Film and stage star Lynn Redgrave has died of breast cancer at the age of 67.“Our beloved mother Lynn Rachel passed away peacefully after a seven-year journey with breast cancer,” her children said on Monday.
Her son Ben and daughters Pema and Annabel were with her when she died in Connecticut on Sunday, Redgrave’s publicist Rick Miramontez said.
A member of the Redgrave acting dynasty, she is the third member of her family to die in the past year.
She was first treated for breast cancer in 2003.
She was nominated for two Oscars - once in 1967 for best actress in Georgy Girl and again in 1999 for best supporting actress in Gods and Monsters.
Her older brother Corin died last month and her niece Natasha Richardson died from head injuries following a skiing accident just over a year ago.
Redgrave spoke at the funeral of her brother, recalling that he had taught her how to climb trees without telling her how to get back down again.
She was the third child of actors Sir Michael Redgrave and Rachel Kempson - her sister is Vanessa Redgrave.
“Vanessa was the one expected to be the great actress,” Lynn Redgrave told the Associated Press in 1999.
“It was always, 'Corin’s the brain, Vanessa the shining star, oh, and then there’s Lynn.”’
Redgrave was awarded an OBE for her services to drama in 2002.This article is from the BBC News website. © British Broadcasting Corporation, The BBC is not responsible for the content of external internet sites.
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