Editing Joely Richardson

{{short description|British actress (born 1965)}}
{{Use dmy dates|date=July 2020}}
{{Infobox person
| image       = Joely Richardson at The Gentlemen premiere 2024.jpg
| caption     = Richardson in 2024
| birthname   = Joely Kim Richardson
| birth_date  = {{birth date and age|1965|1|9|df=y}}
| birth_place = [[Marylebone]], London, England
| occupation  = Actress
| alma_mater  = [[Royal Academy of Dramatic Art]]
| yearsactive = {{hlist|1968|1984–present}}
| spouse      = {{marriage|[[Tim Bevan]]|1992|2001|end=divorced}}
| children    = [[Daisy Bevan]]
| parents     = [[Tony Richardson]]<br />[[Vanessa Redgrave]]
| relatives   = [[Micheál Richardson]] (nephew)<br/>[[Natasha Richardson]] (sister)<br>[[Carlo Gabriel Nero]] (half-brother)<br>[[Lynn Redgrave]] (Aunt)<br>[[Jemma Redgrave]] (Cousin)
| family      = [[Redgrave family|Redgrave]]
| module      = {{Listen| embed=yes |filename = Joely Richardson voice.ogg |title = Richardson's voice |type = speech |description = recorded 2012, as part of an [[:File:Joely Richardson on the Albert Memorial.ogg|audio description of the Albert Memorial]] for [[VocalEyes]] }}
}}
[[File:JoelyRichardsonSept11TIFF.jpg|thumb|Joely Richardson at [[Toronto Film Festival]] 2011]]
'''Joely Kim Richardson''' (born 9 January 1965)<ref>{{cite news|url= https://www.upi.com/Top_News/2020/01/09/UPI-Almanac-for-Thursday-Jan-9-2020/6871578415895/|title= UPI Almanac for Thursday, Jan. 9, 2020|work= [[United Press International]] | date= 9 January 2020|access-date=15 January 2020 |archive-date= 15 January 2020|archive-url= https://archive.today/20200115192229/https://www.upi.com/Top_News/2020/01/09/UPI-Almanac-for-Thursday-Jan-9-2020/6871578415895/|url-status=live|quote=… actor Joely Richardson in 1965 (age 55)}}</ref> is a British actress. She is notable for her roles as Julia McNamara in the [[FX (TV channel)|FX]] drama series ''[[Nip/Tuck]]'' (2003–2010) and [[Queen Katherine Parr|Katherine Parr]] in the [[Showtime (TV network)|Showtime]] series ''[[The Tudors]]'' (2010). Her credits include ''[[Drowning by Numbers]]'' (1988), ''[[King Ralph]]'' (1991), ''[[101 Dalmatians (1996 film)|101 Dalmatians]]'' (1996), ''[[Event Horizon (film)|Event Horizon]]'' (1997), ''[[The Patriot (2000 film)|The Patriot]]'' (2000), ''[[Anonymous (2011 film)|Anonymous]]'' (2011), the [[Hollywood (film industry)|Hollywood]] film adaptation of ''[[The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo (2011 film)|The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo]]'' (2011), ''[[Endless Love (2014 American film)|Endless Love]]'' (2014), ''[[Red Sparrow]]'' (2018), ''[[The Turning (2020 film)|The Turning]]'' (2020), ''[[The Sandman (TV series)|The Sandman]]'' (2022), and ''[[Little Bone Lodge]]'' (2023).

==Early life==
Joely Kim Richardson was born in [[Marylebone]], London, to the theatrical [[Redgrave family]], the daughter of actress [[Vanessa Redgrave]] and [[film director|director]] [[Tony Richardson]] (1928–1991), and the granddaughter of actors [[Knighthood|Sir]] [[Michael Redgrave]] (1908–1985) and [[Rachel Kempson]], Lady Redgrave (1910–2003).{{efn|In his autobiography, [[Tony Richardson]] notes that Kim was the original chosen name in honour of the actress [[Kim Stanley]] (1922–2002), but at the last minute they copied Natasha's swimming teacher who named her daughter Joely. It was actually a misspelling of the French ''jolie''.}} Actress [[Natasha Richardson]] (1963–2009) was her sister and actor [[Liam Neeson]] is her brother-in-law. She is the aunt of [[Micheál Richardson]] and Daniel Neeson and the niece of [[Lynn Redgrave]] (1943–2010) and [[Corin Redgrave]] (1939–2010) and cousin of [[Jemma Redgrave]], who is five days younger than Richardson.

Joely appeared as an extra at the age of three in the 1968 version of ''[[The Charge of the Light Brigade (1968 film)|The Charge of the Light Brigade]]'', directed by her father. Richardson and her sister Natasha's early education began at the independent [[St Paul's Girls' School]] in [[Hammersmith]].<ref name="telegraph.co.uk">{{cite news |last=Singh |first=Anita |date=19 March 2009 |title=Natasha Richardson Skiing Accident in Canada: Profile of Actress |url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/celebritynews/5004753/Natasha-Richardson-skiing-accident-in-Canada-profile-of-actress.html |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090322094950/http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/celebritynews/5004753/Natasha-Richardson-skiing-accident-in-Canada-profile-of-actress.html |archive-date=22 March 2009 |access-date=19 March 2009 |work=The Daily Telegraph |location=UK}}</ref> At age 14, Richardson moved to boarding school at the independent [[Harry Hopman|Harry Hopman Tennis School]] in [[Tampa, Florida]]. In 1983, she graduated from [[the Thacher School]] in [[Ojai, California]], then returned to London to study at the [[Royal Academy of Dramatic Art]] and graduated in 1985.<ref name="familyway">{{cite news|url=http://www.people.com/people/archive/article/0,,20112266,00.html|title=Family Way|last=Rosen|first=Marjorie |date=23 March 1992|volume= 37|issue=11|work=People |access-date=19 March 2009}}</ref>

==Career==
Possessing an early ambition to become a professional tennis player, she spent two years at a tennis academy in [[Florida]]. Richardson then turned to acting. In 1985, she portrayed, by [[Flashback (narrative)|flashbacks]], the younger version of the leading character played by her mother in the film ''[[Wetherby (film)|Wetherby]]''. After a leading role in [[Peter Greenaway]]'s cult success ''[[Drowning by Numbers]]'' (1988), her first major role in front of a mass audience was as Joanna Farley in a 1989 television episode of ''[[Agatha Christie's Poirot|Poirot]]'', based on [[Agatha Christie]]'s detective series. In a 1989 episode of ''[[The Storyteller (TV series)|Jim Henson's The Storyteller]]'', she was cast as a princess. She portrayed a teacher on the verge of a nervous breakdown in the 1989 [[Channel 4]] serial ''[[Behaving Badly (TV serial)|Behaving Badly]]'' and fictional [[Finnish people|Finnish]] Princess Anna (with "a voice like a [[tuba]]") in the 1991 screen comedy ''[[King Ralph]]''.

A year later she appeared in ''[[Shining Through]]'' alongside her future brother-in-law, Liam Neeson, with both actors playing [[Nazi]]s.

In 1993, Richardson appeared in the [[BBC]]'s ''[[Lady Chatterley (TV serial)|Lady Chatterley]]'' opposite [[Sean Bean]]. In 1996, she played fashion designer Anita Campbell-Green in the [[Disney]] live-action remake of the animated ''[[101 Dalmatians (1996 film)|101 Dalmatians]]'' opposite [[Glenn Close]] as [[Cruella de Vil]]. In 1998, in the television drama ''[[The Echo (novel)|The Echo]]'', she played Amanda Powell. The next year, she played in the science fiction horror film ''[[Event Horizon (film)|Event Horizon]]'' as Lieutenant Starck, [[executive officer]] of the research and rescue ship ''Lewis and Clark'', sent to rescue crew of the long-lost experimental ship ''Event Horizon''.

One year later, Richardson appeared opposite [[Mel Gibson]] in the film ''[[The Patriot (2000 film)|The Patriot]]'', an American film set in the [[American Revolution]]. Also in 2000, she appeared opposite [[Hugh Laurie]] in ''[[Maybe Baby (2000 film)|Maybe Baby]]'', [[Ben Elton]]'s film adaptation of his book ''[[Inconceivable (novel)|Inconceivable]]''. She was cast in the 2001 film ''[[The Affair of the Necklace]]'' after director [[Charles Shyer]] noticed her resemblance to doomed 18th century French Queen [[Marie Antoinette]].

In 2003, Richardson took on the role of Julia McNamara in the television drama ''[[Nip/Tuck]]'', based on the complicated lives of two plastic surgeons filled with romance in Miami. Her mother, Vanessa Redgrave, appeared in several episodes, playing her character's mother.

In 2005, Richardson starred in ''[[Lies My Mother Told Me]]'', based on a true story about a murderous con artist. In 2007, she played the mother in ''[[The Last Mimzy]]'' with [[Timothy Hutton]] and Chris O'Neil. She also starred in the television drama ''[[Wallis & Edward]]'', playing the lead role of [[Wallis Simpson]], lover of [[Edward VIII of the United Kingdom|Edward, Prince of Wales]].

In 2009–10, Richardson appeared as [[Katherine Parr]], sixth wife of Henry VIII, in the fourth (and final) season of [[Showtime (TV network)|Showtime]]'s hit period drama ''[[The Tudors]]''. The role reunited her with her former husband [[Tim Bevan]], who was part of the show's production team.

Joely joined the cast of TV series ''[[Titanic: Blood and Steel]]'' in which she played the role of [[Constance Markievicz|Countess Markievicz]].<ref name="Joely Richardson Joins '[[Titanic: Blood and Steel]]'">{{cite web|url=http://iftn.ie/news/?act1=record&only=1&aid=73&rid=4284436&tpl=archnews&force=1|title=Joely Richardson Joins 'Titanic: Blood and Steel' |publisher=IFTN|access-date=15 April 2011}}</ref> In 2015 she co-starred alongside [[Arnold Schwarzenegger]] in the [[zombie]] thriller film ''[[Maggie (film)|Maggie]]''.<ref name="Maggie">{{cite web|url=http://www.dreadcentral.com/news/94461/arnold-schwarzenegger-protects-zombie-daughter-in-maggie-trailer/|title=Joely Richardson Joins 'Maggie ' |publisher=DC|access-date=15 April 2011}}</ref>

==Personal life==
Richardson married film producer [[Tim Bevan]] in 1992; they divorced in 2001. The couple had a daughter, actress [[Daisy Bevan]], born in 1992.<ref>{{cite news |last=Ferguson |first=Euan |date=30 December 2001 |title=How I Survived Divorce, the Tabloids and Jamie Theakston |url=https://www.theguardian.com/theobserver/2001/dec/30/features.magazine17 |access-date=25 September 2021 |work=The Observer}}</ref>

Richardson had an affair with [[Archie Stirling]] which broke up Stirling's marriage to actress [[Diana Rigg]]  in 1990.<ref name="s13">{{cite news |first=Nigel |last=Farndale |url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/film/3555923/Diana-Rigg-her-story.html |title=Diana Rigg: Her Story |work=[[The Daily Telegraph]] |location=London |date=6 July 2008 |access-date=27 May 2014}}</ref> 

Richardson is an ambassador for [[The Children's Trust]], the UK's leading charity for children with brain injury and neurodisability, as well as [[Save the Children]].<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.thechildrenstrust.org.uk/about/ambassadors|title=Our Ambassadors|website=The Children's Trust|access-date=25 September 2021}}</ref>

==Filmography==
{{Pending films key}}
===Film===
{| class="wikitable sortable"
|-
! Year
! Title
! Role
! class="unsortable" | Notes
|-
| 1968
| ''[[The Charge of the Light Brigade (1968 film)|The Charge of the Light Brigade]]''
| Extra
| Uncredited<ref name="telegraph.co.uk"/>
|-
| 1985
| ''[[Wetherby (film)|Wetherby]]''
| Young Jean Travers
|
|-
| 1987
| ''[[Body Contact (film)|Body Contact]]''
| Dominique
|
|-
| 1988
| ''[[Drowning by Numbers]]''
| Cissie Colpitts 3
|
|-
| 1989
| ''A proposito di quella strana ragazza''
| Giovanna Serafin (Maria)
| aka ''About That Foreign Girl'' in English
|-
|1991
| ''[[King Ralph]]''
| Princess Anna
|
|-
|rowspan=2| 1992
| ''[[Rebecca's Daughters]]''
| Rhiannon
|
|-
| ''[[Shining Through]]''
| Margrete Von Eberstein
|
|-
| 1994
| ''[[Sister My Sister]]''
| Christine Papin
|
|-
| 1994
| ''[[I'll Do Anything]]''
| Cathy Breslow
|
|-
|rowspan=3| 1996
| ''[[Loch Ness (film)|Loch Ness]]''
| Laura McFetridge
|
|-
| ''[[101 Dalmatians (1996 film)|101 Dalmatians]]''
| Anita Campbell-Green-Dearly
|
|-
| ''[[Hollow Reed]]''
| Hannah
|
|-
| 1997
| ''[[Event Horizon (film)|Event Horizon]]''
| Lt. Starck
|
|-
|rowspan=3| 1998
| ''[[Under Heaven (film)|Under Heaven]]''
| Eleanor Dunston
| 
|-
| ''Wrestling with Alligators''
| Claire
|
|-
| ''[[The Tribe (1998 film)|The Tribe]]''
| Emily
|
|-
|rowspan=3| 2000
| ''[[Maybe Baby (2000 film)|Maybe Baby]]''
| Lucy Bell
|
|-
| ''[[Return to Me]]''
| Elizabeth Rueland
|
|-
| ''[[The Patriot (2000 film)|The Patriot]]''
| Charlotte Selton
|
|-
| 2001
| ''[[The Affair of the Necklace]]''
| [[Marie-Antoinette]]
|
|-
|rowspan=2| 2004
| ''Fallen Angel''
| Katherine Wentworth
|
|-
| ''[[The Fever (2004 film)|The Fever]]''
| Woman at 30
|
|-
|rowspan=2| 2007
| ''[[The Last Mimzy]]''
| Jo Wilder
|
|-
| ''[[The Christmas Miracle of Jonathan Toomey]]''
| Susan McDowel
|
|-
|rowspan=2| 2011
| ''[[Anonymous (2011 film)|Anonymous]]''
| [[Elizabeth I|Young Queen Elizabeth I]]
|
|-
| ''[[The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo (2011 film)|The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo]]''
| Anita Vanger/Harriet Vanger
|
|-
|rowspan=2| 2012
| ''[[Red Lights (2012 film)|Red Lights]]''
| Monica Handsen
|
|-
| ''[[Thanks for Sharing]]''
| Katie
|
|-
| 2013
| ''[[The Devil's Violinist]]''
| Ethel Langham
|
|-
|rowspan=3| 2014
| ''[[Vampire Academy (film)|Vampire Academy]]''
| [[List of Vampire Academy characters#Queen Tatiana Ivashkov|Queen Tatiana Ivashkov]]
|
|-
| ''[[Endless Love (2014 American film)|Endless Love]]''
| Ann Butterfield
|
|-
| ''[[Maggie (film)|Maggie]]''
| Caroline Vogel
|
|-
| 2015
| ''[[Papa: Hemingway in Cuba]]''
| Mary Hemingway
|
|-
|rowspan=2|2016
| ''[[Snowden (film)|Snowden]]''
| Janine Gibson
|
|-
| ''[[Fallen (2016 film)|Fallen]]''
| Sophia Bliss
|
|-
|rowspan=2|2017
|''[[The Hatton Garden Job]]''
| Erzebet Zslondos
|
|-
|''[[The Time of Their Lives (2017 film)|The Time of Their Lives]]''
| Lucy
|
|-
|rowspan=4| 2018
| ''[[Red Sparrow]]''
| Nina
|
|-
| ''[[In Darkness (2018 film)|In Darkness]]''
| Alix
|
|-
| ''[[The Aspern Papers (film)|The Aspern Papers]]''
| Miss Tina
|
|-
| ''[[Surviving Christmas with the Relatives]]''
| Lyla
|
|-
| 2019
| ''[[Color Out of Space (film)|Color Out of Space]]''
| Theresa Gardner
|
|-
| 2020
| ''[[The Turning (2020 film)|The Turning]]''
| Darla
|
|-
|rowspan=2| 2022
| ''[[The Lost Girls (film)|The Lost Girls]]''
| Jane
|
|-
| ''[[Lady Chatterley's Lover (2022 film)|Lady Chatterley's Lover]]''
| Mrs. Bolton
|
|-
| 2023
| ''[[Little Bone Lodge]]''
| Mama
|
|-
| 2025
| {{pending film|[[Downton Abbey: The Grand Finale]]}}
| {{TBA}}
| ''Post-production''
|}
===Television===
{| class="wikitable sortable"
|-
! Year
! Title
! Role
! class="unsortable" | Notes
|-
| 1988
| ''[[The StoryTeller (TV series)|The StoryTeller]]''
| Princess
| Episode: "The Three Ravens"
|-
|rowspan=2| 1989
| ''[[Behaving Badly (TV serial)|Behaving Badly]]''
| Serafina
| 4 episodes
|-
| ''[[Agatha Christie's Poirot]]''
| Joanna Farley
| Episode: "The Dream"
|-
|1991
| ''[[Heading Home (1991 film)|Heading Home]]''
| Janetta Wheatland
| Television film
|-
| 1993
| ''[[Lady Chatterley (TV serial)|Lady Chatterley]]''
| Lady Chatterley
| 4 episodes
|-
| 2003–2010
| ''[[Nip/Tuck]]''
| Julia McNamara
| Main role, 72 episodes
|-
| 2003
| ''[[Fallen Angel (2003 film)|Fallen Angel]]''
| Katherine Wentworth
| [[Television film|Television movie]]
|-
|rowspan=2| 2005
| ''[[Lies My Mother Told Me]]''
| Laren Sims
| Television movie
|-
| ''[[Wallis & Edward]]''
| [[Wallis Simpson|Wallis, Duchess of Windsor]]
| Television movie
|-
| 2006
| ''[[Fatal Contact: Bird Flu in America]]''
| Dr. Iris Varnack
| Television movie
|-
| 2007
| ''[[Freezing (TV series)|Freezing]]''
| Rachel
| Episode: "1.1"
|-
| 2009
| ''[[The Day of the Triffids (2009 TV series)|The Day of the Triffids]]''
| Jo Playton
| 2 episodes
|-
| 2010
| ''[[The Tudors]]''
| [[Katherine Parr|Queen Katherine Parr]]
| Main role (season 4), 5 episodes
|-
| 2012
| ''[[Titanic: Blood and Steel]]''
| [[Constance Markievicz|Countess Markievicz]]
| Episode: "Stained Steel"
|-
| 2017
| ''[[Emerald City (TV series)|Emerald City]]''
| [[Glinda]]
| Main role
|-
| 2019
| ''[[The Rook (miniseries)|The Rook]]''
| Lady Farrier/King
| Main role; 8 episode miniseries
|-
| 2020–2022
| ''[[The Blacklist]]''
| Cassandra Bianchi
| Episodes: "[[List of The Blacklist episodes|Cornelius Ruck]]" and "[[List of The Blacklist episodes|Genuine Models, Inc]]."
|-
|rowspan=2| 2022
| ''[[The Sandman (TV series)|The Sandman]]''
| [[List of The Sandman characters#Ethel Cripps|Ethel Cripps]]
| 11 episodes
|-
| ''[[Suspect (TV series)|Suspect]]'' 
| Jackie Sowden
| TV series 
|-
|rowspan=3| 2024
|[[The Gentlemen (2024 TV series)|''The Gentlemen'']]
|Lady Sabrina Halstead
|
|-
| ''[[Renegade Nell]]''
|Lady Moggerhanger
|TV series
|-
| ''[[One Day (TV series)|One Day]]''
|Helen Cope
|TV series; 1 episode<ref>{{cite web |date=24 February 2024 |title=One Day Cast: Meet the Characters in the Netflix Series |url=https://www.radiotimes.com/tv/drama/one-day-netflix-cast/ |access-date=27 February 2024 |website=[[Radio Times]]}}</ref>
|}

==Awards and nominations==
{| class="wikitable sortable"
|-
! Year
! Association
! Category
! Nominated work
! Result
! class="unsortable" | {{Abbr|Refs|References}}
|-
| 1999
| [[Film Independent Spirit Awards|Independent Spirit Award]]
| [[Independent Spirit Award for Best Supporting Female|Best Supporting Female]]
| ''Under Heaven''
| {{nom}}
| 
|-
| rowspan="2"| 2004
| [[Golden Globe Award]]
| [[Golden Globe Award for Best Actress – Television Series Drama|Best Actress in a Television Series – Drama]]
| ''[[Nip/Tuck]]''
| {{nom}}
| 
|-
| [[Satellite Award]]
| [[Satellite Award for Best Actress – Television Series Drama|Best Actress in a Television Series – Drama]]
| ''Nip/Tuck''
| {{nom}}
| 
|-
| rowspan="2"| 2005
| Golden Globe Award
| [[62nd Golden Globe Awards#Television|Best Actress in a Television Series – Drama]]
| ''Nip/Tuck''
| {{nom}}
| 
|-
| Satellite Award
| Best Actress in a Television Series – Drama
| ''Nip/Tuck''
| {{nom}}
| 
|}

==Notes==
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==References==
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==External links==
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* {{screenonline name| 491981 }}

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