Joyce Olivia Redman (7 December 1915Jonathan Croall, "Redman, Joyce Olivia (1915–2012)", ''Oxford Dictionary of National Biography'', Oxford University Press, Jan 201
available online
Retrieved 1 April 2020. – 9 May 2012) was an Anglo-Irish actress. She received two

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nominations for Best Supporting Actress for her performances in the 1963 film '' Tom Jones'' and the 1965 film ''

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''.

Early life

Joyce Redman was born in Northumberland and grew up in County Mayo, Ireland. She was born into an Anglo-Irish family, and educated by a private governess in Ireland, along with her three sisters. She trained in acting at the

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in London, graduating in 1936."Student and Graduate Profiles: Joyce Redman"
''rada.ac.uk''. Retrieved 1 April 2020.

Career

Her acting roles were primarily in the theatre and in television films. Her most successful appearances on the stage were during the 1940s, in '' Shadow and Substance'', '' Claudia'', and ''

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'', and she appeared at the Comédie-Française as well as The Old Vic. She made a big success in New York in 1949 playing

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opposite

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as Henry VIII in Maxwell Anderson's play '' Anne of the Thousand Days'', and, in 1955, she joined

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's Shakespeare Memorial Theatre to play Helena in ''

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'' and Mistress Ford in ''

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''. In 1974, Redman played Sophie Dupin, the mother of

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, in the

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serial '' Notorious Woman''. Redman also appeared in a few films. She was nominated for an

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for her work in '' Tom Jones'' (1963); and again for ''

'' (1965), in which she appeared as Emilia to the Desdemona of

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and the Othello of

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. Her work on ''Othello'' also earned her a

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nomination.

Personal life

Redman married Charles Wynne Roberts in New York City in 1949; he predeceased her. She is survived by their three children and five grandchildren. Her son Crispin Redman is an actor. Her son-in-law is the investment manager and media personality Justin Urquhart-Stewart. Redman died in Pembury, Kent, England, on 9 May 2012 at age 96 from pneumonia.

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