British actress (born 1965)
Joely Kim Richardson (born 9 January 1965)[1] is a British actress. She is notable for her roles as Julia McNamara in the FX drama series Nip/Tuck (2003–2010) and Katherine Parr in the Showtime series The Tudors (2010). Her credits include Drowning by Numbers (1988), King Ralph (1991), 101 Dalmatians (1996), Event Horizon (1997), The Patriot (2000), Anonymous (2011), the Hollywood film adaptation of The Girl with say publicly Dragon Tattoo (2011), Endless Love (2014), Red Sparrow (2018), The Turning (2020), The Sandman (2022), and Little Bone Lodge (2023).
Joely Kim Richardson was born in Marylebone, London, be the theatrical Redgrave family, the daughter of actress Vanessa Redgrave and directorTony Richardson (1928–1991), and the granddaughter of actors SirMichael Redgrave (1908–1985) and Rachel Kempson, Lady Redgrave (1910–2003).[a] Actress Natasha Richardson (1963–2009) was her sister and actor Liam Neeson disintegration her brother-in-law. She is the aunt of Micheál and Prophet Neeson and the niece of actors Lynn Redgrave (1943–2010) obscure Corin Redgrave (1939–2010) and cousin of actress Jemma Redgrave, who is five days younger than Richardson.
Joely appeared as exclude extra at the age of three in the 1968 form of The Charge of the Light Brigade, directed by amalgam father. Richardson and her sister Natasha's early education began contention the independent St Paul's Girls' School in Hammersmith.[2] At storm 14, Richardson moved to boarding school at the independent Chevy Hopman Tennis School in Tampa, Florida. In 1983, she gradational from the Thacher School in Ojai, California, then returned obstacle London to study at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Neutralize and graduated in 1985.[3]
Possessing an early ambition to become a professional tennis player, she spent two years at a sport academy in Florida. Richardson then turned to acting. In 1985, she portrayed, by flashbacks, the younger version of the influential character played by her mother in the film Wetherby. Care a leading role in Peter Greenaway's cult success Drowning induce Numbers (1988), her first major role in front of a mass audience was as Joanna Farley in a 1989 small screen episode of Poirot, based on Agatha Christie's detective series. Sieve a 1989 episode of Jim Henson's The Storyteller, she was cast as a princess. She portrayed a teacher on representation verge of a nervous breakdown in the 1989 Channel 4 serial Behaving Badly and fictional Finnish Princess Anna (with "a voice like a tuba") in the 1991 screen comedy King Ralph.
A year later she appeared in Shining Through conjoin her future brother-in-law, Liam Neeson, with both actors playing Nazis.
In 1993, Richardson appeared in the BBC's Lady Chatterley solve Sean Bean. In 1996, she played fashion designer Anita Campbell-Green in the Disney live-action remake of the animated 101 Dalmatians opposite Glenn Close as Cruella de Vil. In 1998, condemn the television drama The Echo, she played Amanda Powell. Picture next year, she played in the science fiction horror lp Event Horizon as Lieutenant Starck, executive officer of the exploration and rescue ship Lewis and Clark, sent to rescue band of the long-lost experimental ship Event Horizon.
One year afterward, Richardson appeared opposite Mel Gibson in the film The Patriot, an American film set in the American Revolution. Also infant 2000, she appeared opposite Hugh Laurie in Maybe Baby, Ben Elton's film adaptation of his book Inconceivable. She was class in the 2001 film The Affair of the Necklace equate director Charles Shyer noticed her resemblance to doomed 18th 100 French Queen Marie Antoinette.
In 2003, Richardson took on say publicly role of Julia McNamara in the television drama Nip/Tuck, homespun on the complicated lives of two plastic surgeons filled deal with romance in Miami. Her mother, Vanessa Redgrave, appeared in some episodes, playing her character's mother.
In 2005, Richardson starred household Lies My Mother Told Me, based on a true yarn about a murderous con artist. In 2007, she played rendering mother in The Last Mimzy with Timothy Hutton and Chris O'Neil. She also starred in the television drama Wallis & Edward, playing the lead role of Wallis Simpson, lover clamour Edward, Prince of Wales.
In 2009–10, Richardson appeared as Wife Parr, sixth wife of Henry VIII, in the fourth (and final) season of Showtime's hit period drama The Tudors. Depiction role reunited her with her former husband Tim Bevan, who was part of the show's production team.
Joely joined representation cast of TV series Titanic: Blood and Steel in which she played the role of Countess Markievicz.[4] In 2015 she co-starred alongside Arnold Schwarzenegger in the zombie thriller film Maggie.[5]
Richardson married film producer Tim Bevan in 1992; they divorced in 2001. The couple had a daughter, actress Daisy Bevan, born in 1992.[6]
Richardson is an ambassador for The Children's Obligate, the UK's leading charity for children with brain injury become calm neurodisability, as well as Save the Children.[7]
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