Vanessa Redgrave

Biography

Vanessa Redgrave CBE (born 30 January 1937) is an English actress and political activist. Redgrave rose to prominence in 1961 playing Rosalind in the Shakespeare comedy As You Like It with the Royal Shakespeare Company and has since starred in more than 35 productions in London's West End and on Broadway, winning the 1984 Olivier Award for Best Actress in a Revival for The Aspern Papers, and the 2003 Tony Award for Best Actress in a Play for the revival of Long Day's Journey into Night. She also received Tony nominations for The Year of Magical Thinking and Driving Miss Daisy. On screen she has starred in scores of films and is a six-time Oscar nominee, winning the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress for the title role in the film Julia (1977). Her other nominations were for Morgan: A Suitable Case for Treatment (1966), Isadora (1968), Mary, Queen of Scots (1971), The Bostonians (1984), and Howards End (1992). Among her other films are A Man for All Seasons (1966), Blowup (1966), Camelot (1967), The Devils (1971), Murder on the Orient Express (1974), Prick Up Your Ears (1987), Mission: Impossible (1996), Atonement (2007), Coriolanus (2011), and The Butler (2013). Redgrave was proclaimed by Arthur Miller and Tennessee Williams as "the greatest living actress of our times", and has won the Oscar, Emmy, Tony, BAFTA, Olivier, Cannes, Golden Globe, and the Screen Actors Guild awards.

Known For

Anne Boleyn

A Man for All Seasons

Max

Mission: Impossible

Jane

Blow-Up

Self

The Palestinian

Nivea del Valle

The House of the Spirits

Dr. Wick

Girl, Interrupted

Mary Debenham

Murder on the Orient Express

Briony Tallis (Age 77)

Atonement

Sylvia Pankhurst

Oh! What a Lovely War

Lady Speranza Wilde

Wilde

Annalise Hansen

The Pledge

Ann Lord

Evening

Helen

Yanks

The Greater Dane (voice)

Good Boy!

Agatha Christie

Agatha

Robin Lerner

Deep Impact

Ruth Wilcox

Howards End

Sister Jeanne des Anges

The Devils

Penelope Keeling

The Shell Seekers

Edith Tree

1961

Narrator

Circus at Clopton Hall

Peggy Ramsay

Prick Up Your Ears

Edith Tree

If These Walls Could Talk 2

Self

Tonite Let's All Make Love in London

Olive Chancellor

The Bostonians

Valerie

Venus

Miss Bentley

A Month by the Lake

Georgia Platts

How About You...

Lydia

Mother's Boys

Mrs Clarissa Morris

The Charge of the Light Brigade

Julia

Julia

Lola Deveraux

The Seven-Per-Cent Solution

Clemmie Churchill

The Gathering Storm

Isadora Duncan

Isadora

Leonie Delt

Morgan: A Suitable Case for Treatment

Catherine Moore

Lulu on the Bridge

Queen Elizabeth I

Anonymous

Suor Agata

Storia di una capinera

Roberta Elliot

The Riddle

Heddi Lindquist

Bear Island

Bertha Spafford

Miral

The woman

The Fever

Mary, Queen of Scots

Mary, Queen of Scots

Mrs. Clarissa Dalloway

Mrs. Dalloway

Andromache

The Trojan Women

Irina Shapira

Little Odessa

Narrator

Alice, Through the Looking

The Queen / Mama Topolino (voice)

Cars 2

Madeleine Rees

The Whistleblower

Mrs. Carlyle

Comrades

Princess Vera Belinskya

The White Countess

Guenevere

Camelot

Fania Fenelon

Playing for Time

Maddy Bennett

A Rumor of Angels

Narrator

Robinson in Ruins

Graziella Luciano

Bella Mafia

Queen

The Boy at the Back of the Class

Self

Eugene O’Neill: A Documentary Film

la Regina

Sing Sing

All That I Am

Flavia

Un tranquillo posto di campagna

Grandmother / Narrator

The Wind in the Willows

Grandmother / Narrator

The Willows in Winter

Jean du Pont

Foxcatcher

Volumnia

Coriolanus

Esther Huish

The Locket

Anna Lenke

Down Came a Blackbird

Lady Melbourne

Byron

Rodion's mother

Crime and Punishment

Dr. Angela Bead

Great Moments in Aviation

Marion

Song for Marion

Annabeth Westfall

The Butler

Nancy

Steaming

Short Order

Jean Travers

Wetherby

Skelly

Déjà Vu

Ann

Out of Season

Lady Alice More

A Man for All Seasons

Blanche Hudson

What Ever Happened to Baby Jane?

Narrator

Büyükada'da Sürgün

Immacolata Meneghelli

La Vacanza

Pamela Benson-Gray

Behind the Mask

Nina

The Sea Gull

Narrator

The Body

Mrs. Garza

Consuming Passions

English journalist

Похороны Сталина

Self

Electric Burma: The Concert for Aung San Suu Kyi - Words I Never Said

Narrator

Dealing and Wheeling in Small Arms

Vida Winter

The Thirteenth Tale

Lady Torrance

Orpheus Descending

Miss Amelia

The Ballad of the Sad Cafe

Florence Latimer

They

Self - Interviewee

Looking for Richard

Renee Richards

Second Serve

Nancy Shaffell

Two Mothers for Zachary

Self

The Ghost of Richard Harris

Old Roseanne McNulty

The Secret Scripture

Self

Merchant Ivory

Elsa Lübing

Smilla's Sense of Snow

Last Will. & Testament

On Our Way

Sheila

The Sailor from Gibraltar

Self

A Sunday in September

Self

Elio Petri... appunti su un autore

Rosalind Leigh

The Last Will and Testament of Rosalind Leigh

Kalsan

Mirka

Hannah Silbergrau

Ein Job

Self

Michael Redgrave: My Father

Leenie Cabrezi

My Body, My Child

Older Marian

The Go-Between

Henry's Grandmother

Entree Des Artists

The Wound and the Gift

Countess Constance La Grave

Cradle Will Rock

Kate Benson

Un muro de silencio

Sister Antonia

The Thief Lord

Rosalind

As You Like It

Queen Margaret

Almeida Theatre Live: Richard III

Self

Hell on Earth: The Desecration & Resurrection of The Devils

The Estate

Suor Crocifissa

Diceria dell'untore

herself

Merci Docteur Rey

The Evil Queen

Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs

Miss Sangorski

The Keeper: The Legend of Omar Khayyam

Mrs. Rutterburn

Uninvited

Mary

Dropout

Self

Sea Sorrow

Jeanne McDougall

Film Stars Don't Die in Liverpool

Elsa Brecht

Georgetown

Right to Work March

Juliana Bordereau

The Aspern Papers

Vicky's Mother

The Adventures of Young Indiana Jones: Love's Sweet Song

Mother Capulet (voice)

Romeo.Juliet

Herself

A Mother with Two Children Expecting Her Third

Jacky

Red and Blue

Self

Joan Didion: The Center Will Not Hold

Jacky

Red, White, and Zero

Narrator

No Arks

Elizabeth Lowry

Mrs Lowry & Son

Sarah Cloyce

Three Sovereigns for Sarah

(voice)

Escape to Life: The Erika and Klaus Mann Story

Self

Alida

Claire

Letters to Juliet

Sky News Reader #2

Restraint

Self

Katherine Jenkins Christmas Spectacular

Great Nana

The Lost Girls

Cathleen Sweeney

Finding You

Self

Searching for Debra Winger

Self (archive footage)

Nothing Like a Dame

Gud, lukt och henne

The Fifth War

Maggie

Maggie

The Matriarch (voice)

The Crystal Planet

Ma Rooney

Cold Storage

Self

Common Wealth

Self

Behind The Mask

Personal Info

Known For

Acting

Known Credits

155

Gender

Female

Birthday

1937-01-30

Place of Birth

Greenwich, London, England, UK

Also Known As

Vanessa Redgreiv