Joely Kim Richardson was born on January 9, 1965 in London, UK. She is an English actress.

After an early leading role in Peter Greenaway's cult success Drowning by Numbers. She later appeared as a fictional Finnish princess, Anna, in the 1991 comedy King Ralph. A year later, she appeared in Shining Through alongside her future brother-in-law Liam Neeson, where both played Nazis. In 1993, she appeared as Lady Chatterley in a television drama of the same title, opposite Sean Bean.

In 1996, Richardson played the fashion designer Anita in the popular Disney film 101 Dalmatians. In 1999 she starred opposite Mel Gibson in the successful film The Patriot.

In 2003, Richardson took on the major role of playing Julia McNamara in the controversial television drama Nip/Tuck. In 2005, Richardson starred in Lies My Mother Told Me, based on a true story about a murderous con artist. In 2007 she played the mother in The Last Mimzy.

Filmography

• "Nip/Tuck" (61 episodes, 2003-2007)
• The Christmas Miracle of Jonathan Toomey (2007)
• Freezing (2007)
• The Last Mimzy (2007)
• Fatal Contact: Bird Flu in America (2006)
• Wallis & Edward (2005)
• Lies My Mother Told Me (2005)
• The Fever (2004)
• Fallen Angel (2003)
• Shoreditch (2003)
• The Affair of the Necklace (2001)
• The Patriot (2000)
• Maybe Baby (2000)
• Return to Me (2000)
• Toy Boys (1999)
• The Echo (1998)
• The Tribe (1998)
• Under Heaven (1998)
• Wrestling with Alligators (1998)
• Event Horizon (1997)
• 101 Dalmatians (1996)
• Hollow Reed (1996)
• Loch Ness (1996)
• Sister My Sister (1994)
• I'll Do Anything (1994)
• Lady Chatterley (1993)
• Rebecca's Daughters (1992)
• Shining Through (1992)
• King Ralph (1991)
• Heading Home (1991)
• A proposito di quella strana ragazza (1989)
• "Poirot" (1 episode, 1989)
• "Behaving Badly" (1989)
• Drowning by Numbers (1988)
• "The Storyteller" (1 episode, 1988)
• Kin of the Castle (1987)
• Body Contact (1987)
• Wetherby (1985)
• The Hotel New Hampshire (1984)

Awards

• Theatre World Award "Madame Melville" 2001