Trivia

Her real mother, Vanessa Redgrave, plays the mother of Joely's character on the TV series Nip/Tuck (2003).

She and her mother Vanessa Redgrave both appear in Anonymous (2011) as the same character "Queen Elizabeth I" at different ages during the story.

Graduated from RADA (the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art) in 1985. Is now an Associate Member.

Both she and her sister Natasha Richardson starred in remakes of classic Disney movies. Joely starred in 101 Dalmatians (1996), while Natasha starred in The Parent Trap (1998).

In the joint ventures made with her real-life mother Vanessa Redgrave, Joely has either played her mother's character as a young woman (Wetherby (1985), The Fever (2004), Anonymous (2011)) or her screen daughter (Nip/Tuck (2003)).

Both she and her mother Vanessa Redgrave have played an historical queen who was executed by beheading. Richardson played Marie Antoinette in The Affair of the Necklace (2001) while her mother played the title character in Mary, Queen of Scots (1971).

Is only 12 years older than John Hensley, who plays her son on Nip/Tuck (2003).

She has played the wife of two former English kings; Wallis Simpson (Wallis & Edward, 2005), wife of the abdicated Edward, Duke of Windsor, and Henry VIII's final consort Catherine Parr in The Tudors (2010).

She has three roles in common with her mother Vanessa Redgrave: (1) they both played Jean Travers in Wetherby (1985), (2) they both played the unnamed protagonist in The Fever (2004), and (3) they both played Queen Elizabeth in Anonymous (2011).

Former sister-in-law of Robert Fox.

She played Catherine Parr in The Tudors (2007) and her stepdaughter Queen Elizabeth I in Anonymous (2011), in which her mother Vanessa Redgrave played the older version of the Queen.

Other stage work includes Steel Magnolias and Beauty and the Beast.

She joined the RSC and appeared in A Midsummer Nights Dream, Macbeth, and Worlds Apart.