The performance was originally slated to debut on 27 April, but was pushed due to the death of Redgrave's daughter Natasha.

Alongside John Dexter's Chichester staging of Saint Joan, Olivier's Uncle Vanya was first revived in Chichester in 1963 before transferring to the Old Vic as part of the nascent Royal National Theatre's inaugural season, winning rave reviews and Redgrave's second win as Best Actor in the 1963 Evening Standard Awards.

Highlights of Redgrave's early film career include her first starring role in Morgan: A Suitable Case for Treatment ( for which she earned an Oscar nomination, a Cannes award, a Golden Globe nomination and a BAFTA Film Award nomination ); her portrayal of a cool London swinger in 1966's Blowup ; her spirited portrayal of dancer Isadora Duncan in Isadora ( for which she won a National Society of Film Critics ' Award for Best Actress, a second Prize for the Best Female Performance at the Cannes Film Festival, along with a Golden Globe and Oscar nomination in 1969 ); and various portrayals of historical figures – ranging from Andromache in The Trojan Women, to Mary, Queen of Scots in the film of the same name.

* Jack Beresford, rower, Britain's most successful Olympian prior to Redgrave's fourth Gold medal, with three Gold and two Silver medals from 1920 – 1936

Redgrave's son Carlo Gabriel Nero ( né Carlo Sparanero ), by Italian actor Franco Nero ( né Francesco Sparanero ), is a writer and film director.

Redgrave's performance in Julia garnered an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress.

In 1978, Rabbi Meir Kahane published a book entitled Listen Vanessa, I am a Zionist, which was later renamed Listen World, Listen Jew, in direct response to Redgrave's comments at the Academy Awards.

Her final appearance on Broadway was as Miss Tina in the 1962 production of Michael Redgrave's adaptation of The Aspern Papers, from the Henry James novella.

Critic Michael Billington recalled: " In Redgrave's Vanya you saw both a tremulous victim of a lifetime's emotional repression and the wasted potential of a Chekhovian might-have-been: as Redgrave and Olivier took their joint curtain call, linked hands held triumphantly aloft, we were not to know that this was to symbolise the end of their artistic amity.

Redgrave's final theatre appearance came in May 1979 when he portrayed Jasper in Simon Gray's Close of Play, directed on the Lyttelton stage at the National Theatre by Harold Pinter.

They became lovers, Michell set up house close to the Redgraves, and he became a surrogate " uncle " to Redgrave's children ( then aged 11, 9 and 5 ), who adored him.

A card was found among Redgrave's effects after his death.

The original 1951 film version, starring Michael Redgrave as Crocker-Harris, won two awards at the Cannes Film Festival, one for Rattigan's screenplay, the other for Redgrave's performance.

Redgrave's funeral was held on the 8th of May at the First Congregational Church in Kent, Connecticut.

Redgrave's Century of Painters of the English School and John Burnet's Practical Essays on the Fine Arts may also be referred to for a critical estimate of his works.

* VAM. ac. uk, Richard Redgrave's ' The Governess ' discussed at the V & A Museum.

On 14 March 2008, Top Gear " resurrected " Ground Force in a Sport Relief special called Top Ground Gear Force where the presenters of Top Gear conducted a Ground Force style show on Sir Steve Redgrave's garden.

Roger Ebert awarded the film four stars out of four, describing Redgrave's performance as " superb ", and praising the work of Oldman and Molina: " The great performances in the movie are, of course, at its center.

In 1940, she played the role of Jenny Sunley, the self-centred, frivolous wife of Redgrave's character in The Stars Look Down.

The event is probably most noted for Steve Redgrave's winning his fifth Olympic gold medal in as many games in the British men's coxless four.

Their search ended at the Sydney Opera House library, where, as she recounts in her play Shakespeare For My Father ( page 48 ), they came up with Redgrave's obituary, learning that he had died on 25 May 1922, and was buried at South Head Cemetery.

* Redgrave's Dictionary.

Leamington is 49 and has a loveless, childless marriage with Ellen ( Rachel Kempson, Lynn Redgrave's real life mother ).

The couple had two daughters, Natasha Richardson ( 1963 – 2009 ) and Joely Richardson ( born 1965 ), both actresses.

Natalia, or Natasha to her friends, was the youngest of three daughters of a Moscow lawyer, Sergei Alexandrovich Sheremetevsky.

They had six children: three sons, Benjamin, Damian, and Orlando ; and three daughters, Rebecca Fitzgerald, wife of barrister Edward Fitzgerald, QC, Flora Fraser and Natasha Fraser-Cavassoni.

After that they went to Jakarta, Indonesia where their two daughters Natasha and Suzanna were born.

They had four daughters: Rebecca, Natasha, Naomi and Emily.

The Reyes brothers unexpectedly fall for Bernardo's three daughters, Norma, Jimena, and Sarita ( played by Danna Garcia, Paola Rey, and Natasha Klauss ).

In 1968, Cargill starred in Father, Dear Father on ITV ( written specifically for him ) as Patrick Glover, a thriller writer and an inept father of two teenage daughters, played by Natasha Pyne ( Anna ) and Ann Holloway ( Karen ).

They have two daughters, both born in Westminster, London: Natasha May ( born 2000 ) and Eleanor Margaret ( born 2005 ).

He has two daughters named Natasha and Marielle.

He was married to Annabel, and had two daughters, Natasha ( born 1964 ) and Justine ( born 1966 ).

They have two daughters, Natasha and Tanya.

It stars Dennis Quaid and Natasha Richardson as a couple who divorce soon after marrying, and Lindsay Lohan in a dual role as their twin daughters, who are accidentally reunited after being separated at birth.

The original series focused on divorced British novelist Patrick Glover ( Patrick Cargill ) and his daughters, Karen ( Ann Holloway ) and Anna ( Natasha Pyne ), a couple of lively girls in their teens.

They had one son, the author Andrew Robinson, and two daughters ; Victoria Bowman ( British diplomat and former Ambassador to Burma ) and Dr Natasha Robinson ( Consultant Anaesthetist ).

Elizabeth had six children ( five daughters and one son ) with Richardson ; four of their daughters, Mary, Martha, Anne, and Sarah, reached adulthood and survived their father.

By 1748, Richardson was so impressed with Collier that he accepted her as the governess to his daughters.

Two of his daughters are no longer alive: Victoria Tolbert Yancy died in 1971, and Evelyn Tolbert Richardson ( the wife of a government aviator ) died in Westchester County, New York, United States, in 1993.

Richardson, her husband and their two daughters, Bibi-Belle ( born 2002 ) and Dixie-Dot ( born 2003 ), currently live in St. Florence, Pembrokeshire, having relocated from Glasgow.

Richardson had two biological daughters: Migbel and Eda ; and an adoptive daughter: Waleska.

Maurice Richardson in the 13 June 1943 issue of The Observer set the tone thus: " An atmosphere of perpetual, after-breakfast well-being ; sherry parties in a country town where nobody is quite what he seems ; difficult slouching daughters with carefully concealed coltish charm ; crazy spinsters, of course ; and adulterous solicitors.

Maurice Richardson of The Observer of November 8, 1959 said, " Some nice school scenes with bogus sheikhs sweeping up in lilac Cadillacs to deposit highly scented and busted houris for education, and backwoods peers shoving hockey-stick-toting daughters out of battered Austins.

The most famous Anglo-Burmans today are to be found outside of Burma's borders such as the Bollywood actress Helen Jairag Richardson, the late British television actor Richard Beckinsale, his daughters the actresses Kate Beckinsale and Samantha Beckinsale, the music critic Peter Barakan (), the British TV personality Melanie Sykes, the jazz musician Jamie Cullum and his brother Ben Cullum and the singer Annabella Lwin.