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Joely Richardson (born January 9 1965 in the U.K.)
is a United Kingdom|British actress, who was born
into a theatrical family. She is the daughter of
screen legend Vanessa Redgrave and late director
Tony Richardson, the granddaughter of Sir Michael
Redgrave and Lady Rachel Kempson Redgrave, sister
of actress Natasha Richardson, and sister-in-law
of actor Liam Neeson, and niece of Lynn Redgrave
and Corin Redgrave. Joely Richardson appeared as
an extra at the age of three in the 1968 version
of The Charge of the Light Brigade directed by her
father. 

After an early leading role in Peter Greenaway's
cult success Drowning by Numbers, her first major
role in front of a mass audience was as Joanna
Farley in a 1989 television episode of Agatha
Christie's Poirot|Poirot, the Agatha
Christie-based detective series. She later
appeared as a fictional Finnish princess, Anna, in
the 1991 comedy King Ralph. Two years later, she
appeared as Lady Chatterley in a television drama
of the same title.

In 1996 she played the fashion designer Anita in
the popular Disney film 101 Dalmatians opposite
Glenn Close as Cruella deVil. In 1998 in the
popular television drama The Echo she played
sultry Amanda Powell.

Two years later she played opposite Mel Gibson in
the successful film, The Patriot loosely based on
the American Revolution. Later that year she was
modelling on a necklace, when director Charles
Shyer noticed her resemblance to doomed
18th-century royal Marie Antoinette. Thus, she
secured the role of that queen in the 2001 film
The Affair of the Necklace.

In 2003, she took on the major role of playing
Julie McNamara in the controversial television
drama Nip/Tuck based on the lives of plastic
surgeons.

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