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

The Daily Mirror described Redgrave's performance as Crocker-Harris as " one of the greatest performances ever seen in films ".

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.

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 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.

When Dr. Mephesto asks Chef to look into his microscope, Chef says he sees " an extreme close-up of Vanessa Redgrave's private parts ", a reference to the Academy Award-winning British actress.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Redgrave's daughters, Natasha Richardson ( 1963 – 2009 ) and Joely Richardson ( b. 1965 ) from her 1962 – 67 marriage to film director Tony Richardson, also built respected acting careers.

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

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.

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

* 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.

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

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.

She received a Golden Globe nomination for her performance in Robert Altman's film Ready to Wear ( 1994 ), co-starring Julia Roberts.

Lawton and directed by Garry Marshall, the film stars Richard Gere and Julia Roberts, and features Hector Elizondo, Ralph Bellamy ( in his final performance ), and Jason Alexander in supporting roles.

When all the other actresses turned down the role, 21-year-old Julia Roberts, who was relatively unknown at the time, with the exception of her Oscar nominated performance in the film Steel Magnolias ( 1989 ), won the role of Vivian.

The play's Broadway première on 5 February 1893 at Palmer's Theatre was also the first Broadway performance for stage and screen actress Julia Arthur, who played Lady Windermere.

Howell's The Second Part of Henry the Sixt was one of the most lauded of the entire series, with Julia Foster's performance as Margaret, Peter Benson's as Henry, Bernard Hill's as York, David Burke's as Gloucester and Mark Wing-Davey's as Warwick garnering considerable critical plaudits.

Julia Louis-Dreyfus received critical acclaim for her performance as Elaine, winning an Emmy, a Golden Globe and two SAG Awards.

As of June 2012, My Best Friend's Wedding holds a 71 % ' Fresh ' rating on Rotten Tomatoes, with the consensus " Thanks to a charming performance from Julia Roberts and a subversive spin on the genre, My Best Friend's Wedding is a refreshingly entertaining romantic comedy.

Perhaps the most notable 20th century production was Peter Hall's 1960 presentation at the Royal Shakespeare Theatre in Stratford, starring Denholm Elliott as Valentine, Derek Godfrey as Proteus, Susan Maryott as Silvia, Frances Cuka as Julia, and featuring a much lauded performance by Patrick Wymark as Launce.

His career was revitalised by his award-winning performance in My Best Friend's Wedding ( 1997 ), playing Julia Roberts's gay friend.

Julia Roberts received a record $ 25 million for her performance — the highest ever earned by an actress.

* Volume 2 of Anthony Powell's A Dance to the Music of Time includes a visit to a performance of the play, where the minor character Moreland is in love with the actress playing Julia.

In the 1980s and 1990s, fascination with the Powers of Horror, the title of a book by Julia Kristeva, led to a second wave of radical performance artists working with bodily fluids including Ron Athey, Franko B, Lennie Lee and Kira O ' Reilly.

She is most famous for her performance as Julia in the modern film adaptation of George Orwell's classic novel, Nineteen Eighty-Four.

Julia Banzi holds a PhD in ethnomusicology from the University of California, Santa Barbara and specializes in flamenco and women's performance of Andalusian music.

At the Theatre Royal, Liverpool, on October 20, 1803, The Belle's Strategy was presented with Charles Mayne Young as Doricourt and Julia Ann Grimani as Letitia Hardy ; this was the first stage performance of the two together.

" Julia " was recorded four days after the first session for " Why Don't We Do It in the Road ?," and is a solo performance by Lennon ( double-tracked lead vocals and acoustic guitar ), though McCartney was present for the recording, as he can be heard talking to Lennon from the control room after a take on " The Beatles Anthology 3.

The performance garnered other major accolades as well, some critics echoing McKellen in calling it the definitive Hamlet performance.

Bolstered by the attention garnered by his performance in Diner, Bacon starred in the 1984 box-office smash Footloose.

" Cruz's performance as Carla garnered her nominations for Best Supporting Actress from the Academy Awards, Golden Globes and SAG Awards.

Deneuve's performance in Truffaut's The Last Metro ( 1980 ) was heavily acclaimed and garnered her the César Award for Best Actress.

" The film garnered Tracy some of the strongest reviews of his career — he was nominated for an Academy Award, BAFTA Award and Golden Globe Award for the performance — but it was not a commercial hit.

She made her film debut in 1980 in The Hollywood Knights, but first garnered mainstream attention with her performance in Scarface ( 1983 ).

A year later, Redgrave starred in Evening and the acclaimed Atonement, in which she garnered a Broadcast Film Critics Association award nomination for her performance that only took up seven minutes of screen time.

Witherspoon's performance received good reviews and garnered her the Young Hollywood Award for Best Female Breakthrough Performance.

When Fail-Safe opened, it garnered excellent reviews, but its box-office performance was poor.

The performance garnered DiCaprio an Academy Award Nomination for Best Supporting Actor.

Norwood, however, earned positive reviews for her " bouncy " performance, which garnered her both a Blockbuster Entertainment Award and an MTV Movie Award nomination for Best Breakthrough Female Performance respectively.

In 2003, Zeta-Jones garnered an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress, a BAFTA Award for Best Actress in a Supporting Role, and two Screen Actors Guild Awards, for Outstanding Performance by a Female Actor in a Supporting Role and as a member of Outstanding Performance by a Cast in a Motion Picture for her performance.

For his performance in the latter, Phoenix garnered enormous praise and won a Volpi Cup at the Venice Film Festival, along with Best Actor from the National Society of Film Critics.

Much attention is garnered by Madonna's controversial performance of her hit single " Like a Virgin " in which she rolls around on the stage, revealing lacy stockings and garters, and grinds her crotch against her veil.

Despite mixed critical reaction to the film, O ' Toole's performance was universally praised and garnered numerous prestigious awards and prizes, including an Academy Award nomination for Best Actor.

In 1991, due in part to Social Credit's scandal-plagued final term in office under Premier William Vander Zalm and in part to the stellar performance of then – British Columbia Liberal Party ( BC Liberals ) leader Gordon Wilson in the televised leader's debate, the old Social Credit vote split between the BC Liberals, which garnered 33 % of the vote and BC Social Credit Party with 25 %.

Day-Lewis threw his personal version of " method acting " into full throttle in 1989 with his performance as Christy Brown in Jim Sheridan's My Left Foot which garnered him numerous awards, including the Academy Award for Best Actor.

The film garnered strong reviews and received an Academy Award nomination for Ellen Burstyn's performance.

He garnered the role after his performance as O ' Brien in the CBS production of Nineteen Eighty-Four.

His performance in the 2003 film The Cooler garnered him an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor nomination.

Farrow's performance in Rosemary's Baby garnered numerous awards, including the Golden Globe Award for New Star Of The Year-Actress, and established her as a leading actress.

: The performance garnered Moe an award for Live Performance of the Year at the 6th Annual Jammy Awards.

His performance in the show garnered Lowe an Emmy nomination and two Golden Globe Award nominations for Best Actor in a Drama Series.