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Lynn Rachel Redgrave OBE (born 8 March 1943 in London) is an English actress born into the famous acting Redgrave family. Commanders Badge of the Order of the British Empire The Most Excellent Order of the British Empire is an order of chivalry established on 4 June 1917 by George V. The Order includes five classes in civil and military divisions, in order of seniority: Knight or Dame Grand Cross...
March 8 is the 67th day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar (68th in Leap years). ...
1943 (MCMXLIII) was a common year starting on Friday (the link is to a full 1943 calendar). ...
London (pronounced ) is the capital city of England and the United Kingdom. ...
Motto: (French for God and my right) Anthem: Multiple unofficial anthems Capital London Largest city London Official language(s) English (de facto) Unification - by Athelstan AD 927 Area - Total 130,395 km² (1st in UK) 50,346 sq mi Population - 2005 est. ...
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The Redgrave family is one of the enduring theatrical dynasties, which is now into its fourth generation. ...
Her parents are Sir Michael Redgrave and Rachel Kempson, Lady Redgrave, her brother is Corin Redgrave and her sister is Vanessa Redgrave. She is the aunt of Natasha Richardson, Joely Richardson and Jemma Redgrave. Michael Redgrave and Margaret Lockwood in The Lady Vanishes (1938) Sir Michael Scudamore Redgrave, KBE (March 20, 1908 — March 21, 1985) was an English actor and the son of the Australian silent film star Roy Redgrave and the actress Margaret Scudamore. ...
Rachel Kempson, Lady Redgrave (28 May 1910 – 24 May 2003) was an English actress, best known as the wife of Sir Michael Redgrave and mother of his actor children, Vanessa, Lynn and Corin. ...
Corin Redgrave (born 16 July 1939) is an English actor. ...
Vanessa Redgrave during the 2004 season of Nip/Tuck. ...
Natasha Jane Richardson (born May 11, 1963 in London, England), is a British actress and member of the Redgrave family, one of the most profound and enduring theatrical dynasties of all time. ...
Joely Richardson Joely Richardson (born January 9, 1965 in the U.K.) is a British actress, who was born into a theatrical family. ...
Jemma Redgrave (born January 14, 1965) is an English actress. ...
Lynn Redgrave's first film role was in a small part in Tom Jones in 1963. In 1966 she was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Actress for Georgy Girl. Tom Jones is a 1963 comedy film which tells the story of a young 18th century man who is taken into the household of a rich gentleman and grows up living a bawdy life with many women. ...
The Academy Award for Best Performance by an Actress in a Leading Role is one of the awards given to people working in the motion picture industry by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences; nominations are made by Academy members who are actors and actresses. ...
Georgy Girl is a 1966 British film, based on a novel by Margaret Forster. ...
She has worked on television, the London stage, and Broadway. She has twice been nominated for Tony Awards and is the 1977 and 1995 winner of the Sarah Siddons Award for her work in Chicago theatre. Broadway theatre[1] is often considered the highest professional form of theatre in the United States. ...
What is popularly called the Tony Award (formally, the Antoinette Perry Award for Excellence in Theatre) is an annual award celebrating achievements in live American theater, including musical theater, primarily honoring productions on Broadway in New York. ...
The Sarah Siddons Society is an American non-profit organization founded in 1952 by prominent Chicago theatre patrons with the goal of promoting excellence in the theatre. ...
Not to be confused with the Chicago Theatre, aka Chicago Theater, built in 1921, a theater at 175 North State Street Chicago theatre refers not only to theatre performed in Chicago, Illinois but also to the movement in that town that saw a number of small, meagerly-funded companies grow...
Other films include The Happy Hooker, Every Little Crook and Nanny, Everything You Always Wanted to Know About Sex (But Were Afraid to Ask), The Big Bus, Sunday Lovers, and Shine. Xaviera Hollander (born June 15, 1943) is a former prostitute and madam, best known as the author of The Happy Hooker: My Own Story (1971, ISBN 0060014164). ...
Everything You Always Wanted to Know About Sex* (*But Were Afraid to Ask) is a book (1969, updated 1999) by U.S. physician Dr. David Reuben. ...
The Big Bus is a 1976 James Frawley comedy starring Stockard Channing as Kitty Baxter and Joe Bologna as driver Dan. ...
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From 1979 to 1981, she starred in the American television series House Calls. A television program is the content of television broadcasting. ...
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In 1983, Redgrave became very well known in the United States when she began starring in a long-running series of television commercials for Weight Watchers. Prior to this, she had suffered from the eating disorder bulimia, telling People Magazine in 1992, "(Bingeing and purging) felt like a great discovery, as I suppose it is to most people. People complimented me on my weight, but inside I felt like s--t." From the earliest days of the medium, television has been used as a vehicle for advertising in some countries. ...
Weight Watchers NYSE: WTW, founded in the 1960s by E.J. Faasen, is a company offering various dieting products and services to assist weight loss and maintenance. ...
Bulimia nervosa, more commonly known as bulimia, is a psychological condition in which the subject engages in recurrent binge eating followed by intentionally doing one or more of the following in order to compensate for the intake of the food and prevent weight gain: vomiting inappropriate use of laxatives, enemas...
In 1967 she appeared in the film Georgy Girl and was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Actress. She was also nominated for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress for Gods and Monsters. In the film, Kinsey, which starred her nephew-in-law, Liam Neeson, she has a brief but poignant and widely praised role. Georgy Girl is a 1966 British film, based on a novel by Margaret Forster. ...
The Academy Award for Best Performance by an Actress in a Leading Role is one of the awards given to people working in the motion picture industry by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences; nominations are made by Academy members who are actors and actresses. ...
The Academy Award for Best Performance by an Actress in a Supporting Role is one of the awards given to people working in the motion picture industry by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences; nominations are made by Academy members who are actors and actresses. ...
Clayton Boone (Brendan Fraser) and James Whale (Ian McKellen). ...
Kinsey film poster Kinsey is a 2004 semi-biographical film written and directed by Bill Condon. ...
William John Liam Neeson OBE, born in Ballymena, Northern Ireland on the 7th of June, 1952, is an Oscar-nominated Northern Irish actor. ...
In 1993 she was elected President of The Players, the historic bastion of Anglo/American theatre history following the time when women were finally allowed to become members. For $75,000, Edwin Booth purchased 16 Gramercy Park, New York City. ...
In 2003 she appeared on Broadway in a one-woman play Shakespeare For My Father devised and co-written with her husband John Clark, who also produced and directed. She was nominated for Best Actress in a Play Tony Award. This play, the first in a series about her family, was written by Lynn Redgrave with help from her husband John Clark in 1992. ...
John Clark was born on All Saints Day, November 1, 1932, and is perhaps best known now as the ex-husband of Lynn Redgrave, who divorced him December 22, 2000, after 32 years of marriage. ...
What is popularly called the Tony Award (formally, the Antoinette Perry Award for Excellence in Theatre) is an annual award celebrating achievements in live American theater, including musical theater, primarily honoring productions on Broadway in New York. ...
In 2000, Redgrave divorced her husband of 33 years, when he revealed that he had fathered a child for a family friend in need. At the family's suggestion, the friend married, then divorced, Redgrave and Clark's son Benjamin in order to gain a green card, (after which she sued the family). Details are made available at Clark's website [1], in which he reveals his legal fights. In 2002, Redgrave announced that she has breast cancer. She has written a play, The Mandrake Root, in which she starred. Breast cancer is cancer of breast tissue. ...
On 30 March 2005, the website of Quinnipiac University in Hamden, Connecticut states that she appeared in the play Sisters of the Garden, about the Mendelssohn and Boulanger sisters. March 30 is the 89th day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar (90th in leap years). ...
2005 (MMV) was a common year starting on Saturday of the Gregorian calendar. ...
Quinnipiac University is a private four-year university in Hamden, Connecticut, located on about 500 acres (2 km²), just north of New Haven. ...
Hamden is a town located in New Haven County, Connecticut. ...
As of early 2005, she is reported to be writing a one-woman play about her battle against cancer, from which she is evidently in remission, and her 2002 mastectomy, based on her book Journal: A Mother and Daughter's Recovery from Breast Cancer with photos by Annabel Clark (Redgrave and Clark's youngest daughter) and text by Redgrave herself.[2] In medicine, mastectomy is the medical term for the surgical removal of one or both breasts, partially or completely. ...
In September, 2006, she appeared in "Nightingale", the U.S. premier of her new one-woman play based upon her maternal grandmother Beatrice, at Los Angeles' Mark Taper Forum. This will be her third play to concern itself with a family member. The Mark Taper Forum is a small (<1000 seats) theater-in-the-round (thrust stage) at the Los Angeles Music Center. ...
Redgrave was appointed an Officer of the Order of the British Empire, after she became a naturalized citizen of the USA. She narrated Prince Caspian by C.S. Lewis for Harper Audio. Commanders Badge of the Order of the British Empire The Most Excellent Order of the British Empire is a British order of chivalry established on 4 June 1917 by King George V. The Order includes five classes in civil and military divisions; in decreasing order of seniority, these are...
Naturalization is the process whereby a person becomes a national of a nation, or a citizen of a country, other than the one of his birth. ...
Clive Staples Lewis (November 29, 1898 – November 22, 1963), commonly referred to as C. S. Lewis, was an author and scholar. ...
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Tom Jones is a 1963 comedy film which tells the story of a young 18th century man who is taken into the household of a rich gentleman and grows up living a bawdy life with many women. ...
1963 (MCMLXIII) was a common year starting on Tuesday (the link is to a full 1963 calendar). ...
Georgy Girl is a 1966 British film, based on a novel by Margaret Forster. ...
1966 (MCMLXVI) was a common year starting on Saturday (the link is to a full 1966 calendar). ...
Smashing Time is a 1967 comedy film starring Rita Tushingham and Lynn Redgrave. ...
1967 (MCMLXVII) was a common year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar (the link is to a full 1967 calendar). ...
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1969 (MCMLXIX) was a common year starting on Wednesday (the link is to a full 1969 calendar). ...
Everything You Always Wanted to Know About Sex* (*But Were Afraid to Ask) is a comedy film (1972) written and directed by Woody Allen, consisting of a series of short sequences inspired by the book of the same name. ...
1972 (MCMLXXII) was a leap year starting on Saturday. ...
Xaviera Hollander (born June 15, 1943) is a former prostitute and madam, best known as the author of The Happy Hooker: My Own Story (1971, ISBN 0060014164). ...
1975 (MCMLXXV) was a common year starting on Wednesday. ...
The Big Bus is a 1976 James Frawley comedy starring Stockard Channing as Kitty Baxter and Joe Bologna as driver Dan. ...
1976 (MCMLXXVI) was a leap year starting on Thursday. ...
Centennial was a 12-episode American television miniseries that aired on NBC from October 1978 to February 1979. ...
1978 (MCMLXXVIII) was a common year starting on Sunday. ...
Morgan Stewarts Coming Home is a 1987 comedy film starring Jon Cryer and Lynn Redgrave. ...
1987 (MCMLXXXVII) was a common year starting on Thursday of the Gregorian calendar. ...
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1996 (MCMXCVI) was a leap year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar, and was designated the International Year for the Eradication of Poverty. ...
Clayton Boone (Brendan Fraser) and James Whale (Ian McKellen). ...
1998 (MCMXCVIII) was a common year starting on Thursday of the Gregorian calendar, and was designated the International Year of the Ocean. ...
1998 (MCMXCVIII) was a common year starting on Thursday of the Gregorian calendar, and was designated the International Year of the Ocean. ...
How to Kill Your Neighbors Dog is a British comedy film starring Kenneth Branagh and Robin Wright Penn. ...
This article is about the year 2000. ...
Venus and Mars is the fourth album by Wings, Paul McCartneys group formed after The Beatles dissolution. ...
2001: A Space Odyssey. ...
Ralph Fiennes in Spider Spider is a 2001 film by Canadian director David Cronenberg. ...
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Unconditional love is a concept that means showing love towards someone regardless of his or her actions or beliefs. ...
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Poster for The Wild Thornberrys Movie The Wild Thornberrys Movie is a 2002 animated feature film based on the childrens television program The Wild Thornberrys. ...
For album titles with the same name, see 2002 (album). ...
Gretel tricks the witch Hansel and Gretel ( German: Hänsel und Gretel) is a German fairy tale, collected by the Brothers Grimm. ...
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Anita and Me is Meera Syals debut novel, and was first published in 1996. ...
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2003 (MMIII) was a common year starting on Wednesday of the Gregorian calendar. ...
Kinsey can refer to: Alfred Kinsey, entomologist and father of the field of sexology Kinsey, the 2004 film about Alfred Kinsey This is a disambiguation page — a navigational aid which lists other pages that might otherwise share the same title. ...
2004 (MMIV) was a leap year starting on Thursday of the Gregorian calendar. ...
The White Countess is a 2005 Merchant/Ivory film set in Shanghai in the 1930s. ...
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