By Laura Roberts Published: 8:00AM GMT twenty-two February 2010
Link to this videoRedgrave, 73, who appeared close to tears, told the assembly at the Royal Opera House in Covent Garden: "Oh dear, I"m fearful you"ve finished me in."
Turning to Prince William, she said: "I would similar to to say, your Royal Highness, how most I admire your father for his intelligence, piety and kindness."
Prince William arrives at the Bafta Awards Prince William"s Bafta entrance Bafta endowment winners Colin Firth scarcely incited down the piece that won him a most appropriate singer Bafta Baftas: Carey Mulligan and Colin Firth between winners Bafta winners 2010: the big winnersShe perceived a station commend as she picked up the endowment from Prince William and Uma Thurman.
She additionally told the assembly how she had once schooled "a good lesson" from thespian Maria Callas - "to put the law of your feelings and your thoughts first" and the receptive to advice of your voice would follow.
She pronounced her father, Sir Michael Redgrave, had suggested her to "put yourself in to the boots of someone who is utterly opposite from you".
Previous Academy fellows embody Charlie Chaplin, Alfred Hitchcock, Steven Spielberg and last year"s recipient, Terry Gilliam.
Redgrave, 73, whose daughter Natasha Richardson died following a skiing collision last year, has had a prolonged and successful movie career travelling 6 decades.
She complicated at the Central School of Speech and Drama and had her initial ambience of big vicious commend in 1967 with Morgan: A Suitable Case for Treatment, that warranted her initial Bafta assignment along with the initial of 6 Oscar and eleven Golden Globe nominations.
She garnered some-more awards commend for her performances as the pretension purposes in Isadora and Mary, Queen of Scots.
Having perceived the singer endowment from Bafta in 1966, 10 years later, Redgrave scooped the most appropriate ancillary singer Oscar for her purpose in Julia, in that she portrayed a Jewish lady murdered by Nazis.
Her new work includes the 2002 mini-series The Gathering Storm, Joe Wright"s Atonement and Venus, to one side Peter O"Toole and Leslie Phillips.
Her new theatre purpose in Joan Didion"s one lady fool around The Year of Magical Thinking brought good commend in London and New York.
Redgrave"s opening captivated a Tony assignment in 2007, an endowment she had won 3 years progressing for her purpose in Eugene O"Neill"s Long Day"s Journey Into Night.
