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Real Name: Joely Kim Richardson
Was Born: January 9, 1965. London, London United Kingdom
Bio: Joely Richardson is a British
actress, who was born into a theatrical family. She is the daughter of screen
legend Vanessa Redgrave and late director Tony Richardson, the granddaughter
of Sir Michael Redgrave and Lady Rachel Kempson 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. After an early leading role in Peter Greenaway's cult success Drowning
by Numbers, her 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. She later appeared as a fictional Finnish princess, Anna, in the 1991
comedy King Ralph. Two years later, she appeared as Lady Chatterley in a television
drama of the same title...
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