![]() Avg.User Rating: Rate this person: Actor Born: January 9, 1965 in London, England, UK Biography:British actress "Joely Richardson" is the daughter of actress "Vanessa Redgrave" and director "Tony Richardson", the granddaughter of actors "Michael Redgrave" and "Rachel Kempson", niece of actors Corin and "Lynn Redgrave", and sister of actress "Natasha Richardson". Thus, it would be fair to say that Richardson has acting in her genes. Her film credits range from "Peter Greenaway"'s arthouse favorite "Drowning By Numbers" (1988) -- in which she is one of three murderesses, all named Cissy Colpitts -- to the abortive musical "I'll Do Anything" (1993) to the winning 1996 remake of "101 Dalmatians". She has repeatedly demonstrated a capacity for tackling difficult subjects, as was the case with "Sister My Sister" (1994), which cast her as a maid caught up in an incestuous lesbian love affair with her sister, and "Hollow Reed" (1996), in which she played the divorced mother of a young boy who is abused... Full Biography
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