Joely Richardson
Joely Richardson
Joely Kim Richardsonis an English actress, known for her role as Julia McNamara in the FX drama series Nip/Tuck, and Queen Catherine Parr in the Showtime series The Tudors. She has also appeared in films such as 101 Dalmatians, Event Horizon, The Patriot, Anonymous, and the Hollywood film adaptation The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo...
NationalityBritish
ProfessionActress
Date of Birth9 January 1965
years two numbers
Everyone knows in the industry that when these great roles come up, every two years, there's a huge number of people up for them. I'm not one of those top five females that can personally finance any film.
mother years rights
My mother, for the last 20 years anyway, would not call herself a Marxist but a human rights activist.
successful years careers
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.
thinking careers debt
The early part of my career I really struggled, getting turned down again and again. I was in debt, and it was horrible. And then my family hit such highs in their careers, I asked myself what I was thinking going into the same profession.
mother daughter children
I'd love to adopt, but having a daughter, Daisy, who's in the middle of her teens, I'm now thinking: Is this a time to start all over again or is this a time to realise those child-rearing years are over?
cousin pride thinking
So finally, I can feel a sort of pride in all my family - Mum, Lynn, Corin, Tasha, my cousin Gemma - because, I think how wonderful that this troop of gypsies can carry on telling stories.
I live quite an unsettled life.
weight skinny
And whatever my weight, I've always been skinny from the waist up.
mother school nurse
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.
people heard realising
So often people say something and you realise you haven't really heard it.
seize-the-day wells aspire
Seize the day. Well, I aspire to that anyway.
taken red difficult
It's very difficult when there are pictures taken on the red carpet. I find those things so terrifying that another persona just kicks in. I don't recognise myself.
ladders care would-be
I care so much less, now, about going up the ladder; if I cared about the ladder I would be doing it all very wrong.
arrogance-of-youth arrogance firsts
When I very first started out, I had that arrogance of youth.