
I’m never going to become like that.’ And then over the years, I have gotten a cuddly toy collection in my adult life and I am very fond of them.
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But the funny thing was, and this is actually a really sad comment on myself, but I was never a big cuddly toy person and occasionally if I looked through magazines and you’d see pictures of people’s houses and grown-ups had cuddly toys on their beds, I would always think, ‘Oh that’s so nap. I had my Barbie phase and I do remember I had a little polar bear that was very soft and cuddly that I think my dad had given me from L.A. WAM: When you were growing up, did you have a special toy like Mimzy that you carried around with you all the time? Joely Richardson sat with Wild About Movies to discuss her latest theatrical movie, a family film, “The Last Mimzy.” The former couple was married from 1992 until 2001. Her mother, Vanessa Redgrave, has appeared in several episodes playing her character’s mother.ĭivorced from film producer Tim Bevan, she has a daughter, Daisy, who was born in 1992. In 2003, she took on the major role of playing Julia McNamara in the controversial television drama Nip/Tuck, based on the lives of two dysfunctional plastic surgeons in Miami. Thus, she secured the role of that queen in the 2001 film The Affair of the Necklace.Īlso in 2000, she played the lead in Ben Elton’s movie adaptation of his own book, Inconceivable (renamed Maybe Baby), opposite “House’s” Hugh Laurie. Later that year she was modelling a necklace, when director Charles Shyer noticed her resemblance to doomed 18th-century royal Marie Antoinette. One year later, she played opposite Mel Gibson in the successful film The Patriot, which was loosely based on the American Revolution.

The next year, she played in the sci-fi/horror movie Event Horizon as Lieutenant Starck, executive officer of the research and rescue ship Lewis & Clark, sent to rescue crew of the long-thought-lost experimental ship Event Horizon. In 1998, in the popular television drama The Echo, she played sultry Amanda Powell. In 1996 she played the fashion designer Anita in the popular Disney film 101 Dalmatians opposite Glenn Close as Cruella de Vil. In 1993, she appeared as Lady Chatterley in a television drama of the same title. A year later, she appeared in Shining Through alongside her future brother-in-law Liam Neeson, where both played Nazis.

She later appeared as a fictional Finnish princess, Anna, in the 1991 comedy King Ralph. Joely Richardson appeared as an extra at the age of three in the 1968 version of The Charge of the Light Brigade directed by her father.Īfter an early leading role in Peter Greenaway’s cult success Drowning by Numbers, her first major role in front of a mass audience was as Joanna Farley in a 1989 television episode of Poirot, the Agatha Christie-based detective series. She is the daughter of screen legend Vanessa Redgrave and late director Tony Richardson, the granddaughter of Sir Michael Redgrave and Rachel Kempson, Lady Redgrave, sister of actress Natasha Richardson, and sister-in-law of actor Liam Neeson, and niece of Lynn Redgrave and Corin Redgrave. Joely Richardson is The Last Mimzy, by Tim Nassonīeverly Hills – Joely Kim Richardson (born 9 January 1965 in London) is an English actress, who was born into a theatrical family.
