Here’s a look at the life of award-winning actress Vanessa Redgrave. Personal Birth date: January 30, 1937 Birth place: London, England Birth name: Vanessa Redgrave Father: Sir Michael Redgrave, actor Mother: Rachel Kempson,

Despite the intensity she brings to her roles on stage and screen, Vanessa Redgrave's life is a celibate ... Look, I've slept on floors all over the world, with a multitude of different people ...

LONDON (AP) — Award-winning British actor Joan Plowright, who with her late husband Laurence Olivier did much to revitalize the U.K.‘s theatrical scene in the decades after World War II, has died. She was 95.

James Bond, probably the most famous spy in the world, was created by the English writer Ian Fleming, but he owes his debonair personality to two Irishmen.

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Part of an astonishing generation of British actors, including Judi Dench,​ Vanessa Redgrave, Eileen Atkins and Maggie Smith​, Joan Plowright won a Tony Award, two Golden Globes and nominations for an Oscar and an Emmy.

Tony Award-winning actress Joan Plowright died on Jan. 16 at Denville Hall, a retirement home for actors in southern England. Plowright was surrounded by loved ones at the time of her death.

In her book 'Saints and Liars', Deborah Dwork presents micro-histories of their activities in Prague, Vilna, Shanghai, Marseilles, and Lisbon.