Nun Horror Story" or Vanessa Redgrave in "The Devils". Nun A nun is a member of a religious community of women, typically living under vows of poverty, chastity, and obedience in the enclosure of a monastery. Communities of nuns exist in numerous religious traditions, including Buddhism, Christianity, Hinduism, Jainism, and Taoism. In the Buddhist tradition, female monastics are known as Bhikkhuni, and take several additional vows compared to male monastics (bhikkhus). Nuns are most common in Mahayana Buddhism, but have more recently become more prevalent in other traditions. Within Christianity, women religious, known as nuns or religious sisters, are found in
Jemma Redgrave the London Academy of Music and Dramatic Art at the age of 18. After graduation, Redgrave landed acting roles in the 1988 stage production of Strindberg's "Easter", in "Lady Windermere's Fan" in Belfast, Northern Ireland, as Emily in Thornton Wilder's "Our Town", Irina in a 1990 revival of Anton Chekhov's "The Three Sisters" in London's West End with her aunts Vanessa Redgrave and Lynn Redgrave, in 1993 with Colin Firth in Alexander Griboyedov's Chatsky at the Almeida Theatre, London and in "A Midsummer Night's Dream" in 2001 at the Albery Theatre, London. In 2010, she appeared in New York's Public