JOELY RICHARDSON

JOELY RICHARDSON was born in London to a theatrical family, the daughter of actress Vanessa Redgrave and late director Tony Richardson, the granddaughter of Sir Michael Redgrave and Rachel Kempson, Lady Redgrave, sister of actress Natasha Richardson, and sister-in-law of actor Liam Neeson, and niece of Lynn Redgrave and Corin Redgrave.

JOELY RICHARDSON appeared as an extra at the age of three in the 1968 version of The Charge of the Light Brigade directed by her father.

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British actress JOELY RICHARDSON is the daughter of actress Vanessa Redgrave and director Tony Richardson, the granddaughter of actors Michael Redgrave and Rachel Kempson, niece of actors Corin and Lynn Redgrave, and sister of actress Natasha Richardson. Thus, it would be fair to say that JOELY RICHARDSON has acting in her genes. JOELY RICHARDSON's film credits range from Peter Greenaway's arthouse favorite Drowning By Numbers (1988) -- in which she is one of three murderesses, all named Cissy Colpitts -- to the abortive musical I'll Do Anything (1993) to the winning 1996 remake of 101 Dalmatians.





JOELY RICHARDSON has repeatedly demonstrated a capacity for tackling difficult subjects, as was the case with Sister My Sister (1994), which cast JOELY RICHARDSON as a maid caught up in an incestuous lesbian love affair with her sister, and Hollow Reed (1996), in which JOELY RICHARDSON played the divorced mother of a young boy who is abused by her live-in boyfriend. In 2000, JOELY RICHARDSON was seen in a number of projects, including the romantic comedy Return to Me and the revolutionary war drama The Patriot. In 2003, JOELY RICHARDSON landed a starring role as Dr. Sean McNamera's (Dylan Walsh) frustrated wife on F/X's popular nighttime drama, Nip/Tuck.

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For JOELY RICHARDSON the theater must be in her genes. Daughter of Tony Richardson and Vanessa Redgrave, and granddaughter of actor Sir Michael Redgrave, she is the niece of Lynn Redgrave and her sister Natasha Richardson is also an actress. JOELY RICHARDSON's former husband Tim Bevan is a producer. However the genes were slow - as a child JOELY RICHARDSON saw her older sister Natasha interested in acting but she was imagining a career in tennis. Her father put his foot down, and tennis was out. British by birth, JOELY RICHARDSON considers herself a sort of honorary Yank, having attended boarding school at Thacher in Ojai, California. Beginning in the 80s film became her life, from small parts in Wetherby (1985) to BBC dramas such as Lady Chatterley (1993) (TV) to today's Disney studio going to the dogs in 101 Dalmatians (1996).





JOELY RICHARDSON had an early ambition to become a professional tennis player and spent two years at a tennis academy in Florida.

JOELY RICHARDSON then turned to acting. In 1985 she portrayed, via flashbacks, the younger version of the leading character played by her mother in the film Wetherby. After a leading role in Peter Greenaway's cult success Drowning by Numbers,

JOELY RICHARDSON's first major role in front of a mass audience was as Joanna Farley in a 1989 television episode of Poirot, the Agatha Christie-based detective series.

JOELY RICHARDSON later appeared in an anomalously amusing portrayal of a fictional Finnish princess, Anna, in the 1991 comedy King Ralph.

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A year later,

JOELY RICHARDSON appeared in Shining Through alongside her future brother-in-law Liam Neeson, where both played characters depicted as Nazis.



In 1993,

JOELY RICHARDSON appeared as Lady Chatterley in a television drama of the same title, opposite Sean Bean.



In 1996,

JOELY RICHARDSON played the fashion designer Anita in the popular Disney film 101 Dalmatians opposite Glenn Close as Cruella de Vil. In 1998, in the popular television drama The Echo,

JOELY RICHARDSON played sultry Amanda Powell. The next year, she played in the sci-fi/horror movie Event Horizon as Lieutenant Starck, executive officer of the research and rescue ship Lewis & Clark, sent to rescue crew of the long-thought-lost experimental ship Event Horizon.

One year later,

JOELY RICHARDSON played opposite Mel Gibson in the successful film The Patriot, an American fiction based on the American Revolution. Later that year

JOELY RICHARDSON was modelling a necklace, when director Charles Shyer noticed her resemblance to doomed 18th-century French Queen Marie Antoinette. Thus,

JOELY RICHARDSON secured the role of that queen in the 2001 film The Affair of the Necklace. Also in 2000, she played opposite Hugh Laurie in Maybe Baby, Ben Elton's movie adaptation of his book Inconceivable.



In 2003,

JOELY RICHARDSON took on the major role of playing Julia McNamara in the controversial television drama Nip/Tuck, based on the lives of two dysfunctional plastic surgeons in Miami.

JOELY RICHARDSON's mother, Vanessa Redgrave, has appeared in several episodes, playing her character's mother.



In 2005,

JOELY RICHARDSON starred in Lies My Mother Told Me, based on a true story about a murderous con artist. In 2007

JOELY RICHARDSON played the mother in "The Last Mimzy" with Timothy Hutton, Chris O'Neil and Rhiannon Leigh Wryn.

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