OK, I wasn't as successful as, say, Julia Roberts, but I'd spent years in a very respectable career, some big American films but a host of other smaller, really exciting, maybe experimental films, being paid rubbish but working with fine people, that was what I thought I was known for.

Later that year Joely Richardson was modelling a necklace when director Charles Shyer noticed her resemblance to doomed 18th century French Queen Marie Antoinette. Joely has recently joined the cast of TV series Titanic - Blood and Steel in which Joely Richardson will play the role of Countess Markievicz. Early life
Richardson was born in London to a theatrical family the daughter of actress Vanessa Redgrave and director Tony Richardson and the granddaughter of Sir Michael Redgrave and Rachel Kempson Lady Redgrave.

She also appeared in films such as 101 Dalmatians (1996) Event Horizon (1997) The Patriot (2000) Anonymous (2011) and the Hollywood film adaptation The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo (2011).