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All About Joely, Carlo and Natasha
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Vanessa Redgrave is part of a British acting dynasty that spans more than five generations — and includes her three children, Joely Richardson, Carlo Gabriel Nero and the late Natasha Richardson.
The daughter of British actors Sir Michael Redgrave and Rachel Kempson, Redgrave’s acting roots can be traced back to the 1800s, when her grandparents performed in silent films and in the theater.
The next generation of family talent arrived when Redgrave had three children of her own. The award-winning actress had two daughters with her first husband, the late British filmmaker Tony Richardson: Natasha Richardson, born in 1963, and Joely Richardson, born in 1965.
Following her split with Richardson, Redgrave welcomed a son, named Carlo Gabriel Nero, in 1969 with Italian actor Franco Nero. All three of Redgrave’s children continued the family’s legacy in the entertainment world, with Natasha and Joely pursuing acting and Carlo working as a writer, producer and director.
And while Redgrave has experienced years of success onstage and on-screen, her most treasured role is that of being a mom.
“Even if you’ve got a job you love and a husband you adore, once you have children that’s what you live for,” she told The Standard in 2015.
Here is everything to know about Vanessa Redgrave’s three children, Joely Richardson, Carlo Gabriel Nero and the late Natasha Richardson.
Natasha Jane Richardson
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Redgrave and Richardson welcomed their first child, Natasha, on May 11, 1963, in London.
The daughter of an actress and a director, Natasha began performing from a young age: She made her first movie appearance as an extra at the age of 4 in a film directed by her father and starring her mother, 1968’s The Charge of the Light Brigade, according to The New York Times.
It would not be the last time Natasha worked with her parents. At 22 years old, she appeared alongside her mother in the 1985 London production of The Seagull. Natasha revealed that working with her mother was “a dream come true,” but also intimidated her.
“She rehearsed like a tornado,” Natasha told The New York Times Magazine in 1993. “I was terrified of being on stage with her.”
In the early 1990s, Natasha moved to New York to continue her acting career and build a reputation of her own, outside of her family’s acting history. Over the next 15 years, her success spanned from the stage to the small and big screen. Some of her most famous roles came on Broadway — where she won a Tony Award for her 1998 performance in Cabaret — and on the silver screen, including her fan-favorite performance in the 1998 Disney remake of The Parent Trap, opposite Dennis Quaid and Lindsay Lohan.
“It just didn’t matter how much work I did in England, I continued to be seen simply as a Redgrave,” she told The Guardian in 2003. “I did feel I could be who I am in New York and we all like to feel appreciated.”
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In her personal life, Natasha was married twice: First, to British producer Robert Fox from 1990 to 1992, and then to actor Liam Neeson, whom she met in 1992 while they performed together in the Broadway revival of Anna Christie. The couple married in 1994 and had two sons together, Michéal Richardson and Daniel Neeson.
However, their love story was tragically cut short when Natasha died on March 18, 2009, following a ski accident on Quebec’s Mont Tremblant. She was 45 years old.
Natasha’s untimely death devastated her family, including Neeson, her children and her mother, who opened up to PEOPLE in 2019 about the heartbreaking loss.
“Time does not heal; that would seem to me to say that suddenly it’s okay, and it’s not,” Redgrave told PEOPLE a decade after her daughter’s passing. “It never becomes OK.”
Joely Kim Richardson, 60
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Redgrave and Richardson welcomed a second daughter, Joely Kim, on Jan. 9, 1965. As a teen, she had ambitions to become a professional tennis player — even moving from London to Tampa, Fla., to train — but eventually gave up the sport to pursue acting.
As an actress, Joely’s early successes came primarily on-screen: She nabbed her first major film role in 1988’s Drowning by Numbers and earned critical praise for her starring role in the 1993 television adaptation of Lady Chatterley. But Joely is best known for her roles on the FX hit television show Nip/Tuck, where she starred as Julia MacNamara from 2003 to 2010 (and Redgrave made guest appearances as her mother), and the Showtime period drama The Tudors.
Redgrave and Joely appeared in four films together, as well: In 1968, Joely appeared as an extra alongside her mother and sister in The Charge of the Light Brigade; Joely then played the younger versions of her mother’s characters in 1985’s Wetherby and 2011’s Anonymous. The two reunited on-screen once again in 2018’s The Aspern Papers.
Given her family’s legendary history with theater, Joely also embraced stage roles later in her career, performing in London and off-Broadway in New York.
“People would say, ‘Oh, you’re from this big theatrical dynasty,’ and I’d think, ‘Well, I’m doing an American TV show.’ I felt like a phoney,” she told The Telegraph in 2015. “I thought, I have to earn my stripes and I’ll do it slowly, and that’s sort of what I’ve done.”
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Joely married film producer Tim Bevan in 1992; the couple had one daughter, Daisy, the same year. Bevan and Joely split in 1997 and divorced in 2001, which Joely described as “a pretty low time” to The Guardian. However, it was the death of her older sister, Natasha, that left her forever changed, as she revealed to Tatler in 2009.
“The shock shatters you on a cellular level, and it takes time for the pieces to come back together, albeit in a different formation,” she said about Natasha’s tragic death. “I cannot imagine that there will ever be a day when I don’t think of Tasha.”
The loss of her sister gave Joely a new appreciation for life and for family, including her mother, who suffered a near-fatal heart attack in 2015.
“Try to find the joy in life because we are so lucky to be here,” Joely told PEOPLE in 2019. “Every day, every birthday that goes by, I’m just so grateful.”
Carlo Gabriel Nero, 55
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Redgrave and director Nero welcomed a son named Carlo Gabriel on Sept. 16, 1969. The former couple reunited more than three decades later, rekindling their romance and marrying on Dec. 31, 2006.
During his childhood, though, Carlo split his time between his mother in London and his father in Italy.
“Seeing us unhappy made Carlo unhappy,” Redgrave told The Times in 2016. “I hated that. I didn’t want us to fight over his future, so we did our best to share the time with him. He had his life with his father and his life with me.”
Despite their best efforts, Carlo found some elements of his childhood “difficult” — particularly shuffling between two homes in two different countries.
“That left me with a bit of a dual personality, constantly adapting to whichever country I was in,” Carlo told The Times. “I’m sure it affected my sense of security. I never grasped that idea of ‘home.’ ”
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While his mother and sisters preferred acting, Carlo has made his career behind the camera. After attending film school in Italy and at NYU, Carlo has worked as a writer, producer and director — even directing his mother and sister Joely in the 2004 psychological drama The Fever.
Carlo and his mother teamed up once again to form a small film company together, Dissent Projects, that produces documentaries, including 2017’s Sea Sorrow.
“It’s no surprise that Carlo has ended up in the film business; he just happens to prefer being on the other side of the camera,” Redgrave told The Times about her only son. “I’m not sure if he’s learnt anything from me, but I’ve certainly learnt things from him. Yes, he’s my son, but he’s also a great director who’s earned respect through hard graft.”
Outside of his filmmaking career, Carlo is married to actress Jennifer Wiltsie. They share three children together.
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Vanilla Ice defends Freedom 250 concert amid performer exodus

Vanilla Ice is standing by the Freedom 250 concert celebrating America’s milestone birthday after several performers pulled out this week, saying “music is not political.”
The rapper confirmed Friday that he’ll still perform at the President Trump-affiliated Freedom 250 Presents: The Great American State Fair in Washington, D.C., as Martina McBride, Bret Michaels and other artists abruptly dropped out of the lineup.
“I’m here to party with America, man. Music is made to bring people together and that’s what we are here to do. And we’re just gonna represent the ’90s,” the “Ice Ice Baby” hitmaker told TMZ.
The 58-year-old, whose real name is Robert Van Winkle, argued that the event is about celebrating the country’s 250th anniversary rather than politics.
“I don’t even vote, so I don’t even care. If Biden called up and said, ‘My daughter is getting married, we need Vanilla Ice,’ I’d go play. It’s not a big thing,” he said.
“You play for your fans. We don’t get a chance to pick our fans, they pick us. And I’ll go play for Putin and I’ll play in Iran if you want, it don’t matter. There’s fans everywhere.”
“Music is not political, it’s universal,” he added.
Vanilla Ice also brushed off criticism surrounding the event and the artists who have decided not to participate.
“Come on, enjoy the dancing. Don’t take it so serious. We’re just entertainers, man,” he said. “I don’t think anybody should take this serious, including them.
“I think everybody should just go dance. It’s just music, what’s the big deal, man? We’re just entertainers.”
The rapper has previously performed at Trump’s Mar-a-Lago resort, taking the stage at the Palm Beach, Fla., club during a New Year’s Eve bash at the end of last year.
Vanilla Ice echoed the sentiments in an Instagram video Thursday, saying he was “honored” to be part of the celebration.
“America is turning 250. Come on, man. Let’s go,” he said. “We’re gonna bring back the ’90s. Put your dancing shoes on.
“It’s all about enjoying the great times of 250 years, man. George Washington until now, all the presidents and everybody in between.”
He captioned the post: “Happy birthday America 250 years. It’s gonna be an epic party. This is to bring us all together.
“This is not a political platform. This is celebrating America’s birthday. Nothing too serious just enjoying some fun, dancing and great memories.”
His comments come after several acts announced they were withdrawing from the Freedom 250 concert following this week’s lineup reveal.
Country singer Martina McBride exited the event one day after being announced, calling the promotion surrounding the concert “misleading.” Bret Michaels, Young MC, Morris Day & The Time and The Commodores have also backed out.
Still on the bill are Vanilla Ice, Flo Rida, C+C Music Factory and Milli Vanilli’s Fab Morvan.
Freedom 250 was launched by Trump last year and describes itself as a “national, non-partisan organization leading the celebration of our Nation’s 250th birthday.”
The Freedom 250 concert is part of the Great American State Fair, a free festival that will take over the National Mall in Washington, D.C., from June 25 through July 10.
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Pete Davidson praises Kim Kardashian in rare comments about his ex

The king of Staten Island has nothing but good things to say about the queen of the Kardashians.
“Isn’t it crazy Kim’s good at acting?” Pete Davidson, 32, asked Nikki Glaser about his ex-girlfriend, Kim Kardashian, on Friday’s episode of his “The Pete Davidson Show.”
“I remember when we were dating, one day she was just like, ‘I think I’m gonna be an actress.’ And I was just like, ‘F–k yeah!’ And then [she’s] just good at it and I’m like, ‘Get the f–k out of here.’ She’s so good at acting.”
Kardashian made her acting debut on Season 12 of “American Horror Story: Delicate” in 2023.
Then, in 2025, the Skims mogul landed a starring role on Hulu’s “All’s Fair.”
Kardashian is now starring in and producing the upcoming Netflix comedy “The Fifth Wheel,” which also features Glaser.
The comic went on to sing the mom of four’s praises while on Davidson’s show, calling her co-star “so smart.”
“Anything she wants to do, she will do it,” Glaser gushed, “especially if people are like, ‘You can’t do this.’ And for her to go into acting with all the public perception of her anyway, she knew … everyone’s gonna look for her to fail.”
From the Golden Globes host’s point of view, it’s impressive to take on a project where “you know people are gonna try to find your weakness.”
Davidson called the business woman “superhuman.”
The “Bodies Bodies Bodies” actor also confessed that he “learned from” Kardashian that she can do anything she puts her mind to, despite public opinion.
“Like, she don’t [sic] give a f–k. It’s unbelievable,” Davidson mused.
The exes dated for nine months from October 2021 to August 2022 after Kardashian divorced her ex-husband Kanye West.
At the time, the disgraced rapper allegedly spread unfounded rumors that Davidson was gay and had AIDS.
A source close to West, however, denied the claims, calling them “nonsense.”
An insider in Davidson’s camp told Page Six in the moment that the “King of Staten Island” star was “ignoring all of the Kanye hate out of respect for Kim.”
Despite the public drama, a source claimed that there was no bad blood when Davidson and Kardashian split.
“Kim and Pete have decided to just be friends,” a source close to Kardashian told Page Six at the time.
“They have a lot of love and respect for each other, but found that the long distance and their demanding schedules made it really difficult to maintain a relationship.”
Kardashian was then briefly linked to NFL star Odell Beckham Jr. before they split in April 2024.
In February, Kardashian’s secret romance with Formula One driver Lewis Hamilton was revealed.
The pair has been inseparable ever since.
For his part, Davidson dated Elsie Hewitt for a little over a year from March 2025 until earlier this month.
The two welcomed daughter Scottie in December before going their separate ways.
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Martina McBride quits Freedom 250 festival meant to celebrate America’s birthday

Country star Martina McBride has dropped out of the Freedom 250 concert series one day after it was announced, claiming the event celebrating America’s 250th birthday was “misleading.”
The singer revealed Thursday that she would no longer appear at the President Trump-affiliated Freedom 250 Presents: The Great American State Fair, the free 16-day festival set to take over the National Mall in Washington, D.C., with concerts, military tributes and patriotic bashes for America’s 250th anniversary.
“I was presented with the opportunity to perform at a nonpartisan event, but that turned out to be misleading,” McBride wrote on Instagram.
“I asked lots of questions and was assured this was a nonpartisan event that was meant to celebrate ALL 50 states. In my mind I thought this was a great way to celebrate the states and also bring people together in the way that only music can.”
“Yesterday things started changing and what we were told is, in fact, not what is happening,” she continued.
“I’ve spent my entire career singing about real people with real issues. I’ve been blessed with the opportunity to be a voice for those who have felt like they didn’t have one.”
“It greatly upsets me that any fan who has been moved by my music may now feel like I’m abandoning the meaning behind those songs. I assure you, that is not the case,” she added.
McBride had been scheduled to perform on June 25, the opening night of the festival, which is designed to celebrate America’s history, culture and music.
Her exit aligned with a handful of other cancellations after the lineup was unveiled this week, with Bret Michaels, Young MC, Morris Day & The Time and The Commodores also backing out.
Michaels echoed McBride’s comments in an Instagram post Thursday night.
“When this opportunity was originally presented to my team, it was described as a celebration of our country through music and a chance to honor our veterans, active military, first responders, teachers and hardworking Americans from all walks of life,” he said.
“Unfortunately, what was presented to us as a celebration of our country has evolved into something much more divisive than what I agreed to be a part of.”
But several acts are still enthusiastically on board — including Vanilla Ice, Flo Rida and C+C Music Factory.
There was some confusion after Milli Vanilli was announced to perform at the festival. However, singer Jodie Rocco — one of the original studio vocalists behind the group — told the Associated Press that neither she nor any other member had been asked to appear.
But surviving Milli Vanilli frontman Fab Morvan confirmed he plans to perform and embraced the event’s patriotic message.
“I am here to entertain and unite people, not divide them,” Morvan said in a statement. “Let’s celebrate life & music and take a trip down memory lane.”
Vanilla Ice is also standing by the event. A rep for the rapper told the Associated Press he is “proud to help celebrate America’s 250th Anniversary!”
“Everyone is welcome to attend and celebrate USA’s Birthday and our Freedom!” the rep added.
Freedom 250 was launched by Trump last year and describes itself as a “national, non-partisan organization leading the celebration of our Nation’s 250th birthday.” Former State Department official Keith Krach was appointed CEO.
The Great American State Fair runs June 25 through July 10 and will include concerts, state showcases and special programming including Military & Veterans Appreciation Day, Faith Values and Inspiration Day and MAHA Monday, focused on Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s Make America Healthy Again initiative.
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