Rachel Kempson was natural within Dartmouth, England, and trained at RADA before joining the Royal Shakespeare Company. She married Michael Redgrave within 1935, and appeared by using him numbers of days in stage. Although overshadowed per rest of the personal, she appeared numbers of days in film & television, notably in The Captive Heart (1946), Tom Jones (1963), Out of Africa (1985), and a television series, The Jewel in the Crown (1984).

She died of the stroke in 2003, at the personal of her granddaughter, Natasha Richardson, in Millbrook, New York, four days prior to what would stand been her 93rd birthday.