Besides her mother and father, several members of her family are performers: Her grandparents were Sir Michael Redgrave, a famed British actor, and actress Rachel Kempson; uncle Corin Redgrave ...

For much of her life, Lynn Redgrave was defined by who she was not. Her father, the actor Michael Redgrave, had invested all his energies in his first two children, Vanessa and Corin, and expected ...

Michael Redgrave, pictured here as Hamlet, was fifty when he played the role. Casting a fifty year old actor as Hamlet naturally influenced the feel and interpretation of the production.