The actor Lynn Redgrave has died, her family said. She was 67.
Her publicist Rick Miramontez said Redgrave died on Sunday night at her Manhattan apartment.
An introspective and independent player in her family’s acting dynasty, she became a 1960s sensation as the freethinking title character of Georgy Girl, which won her nominations for an Academy award and a Golden Globe award.
“Our beloved mother Lynn Rachel passed away peacefully after a seven-year journey with breast cancer,” said her children in a joint statement.
“She lived, loved and worked harder than ever before. The endless memories she created as a mother, grandmother, writer, actor and friend will sustain us for the rest of our lives. Our entire family asks for privacy through this difficult time.”
Her death comes a year after her niece Natasha Richardson died from head injuries sustained in a skiing accident and just a month after the death of her older brother, Corin Redgrave.
The youngest child of Michael Redgrave and Rachel Kempson, Lynn Redgrave never quite managed the acclaim or notoriety of elder sibling Vanessa Redgrave, but 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.
In recent years, she also made appearances in the television shows Ugly Betty, Law & Order and Desperate Housewives.
“Vanessa was the one expected to be the great actress,” Lynn Redgrave told Associated Press in 1999. “It was always, ‘Corin’s the brain, Vanessa the shining star, oh, and then there’s Lynn.'”
Lynn Redgrave is survived by six grandchildren, her sister Vanessa, and four nieces and nephews. – guardian.co.uk