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Rachel Kempson, my mother, debuted at Stratford in 1932, famously as Juliet in Bridges Adams' production of Romeo and Juliet. In 1935 she was asked by William Armstrong to star in the Liverpool Repertory production of Flowers of the Forest. Her leading man was Michael Redgrave.
Sir Michael Scudamore Redgrave CBE (20 March 1908 – 21 March 1985) was an English actor and filmmaker. He received a nomination for the Academy Award for Best Actor for his performance in Mourning Becomes Electra (1947), as well as two BAFTA nominations for Best British Actor for his performances in The Night My Number Came Up (1955) and Time Without Pity (1957).
Kempson, Rachel (1910—)British actress and matriarch of the family Redgrave. Born in Dartmouth, Devon, England, on May 28, 1910; daughter of Eric William Edward (a headmaster) and Beatrice Hamilton (Ashwell) Kempson; attended St. Agnes School, East Grinstead, and Oaklea Buckhurst Hill; studied for the stage at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art; married (Sir) Michael Red-grave (an actor), in ...
May 27, 2003 · Rachel Kempson, an actress who appeared with many of Britain's leading theater companies and became the matriarch of the Redgrave acting dynasty, has died at age 92.
May 25, 2003 · Rachel Kempson died at her granddaughter's home in America. The actress Rachel Kempson, of the Redgrave acting dynasty, has died aged 92. She died on Friday night at the home of her granddaughter, the actress Natasha Richardson and her husband Liam Neeson, in Millbrook, New York state. Her son Corin Redgrave said she would remembered as a ...
May 26, 2003 · Rachel Kempson saw their marriage as that of two people self-consciously enacting roles. Their first child, Vanessa, was born in 1937; the second, Corin, in 1939; and the third, Lynn, in 1943.
Rachel Kempson, Lady Redgrave; Sir Michael Redgrave. by Bassano Ltd whole-plate film negative, 5 March 1937 NPG x81307
