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Joely Richardson
Actress
Female
Born
Jan 9, 1965
Age
48
Other Names
Joely Kim Richardson
Joely Kim Richardson is an English actress, known for her role as Queen Catherine Parr in the Showtime television show The Tudors and Julia McNamara in the television drama Nip/Tuck. She also appeared in films such as 101 Dalmatians (1996), Event Horizon… Read More
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2012 Drama Desk Award NominationsThe Faster Times - Apr 27, 2012
Timeline
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CHILDHOOD
1965
Birth
Born on January 9, 1965.

1968
3 Years Old
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.
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TEENAGE

1983
18 Years Old
In 1983, she graduated from the Thacher School in Ojai, California, then returned to London to study at Royal Academy of Dramatic Art.
TWENTIES

1985
20 Years Old
Possessing an early ambition to become a professional tennis player, she spent two years at a tennis academy in Florida. Richardson then turned to acting. In 1985 she portrayed, via flashbacks, the younger version of the leading character played by her mother in the film Wetherby.

After a leading role in Peter Greenaway's cult success Drowning by Numbers (1988), her first major role in front of a mass audience was as Joanna Farley in a 1989 television episode of Poirot, the Agatha Christie based detective series.

1993
28 Years Old
In 1993, Richardson appeared in BBC's Lady Chatterley opposite Sean Bean.
THIRTIES

1996
31 Years Old
In 1996, she played fashion designer Anita Campbell-Green in the Disney live-action remake of the animated 101 Dalmatians opposite Glenn Close as Cruella de Vil.
1998
33 Years Old
In 1998, in the popular television drama The Echo, she played Amanda Powell.
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2000
35 Years Old
Also in 2000, she appeared opposite Hugh Laurie in Maybe Baby, Ben Elton's film adaptation of his book Inconceivable.

Thus, she secured the role of that queen in the 2001 film The Affair of the Necklace.
2003
38 Years Old
In 2003, Richardson took on the role of Julia McNamara in the television drama Nip/Tuck, based on the lives of two plastic surgeons in Miami.
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FORTIES
2006
41 Years Old
In November 2006, it was announced that Richardson would be leaving Nip/Tuck to take care of her sick daughter.
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In June 2007 it was announced that she would return for 15 of the 22 episodes during the fifth season.
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Her sister, actress Natasha Richardson, died on 18 March 2009 at age 45 from an epidural hematoma after a skiing accident in Quebec, Canada.
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