Irish Affairs

http://www.tcm.com/mediaroom/video/244924/Tom-Jones-Movie-Clip-Heroes.html

Little did I know the lady was brought up in County Mayo! She had a long career on the stage, but film buffs will remember her particularly for the suggestive way she and Albert Finney set upon a meal in Tom Jones (See TCM link above).

IMDB credits:

http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0715010/

Obits from The Washington Post and the Guardian:

http://www.washingtonpost.com/entertainment/joyce-redman-oscar-nominated-actress-for-tom-jones-dies-at-96/2012/05/10/gIQAsrOfGU_story.html

http://www.guardian.co.uk/film/2012/may/11/joyce-redman?newsfeed=true

She starred as Anne Boleyn opposite Rex Harrison in New York in Anne of the Thousand Days (1948) and was twice nominated for an Oscar as best supporting actress: first in Tom Jones, then as Emilia in the 1965 film of Olivier's Othello.

Redman was born and bred in Newcastle, County Mayo, one of four sisters in an Anglo-Irish family. She was educated privately by a governess and trained for the stage at Rada in London, making her debut in 1935 as First Tiger Lily in Alice Through the Looking Glass at the Playhouse. She was established as a regular on the West End stage, and in the club theatres, by wartime. She was George Bernard Shaw's Essie, "a wild, timid-looking creature with black hair and tanned skin", in The Devil's Disciple, at the Piccadilly in 1940, followed in 1942 with Maria in Twelfth Night at the Arts theatre and Wendy in Peter Pan at the Winter Garden.

Those Old Vic and New theatre seasons were the defining period: an acclaimed Solveig in the Ralph Richardson production of Ibsen's Peer Gynt; Louka in Shaw's Arms and the Man; Lady Anne in the legendary Richard III of Olivier; Cordelia to the same actor's King Lear; Sonya in Uncle Vanya; and Doll Tearsheet in Henry IV Part 2 (though James Agate, for some reason, thought her too small to play rampageous bawds).