 One of the fourth generation of the Redgrave acting dynasty, Joely Richardson, tall, willowy younger daughter of Vanessa Redgrave and Tony Richardson, has built up an impressive list of credits, including stage work with the RSC and the Old Vic, and Connie Chatterley in Ken Russell's TV miniseries, Lady Chatterley's Lover (BBC, 1992). She first filmed as an extra in her father's The Charge of the Light Brigade (1968) and returned as a young adult (having first tried a career as a gymnast) to play her mother as a girl in Wetherby (d. David Hare, 1985). Her subsequent films have mixed the critical, art-house prestige of Drowning by Numbers (UK/Netherlands, d. Peter Greenaway, 1988) and Sister My Sister (d. Nancy Meckler, 1994) with big-budget jobs like 101 Dalmatians (US, d. Stephen Herek, 1996) and Event Horizon (UK/US, d. Paul Anderson, 1997) - as well as the excruciating Maybe Baby (UK/France, d. Ben Elton, 2000) in which she showed that comedy is not her forté. Pretty well everything else seems to be in her range, however. In 2002, she costarred with her mother on stage in Lady Windermere's Fan. She married (1992) and divorced (1997) producer Tim Bevan. Brian McFarlane, Encyclopedia of British Film
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