Rachel Kempson
Rachel Kempson, Lady Redgrave (
28 May,
1910 –
24 May,
2003) was an
English actress, best known as the wife of
Sir Michael Redgrave and mother of his actor children,
Vanessa,
Lynn and
Corin.
Rachel Kempson was born in
Dartmouth, England and trained at
RADA before joining the
Royal Shakespeare Company. She married Michael Redgrave in 1935 and appeared with him many times on stage. She also appeared many times on film and television, most notably in
The Captive Heart (1946);
Tom Jones (1963);
Out of Africa (1985); and the television series
The Jewel in the Crown (1984).
In 2003, four days before what would have been her 93rd birthday, she died of a
stroke at the home of her granddaughter,
Natasha Richardson, in
Millbrook, New York.
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