Background
Redman was born in Brighton. Her father, Ronald, was from Yorkshire and her mother, Joan, was born in India.
Redman was born in Brighton. Her father, Ronald, was from Yorkshire and her mother, Joan, was born in India.
Bristol Old Vic Theatre School.
Her film roles include Foreign Queen and Country (1988), Sexy Beast (2000) and Mike Bassett: England Manager (2005). Redman"s father died in 1980, when she was in her early twenties. Redman is badly scarred on her upper left arm as a result of an accident when she was 15 months old.
She was scalded with a pan of boiling turkey-and-vegetable soup and suffered burns to 75 per cent of her body.
Her arm was the only part of her body permanently affected, but the trauma was so severe that she was pronounced clinically dead at the Queen Victoria Hospital in East Grinstead, Sussex. Redman trained at the Bristol Old Vic Theatre School.
In 1984 she appeared as Marina in the British Broadcasting Corporation Shakespeare production of Pericles, Prince of Tyre opposite Mike Gwilym. She also played Maxine in Oxbridge Blues, a British television mini-series, produced by the British Broadcasting Corporation and first shown in 1984 written by Frederick Raphael.
In 1985 she played Janet in the touring version of The Rocky Horror Show.
In 1986 she played Mission Fairfax (Gwendolen) in the British Broadcasting Corporation Drama production of The Importance Of Being Earnest by Oscar Wilde. She played opposite Liv Ullmann in Richard"s Things (1981), took over from Alfred Molina in the 1990s comedy drama El Criminal Investigation Department, playing a new female lead in the series, and played Diana Dors in the television film The Blonde Bombshell (1999). She presented an Music Television show on satellite television in the 1990s.
She co-starred in the first two series of Dangerfield in 1995, playing Doctor Joanna Stevens, and played a role in Taggart the same year.
In 2000 she played Deedee Dove in the feature film Sexy Beast. From 2000 until 2003 she played Alison Braithwaite, a woman whose life is turned upside down after she wins the lottery, in Independent Television"s At Home with the Braithwaites.
Beginning in 2003, Redman took the role of Decision Sciences Institute Sandra Pullman in the British Broadcasting Corporation"s New Tricks. In June 2006 Redman performed in Children"s Party at the Palace as Cruella DeVil for the Queen"s 80th birthday, and was the subject of an episode of the British Broadcasting Corporation documentary series Who Do You Think You Are?, a programme that explored her family history.
In July 2013, she announced that she would be leaving New Tricks, Tamzin Outhwaite replaced her.
In 2015, she played the role of Jackie Rose in the 3-part Independent Television drama The Trials of Jimmy Rose, starring alongside Ray Winstone. 2001 - Nominated - British Academy of Film and Television Arts television Award – Best Actress for At Home with the Braithwaites.