Joyce Redman

Joyce Olivia Redman (7 December 1915 – 9 May 2012) was an Anglo-Irish actress. She received two Oscar nominations for Best Supporting Actress for her performances in the 1963 film Tom Jones and the 1965 film Othello.

Early life Joyce Redman was born at 15 Osborne Terrace, Gosforth, Northumberland,

Career Redman’s early stage career in the 1940s included acclaimed performances in Shadow and Substance, Claudia, and Lady Precious Stream. She toured internationally, performing at the Comédie-Française in Paris and achieving notable success in New York in 1949 playing Anne Boleyn opposite Rex Harrison as Henry VIII in Maxwell Anderson's play Anne of the Thousand Days. In 1955, she joined Stratford-upon-Avon's Shakespeare Memorial Theatre to play Helena in All's Well That Ends Well and Mistress Ford in The Merry Wives of Windsor. Later television work included the 1974 BBC serial Notorious Woman, in which she portrayed Sophie Dupin, the mother of George Sand.

Although primarily a stage actress, Redman appeared in a select number of films, earning critical recognition and international fame. She received Academy Award nominations for her roles in Tom Jones (1963) as the sexually provocative Mrs. Waters and in Othello (1965) as the outspoken Emilia, acting alongside Maggie Smith and Laurence Olivier. In 1968, Redman starred in the birth-control comedy Prudence and the Pill, directed by Ronald Neame and featuring Deborah Kerr and David Niven. Her character became pregnant after her daughter substituted some contraceptive pills with aspirin, inadvertently undermining her mother’s intended "liberation". Her son Crispin Redman is an actor. Her son-in-law is the investment manager and media personality Justin Urquhart Stewart.

Redman maintained a connection to her native County Mayo. In 1949, she purchased Bartragh Island, which had been in her family for several generations, and retained ownership for several decades before selling it in 1984. She spent her later years living in Kent, England. Redman died in Pembury, Kent, England, on 9 May 2012 at age 96 from pneumonia.

Filmography Nominated — Golden Globe Award for Best Supporting Actress – Motion Picture1968 Prudence and the Pill Grace Hardcastle 1978 Les Misérables Magliore TV movie1980 The Party Mrs. Linda Knox/ wife Tales of the Unexpected; Series 3, Ep. 9/ TV series 1985 A Different Kind of Love Mrs. Prior

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