Vanessa Redgrave
- Acting
- January 30, 1937 · 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
Filmography
- The Crystal Planet · The Matriarch (Voice)
- Cold Storage · Mary Rooney
- The Estate · Executive producer
- Common Wealth · Self
- Merchant Ivory · Self
- On Our Way
- The Ghost of Richard Harris · Self
- The Lost Girls · Great Nana
- Alice, Through the Looking · Narrator
- Alida Valli: In Her Own Words · Self
- Finding You · Cathleen Sweeney
- Katherine Jenkins Christmas Spectacular · Self
- Entree Des Artists · Henry's Grandmother
- Mrs Lowry & Son · Elizabeth Lowry
- Georgetown · Elsa Brecht
- The Aspern Papers · Juliana Bordereau
- Nothing Like a Dame · Self
- Film Stars Don't Die in Liverpool · Jeanne McDougall
- Sea Sorrow · Self, Director
- Joan Didion: The Center Will Not Hold · Self
- Man in an Orange Shirt · Flora Berryman
- The Secret Scripture · Old Roseanne McNulty
- Electric Burma: The Concert for Aung San Suu Kyi - Words I Never Said · Self
- Almeida Theatre Live: Richard III · Queen Margaret
- The Go-Between · Older Marian
- Foxcatcher · Jean du Pont
- The Wound and the Gift
- Black Box · Dr. Hartramph
- Once Upon a Time... Little Odessa · Self
- The Thirteenth Tale · Vida Winter
- The Butler · Annabeth Westfall
- The Last Will and Testament of Rosalind Leigh · Rosalind Leigh
- Last Will. & Testament
- Song for Marion · Marion
- Political Animals · Diane Nash
- Shakespeare Uncovered · Self
- Playhouse Presents · Elderly Woman
- Call the Midwife · Jennifer Worth (Voice)
- Anonymous · Queen Elizabeth I
- Cars 2 · The Queen / Mama Topolino (Voice)
- Coriolanus · Volumnia
- Robinson in Ruins · Narrator
- Miral · Bertha Spafford
- The Whistleblower · Madeleine Rees
- Letters to Juliet · Claire
- The Day of the Triffids · Durrant
- God, Smell and Her
- Ein Job · Hannah Silbergrau
- Restraint · Sky News Reader #2
- How About You... · Georgia Platts
- The Shell Seekers · Penelope Keeling
- The Riddle · Roberta Elliot
- Evening · Ann Lord
- Atonement · Briony Tallis (Age 77)
- Dealing and Wheeling in Small Arms · Narrator
- Venus · Valerie
- Eugene O’Neill: A Documentary Film · Self
- The Thief Lord · Sister Antonia
- The White Countess · Princess Vera Belinskya
- Elio Petri: Notes About a Filmmaker · Self
- The Keeper: The Legend of Omar Khayyam · Miss Sangorski
- Short Order · Marianne
- The Fever · The woman, Executive producer
- Thank You, Doctor Rey · Self
- Good Boy! · The Greater Dane (Voice)
- Byron · Lady Melbourne
- Nip/Tuck · Dr.Erica Noughton, Dr. Erica Noughton
- Byron · Lady Melbourne
- The Locket · Esther Huish
- Hell on Earth: The Desecration & Resurrection of The Devils · Self
- Searching for Debra Winger · Self
- Crime and Punishment · Rodion's mother
- The Gathering Storm · Clemmie Churchill
- Jack and the Beanstalk: The Real Story · Countess Wilhelmina
- Escape to Life: The Erika and Klaus Mann Story · Voice
- The Pledge · Annalise Hansen
- A Rumor of Angels · Maddy Bennett
- The Adventures of Young Indiana Jones: Love's Sweet Song · Vicky's Mother
- Uninvited · Mrs. Rutterburn
- Mirka · Kalsan