LYNN REDGRAVE DIES AT 67 AFTER LOSING BATTLE WITH BREAST CANCER

LYNN REDGRAVE DIED YESTERDAY AGED 67. THE AWARD-WINNING BRITISH FILM AND STAGE ACTRESS, WHO HAILED FROM THE WELL-KNOWN REDGRAVE DYNASTY, PASSED AWAY AFTER FIGHTING A LONG BATTLE WITH BREAST CANCER. SHE ALSO STRUGGLED TO COME TO TERMS WITH THE RECENT TRAGIC DEATH OF HER NIECE NATASHA RICHARDSON AND BROTHER CORIN, WHO PASSED AWAY AGED 70 LAST MONTH. REDGRAVE DIED AT HER HOME IN CONNECTICUT, HER PUBLICIST RICK MIRAMONTEZ SAID. SHE WAS HAD BEEN TREATED FOR BREAST CANCER OVER THE PAST SEVERAL YEARS AFTER BEING DIAGNOSED IN 2003. IN A JOINT STATEMENT, HER THREE CHILDREN SAID: 'OUR BELOVED MOTHER LYNN RACHEL PASSED AWAY PEACEFULLY AFTER A SEVEN YEAR JOURNEY WITH BREAST CANCER.' LYNN REDGRAVE WAS AN INTROSPECTIVE AND INDEPENDENT PLAYER IN HER FAMILY'S ACTING DYNASTY WHO BECAME A 1960s SENSATION AS THE FREETHINKING TITLE CHARACTER IN THE FILM 'GEORGY GIRL'. LATER SHE DRAMATIZED HER TROUBLED PAST IN ONE-WOMAN STAGE PERFORMANCES INCLUDING SHAKESPEARE FOR MY FATHER AND NIGHTINGALE. IN 1967, REDGRAVE MARRIED AND PROFESSIONALLY PARTNERED WITH THE BRITISH ACTOR AND DIRECTOR JOHN CLARK. TOGETHER THEY HAD THREE CHILDREN, BENJAMIN, KELLY AND ANNABEL WHO IS A PROFESSIONAL PHOTOGRAPHER IN NEW YORK. THE MARRIAGE SADLY ENDED IN DIVORCE IN 2000. THE YOUNGEST CHILD OF MICHAEL REDGRAVE AND RACHEL KEMPSON, LYNN REDGRAVE RECEIVED OSCAR NOMINATIONS FOR GEORGY GIRL AND GODS AND MONSTERS, AND TONY NOMINATIONS FOR MRS WARREN'S PROFESSION, SHAKESPEARE FOR MY FATHER AND THE CONSTANT WIFE.