Lynn Redgrave

Lynn Redgrave

Birthday: 1943-03-08

Place of Birth: London, England, UK

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.

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Gods and Monsters
Gods and Monsters

It's 1957, and James Whale's heyday as the director of "Frankenstein," "Bride of Frankenstein" and "...

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Morgan Stewart's Coming Home
Morgan Stewart's Coming Home

Eccentric 17-year-old Morgan Stewart (Cryer) can't seem to get his conservative parents to notice hi...

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My Sister's Keeper
My Sister's Keeper

Two sisters take a journey of discovery and reconciliation based on the memoirs of Margaret Moorman....

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The Jane Austen Book Club
The Jane Austen Book Club

Six Californians start a club to discuss the works of Jane Austen. As they delve into Austen's liter...

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Tom Jones
Tom Jones

Tom loves Sophie and Sophie loves Tom. But Tom and Sophie are of differering classes. Can they find ...

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

A collection of seven vignettes, which each address a question concerning human sexuality. From aphr...

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Spider
Spider

A mentally disturbed man takes residence in a halfway house. His mind gradually slips back into the ...

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How to Kill Your Neighbor's Dog
How to Kill Your Neighbor's Dog

The story of Peter McGowan, a chain-smoking, impotent, insomniac playwright who lives in Los Angeles...

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Deeply
Deeply

On Ironbound Island, native Fiona McKay arrives from Europe with her teenage daughter Clair, hoping ...

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The Wild Thornberrys Movie
The Wild Thornberrys Movie

Eliza and Debbie are two sisters who don't always get along. But their relationship is put to the te...

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Georgy Girl
Georgy Girl

A homely but vivacious young woman dodges the amorous attentions of her father's middle-aged employe...

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The Deadly Affair
The Deadly Affair

Charles Dobbs is a British secret agent investigating the apparent suicide of Foreign Office officia...

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Unconditional Love
Unconditional Love

After her husband leaves her, a woman travels to London for the funeral of the pop star, Victor Fox,...

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Girl with Green Eyes
Girl with Green Eyes

A naive young country girl moves to Dublin and finds herself drawn to a sophisticated author twice h...

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Rehearsal for Murder
Rehearsal for Murder

A year after his fiancée's death, a playwright schedules a rehearsal for his new play, which proves ...

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My Kingdom
My Kingdom

A powerful dynasty, headed by a charismatic, manipulative father, falls when he decides to hand over...

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The White Countess
The White Countess

In 1930s Shanghai, 'The White Countess' is both Sofia, a fallen member of the exiled Russian aristoc...

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Little Miss Christmas
Little Miss Christmas

It s almost Christmas Even for Eloise, the Plaza s most famous six-year old. She and her friends hav...

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Hansel & Gretel
Hansel & Gretel

Hansel and Gretel is a 2002 film adaptation of the Brothers Grimm children's story. It stars Jacob S...

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Strike!
Strike!

In the 1960s, a group of friends at an all girls school learn that their school is going to be combi...

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White Lies
White Lies

How can a smart middle class girl suddenly turn into a devoted right wing debater? That's what happe...

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Porn Star: The Legend of Ron Jeremy
Porn Star: The Legend of Ron Jeremy

Porn Star: The Legend of Ron Jeremy offers audiences a penetrating look inside the world of Ron Jere...

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My Dog Tulip
My Dog Tulip

The story of a man who rescues a German Shepherd and how the two become fast friends. Based on the ...

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Toothless
Toothless

A female dentist is cast into limbo after her death in an accident and is given the assignment to ac...

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Varian's War
Varian's War

Varian Fry rescues more than 2,000 artists from Nazi persecution during World War II....

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William: The Life, Works and Times of William Shakespeare
William: The Life, Works and Times of William Shakespeare

Special introducing William Shakespeare to young people through sketches, readings and music....

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The Happy Hooker
The Happy Hooker

Having emigrated to New York and immediately got the kiss-off from her mother-besotted fiance, a Dut...

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Disco Beaver from Outer Space
Disco Beaver from Outer Space

National Lampoons mockery of everything that is wrong with cable TV....

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The Bad Seed
The Bad Seed

Rachel is a 9-year-old girl who is perfection itself - unless she's crossed or challenged. Several d...

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Every Little Crook and Nanny
Every Little Crook and Nanny

An Englishwoman turns nanny and kidnaps the son of an Italian gangster who took over her dancing sch...

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Smashing Time
Smashing Time

Two young women arrive in London to make it big in show business, and become corrupted by money and ...

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The Turn of the Screw
The Turn of the Screw

An English governess is hired to take care of two adorable orphans, who turn out to be not exactly w...

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Venus and Mars
Venus and Mars

After years of absence 26-year old Kay returns to her home town. Her soccer coach died and the girls...

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My Dog: An Unconditional Love Story
My Dog: An Unconditional Love Story

Famous New Yorkers and the pooches they love are the focus of this refreshingly honest and endearing...

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Midnight
Midnight

The sultry Midnight, late-night horror movie hostess, has the highest rated show on TV. Mr. B is sch...

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Don't Turn the Other Cheek
Don't Turn the Other Cheek

A spaghetti western in which three adventurers team up during the Mexican Revolution. Mary O'Donnell...

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What Ever Happened to Baby Jane?
What Ever Happened to Baby Jane?

An elderly, bedridden former movie star is "cared for" by her sister, who hates her and keeps her a ...

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Sunday Lovers
Sunday Lovers

A sex comedy anthology containing four stories, each from a different country (England, France, USA ...

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Indefensible: The Truth About Edward Brannigan
Indefensible: The Truth About Edward Brannigan

A lawyer is accused of rape by one of his female associates. He denies it, but his friends, neighbor...

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The National Health
The National Health

Peter Nichols adapted his own hit play to the screen, based on his experiences in hospitals. A rioto...

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The Virgin Soldiers
The Virgin Soldiers

The core of the plot is the romantic triangle formed by the protagonist, a conscripted soldier named...

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Battle of the Video Games
Battle of the Video Games

Anson Williams and Jayne Kennedy play host to celebrities who compete against one another at video g...

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Confessions of a Shopaholic
Confessions of a Shopaholic

In the glamorous world of New York City, Rebecca Bloomwood is a fun-loving girl who is really good a...

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Lion of Oz
Lion of Oz

The Cowardly Lion, of the Omaha Circus and close friends with balloonist Oscar Diggs, is swept away ...

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Antony and Cleopatra
Antony and Cleopatra

Adaptation of Shakespeare's play....

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Last of the Mobile Hot Shots
Last of the Mobile Hot Shots

A new bride gets caught between her decadent husband and his black half-brother....

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Sooner or Later
Sooner or Later

Thirteen-year-old Jessie is in love with Michael, a 17-year-old guitar instructor and aspiring music...

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Peter Pan
Peter Pan

In stifling Edwardian London, Wendy Darling mesmerizes her brothers every night with bedtime tales o...

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Death of a Son
Death of a Son

The true story of Pauline Williams, who struggled to bring the people who supplied her son with the ...

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The Simian Line
The Simian Line

The Simian Line is an American improvisational film, released in 2001. When Katharine throws a party...

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Joan Rivers and Friends Salute Heidi Abromowitz
Joan Rivers and Friends Salute Heidi Abromowitz

Fictional character, Heidi Abromowitz, is the butt of everyone's jokes....

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Getting It Right
Getting It Right

Gavin is 31 years old and still lives with his parents. He is awfully shy but before he knows it the...

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Shine
Shine

Pianist David Helfgott, driven by his father and teachers, has a breakdown. Years later he returns t...

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A Woman Alone
A Woman Alone

A housewife confides to her neighbour about the troubles she has been having with her possessive hus...

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The Next Best Thing
The Next Best Thing

A comedy-drama about best friends - one a straight woman, Abbie, the other a gay man, Robert - who d...

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Anita and Me
Anita and Me

Meena, a 12-year-old living in a mining village in the English Midlands in 1972, is the daughter of ...

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Steve Martin's Best Show Ever
Steve Martin's Best Show Ever

Steve Martin's fourth NBC special was in the spirit of his previous association with Saturday Night ...

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A Midsummer Night's Dream
A Midsummer Night's Dream

Mistaken identity, unrequited love, and the supernatural are combined in Shakespeare's classic set i...

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Shoot to Kill
Shoot to Kill

A showbiz reporter gets involved with political intrigue....

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Michael Redgrave: My Father
Michael Redgrave: My Father

Corin Redgrave presents a portrait of his father, Michael Redgrave, exploring his personality, natur...

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The Annihilation of Fish
The Annihilation of Fish

A Jamaican widower recently released from a mental institution and a former housewife with an imagin...

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Walking on Air
Walking on Air

A young paraplegic wants to escape the bonds of gravity by going into outer space....

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Timmy's Special Delivery: A Precious Moments Christmas
Timmy's Special Delivery: A Precious Moments Christmas

An angel named Timmy with help of a dog and mouse tries to give a less fortunate Boy and Girl A Tedd...

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Gauguin the Savage
Gauguin the Savage

Based on the turbulent life of the temperamental French painter, Paul Gauguin, and his compulsive se...

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The Big Bus
The Big Bus

A nuclear-powered bus is making its maiden non-stop trip from New York to Denver. The journey is pla...

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What's Wrong with Humpty Dumpty?
What's Wrong with Humpty Dumpty?

Pompous film director David lives a boring life with his children's books writer wife Hilary but als...

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I Am Osango
I Am Osango

Spot-welder Aaron Toft assumes the identity of Aaron Osango - an ex-spot welder who has been sentenc...

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A Season for Miracles
A Season for Miracles

A miracle occurs for a homeless family consisting of two wayward children and their protective aunt ...

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Eloise Goes to School
Eloise Goes to School

After Eloise s tutor Philip quits, nanny enrolls her in the prestigious Hawthorne academy. Eloise ca...

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Touched
Touched

A young man runs from the voices in his head into the arms of an elderly cowgirl....

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More Awkward Customers
More Awkward Customers

Emphasises the importance of professional knowledge of an organisation’s stocks or services in deali...

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Different
Different

A young woman was left mentally disabled after a car crash twenty years previously, a condition whic...

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Charlie's War
Charlie's War

Charlie's War is the story of Charlotte Lewis, a woman who is experiencing serious emotional and men...

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My Two Loves
My Two Loves

A widow emerges from her mourning after a year. She moves into a new apartment, gets a new job, and ...

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Beggarman, Thief
Beggarman, Thief

In this sequel to "Rich Man, Poor Man," moviemaker Gretchen Jordache, the until-now unseen sister, s...

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Pygmalion
Pygmalion

When linguistics professor Henry Higgins boasts that he can pass off Cockney flower girl Eliza Dooli...

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The World of Gods and Monsters: A Journey with James Whale
The World of Gods and Monsters: A Journey with James Whale

Written, co-produced and co-directed by David J. Skal, THE WORLD OF GODS AND MONSTERS is a behind-th...

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Jury Duty: The Comedy
Jury Duty: The Comedy

Mild and meek accountant Sanford Lagelfost has been charged with embezzling $3 million dollars from ...

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Kinsey
Kinsey

Kinsey is a portrait of researcher Alfred Kinsey, driven to uncover the most private secrets of a na...

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The Seduction of Miss Leona
The Seduction of Miss Leona

An unmarried, reclusive college teacher is torn between a married maintenance man who has been repai...

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Linda in Wonderland
Linda in Wonderland

“Linda In Wonderland” is Linda Lavin’s variety television special that aired on Thanksgiving Day, 19...

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Musical Comedy Tonight II
Musical Comedy Tonight II

A tribute to American musical theater, featuring scenes from "Show Boat", "South Pacific," "Sweet Ch...

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Cruel, Usual, Necessary: The Passion of Silvio Narizzano
Cruel, Usual, Necessary: The Passion of Silvio Narizzano

Perhaps at first glance, the filmography of Silvio Narizzano appears unremarkable. Thanks to his sle...

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Customers From Hell
Customers From Hell

John Cleese training video on customers....

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All Star Party for Clint Eastwood
All Star Party for Clint Eastwood

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