The highest pay cheque my mother ever received funded the building of a nursery school in Shepherd's Bush - the school cost well over three times the money she donated to the making of the film 'The Palestinian.' Unsurprisingly this always goes unmentioned in the press.

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).