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Vanessa Redgrave

Known For

Acting

Gender

Female

Birthday

Jan 30, 1937 (89 years old)

Place of Birth

Greenwich, London, England, UK

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

Acting
2026Cold StorageMa Rooney
2025The Estate
2025Common WealthSelf
2024Merchant IvorySelf
2023On Our Way
2022The Ghost of Richard HarrisSelf
2022The Lost GirlsGreat Nana
2021Alice, Through the LookingNarrator
2021Alida Valli: In Her Own WordsSelf
2021Finding YouCathleen Sweeney
2020Entree Des ArtistsHenry's Grandmother
2020Katherine Jenkins Christmas SpectacularSelf
2019GeorgetownElsa Brecht
2019The Aspern PapersJuliana Bordereau
2019Mrs Lowry & SonElizabeth Lowry
2018Nothing Like a DameSelf (archive footage)
2017The Secret ScriptureOld Roseanne McNulty
2017Sea SorrowSelf
2017Film Stars Don't Die in LiverpoolJeanne McDougall
2017Joan Didion: The Center Will Not HoldSelf
2017Man in an Orange ShirtFlora Berryman
2016Electric Burma: The Concert for Aung San Suu Kyi - Words I Never SaidSelf
2016Almeida Theatre Live: Richard IIIQueen Margaret
2015The Go-BetweenOlder Marian
2014FoxcatcherJean du Pont
2014The Wound and the Gift
2014Black BoxDr. Hartramph
2013The ButlerAnnabeth Westfall
2013The Thirteenth TaleVida Winter
2012Song for MarionMarion
2012Last Will. & Testament
2012The Last Will and Testament of Rosalind LeighRosalind Leigh
2012Call the MidwifeJennifer Worth (voice)
2012Shakespeare UncoveredHerself
2012Political AnimalsDiane Nash
2012Playhouse PresentsElderly Woman
2011AnonymousQueen Elizabeth I
2011Cars 2The Queen / Mama Topolino (voice)
2011CoriolanusVolumnia
2010MiralBertha Spafford
2010The WhistleblowerMadeleine Rees
2010Robinson in RuinsNarrator
2010Letters to JulietClaire
2009God, Smell and Her
2009The Day of the TriffidsDurrant
2008Ein JobHannah Silbergrau
2008RestraintSky News Reader #2
2007AtonementBriony Tallis (Age 77)
2007EveningAnn Lord
2007The Shell SeekersPenelope Keeling
2007How About You...Georgia Platts
2007The RiddleRoberta Elliot
2007The FeverThe woman
2007Dealing and Wheeling in Small ArmsNarrator
2006VenusValerie
2006Eugene O’Neill: A Documentary FilmSelf
2006The Thief LordSister Antonia
2005The White CountessPrincess Vera Belinskya
2005Short OrderMarianne
2005Elio Petri: Notes About a FilmmakerSelf
2005The Keeper: The Legend of Omar KhayyamMiss Sangorski
2004Thank You, Doctor Reyherself
2003Good Boy!The Greater Dane (voice)
2003ByronLady Melbourne
2003Nip/TuckDr.Erica Noughton
2003ByronLady Melbourne
2003Nip/TuckDr. Erica Noughton
2002The Gathering StormClemmie Churchill
2002The LocketEsther Huish
2002Crime and PunishmentRodion's mother
2002Hell on Earth: The Desecration & Resurrection of The DevilsSelf
2002Searching for Debra WingerSelf
2001The PledgeAnnalise Hansen
2001Escape to Life: The Erika and Klaus Mann Story(voice)
2001Jack and the Beanstalk: The Real StoryCountess Wilhelmina
20001961Edith Tree
2000If These Walls Could Talk 2Edith Tree
2000A Rumor of AngelsMaddy Bennett
2000Exile in BuyukadaNarrator
2000MirkaKalsan
2000UninvitedMrs. Rutterburn
2000The Adventures of Young Indiana Jones: Love's Sweet SongVicky's Mother
1999Girl, InterruptedDr. Wick
1999Cradle Will RockCountess Constance La Grave
1999The Early ShowSelf
1998Deep ImpactRobin Lerner
1998Lulu on the BridgeCatherine Moore
1998Déjà VuSkelly
1998Sabine ChristiansenSelf
1997WildeLady Speranza Wilde
1997Mrs. DallowayMrs. Clarissa Dalloway
1997Bella MafiaGraziella Luciano
1997Smilla's Sense of SnowElsa Lübing
1997Michael Redgrave: My FatherSelf
1997Behind the Mask : The IRA and Sinn FeinSelf
1997The ViewSelf
1996Mission: ImpossibleMax
1996The Willows in WinterGrandmother / Narrator
1996Looking for RichardSelf - Interviewee
1996Two Mothers for ZacharyNancy Shaffell
1995A Month by the LakeMiss Bentley
1995The Wind in the WillowsGrandmother / Narrator
1995Down Came a BlackbirdAnna Lenke
1994SparrowSuor Agata
1994Little OdessaIrina Shapira
1994Great Moments in AviationDr. Angela Bead
1994Inside the Actors StudioSelf
1993The House of the SpiritsNivea del Valle
1993Mother's BoysLydia
1993TheyFlorence Latimer
1993A Wall of SilenceKate Benson
1993Intimate PortraitSelf
1993Hollywood U.K.: British Cinema in the SixtiesSelf
1992Howards EndRuth Wilcox
1991What Ever Happened to Baby Jane?Blanche Hudson
1991The Ballad of the Sad CafeMiss Amelia
1991Young CatherineEmpress Elizabeth
1990Stalin's FuneralEnglish journalist
1990Orpheus DescendingLady Torrance
1990Breath of LifeSuor Crocifissa
1990Romeo.JulietMother Capulet (voice)
1988A Man for All SeasonsLady Alice More
1988Consuming PassionsMrs. Garza
1987Prick Up Your EarsPeggy Ramsay
1987ComradesMrs. Carlyle
1987Seitenblickeself
1986Second ServeRenee Richards
1986Peter the GreatSophia
1985SteamingNancy
1985WetherbyJean Travers
1985Three Sovereigns for SarahSarah Cloyce
1985Three Sovereigns for SarahSarah Cloyce
1984The BostoniansOlive Chancellor
1984Snow White and the Seven DwarfsThe Evil Queen
1984Goldene KameraSelf
1983Sing Singla Regina
1983WagnerCosima von Bulow
1982My Body, My ChildLeenie Cabrezi
1982Faerie Tale TheatreThe Evil Queen
1981Wetten, dass..?Self
1980Playing for TimeFania Fenelon
1980The Fifth War
1979YanksHelen
1979AgathaAgatha Christie
1979Bear IslandHeddi Lindquist
1979NDR Talk ShowSelf
1977The PalestinianSelf
1977JuliaJulia
1976The Seven-Per-Cent SolutionLola Deveraux
1975Out of SeasonAnn
1974Murder on the Orient ExpressMary Debenham
1973A Picture of Katherine MansfieldKatherine Mansfield
1972Right to Work March
1971The DevilsSister Jeanne des Anges
1971Mary, Queen of ScotsMary, Queen of Scots
1971The Trojan WomenAndromache
1971VacationImmacolata Meneghelli
1970The BodyNarrator
1970DropoutMary
1970A Mother with Two Children Expecting Her ThirdHerself
1969Oh! What a Lovely WarSylvia Pankhurst
1969No ArksNarrator
1968The Charge of the Light BrigadeMrs Clarissa Morris
1968IsadoraIsadora Duncan
1968A Quiet Place in the CountryFlavia
1968The Sea GullNina
1968Red and BlueJacky
1968Red, White, and ZeroJacky
1967Tonite Let's All Make Love in LondonSelf
1967CamelotGuenevere
1967The Sailor from GibraltarSheila
1967OmnibusSelf
1967One Pair of Eyes
1966A Man for All SeasonsAnne Boleyn
1966Blow-UpJane
1966Morgan: A Suitable Case for TreatmentLeonie Delt
1964MaggieMaggie
1963As You Like ItRosalind
1961Circus at Clopton HallNarrator
1961A Sunday in SeptemberSelf
1960Sunday-Night PlayMonica Claverton-Ferry
1958Behind the MaskPamela Benson-Gray
1957Theatre NightCaroline Lester
1956Armchair TheatreSally
1956Tony AwardsSelf - Presenter
1956Tony AwardsSelf - Winner
1956Tony AwardsSelf - Nominee
1953The OscarsSelf
1952TodaySelf
1951Hallmark Hall of FameEsther Huish
1944Golden Globe AwardsSelf - Nominee
-The Boy at the Back of the ClassQueen
-All That I Am
-The Crystal PlanetThe Matriarch (voice)
Production
2025The EstateExecutive Producer
2007The FeverExecutive Producer
1981Occupied PalestineProducer
1977The PalestinianProducer
Directing
2017Sea SorrowDirector
Writing
2017Sea SorrowScreenplay