Trivia

(May 8th, 2010) Was laid to rest at St. Peter's Cemetery in Lithgow, New York, USA, the same place her mother Rachel Kempson and her niece Natasha Richardson were buried. Present at Lynn's funeral were her sister Vanessa Redgrave, her niece Joely Richardson, Brendan Fraser and Liam Neeson.

Both she and her sister, Vanessa Redgrave, were nominated for the 1967 Best Actress Academy Award. Lynn was nominated for Georgy Girl (1966), and Vanessa was nominated for Morgan: A Suitable Case for Treatment (1966). They both lost out to Elizabeth Taylor, who won for Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? (1966).

She died less than a month after her elder brother Corin Redgrave.

In 1981, Redgrave was fired from a show called House Calls (1979) and Universal Studios released a statement saying that Redgrave had left the CBS series because the studio wouldn't meet her salary demands. However, Redgrave told a very different story via People Magazine and asserted she was forced off the TV show because she wanted to breast-feed her 5-week-old daughter on set. Universal denied this claim, but a phone call transcript recorded Pete Terranova, who was a negotiator for Universal at the time, saying that the breast feeding "is the biggest problem of all for us".

Has the curious distinction of being awarded the "anti-EGOT." She has been nominated for each of the four major show-business awards but never won. She lost the Oscar in 1966 and 1998; the Tony in 1976, 1993, and 2006; the Primetime and Daytime Emmy(s) in 1981 and 1983, respectively; and the Grammy in 2007.

After her breast cancer diagnosis and treatment she wrote "Journal: A Mother and Daughter's Recovery from Breast Cancer" with her daughter, Annabel Clark, and Barron Lerner.

She was awarded an OBE (Officer of the Order of British Empire) in the 2002 Queen's New Years Honours List for her services to drama.

Appeared as an illustration on the cover of Time magazine (March 17, 1967) with sister Vanessa Redgrave. Both sisters had just been respectively Oscar-nominated for Georgy Girl (1966) and Morgan: A Suitable Case for Treatment (1966).

Suffered from bulimia in the 70s.

Became a naturalized U.S. citizen.

Was one of the judges in the 1972 Miss Universe pageant.

Named for actress Lynn Fontanne.

She, her mother Rachel Kempson and her two siblings Vanessa Redgrave and Corin Redgrave all appeared in films that won the Academy Award for Best Picture: Rachel appeared in Tom Jones (1963) and Out of Africa (1985), Lynn also appeared in Tom Jones (1963) and Vanessa and Corin both appeared in A Man for All Seasons (1966).

Played Queen Elizabeth I in The Lost Colony Outdoor Drama in Summer of 2006 in Manteo, NC.

She, her father Michael Redgrave and her elder brother Corin Redgrave all appeared in adaptations of the 1898 novella "The Turn of the Screw" by Henry James: Michael played the Uncle in The Innocents (1961), Lynn played Miss Jane Cubberly in The Turn of the Screw (1974) and Corin played the Professor in The Turn of the Screw (2009).

In 1976 she appeared in Alexander Cohen's revival of HELLZAPOPPIN' in Boston, where she became lovers with Brandon Maggart, a fellow actor in the cast.

Won the 2004 Barrymore Award (honoring Philadelphia theater) for Outstanding Leading Actress in a Play for "Collected Stories."

Her favourite parts were Rose in 'The Recruiting Officer' and Jackie Croyton in 'Hayfever'.

In January 1962 she appeared as Helena in 'A Midsummer Night's Dream' at London's Royal Court Theatre.

Played "Final Interview Subject" in Kinsey (2004) as well as "The Queen" in Everything You Always Wanted to Know About Sex * But Were Afraid to Ask (1972), which was inspired by the sex manual by Dr. David Reuben, "Everything You Always Wanted to Know About Sex (But Were Afraid to Ask)" (1969), three years after the Masters & Johnson study Human Sexual Response.

She, her father Michael Redgrave and her siblings Corin Redgrave and Vanessa Redgrave all appeared in films directed by Sidney Lumet: Michael in The Hill (1965), Corin in The Deadly Affair (1967), Lynn in The Deadly Affair (1967) and The Last of the Mobile Hot Shots (1970) and Vanessa in The Sea Gull (1968) and Murder on the Orient Express (1974).

With her photographer daughter Annabel Clark, she published "Our Journal" in The New York Times, detailing the ups and downs of her recovery from mastectomy in 2003. The book "Journal: A Mother and Daughter's Recovery from Breast Cancer" will be released in October 2004 by Umbrage Editions.

She was awarded the 1976 Joseph Jefferson Award for Best Guest Artist for her performance in the play, "Misalliance", at the Academy Festival Theatre in Chicago, Illinois.

She was awarded the 2006 Los Angeles Drama Critics Circle Award for Solo Performance for "Nightingale" at the Mark Taper Forum Theatre in Los Angeles, California.

As a young lady she spent a few months at Regent Street Polytechnic in London learning to cook.

Nominated for the 2005 Tony Award (New York City) for Actress in a Drama for "The Constant Wife".

Redgrave resides in rural Litchfield County, Connecticut, USA.

Has twice been nominated for Broadway's Tony Award as Best Actress (Play): in 1976 for George Bernard Shaw's "Mrs. Warren's Profession;" and seventeen years later, in 1993, for "Shakespeare for My Father," her one-woman show about her relationship with her father, Michael Redgrave.

Millburn, NJ at the Paper Mill Playhouse as Lady Bracknell in The Importance of Being Ernest. (February 2009)

She was Assistant Stage Manager at London's Royal Court Theatre when she heard that she'd got one of the two lead roles in the film Smashing Time (1967). The other role went to Rita Tushingham.

Kent, Connecticut (January 2009)

Husband John Clark a US citizen since 1965.