In 2004, Redgrave joined the second season cast of the hit FX series Nip / Tuck, portraying Dr. Erica Noughton, the mother of Julia McNamara, who is played by her real-life daughter Joely Richardson.

Redgrave joined the Royal Navy as an ordinary seaman in July 1941, ( HMS Illustrious ) but was discharged on medical grounds in November 1942.

The party slowly lost members from the mid-1970s as demands on members to serve the organisation took their toll, although Vanessa Redgrave and some minor celebrities joined.

Notable later 20th century productions include the Hilton Edwards ' 1959 production at the Gate Theatre in Dublin, starring Milo O ' Shea and Anna Manahan ; John Barton's 1960 Royal Shakespeare Company ( RSC ) production at the Royal Shakespeare Theatre, starring Peter O ' Toole and Peggy Ashcroft, and which included both the complete Induction and the epilogue from A Shrew ; Maurice Daniels's 1961 RSC production at the Aldwych Theatre, starring Derek Godfrey and Vanessa Redgrave ; Trevor Nunn's 1969 RSC production also at the Aldwych, starring Michael Williams and Janet Suzman ; Clifford Williams ' 1973 RSC production at the Royal Shakespeare Theatre, starring Alan Bates and Susan Fleetwood ; William Ball's 1976 commedia dell ' arte-style production at the American Conservatory Theater ; Wilford Leach's 1978 production at the Delacorte Theater, starring Raúl Juliá and Meryl Streep ; Barry Kyle's 1982 RSC production at the Barbican Centre, starring Alun Armstrong and Sinéad Cusack ; Toby Robertson's 1986 production at the Clwyd Theatr Cymru, starring Timothy Dalton and Vanessa Redgrave ; Jonathan Miller's 1987 RSC production at the Barbican, starring Brian Cox and Fiona Shaw ; A. J.

* 1953, Michael Redgrave played Antony and Peggy Ashcroft played Cleopatra at the Shakespeare Memorial Theatre.

In 2004, a poll of actors of the Royal Shakespeare Company, including Ian McKellen, Donald Sinden, Janet Suzman, Ian Richardson, Antony Sher and Corin Redgrave, acclaimed his Lear as the greatest Shakespearean performance ever.

* The RSC's King Lear ( 18 January – 5 February 2005 ) by William Shakespeare, starring Corin Redgrave

On stage, he was noted for performances by Shakespeare ( such as Much Ado About Nothing, Henry IV, Part 1, Antony and Cleopatra, and The Tempest ) and Noël Coward ( notably a highly successful revival of A Song At Twilight co-starring his sister Vanessa Redgrave and his second wife, Kika Markham ).

In 2005, Redgrave had just finished an engagement playing the lead in King Lear with the Royal Shakespeare Company in London when he suffered a severe heart attack.

Pacino also features other actors famous for performing Shakespeare, such as Vanessa Redgrave, Kenneth Branagh, John Gielgud, Derek Jacobi, James Earl Jones, and Kevin Kline.

In 2007, Redgrave played Joan Didion in her Broadway stage adaptation of her 2005 book, The Year of Magical Thinking, which played 144 regular performances in a 24-week limited engagement at the Booth Theatre.

* 1986, Timothy Dalton and Vanessa Redgrave in the title roles at Clwyd Theatr Cymru and Haymarket Theatre.

On October 5, 2000, the National Theatre in London mounted a revival, directed by Jeremy Sams and starring Patricia Hodge, Peter Egan and Aden Gillett, that ran for two years, transferring to the Piccadilly Theatre in the West End on May 14, 2001 with Lynn Redgrave and Stephen Mangan replacing Hodge and Egan, respectively.

* Lafont in six matinees of Parisienne, a comedy by Henry Becque, translated by Ashley Dukes, ( Redgrave also directed and managed ) co-starring Sonia Dresdel, St James's Theatre June 1943

* Colonel Stjerbinsky in Jacobowsky and the Colonel, a comedy by Franz Werfel, adapted by S N Behrman, ( Redgrave also directed ) with Rachel Kempson as Marianne, Piccadilly Theatre, June 1945

* Jack Dean in The Tiger and the Horse by Robert Bolt ( which Redgrave also co-presented, directed by Frith Banbury ), Queen's Theatre August 1960

Michael Redgrave in costume for lead role in Uncle Vanya, backstage at Chichester Festival Theatre, 1962.

Redgrave played ( and co-presented ) Lancelot Dodd MA in Arthur Watkyn's Out of Bounds at Wyndham's Theatre in November 1962, following it at the Old Vic with his portrayal of Claudius opposite the Hamlet of Peter O ' Toole in 22 October 1963.

In May and June 1965 Redgrave directed the opening festival of the Yvonne Arnaud Theatre in Guildford, including directing and playing Rakitin in A Month in the Country ( co-starring with Ingrid Bergman as Natalya Petrovna ), and Samson in Samson Agonistes ( co-starring with Rachel Kempson as Chorus ).

Redgrave became the First President of the English Speaking Board in 1953, and President of the Questors Theatre, Ealing in 1958.

The Redgrave Theatre in Farnham, Surrey, 1974 – 1998, was named in his honour.

The Castle Theatre in Castle Street was replaced by the Redgrave Theatre in 1974 which, itself, closed down in 1998 due to the decline of repertory theatre in England.

The Farnham Theatre Association campaigns for a theatre in Farnham, either in the form of a restored Redgrave Theatre or a new build.

In 1937 / 38, he brought his celebrity and talent to bear in producing a season of plays at the Queen's Theatre, presenting the aforementioned Richard II, The School for Scandal, Three Sisters, and The Merchant of Venice with a permanent company that included himself, Peggy Ashcroft, Michael Redgrave and Alec Guinness.

The Drama company also nurtured the careers of stars – Laurence Olivier, John Gielgud, Peggy Ashcroft, Sybil Thorndike, Edith Evans, Alec Guinness, Michael Redgrave, Maurice Evans, Ralph Richardson-and became famous for stylish productions under the artistic directorship of Tyrone Guthrie during the 1930s.

Steve Redgrave lives in the village, and the original fungus from which Quorn was made was found in a field nearby ( Quorn is still manufactured by the company Marlow Foods ).

In 1946 he and his mother Margaret Miller Towers started a company called Towers of London that sold various syndicated radio shows around the world, including The Lives of Harry Lime and The Black Museum with Orson Welles, Secrets of Scotland Yard with Clive Brook, Horatio Hornblower in which Michael Redgrave played the famous character created by C. S.

Actors that have worked with the company include Simon Callow, Richard Dreyfuss, Amanda Donohoe, Corin Redgrave, Diana Coupland, Stephen Mangan, Eva Pope, Barry Stanton and Honor Blackman.

Then in 1959 he appeared at Stratford in Coriolanus opposite Laurence Olivier ( as Coriolanus ), Edith Evans and Vanessa Redgrave.

Examples of performers who went on to universal recognition are Jeremy Brett, Judi Dench, Rosemary Harris, Ian McKellen, Christopher Plummer, Harold Pinter, Imelda Staunton, Lynn Redgrave, Vanessa Redgrave, Patrick Stewart, Geraldine McEwan, Ronnie Barker, Dirk Bogarde, who wrote about his start at tiny Amersham rep in 1939, and Michael Caine, who recounts his time spent at Horsham rep in the early fifties, to present just a few.

He had been an eloquent speaker, a learned lawyer, a generous friend ; and his interest in education led him to make several gifts and bequests for educational purposes, including the foundation of a free grammar school at Redgrave.

Anne was born about 1548 at Redgrave, Suffolk, England and died in January 1579 / 80 at Waxham, Norfolkshire, England.

He left Redgrave for actress Jeanne Moreau, although the marriage he had anticipated never materialised.

She was also runner-up to Lynn Redgrave in the Motion Picture Heralds poll for " The Star of Tomorrow ", in which box-office drawing power was the main criterion for inclusion on the list.

The couple had a daughter, Vanessa, born in 1968 and named for actress and activist Vanessa Redgrave.

In 1966 Redgrave created the role of Jean Brodie in the Donald Albery production of The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie, adapted for the stage by Jay Presson Allen from the novel by Muriel Spark.

In January 2006, Redgrave was presented the Ibsen Centennial Award for her " outstanding work in interpreting many of Henrik Ibsen's works over the last decades.

When Redgrave was nominated for an Oscar in 1978, for her role in Julia, members of the Jewish Defense League ( JDL ), led by Rabbi Meir Kahane, burned effigies of Redgrave and picketed the Academy Awards ceremony to protest against both Redgrave and her support of the Palestinian cause.

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.

Redgrave later withdrew from the film for personal reasons.

* A Diary for Timothy ( 1945 ) ( directed by Humphrey Jennings, spoken by Michael Redgrave )

In order to do research, Coward departed for the naval base in Plymouth, where Michael Redgrave, with whom he was involved in a romantic relationship at the time, was stationed.

Nineteen actors appearing in Zinnemann's films received Academy Award nominations for their performances: among that number are Frank Sinatra, Audrey Hepburn, Glynis Johns, Paul Scofield, Robert Shaw, Wendy Hiller, Jason Robards, Vanessa Redgrave, Jane Fonda, Gary Cooper and Maximilian Schell.

The film was nominated for 11 Academy Awards and won three, for Best Screenplay ( Alvin Sargent ), Best Supporting Actor ( Jason Robards ), and Best Supporting Actress for Redgrave, who drew scattered boos on Oscar night for her " Zionist hoodlums " acceptance speech.

This grassland is particularly notable at Redgrave and Lopham for its areas of saw sedge Cladium mariscus.

Redgrave and Lopham fen lies at the headwaters of the Waveney and Little Ouse rivers and had for centuries provided natural resources for the local population.