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Jemma Redgrave (born 14 January 1965) is a fourth-generation English actress of the Redgrave family.
Born in London as Jemima Rebecca Redgrave, she is the daughter of actor Corin Redgrave and his first wife, the late Deirdre Hamilton-Hill, a former fashion model. They divorced when Jemma was nine. She has a brother Luke Redgrave, who is an assistant cameraman and two half-brothers, Arden and Harvey Redgrave. Her mother died of breast cancer in 1997 and her father died of cancer in 2010.
She is the niece of actresses Vanessa Redgrave and the late Lynn Redgrave and cousin of Joely... MORE
Jemma Redgrave (born 14 January 1965) is a fourth-generation English actress of the Redgrave family.
Born in London as Jemima Rebecca Redgrave, she is the daughter of actor Corin Redgrave and his first wife, the late Deirdre Hamilton-Hill, a former fashion model. They divorced when Jemma was nine. She has a brother Luke Redgrave, who is an assistant cameraman and two half-brothers, Arden and Harvey Redgrave. Her mother died of breast cancer in 1997 and her father died of cancer in 2010.
She is the niece of actresses Vanessa Redgrave and the late Lynn Redgrave and cousin of Joely Richardson, Carlo Nero and the late Natasha Richardson.
Jemma Redgrave was admitted to the London Academy of Music and Dramatic Art at the age of 18.
Stage
After graduation she landed acting roles in the 1988 stage production of Strindberg's Easter, "Lady Windermere's Fan" in Belfast, Northern Ireland; as Emily in Thornton Wilder's "Our Town"; Irina in a 1990 revival of Chekhov's "The Three Sisters" in London's West End with her aunts Vanessa Redgrave and Lynn Redgrave; in 1993 with Colin Firth in Alexander Griboyedov's Chatsky at the Almeida Theatre, London; and in A Midsummer Night's Dream in 2001 at the LESS
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