RACHEL KEMPSON

'Rachel Kempson, Lady Redgrave' (28 May, 1910 – 24 May, 2003) was an English actress.
She was the wife of Sir Michael Redgrave; daughter-in-law of Roy Redgrave and Margaret Scudamore; mother of Vanessa, Lynn and Corin Redgrave; and grandmother of Natasha and Joely Richardson, Jemma Redgrave, and Carlo Nero.
Rachel Kempson was born in Dartmouth, England and trained at RADA before joining the Royal Shakespeare Company. She married Michael Redgrave in 1935 and appeared with him many times on stage. She also appeared many times on film and television, most notably in ''The Captive Heart'' (1946); ''Tom Jones'' (1963); ''Out of Africa'' (1985); and the television series ''The Jewel in the Crown'' (1984).
In 1959 her husband was knighted, and she became, formally, Lady Redgrave. She never used this name professionally.
In 2003, four days before what would have been her 93rd birthday, she died of a stroke at the home of her granddaughter, Natasha Richardson, in Millbrook, New York.

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