Joely Richardson Biography
Joely Kim Richardson is an English actress. She is known for her roles as Julia McNamara in the FX drama series Nip/Tuck and Katherine Parr in the Showtime series The Tudors. She has also appeared in films such as 101 Dalmatians, Event Horizon, The Patriot, Return to Me, Anonymous, the Hollywood film adaptation of The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo, the remake of Endless Love, the thriller Red Sparrow, and The Turning.
How old is Joely Richardson? – Age
She is 59 years old days of January 2024. The actress was born on January 9, 1965, in Marylebone, London, England.
Joely Richardson Height
The actress stands at a height of 5 feet 10 inches tall.
Joely Richardson Early Life
Kim was born to theartrical Redgrave family, the daughters of actress Vanessa Redgrave and director Tony Richardson and the granddaughter of actors Sir Michael Redgrave and Rachel Kempson, Lady Redgrave. Joely appeared as an extra at the age of three in the 1968 version of The Charge of the Light Brigade, directed by her father. Richardson and her sisiter Natasha’s early education began at the independent St Paul’s Girls’ School in Hammersmith. At age 14, she moved to boarding school at the independent Harry Hopman Tennis School in Tampa, Florida.
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.
Is Joely Richardson married? – Husband
She married film producer Tim Bevan in 1992; they divorced in 2001. The couple had a daughter, actress Daisy Bevan born in 1992.
Joely Richardson 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 flashbacks, the younger version of the leading character played by her mother in the film Wetherby. After a leading role in Peter Greenaway’s cult success Drowining by Numbers, her first major role in front of a mass audience was as Joanna Farley in a 1989 television episode of Poirot, based on Agatha Christie’s detective series. In a 1989 episode of Jim Henson’s The Storyseller, she was cast as a princess.
A year later she appeared in Shinning Through alongside her future brother-in-law, Liam Neeson, with both actors playing Nazis. In 1993, appeared in the BBC’s Lady Chatterley opposite Sean Bean. In 1996, she played fashion designer Anita Campbell-Green in the Disney live-action remake of the animated 101 Dalmations opposite Glenn Close as Cruella de Vil. The next year, she played in the science fiction horror 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.
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, Prince of Wales. Joely joined the cast of TV series Titanic: Blood and Steel in which she played the role of Countless Markievicz. In 2015 she co-starred alongside Arnold Schwarzegger in the zombie thriller film Maggie.
Joely Richardson Net Worth
The English actress has a net worth of $4 million.
Joely Richardson Movie
1968 – The Charge of the Light Brigade
1985 – Wetherby
1987 – Body Contact
1988 – Drowning by Numbers
1992 – Shinning Through
1996 – 101 Dalmatians
2000 – Maybe Baby
2004 – The Fever
2007 – The last Mimzy
2011 – Anonymous
2012 – Red Lights
2014 – Endless Love
2016 – Fallen
2018 – In Darkness
2019 – Color Out of Space
2020 – The Lost Girls
2023 – Little Bone Lodge
Joely Richardson TV Shows
2007 – Freezing
2009 – The Day of the Triffids
2012 – Titanic: Blood and Steel
2022 – The Sandman
2024 – The Gentleman
2024 – One Day
