Place of Birth: Greenwich, London, England
Date of Birth: 30 January, 1937
Ethnicity: English
Vanessa Redgrave is an English actress. She is a sibling of actors Corin Redgrave and Lynn Redgrave. Her parents were actors Michael Redgrave (Michael Scudamore Redgrave) and Rachel Kempson. Her children are actors Natasha Richardson (who is deceased) and Joely Richardson, and screenwriter/filmmaker Carlo Gabriel Nero. Vanessa is married to Italian actor Franco Nero.
Vanessa’s paternal grandparents were George Ellsworthy Redgrave (the son of George Augustus Redgrave and Zoe Beatrice Elsworthy Pym) and Daisy Bertha Mary Scudamore (the daughter of William George Scudamore and Clara Linington).
Vanessa’s maternal grandparents were Eric William Edward Kempson (the son of Frederick Robertson Kempson and Julia Madeleine Jay) and Beatrice Hamilton Ashwell (the daughter of Laurence Thomas Ashwell and Henrietta Maria Kingham).
Source: Genealogy of Vanessa Redgrave – http://worldconnect.rootsweb.ancestry.com
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