Joyce Redman

Joyce Redman ( born December 9, 1918 County Mayo, Ireland; † 9, 2012 in Kent, United Kingdom ) was an Irish film and theater actress.

Life

Joyce Redman and her three older sisters grew up as the daughter of a British father and an Irish mother in County Mayo and received an education by a governess. Her training as an actress Joyce Redman completed later at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art My mentor was Charles Wynne Roberts. She made her stage debut Redman on December 23, 1935 at London's Playhouse in a production of Alice Through the Looking Glass. Three years later, she played the title role in a stage production of the same play, before they as Laura in the Drawing Room for the first time went on tour in March 1939. In May 1943, they celebrated a great success at the show venue Duke of York 's, when she embodied the Brigid in Shadow and Substance. Two months later she broke Pamela Brown in the title role in the London production of Rose franc Broadway hit 'Claudia, a decrease from 1943 to 1944 on tour.

With its entry into the prestigious Old Vic Company under Laurence Olivier, she joined in repertory pieces as Henrik Ibsen's Peer Gynt, William Shakespeare's Richard III. or Chekhov's Uncle Vanya on. In July 1945, she performed with the theater group at the Comédie - Française, on May 7, 1946, she celebrated the role of Doll Tearsheet in Shakespeare's Henry IV, Part 2 her debut on Broadway. Two years later she was in the Broadway premiere of Maxwell Anderson's Anne of the Thousand Days piece the title role as Anne Boleyn, together with Rex Harrison as Henry VIII

Redman was in the English theater a wide range of roles offered and she was a member of almost every important Repertory Company. As a film and television actress, she kicked it only occasionally in appearance. From 1938 to 2001, the red-haired Irish woman stood 25 times in front of the camera. In spite of the few film roles, which she perceived, she managed to be nominated twice for an Academy Award in the Best Supporting Actress category. Your first nomination she received in 1964 for her performance in Tom Jones - Between the bed and the gallows. Two years later, in 1966, the nomination for her Emilia followed in Laurence Olivier's film version of Othello theater. For the latter, she was nominated for a Golden Globe Award.

Little was known about her private life. So they had off the coast of Ireland some years a small island, but they later sold again. Your niece is the British actress Amanda Redman ( born 1959 ).