Joely Richardson interview: ‘My mother gave away everything she owned’
Vanessa Redgrave and the director Tony Richardson, who died in 1991, as well as her beloved late sister, the actress Natasha, who died following a skiing accident in 2009. “When I first started out, I didn’t like people talking about my family, partly because people always assumed what my life was like, yet they had no idea,” she tells me. “Everyone thinks we had this lavish lifestyle [Joely and Natasha spent their teenage years in Florida] but actually my mother gave away everything she had when we were growing up, so that wasn’t true at all.