Actress Rachel Kempson—who was perhaps best known as the mother of Vanessa, Lynn, and Corin Redgrave—died Fri., May 23, in Millbrook, NY, at the home of her granddaughter, actress Natasha Richardson.

NEW YORK -- On the day his mother died, the celebrated actor Sir Michael Redgrave had a matinee and an evening performance to give as Hamlet. Backstage at the theater, he sobbed and sobbed and sobbed.

Rachel Kempson, the matriarch of the Redgrave acting clan and one of the clarion voices of British stage and screen, died May 24 at her home in Millbrook, N.Y. She was 92. Miss Kempson was perhaps the ...

Rachel Kempson, an actress who appeared with many of Britain's leading theater companies and became the matriarch of the Redgrave acting dynasty, has died at age 92. The Redgraves' three generations ...

Rachel Kempson, aka Lady Redgrave, matriarch of the Redgrave acting family and an actress of stature herself, died Saturday May 24 at in Millbrook, N.Y., after suffering a stroke. She was just a few ...

Actress-playwright Lynn Redgrave has written herself a big flashy role in her new play, "The Mandrake Root." She's dotty Lady Rose Randall, a very British former actress who both is and isn't the ...