Kent (Connecticut) – Friends and family said final goodbyes to Lynn Redgrave on Saturday and laid the 67-year-old British actress to rest near her mother, amid the rolling hills of upstate New York.

The star of Georgy Girl died on May 2 at her Kent home, surrounded by her children. She had been diagnosed with breast cancer in 2002.

At the private funeral near her home, pallbearers carried a basket-weave casket adorned with flowers through a light drizzle into the First Congregational Church of Kent. Her older sister Vanessa Redgrave, niece Joely Richardson and actor Liam Neeson, widower of her niece Natasha Richardson, attended.

Actor Brendan Fraser, Lynn Redgrave’s Gods And Monsters co-star, said after the service that she helped him learn to respect his craft. “Lynn had a real quiet bliss about her, and enthusiasm. I think if I ever saw her sad, it was in a performance.”

Redgrave was buried across the state line in Lithgow, New York, in the same rural cemetery where family members said goodbye to Natasha Richardson in March last year. Redgrave was buried near her mother, actress Rachel Kempson, in a private service under brightening skies.

This article was first published in The Straits Times.