Lynn Redgrave, the actor and sister of Vanessa Redgrave, has died, aged 67, after a lengthy battle with cancer, just one month after the death of their brother, Corin, 70.
Her son, Ben, and daughters, Pema and Annabel, were at her bedside when she died at her home in Connecticut on Sunday, her publicist said on Monday.
In a statement, her children said: “Our beloved mother Lynn Rachel passed away peacefully after a seven-year journey with breast cancer. She lived, loved and worked harder than ever before. The endless memories she created as a mother, grandmother, writer, actor and friend will sustain us for the rest of our lives.”
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She is the third member of the Redgrave acting dynasty to die in just over a year. Her niece Natasha Richardson, 45, daughter of Vanessa and wife of the Irish actor Liam Neeson, died from head injuries suffered in a skiing accident in Quebec in March last year.
Redgrave, who shot to fame with the 1960s hit Georgy Girl, was the youngest of Sir Michael Redgrave and Rachel Kempson’s three children.
Though successful on film and stage — she received Oscar nominations for Georgy Girl and for the 1998 Gods and Monsters — she never received the acclaim accorded to her sister.
She would admit, in later life, her family did not have great expectations of her.
“Vanessa was the one expected to be the great actress,” she said in an Associated Press interview in 1999. “It was always, ‘Corin’s the brain, Vanessa the shining star, oh, and then there’s Lynn.”
One of her last appearances in public was at the funeral of Corin, the actor and leftwing activist, at the “actor’s” church, St Paul’s in Covent Garden on April 12. Though looking extremely frail, supported by family and with her head covered in a black scarf, she raised laughter at the service when she recalled how he had taught her to climb trees without telling her how to get back down again.
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