The death of Lynn Redgrave after a long battle with cancer was announced today. She was part of a British acting dynasty which included her sister Vanessa and brother Corin, who died just a few weeks ago. Her first big break came with Georgy Girl in the sixties, and she followed it up with the cult Swinging London satire Smashing Time, The Virgin Soldiers, Woody Allen's Everything You Always Wanted to Know About Sex, the unjustly forgotten black comedy The National Health, and cult disaster spoof The Big Bus. She concentrated on television for much of the rest of her screen career, but made memorable later appearances in Shine, Gods and Monsters, David Cronenberg's Spider and the last decade's Peter Pan.
