She was the wife of Sir Michael Redgrave and mother of Vanessa, Lynn and Corin, and published her autobiography, Life Among the Redgraves, in 1988.

In May 1967, she was rehearsing to appear with Michael Redgrave in Edward Albee's A Delicate Balance when she suffered a recurrence of tuberculosis.

Vanessa Redgrave as Imogen was often compared favourably to Ashcroft ; Eric Porter was a success as Jachimo, as was Clive Swift as Cloten.

His next film, Michael Apted's Agatha, was with Vanessa Redgrave as Agatha Christie.

He was married form 1962 to 1967 to Vanessa Redgrave, fathering actresses Natasha and Joely Richardson.

Richardson was married to actress Vanessa Redgrave from 1962 until they divorced in 1967.

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.

" Suddenly, Richard Burton had fulfilled his guardian's wildest hopes and was admitted to the post-War British acting circle which included Anthony Quayle, John Gielgud, Michael Redgrave, Hugh Griffith and Paul Scofield.

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

* The tune was whistled, as an insult, by Michael Redgrave in Alfred Hitchcock's 1938 film The Lady Vanishes, which may be the first time it was heard in a film.

Redgrave was proclaimed by Arthur Miller and Tennessee Williams as " the greatest living actress of our times ," and she remains the only British actress ever to win the Oscar, Emmy, Tony, Cannes, Golden Globe, and the Screen Actors Guild awards.

Redgrave was born in Greenwich, London, the daughter of actors Sir Michael Redgrave and Rachel Kempson.

In 1967, Redgrave was made a Commander ( CBE ) of the Order of the British Empire.

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.

In a poll of " industry experts " and readers conducted by The Stage in 2010, Redgrave was ranked as the ninth greatest stage actor / actress of all time.

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.

The plaque was unveiled by Michael Redgrave, one of the stars of The Magic Box, in September 1957.

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.

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.

Her late siblings, Lynn Redgrave and Corin Redgrave, were also acclaimed actors.

Redgrave also narrates Patrick Keiller's semi-fictional upcoming documentary, Robinson in Ruins.

He also starred in the short-lived but critically lauded 1976 period detective series City of Angels and the 1979 – 1982 CBS series House Calls, first with Lynn Redgrave, and then later with actress Sharon Gless, who went on to co-star in the CBS-TV crime drama series Cagney and Lacey with actress Tyne Daly ( coincidentally, one of the House Calls co-stars was Roger Bowen who played the original Colonel Henry Blake in the MASH movie ).

* 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

Redgrave joined the Shakespeare Memorial Theatre company at Stratford-upon-Avon and for the 1951 season appeared as Prospero in The Tempest as well as playing Richard II, Hotspur and Chorus in the Cycle of Histories, for which he also directed Henry IV Part Two.

* 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

Redgrave also starred in The Stars Look Down ( 1939 ), with James Mason in the film of Robert Ardrey's play Thunder Rock ( 1942 ), and in the ventriloquist's dummy episode of the Ealing compendium film Dead of Night ( 1945 ).

The 1950s also saw Redgrave in The Importance of Being Earnest ( 1952 ), The Dambusters ( 1954 ), 1984 ( 1956 ), and The Quiet American ( 1958 ).

Their children Vanessa ( b. 1937 ), Corin ( 1939 – 2010 ) and Lynn Redgrave ( 1943 – 2010 ) and their grandchildren-Natasha ( 1963 – 2009 ), Joely Richardson ( b. 1965 ) and Jemma are also involved in theatre or film as actors.

Other acting roles included a part in a Workers ' Revolutionary Party stage production called The Printers, which also featured Vanessa Redgrave and Frances de la Tour.

Although he was top billed in a number of Nazi-era themed films as The Man in the Glass Booth ; Counterpoint ( 1968 ); A Bridge Too Far ; Cross of Iron ; The Odessa File ; Julia ; and Judgment at Nuremberg, he also played more diverse characters in Krakatoa, East of Java ; The Black Hole ; The Freshman ; John Carpenter's Vampires ; Topkapi ; Stalin ; Candles in the Dark ; Erste Liebe ; Deep Impact ; and the television miniseries, Peter the Great ( 1986 ), which co-starred Vanessa Redgrave and Laurence Olivier.

Redgrave is also dyslexic, a condition which he has suffered from since his school days.

Redgrave has also written a foreword to Diabetes: The at Your Fingertips Guide 5th edition ( 2003 ) ISBN 1-85959-087-X

She also starred in Peter Shaffer's Black Comedy / White Lies, in 1967, which was the production in which both Michael Crawford and Lynn Redgrave made their Broadway debuts.

She was also reported to be writing a one-woman play about her battle with breast cancer and her 2003 mastectomy, based on her book Journal: A Mother and Daughter's Recovery from Breast Cancer with photos by her daughter Annabel and text by Redgrave herself.

The divorce proceedings were acrimonious and became front page news, with Clark alleging that Redgrave had also been unfaithful.

Her brother, actor Corin Redgrave, who had also been a cancer patient in his last years, had died less than one month previously, on 6 April, aged 70.

The film was also nominated for the Palme d ' Or ( Golden Palm ) at the 1966 Cannes Film Festival and Redgrave was awarded Best Actress.

The film was also nominated for the Palme d ' Or ( Golden Palm ) at the 1969 Cannes Film Festival, where Redgrave won Best Actress.

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

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.

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.

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 )

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.