Heartbreak and tragedy have plagued the legendary Doctor Who actress's private life

Doctor Who star and fourth-generation actress Jemma Redgrave is notoriously private when it comes to her personal life.

As she reprises her role as Kate Lethbridge-Stewart in Doctor Who spin-off The War Between the Land and the Sea, we take a look at her life away from the cameras.

Famous parents

Jemma was born to actor Corin Redgrave and fashion model Deirdre Hamilton-Hill on 14 January 1965.

“There was so much freedom,” she recalled of her childhood to the Telegraph, with kids games in their spacious garden and music always playing. It had been a very bohemian upbringing.

But at age seven her parents divorced and she believes politics had been behind the split: her father was an outspoken leftist

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