Hollywood royalty

THEY DON’T come much more royal than the acting dynasty that is the Redgrave/Richardson’s, the family which has dominated the English stage and the Hollywood screen for nearly six decades and counting.

Now, Joely Richardson (47) and her mother Vanessa Redgrave (74) have teamed up again in the new Roland Emmerich movie Anonymous, each playing Queen Elizabeth I at different stages of the monarch’s life. The two women have been seen together on television regularly over the past five years in the hit show Nip/Tuck.

It is almost redundant to describe their regal bearing when the mother and daughter walk into the Ritz Carlton in Cancun to talk to The Irish Examiner. There on a brief holiday together, the two women tease and contradict each other in one breath, while finishing each other’s sentences in the next, clearly at ease together, the best of friends.