Three generations of Britain`s leading acting family attended the funeral Tuesday of the patriarch of their theatrical dynasty, Sir Michael Redgrave, paying their last respects in poetry and song.

Sir Michael Redgrave`s contributions to the theater didn`t stop with his many great stage performances. He also gave the acting profession two talented daughters, Lynn and Vanessa.Although ...

Vanessa Redgrave was born for the stage. Her January 30, 1937 birth was announced after a production of Hamlet starring her father, Sir Michael Redgrave, by his costar Laurence Olivier.

A new name was lighting up the mental marquees of culture watchers in early 1967: Redgrave. Well, actually, it wasn’t new at all — Sir Michael Redgrave was already one of England’s most ...

Redgrave points to her parents — actors Sir Michael Redgrave and Rachel Kempson — as her earliest inspiration, but also credits writers of the day, including the poet Cecil Day-Lewis and ...

But, as the third child of actors Sir Michael Redgrave and Rachel Kempson, she always felt inadequate alongside her glamorous siblings, Vanessa and Corin. Family differences Her father recalled in his ...

Actress Lynn Redgrave, sister of Vanessa Redgrave, died of breast cancer at the age of 67. ... Redgrave was the youngest child of actor-parents Sir Michael Redgrave and Rachel Kempson.