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...maternal grandparents were the actors Michael Redgrave and Rachel Kempson, and her uncle Corin and aunt Lynn Redgrave are also both actors. Sister Joely Richardson is also an actress, best known for starring in the TV series "Nip/Tuck...
DIED. RACHEL KEMPSON, 92, matriarch of the Redgrave acting family; at her home in Millbrook, N.Y. Best known in the U.S. as the wife of actor Michael Redgrave and mother of actors Vanessa, Corin and Lynn Redgrave, she stood on her own in Britain, where she was much admired for her Shakespearean roles (below, as Ariel in The Tempest...
...DIED. RACHEL KEMPSON, 92, British theater, film and TV actress and matriarch of the Redgrave family of actors; in New York City. Kempson, who started her stage life in 1933, achieved wide acclaim for her TV role as Lady Manners in the 1980s hit drama The Jewel in the Crown. During her career she also acted alongside various family members and made her film debut opposite her husband, Michael Redgrave, in the 1941 comedy Jeannie...
...what Lynn Redgrave recalls as a characteristic family photograph, her father Michael and sister Vanessa posed exquisitely in front while the workaday members of the family -- Lynn, her brother Corin and mother Rachel Kempson -- stood demurely behind. She doesn't come out and say so, but the grouping was painfully apt. While acting seems to be a genetic imperative for the clan (five generations have worked in the business), only Michael and Vanessa have been touched by the magical ability to make transcendence look effortless. He was among the greatest of a towering generation that included Olivier, Richardson and Gielgud...
Talent and stubborn individuality are Redgrave family legacies. The tradition of performing reaches back to her grandparents and includes her father, her mother Rachel Kempson, brother Corin, 50, and sister Lynn, 46 -- plus, now, Vanessa's film-star daughters Natasha Richardson, 26 (Patty Hearst), and Joely Richardson, 24 (Drowning by Numbers). In Vanessa's generation, the clan paid a steep emotional price. Says Lynn: "All families are peculiar in some way, but ours was extraordinary, a volatile, emotional and passionate mix, which probably helped us to be good actors. My parents never got us up in the morning or picked...