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  Vanessa Redgrave - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Vanessa Redgrave, CBE, (born January 30, 1937) is an British actress, a member of the Redgrave acting dynasty.
Redgrave remained loyal to WRP founder Gerry Healy when he was expelled from the WRP in the mid-1980s.
In December, 2002, Redgrave paid £50,000 bail for Chechen separatist Deputy Premier and special envoy Akhmed Zakayev, who was accused by Russia of aiding and abetting hostage-takings in the Moscow Hostage Crisis of 2002, and guerrilla warfare against Russia.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Vanessa_Redgrave   (385 words)

  
 Michael Redgrave - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Sir Michael Scudamore Redgrave, KBE (March 20, 1908 — March 21, 1985) was an English actor and the son of the Australian silent film star Roy Redgrave and the actress Margaret Scudamore.
Redgrave was knighted in 1959 and he was married to the actress Rachel Kempson for fifty years from 1935 until his death.
He is the father of actor Corin Redgrave and actresses Lynn Redgrave and Vanessa Redgrave, as well as the grandfather of the actresses Natasha Richardson, Joely Richardson, Jemma Redgrave and actor Carlo Gabriel Nero (son of Vanessa and Franco Nero).
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Michael_Redgrave   (309 words)

  
 Vanessa Redgrave’s Latest Cause Timothy Noah
Redgrave spilled the beans in an interview with Geordie Greig in the February Tatler.
Redgrave's ex-husband, the director Tony Richardson, died of AIDS in 1991.
Redgrave asserts in the Tatler interview that she studied up on the disease while Richardson was ill and resolved to "help and alleviate and prevent and educate." Presumably, Redgrave had no reason to fear having contracted the disease from Richardson because they'd been divorced for decades.
www.slate.com /id/1006905   (653 words)

  
 Litchfield County Times - News - 09/12/2003 - Lynn Redgrave's Latest Role Gets Raves in Kent
Redgrave, a 40-year veteran of stage, screen, radio and television who purchased a home in the community in 2002, has agreed to be honorary chairman of tomorrow's Harvest Ball being held by the Kent Land Trust.
Redgrave said she was drawn to the region because her son and his family live close by.
Redgrave and her siblings, Vanessa and Corin, carried on a family tradition in pursuing careers on the stage.
www.zwire.com /site/news.cfm?newsid=10154586&BRD=2303&PAG=461&dept_id=478976&rfi=6   (1563 words)

  
 Actor Corin Redgrave in critical condition - Boston.com - Celebrity news - A&E   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
Actor Corin Redgrave, brother of actress-activist Vanessa Redgrave, right, walk to the Supreme Court in Washington March 8, 2004, for a news conference calling for Guantanamo detainees to be accorded their rights to due process under U.S. and international law.
Redgrave, also the brother of Lynn Redgrave, was in critical condition Friday, June 10, 2005, after suffering a heart attack, the hospital treating him said.
Redgrave, 65, had a heart attack Wednesday at a meeting on the rights of travelers, or people who move from town to town in Britain and live in encampments.
www.boston.com /ae/celebrity/articles/2005/06/10/actor_corin_redgrave_in_critical_condition   (321 words)

  
 UNICEF - UNICEF People - Vanessa Redgrave
Vanessa Redgrave is widely considered one of the finest actors of her generation.
She is equally well known as a passionate activist in the cause of children and as an advocate of peace, tolerance and reconciliation.
Redgrave continued to raise awareness and additional funds with her special programme Wake up World, through events in Germany, the United Kingdom and the United States.
www.unicef.org /people/people_vanessa_redgrave.html   (468 words)

  
 BBC SPORT | ROWING AND WATER SPORTS | Redgrave's golden glory
Redgrave and the team received their gold medals from the Princess Royal, with the whole crowd rising to acclaim the achievement.
Redgrave and his warriors opened up half a length lead with Foster dictating the rhythm superbly alongside his stronger colleagues.
Redgrave's "high five" capped a remarkable four years since he won the coxless pairs with Pinsent at the Atlanta Olympics.
news.bbc.co.uk /sport1/hi/olympics2000/rowing_and_water_sports/937079.stm   (833 words)

  
 UN goodwill ambassador Vanessa Redgrave calls for more aid for Palestinians   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
Redgrave said the UN agency responsible for helping Palestinian refugees has so far received only $62 million out of the $209 million it needs to provide such services as food aid, housing, employment assistance and trauma counselling for the rest of the year.
Redgrave cancelled a planned visit to the Gaza Strip city of Rafah — where she had hoped to meet some of the more than 15,000 people left homeless by Israel’s demolition of homes — because of the security restrictions.
Redgrave has visited the West Bank and the Gaza Strip, toured refugee camps and health clinics, launched a UNICEF measles immunization scheme and participated with the British violinist and composer Stephen Bentley in a cultural programme for Palestinians.
www.un.org /apps/news/story.asp?NewsID=11208&Cr=palesin&Cr1=   (371 words)

  
 Painting the Town Redgrave
Vanessa Redgrave is sitting in a restaurant in the Watergate, cigarette lighter in hand, her silver hair tucked under an Amnesty International baseball cap.
Redgrave's recovery from surgery forced a cancellation of "Hecuba's" run in the RSC's home in Stratford-upon-Avon in February, and later, after its London opening, it was accorded back-of-the-hand treatment by the critics.
For her part, Redgrave says she is thrilled to be working with Harrison, a respected literary figure in Britain with the sort of restless intelligence that appeals to Redgrave.
www.washingtonpost.com /wp-dyn/content/article/2005/05/22/AR2005052201201.html   (1074 words)

  
 Redgrave on Encyclopedia.com   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
Redgrave was married to the actress Rachel Kempson (1910-2003).
L'actrice Vanessa Redgrave L'actrice britannique Vanessa Redgrave, défenseur de la cause tchétchène, plaide la cause de Ak.
Vanessa redgrave at her dressing table about to prepare for the opening night of 'The Prime Of Miss Jean Brodie.' 1966.
www.encyclopedia.com /html/r/redgrave.asp   (784 words)

  
 Personality
Ironically, it was her role in "Julia" that led Redgrave to become aware of the plight of the Palestinians.
Redgrave noted that although more than 100,000 Lebanese people were injured or made homeless, and their farms and workplaces destroyed, no medicine or other aid was sent from the U.S. or Europe.
Because Russia's history was marked by virulent anti-Semitism and to Redgrave, "The struggle against anti-Semitism and for self-determination of the Palestinians are one and the same, and they form a single whole." In 1989 she helped the newly formed Moscow Jewish Theatre to survive by bringing it to London.
www.washington-report.org /backissues/0395/9503047.htm   (1693 words)

  
 VH1.com : Movies : Person : Vanessa Redgrave : Biography   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
Redgrave returned to films in 1966, making an unbilled appearance as Anne Boleyn in Fred Zinneman's all-star adaptation of A Man for All Seasons, and co-starring in Karel Reisz's comedy Morgan.
In 1967, Redgrave appeared in the first of several films directed by her husband, Red and Blue and The Sailor from Gibralter.
Redgrave's television work was singled-out for recognition as she took home the 2000 Golden Globe for Best TV Series Supporting Actress in for her role in If These Walls Could Talk 2.
www.vh1.com /movies/person/52219/bio.jhtml   (622 words)

  
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Corin Redgrave was born in London on July 16, 1939.
An actor who has appeared in more than fifty films, Redgrave co-founded, along with his sister, actress Vanessa Redgrave, the Guantanamo Human Rights Commission (GHRC) - a prisoners'-rights group committed to defending the several hundred incarcerated enemy combatants who were captured by U.S. troops during the war on terror.
Redgrave stated that the detainees' "welfare remains an unknown, because the Red Cross, which even the Nazis allowed to visit prisoner-of-war camps, has not been given access.
www.discoverthenetwork.org /individualProfile.asp?indid=1697   (231 words)

  
 BBC SPORT | OTHER SPORTS | Redgrave quits rowing
Redgrave, who rowed into the record books when he clinched a fifth consecutive gold medal in Sydney, told the BBC: "I'm not carrying on.
Speaking exclusively to BBC Radio Four, Redgrave admitted that he did consider attempting a sixth gold in 2004.
Redgrave had previously staved off questions about whether he would attempt a sixth successive Games gold in Athens in 2004.
news.bbc.co.uk /sport/hi/english/other_sports/newsid_999000/999485.stm   (443 words)

  
 Zap2it - TV news - Vanessa Redgrave Joins Daughter on 'Nip/Tuck'
Redgrave will appear in three episodes of the FX series, beginning with the June 22 season premiere.
Although Redgrave has appeared in a number of made-for-TV movies in the United States, her work on American television series is pretty limited.
Redgrave won a best supporting actress Oscar in 1978 for the film "Julia." She has two Emmys to her credit, for the 1980 CBS movie "Playing for Time" and HBO's "If These Walls Could Talk 2" in 2000.
tv.zap2it.com /tveditorial/tve_main/1,1002,271|86283|1|,00.html   (176 words)

  
 Biography for: Richard Redgrave   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
Richard Redgrave was a genre and landscape painter, water-colourist, etcher and administrator.
From 1825 until 1883 Redgrave exhibited at the Royal Academy, British Institution and Society of British Artists, a society which was to name JW its President in 1886.
Redgrave was one of the founders of the South Kensington Museums, along with Henry Cole.
www.whistler.arts.gla.ac.uk /biog/Redg_R.htm   (333 words)

  
 Journal - An Actor's Life for me
Testers can be all these things but we try hard to be diplomatic for unlike the relationship between critic and actor, the tester plays on the same stage as the developers and are judged as harshly by the audience of management and users as the development team players.
Michael Redgrave's book is intended to be read by aspiring, flowering and seasoned actors so is a practical treatise on his own theories of acting and those of Stanislavski and Meyerhold, with a few anecdotes thrown in for the luvvies in the gallery.
Over the years Michael Redgrave had recourse to converse with many of his acting chums on the theory and practice of acting but held true to his own belief that actors were born, not made, yet they could better their exposition of their craft through the use of theory and method.
www.compendiumdev.co.uk /essays/JournalNotes/actorslife/actorslife.php   (2762 words)

  
 INTERNATIONAL OLYMPIC COMMITTEE - ATHLETES
Steven Redgrave of Great Britain is the only rower to earn gold medals in five consecutive Olympics.
Redgrave began his streak at the 1984 Los Angeles Games as a member of the British coxed fours crew.
At the age of 38, Redgrave returned to the Olympics in 2000 and earned a fifth gold medal, this time as a member of the British coxless fours team.
www.olympic.org /uk/athletes/heroes/bio_uk.asp?PAR_I_ID=65847   (160 words)

  
 'Hecuba': Redgrave's Blazingly Controlled Fire
Vanessa Redgrave with blood on her hands: Now that's something you pay to see.
A Trojan queen reduced by the Greeks to groveling slave, Redgrave's Hecuba is a shattered woman driven to barbarity not by madness but by a desperate calculation wrought of grief.
Redgrave appears on a Washington stage for the first time in this latest visit by the Royal Shakespeare Company.
www.washingtonpost.com /wp-dyn/content/article/2005/05/26/AR2005052601768.html   (976 words)

  
 Vanessa Redgrave --  Encyclopædia Britannica
Her father, Sir Michael Redgrave, was one of Britain's most popular and respected actors, and her mother, Rachel Kempson, was a noted stage…
Accomplished motion picture and television actress Vanessa Redgrave is a member of the distinguished British acting family that includes her father, Michael, and sister, Lynn.Redgrave first achieved major recognition in 1966 when she won the best actress award at the Cannes Film Festival for her peformance in Morgan: A Suitable Case for Treatment.
British actress Lynn Redgrave is a member of a distinguished acting dynasty that includes her father, Michael, and sister,Vanessa.
www.britannica.com /eb/article-9106388?tocId=9106388   (542 words)

  
 Amazon.co.uk: Steve Redgrave: A Golden Age - The Autobiography: Books   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
As you might expect--given Redgrave's renowned enthusiasm for stifling the hyperbole of gushing reporters--Britain's greatest Olympian doesn't bother to linger long in celebration, choosing instead to chronicle the realities of a 25-year obsession with exploring his physical and mental limits.
A frank critic of himself, Redgrave's assessments of the strengths and shortcomings of his rowing partners--most famously, Matthew Pinsent and Andy Holmes--and accounts of the behind-the-scenes drama of top-flight competition, are equally clear-sighted and revealing.
I, for one, was fascinated to read of Redgrave's rapid ascent from paddling on the river with friends in order to skive school to going on to become the leading oarsman in this country and then the world.
www.amazon.co.uk /exec/obidos/ASIN/0563551828   (1438 words)

  
 israelinsider: diplomacy: "Goodwill ambassador" Vanessa Redgrave says IDF practices infanticide   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
British actress Vanessa Redgrave, a Goodwill Ambassador for the United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF), visited the Palestinian territories last week and appealed to Israel to ease the security restrictions in the Gaza Strip to enable quicker UN food distribution.
At a press conference in Jerusalem, Redgrave said that UNRWA, the UN agency responsible for helping Palestinian refugees, has so far received only $62 million out of the $209 million it needs to provide such services as food aid, housing, employment assistance and trauma counseling for the rest of the year.
According to Bushinsky, Redgrave based her horrendous allegation on one of four documentary films produced by UNRWA and screened last month at the world organization's alternate headquarters in Geneva, Switzerland, where a conference was held on life in the Palestinian refugee camps.
web.israelinsider.com /bin/en.jsp?enPage=ArticlePage&enDisplay=view&enDispWhat=object&enDispWho=Article^l3832&enZone=Diplomacy&enVersion=0&   (716 words)

  
 The Cast: Lynn Redgrave   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
Redgrave earned a second Oscar nomination and won a Golden Globe as Best Supporting Actress for Bill Condon's 1998 film "Gods and Monsters." In addition, she won the Independent Spirit Award as Best Supporting Actress for the film, and received a British Academy of Film and Television Arts (BAFTA) nomination in the same category.
With her sister Vanessa as Olga, Redgrave returned to the London stage as Masha in "Three Sisters" at the Queen's Theatre in 1991.
In 1994, Redgrave was named president of New York's "The Players." Modeled after London's Garrick Club and founded by Edwin Booth in 1888, the club links the common theater history of the United States and Great Britain through the noted British Shakespearean actor Junius Brutus Booth.
www.annihilationoffish.com /pages/cast/redgrave.html   (546 words)

  
 The Redgrave Project   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
It is believed that Redgrave parish was originally 'Redgrafesthorpe.' Around the year 1005 the parish was mentioned in charters under the name 'Redfaresthorpe' (a copyist's mistake) as part of a grant of land made by Ulfketel to Bury St Edmunds (see: The Early Charters of Eastern England by CR Hart).
Early bearers of the surname Redgrave were: Ebrardus and Warinus de Redegraue 1179,80 (Pipe Rolls 25, 26 Henry II p8, p19); Geoffrey Redgrave 1250 (IGI); and Robert de Radgrave, murdered in 1256 by Hugo de Theford (Close Rolls 1254-56).
As the surname derives from the place name (technically, a Locative surname), and as Redgrave Parish has always been a very small place (until the 19th century, never more than 500 inhabitants), there is some reason to believe that all Redgraves come from a single ancestor.
www.redgrave.net /origins.html   (640 words)

  
 The White Countess
He is, moreover, deeply bereaved by the deaths of his wife and children - victims of violent events in the political turmoil of 1930s China that also robbed him of his sight.
Vera (Vanessa Redgrave) and Olga (Lynn Redgrave) in Shanghai
Sofia (Natasha Richardson) is a White Russian countess in her thirties who fled the Bolshevik Revolution as a child.
www.redgrave.com /cincountess.htm   (547 words)

  
 Vanessa Redgrave News
November 17, 2005 - by BWW News Desk Vanessa Redgrave may soon be returning to Broadway in the London hit The Breath of Life.
Oscar winning actress Vanessa Redgrave has pledged to build a political party dedicated to human rights which would challenge the Government at the next election.
A Suitable Case for Treatment" (1966), with Vanessa Redgrave and David Warner, you have a good sense of the eccentric-romantic tone Jeff Balsmeyer goes for in "Danny Deckchair." The American-born,...
www.topix.net /who/vanessa-redgrave   (736 words)

  
 Theater News - Theater News: Rachel Kempson, Lady Redgrave, Dies at 92 -
Also known as Lady Redgrave, Kempson was the widow of actor Sir Michael Redgrave, who died in 1985.
She also appeared in Georgy Girl (1966) with Lynn Redgrave; in The Charge of the Light Brigade (1968) and Déjà Vu (1998) with Vanessa Redgrave; and in The Captive Heart (1946) with her husband, Michael Redgrave.
In addition to her children, Lady Redgrave is survived by 10 grandchildren -- including the noted actress Natsha Richardson, Vanessa's daugher -- and 11 great-grandchildren.
www.theatermania.com /content/news.cfm?int_news_id=3556   (420 words)

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