| Who is it? | Actress |
| Birth Day | December 09, 1915 |
| Birth Place | Gosforth, Newcastle-upon-Tyne, England, United Kingdom |
| Age | 105 YEARS OLD |
| Died On | 9 May 2012(2012-05-09) (aged 96)\nPembury, Kent, England |
| Birth Sign | Capricorn |
| Occupation | Actress |
| Years active | 1938-2001 |
| Children | 3, including Crispin Redman |
Her acting roles were primarily in the theatre and in television movies. Her most successful appearances on the stage were during the 1940s, in Shadow and Substance, Claudia, and Lady Precious Stream, and she appeared at the Comédie-Française as well as The Old Vic. She made a big 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, and, 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. In 1974, Redman played Sophie Dupin, the mother of George Sand, in the BBC serial Notorious Woman.
Redman also appeared in a few films. She was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress for her work in Tom Jones (1963); and again for Othello (1965), in which she appeared as Emilia to the Desdemona of Maggie Smith and the Othello of Laurence Olivier. Her work on Othello also earned her a Golden Globe nomination.
Redman died in Pembury, Kent, England, on 9 May 2012 aged 96 from pneumonia following a short illness.
