In a 1989 episode of Jim Henson's The Storyteller, she was cast as a princess. After a leading role in Peter Greenaway's cult success Drowning by Numbers (1988), her first major role in front of a mass audience was as Joanna Farley in a 1989 television episode of Poirot, based on Agatha Christie's detective series. In 1985, she portrayed, by flashbacks, the younger version of the leading character played by her mother in the film Wetherby. Possessing an early ambition to become a professional tennis player, she spent two years at a tennis academy in Florida. In 1983, she graduated from the Thacher School in Ojai, California, then returned to London to study at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art and graduated in 1985. At age 14 Richardson moved to boarding school at the independent Harry Hopman Tennis School in Tampa, Florida. Richardson and her sister Natasha's early education began at the independent St Paul's Girls' School in Hammersmith. Joely appeared as an extra at the age of three in the 1968 version of The Charge of the Light Brigade, directed by her father. She is the aunt of Micheál and Daniel Neeson and the niece of actors Lynn Redgrave (1943-2010) and Corin Redgrave (1939–2010) and cousin of actress Jemma Redgrave, who is five days younger than Richardson.
Actress Natasha Richardson (1963–2009) was her sister and actor Liam Neeson is her brother-in-law. Joely Kim Richardson was born in Marylebone, London, to the theatrical Redgrave family, the daughter of actress Vanessa Redgrave and director Tony Richardson (1928–1991), and the granddaughter of actors Sir Michael Redgrave (1908–1985) and Rachel Kempson (1910–2003), Lady Redgrave. She has also appeared in films such as 101 Dalmatians (1996), Event Horizon (1997), The Patriot (2000), Return to Me (2000), Anonymous (2011), the Hollywood film adaptation of The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo (2011), the remake of Endless Love (2014), the thriller Red Sparrow (2018), and The Turning (2020). She is known for her roles as Julia McNamara in the FX drama series Nip/Tuck (2003–10) and Katherine Parr in the Showtime series The Tudors (2010). Joely Kim Richardson (born 9 January 1965) is an English actress. Recorded 2012, as part of an audio description of the Albert Memorial for VocalEyes
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