Jemma Redgrave

Template:Short description Template:EngvarB Template:Use dmy dates Template:Infobox person Jemima Rebecca "Jemma" Redgrave<ref>Template:Cite news</ref> (born 14 January 1965) is an English actress, and a member of the Redgrave family. She is known for her roles as the title character in Bramwell (1995–1998) and as Kate Lethbridge-Stewart in Doctor Who (2012–present) and its upcoming spin-off, The War Between the Land and the Sea. As well as a career in television, she has appeared in many stage productions and on film, including her portrayal of Evie Wilcox in the Merchant Ivory film Howards End.

Early life

Redgrave was born in London on 14 January 1965,<ref>Template:Cite book</ref> she is the daughter of actor Corin Redgrave and his first wife, Deirdre Hamilton-Hill, a former fashion model. They divorced when Jemma was nine. As a child, she attended the Godolphin and Latymer school in Hammersmith.<ref>Template:Cite web</ref> She then enrolled at the London Academy of Music and Dramatic Art<ref>Template:Cite web</ref> at the age of 18.

Career

Stage

After graduation, Redgrave landed a succession of high-profile stage acting roles: in the 1988 stage production of Strindberg's Easter; in Lady Windermere's Fan in Belfast, Northern Ireland; as Emily in Thornton Wilder's Our Town; as Irina in a 1990 revival of Anton Chekhov's The Three Sisters in London's West End with her aunts Vanessa Redgrave and Lynn Redgrave; in 1993 with Colin Firth in Alexander Griboyedov's Chatsky at the Almeida Theatre, London; and in A Midsummer Night's Dream in 2001 at the Albery Theatre (now the Noël Coward Theatre), London, playing Titania alongside Dawn French as Bottom.

In 2010, she appeared in New York's Public Theater in The Great Game: Afghanistan which featured seven hours of on-stage acting.<ref>Template:Cite web</ref> Redgrave appeared in four of the twelve plays.<ref>Actress Jemma Redgrave hits the New York stage</ref> In 2012, Redgrave appeared alongside Ben Chaplin in Roger Michell's production of Farewell to the Theatre at the Hampstead Theatre, followed by starring roles in Donkeys' Years (2014) and An Ideal Husband (2016).

In 2018, Redgrave appeared in another Roger Michell production, appearing again alongside Ben Chaplin, this time in Joe Penhall's Mood Music at The Old Vic.<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>

Television

She has appeared in many roles on British television, including leading actor roles as the eponymous Dr. Eleanor Bramwell in four series of ITV's Bramwell and as D.S. Eve Granger in Cold Blood, alongside John Hannah and Matthew Kelly. Redgrave also appeared as Eleanor in Roger Michell's The Buddha of Suburbia: a four-part adaptation of the ground-breaking novel of the same name by Hanif Kureishi and with a soundtrack written and performed specifically for the production by David Bowie.Template:Citation needed

Other prominent roles have included Francesca Rochester in Judge John Deed and Dee Stanton in Like Father, Like Son. In 2007, she portrayed Lady Bertram in Mansfield Park and Sophie Wall in Waking the Dead, followed by a 2009 appearance in the series, Unforgiven, written by Sally Wainwright. In 2013, she also appeared as Doctor Zoe Evans in the BBC One drama series Frankie.<ref name="Frankiepressrelease">Template:Cite web</ref>

From 2016 to 2018, Redgrave played former RAMC surgeon, Major Berenice Wolfe, in the popular BBC medical drama Holby City. In 2019, she joined the cast of ITV's Grantchester as Amelia, the mother of the show's lead character, Rev. Will Davenport.<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>

On 31 August 2021, she made a surprise return to Holby City as Bernie Wolfe.<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>

Doctor Who

In 2012, Redgrave was cast in the long-running science-fiction programme Doctor Who as Kate Lethbridge-Stewart, daughter of recurring character Brigadier Alistair Gordon Lethbridge-Stewart who featured in the series' original 1963–1989 run. First appearing in "The Power of Three" (2012) with the Eleventh Doctor (Matt Smith), Kate is the commander-in-chief of the fictional military organisation UNIT, a role previously occupied by her father before his retirement. The character returned in the fiftieth anniversary special "The Day of the Doctor" (2013), which was simulcast on television and in cinemas across the world in 94 countries, earning a Guinness World Record for the world's largest ever simulcast of a TV drama.<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>

Kate would go on to become a recurring character in Doctor Who, with Redgrave reprising the role in episodes with the Twelfth (Peter Capaldi), Thirteenth (Jodie Whittaker), Fourteenth (David Tennant) and Fifteenth (Ncuti Gatwa) Doctors.<ref>Template:Cite news</ref> She returned in the 2025 series of the programme alongside Gatwa<ref>Template:Cite web</ref> as well as headline the upcoming spin-off series The War Between the Land and the Sea.<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>

Additionally, Redgrave began headlining the Big Finish audio drama spin-off UNIT: The New Series as Kate alongside Ingrid Oliver as Osgood, whom Redgrave appeared on-screen with multiple times in Doctor Who,<ref>Template:Cite web</ref> and would go on to play Kate in other spin-off audio plays. Regrave also featured as Kate in a promo video for Doctor Who: Time Fracture, an immersive experience that began running in London in April 2021.<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>

Personal life

Jemma Redgrave, with her father Corin, and aunts, Lynn and Vanessa, at 'Poems from Guantánamo', 2007.

Redgrave married Tim Owen, a barrister at Matrix Chambers, in 1992. They had a son, Gabriel, in 1994. The couple separated from 1997 to October 1998. They reconciled, however, and had another son, Alfie, in 2000. They have since divorced. She has a brother, Luke Redgrave, who is a camera operator,<ref name="Clan Destined">Template:Cite web</ref> and two half-brothers, Arden and Harvey Redgrave. Her mother died in 1997<ref name="Clan Destined" /> and her father died in 2010.<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>

She is the granddaughter of Sir Michael Redgrave and Rachel Kempson, niece of actresses Vanessa Redgrave and Lynn Redgrave, and cousin of Joely Richardson, Carlo Nero, and Natasha Richardson. Her step-mother is the actress Kika Markham.

Filmography

Film

Year	Title	Role	Director	Notes
1988	Dream Demon	Diana	Harley Cokeliss
1992	Howards End	Evie Wilcox	James Ivory
1994	One Night Stand	Kate	Bill Britten	Short film
	Power and Lovers	Emily	Aldo Lado
1998	Template:Sortname	Jenny	Paul McGuigan
2003	I'll Be There	Rebecca Edmonds	Craig Ferguson
2005	Lassie	Daisy	Charles Sturridge
2007	Mansfield Park	Lady Bertram	Iain B. MacDonald
2016	Love & Friendship	Lady DeCourcy	Whit Stillman
2016	Chubby Funny	Bereaved Woman	Harry Michell
2021	Barnes' People	Dr. Rosa Hamilton	Peter Barnes
2023	Red, White & Royal Blue	Narration (voice)	Matthew López
2024	The Beekeeper	President Jessica Danforth	David Ayer
TBA	The Beekeeper 2		Timo Tjahjanto

Television

Year	Title	Role	Notes
1988	Tales of the Unexpected	Violette Charbonneau	Episode: "A Time to Die"
1990	Template:Sortname	Pamela Dysart	Miniseries
1991	All Good Things	Elaine Wilson	Miniseries
	Performance	Caroline Coon	Episode: "The Trials of Oz"
1993	Diana: Her True Story	Carolyn Bartholomew	TV film
	Template:Sortname	Eleanor	1 episode
1995–98	Bramwell	Dr. Eleanor Bramwell	Main role (27 episodes)
1998	Mosley	Cimmie Curzon	Recurring role (4 episodes)
2000	Blue Murder	Gale	TV film
	Cry Wolf	Dr. Jocelyn Wolf	1 episode
	Fish	Joanna Morgan	Main role (6 episodes)
	Bramwell V	Dr. Eleanor Bramwell
2001	High Stakes	Anna Foster	Episode: "The Do-Gooders"
	Judge John Deed	Francesca Rochester	2 episodes
2002			Episode: "Nobody's Fool"
	The Swap	Jen Forrester	2 episodes
	My Family	Dr. Connor	Episode: "Shrink Rap"
2004	Amnesia	Jenna Dean	2 episodes
	Template:Sortname	Grace Finnegan	Episode: "If Wishes Were Horses"
	Template:Sortname	MI6 Agent Emily Tuthill	TV miniseries
2005	Tom Brown's Schooldays	Mary Arnold	TV film
	Like Father Like Son	Dee Stanton	2 episodes
	Cold Blood	Eve Granger	TV film
2006	Lewis	Trudi Griffon	TV film
2007	Waking the Dead	Sophie Wall	2 episodes
	Cold Blood 2	Eve Granger	TV film
	Mansfield Park	Lady Bertram	TV film
	Template:Sortname	Jean McFarlane	TV film
2007–08	Cold Blood	Eve Granger	3 episodes
2008	Agatha Christie's Marple: Murder Is Easy	Jessie Humbleby	TV film
2009	Unforgiven	Rachel Belcombe	Main role
	Heston's Feasts	Herself	Heston's Victorian Feast
2010	Law & Order: UK	Helena Marsden	Episode: "Shaken"
2012–15, 2021–present	Doctor Who	Kate Lethbridge-Stewart	Recurring role (16 episodes)
2013	Frankie	Dr. Zoe Evans	Main role (6 episodes)
2014	Dracula	Minerva Westenra	2 episodes
	Inspector George Gently	Jennifer Bing	Episode: "Gently With Honour"
2015	Churchill: 100 Days That Saved Britain	Clementine Churchill
2016–18, 2021–22	Holby City	Bernie Wolfe	Main role (67 episodes)
2018	Midsomer Murders	Dr Juno Starling	Episode “Drawing Dead”
2019–20	Grantchester	Amelia Davenport	Recurring role (5 episodes)
2020, 2022–23	Silent Witness	DI Jill Raymond	5 episodes
2025	Template:Pending series	Kate Lethbridge-Stewart	Lead role; 5 episodes <ref>Template:Cite web</ref>

Theatre credits

Theatre

Year	Title	Role	Theatre	Director
1986	Lady Windermere's Fan	Lady Windermere	Lyric Theatre, Belfast	Richard Digby Day
	What the Butler Saw	Geraldine	Lyric Theatre, Belfast	Richard Digby Day
	Miss Julie	Miss Julie	UK Tour	Laurence Boswell
1988	Easter	Eleanora	Haymarket Theatre (Leicester)	David Leveaux
	Panorama	Geraldine	King's Head Theatre	Penny Churns
	School for Scandal	Lady Teazle	Bristol Old Vic	Les Waters
	An Enemy of the People	Petra	Playhouse Theatre	David Thacker
1990	Seven Years	Clarissa	Royal Court Theatre
	Three Sisters	Irina	Queen's Theatre	Robert Sturua
1991	Our Town	Emily	Shaftesbury Theatre	Robert Ackerman
	As You Like It	Rosalind	Greenwich Theatre	Robert Carson
1992	Cyrano de Bergerac	Roxanne	Greenwich Theatre	Matthew Francis
1993	Chatsky	Sophie	Almeida Theatre & UK Tour	Jonathan Kent
1998	Major Barbara	Major Barbara	Piccadilly Theatre	Peter Hall
2001	A Midsummer Night's Dream	Titania	Noël Coward Theatre	Matthew Francis
2004	Misconceptions	Linda	UK Tour	Tim Carroll
2008	The Cherry Orchard	Varya	Chichester Festival Theatre	Phillip Franks
2009–10	The Great Game: Afghanistan	Various roles	Tricycle Theatre & Washington/Broadway	Indhu Rubasingham
2012	Farewell to the Theatre	Dorothy	Hampstead Theatre	Roger Michell
2014	Donkeys' Years	Lady Driver	Rose Theatre, Kingston	Lisa Spirling
	An Ideal Husband	Mrs. Cheveley	Chichester Festival Theatre	Rachel Kavanaugh
2018	Mood Music	Vanessa	The Old Vic	Roger Michell
2019	Weimar Connections	Poesie	Cadogan Hall	with the Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra
2020	Hansard (rehearsed reading)	Diana	Stephen Joseph Theatre	Paul Robinson
2023	Octopolis	George	Hampstead Theatre	Ed Madden

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• https://www.conwayvangeldergrant.com/sites/default/files/cv/Jemma%20Redgrave%20Theatrical%20CV.pdf Template:Webarchive
• "Jemma Redgrave: 'Grief is like a tsunami'", Kate Kellaway, The Guardian, 11 July 2010
• "My Perfect Weekend: Jemma Redgrave", The Telegraph, 31 May 2008
• I Was Terrified of Being on my Own, The Telegraph, 2001