Lynn Redgrave received two Academy Award nominations - in 1966 for best actress for her role in "Georgy Girl" and in 1998 for best supporting actress in "Gods and Monsters." In "Georgy Girl," which I loved, with fabulous actors James Mason, Alan Bates, and Charlotte Rampling, she played a quick-witted optimist with a body that didn't seem to belong at a time when it seemed that everybody - from London's Twiggy to the wealthy matrons of New York - appeared to be anorexic.
Many of us remember her long-running Weight Watchers commercials, which had the tag line, "This is living."
She suffered from bulimia.
Her brother, stage actor Coring Redgrave, died a month earlier from cancer, on April 6, 2010.
Lynn Redgrave married and worked with British/Canadian/American actor and director John Clark, from 1967 until their divorce in 2000. Their three children are Benjamin, Kelly, and Annabel Lucy.
Click the title above to watch "Georgy Girl" as a streaming video online, provided by Benito's Blog.
Here's Lynn Redgrave's filmography:
| Year | Film | Role | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1963 | Tom Jones | Susan | |
| 1964 | Girl with Green Eyes | Baba Brennan | |
| 1966 | Georgy Girl | Georgy | |
| The Deadly Affair | Virgin | (in "Edward II") | |
| 1967 | Smashing Time | Yvonne | |
| 1969 | The Virgin Soldiers | Phillipa Raskin | |
| 1970 | Last of the Mobile Hot Shots | Myrtle | |
| 1971 | ¡Viva la muerte... tua! | Mary O'Donnell | |
| 1972 | Everything You Always Wanted to Know About Sex (But Were Afraid to Ask) | The Queen | |
| Every Little Crook and Nanny | Nanny | ||
| 1973 | The National Health | Nurse Sweet/Nurse Betty Martin | |
| 1975 | The Happy Hooker | Xaviera Hollander | |
| 1976 | The Big Bus | Camille Levy | |
| 1978 | Centennial | Charlotte Buckland Seccombe | Television miniseries |
| 1980 | Sunday Lovers | Lady Davina | (segment "An Englishman's Home") |
| 1986 | Antony and Cleopatra | Cleopatra | |
| 1987 | Morgan Stewart's Coming Home | Nancy Stewart | |
| 1989 | Midnight | Midnight | |
| Getting It Right | Joan | ||
| 1996 | Shine | Gillian | |
| 1997 | Toothless | Rogers | |
| 1998 | Gods and Monsters | Hanna | |
| White Lies | |||
| Strike! | Miss McVane | ||
| 1999 | Touched | Carrie | |
| The Annihilation of Fish | Poinsettia | ||
| 2000 | Lion of Oz | The Wicked Witch of the East | (voice) |
| The Simian Line | Katharine | ||
| The Next Best Thing | Helen Whittaker | ||
| Deeply | Celia | ||
| How to Kill Your Neighbor's Dog | Edna | ||
| 2001 | Venus and Mars | Emily Vogel | |
| My Kingdom | Mandy | ||
| 2002 | Spider | Mrs. Wilkinson | |
| Unconditional Love | Nola Fox | ||
| The Wild Thornberrys Movie | Cordelia Thornberry | (voice) | |
| Hansel & Gretel | Woman/Witch | ||
| Anita and Me | Mrs. Ormerod | ||
| 2003 | Charlie's War | Grandma Lewis | |
| Peter Pan | Aunt Millicent | ||
| 2004 | Kinsey | Final Interview Subject | |
| 2005 | The White Countess | Olga Belinskya | |
| 2007 | The Jane Austen Book Club | Mama Sky | |
| 2009 | Confessions of a Shopaholic | Drunken Lady at Ball | |
| My Dog Tulip |
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