Lynn Redgrave dies of breast cancer by Zuzana Zelenakova

Lynn Redgrave, member of one of the most famous acting dynasties in Britain, died on Sunday at the age of 67. She passed away at her home in Connecticut sometime during the night. She died from breast cancer, with which she was diagnosed in 2002. "Our beloved mother Lynn Rachel passed away peacefully after a seven-year journey with breast cancer," her three children Ben, Pema, and Annabel said in a statement."The endless memories she created as a mother, grandmother, writer, actor and friend will sustain us for the rest of our lives." Lynn Redgrave was the youngest child of British actor and director Michael Redgrave and actress Rachel Kempson. Her sister is actress Vaness! a Redgrave and her brother was actor Corin Redgrave, who also was a cancer patient. She was aunt of Joely Richardson and late Natasha Richardson. Lynn Redgrave began her acting career with a 1962 production of A Midsummer Night´s Dream at the Royal Court Theatre. But her breakthrough role came with the 1966 movie Georgy Girl, for which she received an Oscar nomination for best actress. Among her most notable movies belong also Everything You Always Wanted To Know About Sex directed by Woody Allen or The Happy Hooker, the story of a Dutch immigrant that becomes a prostitute in New York and eventually opens her own brothel. Her later appearances include movies like Peter Pan, Kinsey, The White Countess or The Jane Austen Book Club. Lynn Redgrave was married to actor and director John Clark, however, their relationship ended in divorce in 2000 after she discovered that Clark has had an affair with the future wife of their son Benjamin. Although she never achieved the fame! of her older sister Vanessa, she had a varied and interesting! career. "Vanessa was the one expected to be the great actress," she said in 1999. "It was always, 'Corin's the brain, Vanessa the shining star, oh, and then there's Lynn.'"

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