Joel Richardson, English actress

British actress Joely Richardson (full name Joelie Kim Richardson) was born on January 9, 1965 in London.

Joel from a young age dreamed of becoming a tennis player, she even moved to the US, where she entered the Tennis Academy Nick Bolletieri in Florida. However, the unprecedented physical activities accompanying the tennis career, quickly cooled the girl's ardor, and she returned to her home. Joel's father, filmmaker Tony Richardson, and mother, the most popular English actress Vanessa Redgrave, had no doubt that their daughter would become an actress. Especially since Joel was with whom to take an example: her older sister Natasha Richardson had already starred in several films.

First roles

To begin with, Joely Richardson, whose photo had already been sent to the agencies, played a maid in the film "The Hotel New Hampshire", which her father shot, and in 1985 took part in the film directed by David Hea called "Wetherby." Joelie played the character Gene Travers in her youth, and the role of Traverse in her mature years was performed by Vanessa Redgrave. Several weeks spent on the set hand in hand with his mother, only strengthened the desire of Joel Richardson to become a movie actress.

Detectives

In 1988, Joelie played one of the women of the Kolpitz family (mother, daughter and niece) who alternately heated their husbands. A friend of the family, Madgett, working as a forensic expert, formalized the death of each of the husbands as an accident, hoping at the same time for the favor of the criminals. However, none of the ladies hastened to open their arms to the naive Majette, moreover, the crafty trio decided to drown him himself. All these events were brilliantly reflected in the tragicomedy "Count of the Drowned" by director Peter Greenaway.

"One hundred and one Dalmatians"

The film directed by Stephen Jerek "One hundred and one Dalmatians" was filmed in 1996. With a fairly modest budget of $ 54 million, the picture grossed $ 320 million at the box office, and sales of video cassettes for home viewing broke all records. Joelie played Anita, mistress of Perita, a charming Dalmatian. With the help of her dog, Anita meets Rogero, the creator of computer games, who also has a dog, Pongo's dog. London villain Sterlevella De Ville wants at all costs to sew for himself at Christmas a fur coat of Dalmatian skins. She sends her assistants to hunt for spotty puppies. However, this is not like the puppies themselves, and their parents, adult resolute Dalmatians.

Variety of roles

In 2000, the film "Everything is possible, baby" was shot at Pandora Cinema BBC Films. Comedy melodrama with Joel Richardson in the lead role was directed by Ben Elton. In the center of the plot is a married couple. The wife constantly raises the subject of procreation, suggesting that she take up this matter immediately. The husband agrees, and the spouses get down to business. However, there are no results and no. Then Lucy (the name of the main character) suggests that the process of conception be streamlined, a schedule should be made and everything should be done according to the schedule.

In the historical film "The Story of a Necklace" filmed in 2001 by the director Charles Schayer based on the novel by Alexander Dumas "Queen's Necklace", actress Richardson played Queen Mary-Antoinette. Adventurer Jeanne Lamotte, being a close friend of the queen, arranged meetings between Marie Antoinette and Cardinal de Rohan. However, she had a goal that was not related to the love of the inhabitants of the Tuileries. Jeanne Lamotte was eager to take possession of the queen's necklace.

TV series seven years old

In early 2003, on the American channel FX, the series "Parts of the body" by Ryan Murphy was launched about two successful plastic surgeons. One of them, Sean McNamara, is a conscientious doctor, for whom the Hippocratic oath is not an empty phrase. Another doctor, Christian Troy, believes that in life the main thing is money, beautiful women and whiskey. Despite the difference in views, they are friends, support each other in every possible way, and even relax together. Joel Richardson played Julia McNamara, Sean's wife. In the series, periodically appears Julia's mother, played by Vanessa Redgrave. The series survived six seasons and closed in 2010. In November 2006, the daughter of Joely Richardson Sick. As the girl needed constant care, the actress announced the departure from the series. However, Ryan Murphy decided to wait for the return of Richardson and wrote the end of the script, taking into account its further participation. Joelie returned in 2007.

Joelie and David Fincher

In 2011, Joel Richardson, whose filmography now has more than 50 paintings, was played by Anita Wagner in the detective thriller "Girl with a Dragon Tattoo" directed by David Fincher. Her character - suffered for her life Anita, who, in order to escape from the surrounding rapists, changed her name, becoming the counterpart of her girlfriend, who later died in a car accident. For a long time, Anita managed to hide under a false name, until one day she was released by a certain Michael Blomqvist, who was forced to solve his problems at that time. And one of his tasks was to search for a girl that had disappeared forty years ago. Anita was that girl, but she can not admit it.

Personal life

Joel Richardson, whose personal life does not contain sensational materials, today is completely given to work. From 1992 to 2001, the actress was married to producer Tim Bevan. She is not burdened by loneliness, so after a divorce from her husband, she no longer married. Joel's father died in 1991. Native sister, Natasha Richardson, died in the ski resort of Mont-Tremblant in Quebec, in 2009. Currently Joelie maintains a relationship with her mother - actress Vanessa Redgrave. Has an adult daughter, Daisy, who recently turned 22 years old.