother Vanessa Redgrave, her sister Joely Richardson and friends Uma Thurman, Ralph Fiennes and Mia Farrow arrived at St. Peter's Church at 2:30 p.m. Neeson, looking somber in a dark suit and sunglasses, briefly posed for photographers with his family before walking to the hearse, where he was the first to...

Forty-five-year-old British actress Natasha Richardson has passed away from a brain injury that she received in a skiing accident in Canada. Richardson was born into one of the first families of British film. Her father was the late producer/director Tony Richardson and her mother actress Vanessa Redgrave and her grandparents the actors Sir Michael Redgrave and Rachel Kempson. She was also the sister of actress Joely Richardson and the niece of actress Lynn Redgrave and actor Corin Redgrave.

The daughter of actor Vanessa Redgrave and director Tony Richardson was destined for the theatrical profession

It was surely in the stars that Natasha Richardson, who has died aged 45 after suffering head injuries in a skiing accident near Montreal, would become a member of the theatrical profession. The daughter of the actor Vanessa Redgrave and the director-producer Tony Richardson, she was among the third generation of a family steeped in the performing arts, her maternal grandparents being the actors Sir Michael Redgrave and Rachel Kempson.

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Acclaimed actress Natasha Richardson, the wife of actor Liam Neeson and daughter of acting legend Vanessa Redgrave, died Wednesday of a critical head injury resulting from a skiing accident; she was 45.

"The Insider" confirms that actress Natasha Richardson has died after being hospitalized for a skiing accident. She was 45. In an official statement to "The Insider," a spokesperson for the family said: "Liam Neeson, his sons, and the entire family are shocked and devastated by the tragic death of their beloved Natasha. They are profoundly grateful for the support, love and prayers of everyone, and ask for privacy during this very difficult time." Natasha Jane Richardson came into the world on May 11, 1963, in London, England. Born into one of theater and film's most famous acting dynasties, her mother is actress Vanessa Redgrave and her father is the late director and producer Tony Richardson. She was the granddaughter of British actors Sir Michael Redgrave and Rachel Kempson. She is a niece to Lynn Redgrave and Corin Redgrave and her sister is "Nip/Tuck" actress Joely Richardson. She married fellow actor Neeson in...

Natasha Richardson, who more than upheld her lineage as part of one of the great acting dynasties by establishing an eclectic career in film, TV and theater, where she earned a Tony in 1998 for her performance as Sally Bowles in "Cabaret," died Wednesday in New York. She was 45.

Richardson suffered a head injury while taking a skiing lesson Monday at the Mont Tremblant resort north of Montreal. Although she initially showed no visible signs of injury, she developed a headache about an hour later and was taken first to a local hospital in Ste. Agathe, Quebec, and then was transferred to the Hopital du Sacre-Coeur de Montreal.

On Tuesday, she was transported to Lenox Hill Hospital in New York, where her family, including husband Liam Neeson and her mother, Vanessa Redgrave, gathered to keep vigil.

Alan Nierob, the Los Angeles-based publicist for Neeson, confirmed her...

Revered British actress Rachel Kempson has died - she was 92. Kempson, who became Lady Redgrave during her marriage to acting legend Sir Michael Redgrave, passed away at the New York home of her granddaughter Natasha Richardson and her husband Liam Neeson just days after suffering a stroke. The acting dynasty matriarch, who won acclaim in both her stage and screen roles, is the mother of actress daughters Lynn and Vanessa Redgrave, and son Corin. He said, "(She will be remembered as a) shiningly beautiful woman both in face and in spirit."...