Born in London, England. Tall (5'11"), radiant star of the London stage and British and international films. The daughter of Sir Michael and sister of Carin and Lynn Redgrave, aunt of actress Jemma Redgrave. She trained at London's Central School of Music and Drama and made her stage debut in 1957 and her first screen appearance the following year, playing the on-screen daughter of her real celebrated father in a minor film, BEHIND THE MASK. She began gaining a reputation as a superior actress during her stint with Britain's Royal Shakespeare Company in the early 1960s, but it wasn't until 1966 that she returned to the screen. Despite mostly mediocre vehicles, she soon became one of the more popular film performers of the late 60s and early 70s, a delicate yet sensuous beauty whose personality fills the screen as well as the theatrical stage. A independent, determined woman, she broke away from a strict, bourgeois upbringing to become a vocal champion of left-wing causes. She was arrested during a Ban-the-Bomb demonstration, led anti-Vietnam War marches on the US embassy, expressed sympathy for the IRA, and loudly supported Yasser Arafat's PLO. She was repeatedly frustrated in her bids for a seat in the British Parliament as a candidate of the Workers' Revolutionary Party, which called for the destruction of capitalism and abolition of the British monarchy. She was reprimanded for making a political statement during the 1978 Oscar® ceremony and encountered protests from Jewish groups in the US when she portrayed a concentration camp survivor in the TV movie PLAYING FOR TIME (1980), for which she won an Emmy®. In 1984 she sued the Boston Symphony Orchetra following the cancellation of her performance as narrator of 'Œdipus Rex.' Notable (non-nominated) film credits include A MAN FOR ALL SEASONS (1966, as Anne Boleyn), BLOWUP (1966), CAMELOT (1967), OH! WHAT A LOVELY WAR (1969), THE DEVILS (OF LOUDON) (1971), MURDER ON THE ORIENT EXPRESS (1974), THE SEVEN-PER-CENT SOLUTION (1976), AGATHA (1979, as Agatha Christie), THE BALLAD OF THE SAD CAFE (1991), THE HOUSE OF THE SPIRITS (1993), MISSION: IMPOSSIBLE (1996), LOOKING FOR RICHARD (1996), SMILLA'S SENSE OF SNOW (1997), DEEP IMPACT (1998), CRADLE WILL ROCK (1999), UNINVITED (1999), GIRL, INTERRUPTED (1999), THE PLEDGE (2001), CRIME AND PUNISHMENT (2002), GOOD BOY! (2003), SHORT ORDER and THE WHITE COUNTESS (both 2005), THE THIEF LORD and VENUS (both 2006), and THE RIDDLE, EVENING, ATONEMENT and HOW ABOUT YOU (all 2007). Redgrave's 1962 marriage to director Tony Richardson produced actresses Natasha and Joely Richardson. In 1967 she divorced him of the grounds of adultery, naming Jeanne Moreau as correspondent. In 1969 she bore a son (writer-director Carlo Gabriel Nero, b. 1989) to actor Franco Nero, who had played Lancelot to her Guinevere in CAMELOT. She and Franco Nero married in 2006. Along with Kate Winslet (for IRIS, 2000) and Mare Winningham (for GEORGIA, 1995), she is the only performer to be nominated for an Supporting Oscar for playing the title role in a movie. As of 2007, Redgrave is the only one to win.  Nominated for Actress 1966: MORGAN!  Nominated for Actress 1968: ISADORA  Nominated for Actress 1971: MARY, QUEEN OF SCOTS  Supporting Actress 1977: JULIA  Nominated for Actress 1984: THE BOSTONIANS  Nominated Best Performance by an Actress in a Supporting Role 1992: HOWARDS END 6 nominations, 1 Award