Joely Richardson (born January 9, 1965 in the U.K.)
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.
In 1996 she 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 she played sultry Amanda
Powell.
Two years later she played opposite
Mel Gibson in the successful film, The Patriot loosely
based on the American Revolution. Later that year
she was modeling a necklace, when director Charles
Shyer noticed her resemblance to doomed 18th-century
royal Marie Antoinette. Thus, she secured the role
of that queen in the 2001 film The Affair of the Necklace.
In 2003, she took on the major role
of playing Julia McNamara in the controversial television
drama Nip/Tuck based on the lives of plastic surgeons.
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