Joely Kim Richardson born 9 January [ 1 ] is a British actress. Joely appeared as an extra at the age of three in the version of The Charge of the Light Brigade , directed by her father.
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 , she portrayed, by 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 , her first major role in front of a mass audience was as Joanna Farley in a television episode of Poirot , based on Agatha Christie 's detective series. In a episode of Jim Henson's The Storyteller , she was cast as a princess. She portrayed a teacher on the verge of a nervous breakdown in the Channel 4 serial Behaving Badly and fictional Finnish Princess Anna with "a voice like a tuba " in the screen comedy King Ralph.
A year later she appeared in Shining Through alongside her future brother-in-law, Liam Neeson, with both actors playing Nazis. In , in the television drama The Echo , she played Amanda Powell. The next year, she played in the science fiction horror film Event Horizon as Lieutenant Starck, executive officer of the research and rescue ship Lewis and Clark , sent to rescue crew of the long-lost experimental ship Event Horizon.
Her mother, Vanessa Redgrave, appeared in several episodes, playing her character's mother. The role reunited her with her former husband Tim Bevan , who was part of the show's production team. Richardson married film producer Tim Bevan in ; they divorced in The couple had a daughter, actress Daisy Bevan , born in Richardson is an ambassador for The Children's Trust , the UK's leading charity for children with brain injury and neurodisability, as well as Save the Children.
