A member of one of the world’s most acclaimed acting dynasties, Joely Richardson was a late bloomer in her family’s chosen profession, but by the early 1990s and into the next century she established herself as a skilled performer, capable of tackling both period roles and modern day characters in features and television. Her first major role was as a murderess in the arthouse favorite “Drowning By Numbers” (1988), and despite Hollywood’s tendency to cast her in lighthearted roles like “101 Dalmatians” (1996), she did her best work in darker, more nuanced material like “Sister My Sister”
