Everyone knows in the industry that when these great roles come up, every two years, there's a huge number of people up for them. I'm not one of those top five females that can personally finance any film.

Later that year Joely Richardson was modelling a necklace when director Charles Shyer noticed her resemblance to doomed 18th century French Queen Marie Antoinette. Joely has recently joined the cast of TV series Titanic - Blood and Steel in which Joely Richardson will play the role of Countess Markievicz. Early life
Richardson was born in London to a theatrical family the daughter of actress Vanessa Redgrave and director Tony Richardson and the granddaughter of Sir Michael Redgrave and Rachel Kempson Lady Redgrave.

She also appeared in films such as 101 Dalmatians (1996) Event Horizon (1997) The Patriot (2000) Anonymous (2011) and the Hollywood film adaptation The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo (2011).