Vanessa Redgrave
- Known for
- Acting
- Born
- January 30, 1937 (age 89)
- Birthplace
- 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.
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Filmography
The Boy at the Back of the Class
Movie · as Queen
All That I Am
Movie
The Turning Door
Movie · as (voice)
Mexico Song
Movie
The Crystal Planet
Movie · as The Matriarch (voice)
Cold Storage
Movie · as Mary Rooney
The Estate
Movie
Common Wealth
Movie · as Self
Merchant Ivory
Movie · as Self
On Our Way
Movie
The Ghost of Richard Harris
Movie · as Self
The Lost Girls
Movie · as Great Nana
Alice, Through the Looking
Movie · as Narrator
Alida Valli: In Her Own Words
Movie · as Self
Finding You
Movie · as Cathleen Sweeney
Entree Des Artists
Movie · as Henry's Grandmother
Katherine Jenkins Christmas Spectacular
Movie · as Self
Georgetown
Movie · as Elsa Brecht
The Aspern Papers
Movie · as Juliana Bordereau
Mrs Lowry & Son
Movie · as Elizabeth Lowry
Nothing Like a Dame
Movie · as Self (archive footage)
The Secret Scripture
Movie · as Old Roseanne McNulty
Sea Sorrow
Movie · as Self
Film Stars Don't Die in Liverpool
Movie · as Jeanne McDougall
Joan Didion: The Center Will Not Hold
Movie · as Self
Man in an Orange Shirt
TV · as Flora Berryman · 2 eps
Electric Burma: The Concert for Aung San Suu Kyi - Words I Never Said
Movie · as Self
Almeida Theatre Live: Richard III
Movie · as Queen Margaret
The Go-Between
Movie · as Older Marian
Foxcatcher
Movie · as Jean du Pont
The Wound and the Gift
Movie
Once Upon a Time... Little Odessa
Movie · as Self
Black Box
TV · as Dr. Hartramph · 13 eps
The Butler
Movie · as Annabeth Westfall
The Thirteenth Tale
Movie · as Vida Winter
Song for Marion
Movie · as Marion
Last Will. & Testament
Movie
The Last Will and Testament of Rosalind Leigh
Movie · as Rosalind Leigh
Call the Midwife
TV · as Jennifer Worth (voice) · 117 eps
Shakespeare Uncovered
TV · as Herself · 1 ep
Political Animals
TV · as Diane Nash · 1 ep
Playhouse Presents
TV · as Elderly Woman · 1 ep
Anonymous
Movie · as Queen Elizabeth I
Cars 2
Movie · as The Queen / Mama Topolino (voice)
Coriolanus
Movie · as Volumnia
Miral
Movie · as Bertha Spafford
The Whistleblower
Movie · as Madeleine Rees
Robinson in Ruins
Movie · as Narrator
Letters to Juliet
Movie · as Claire
God, Smell and Her
Movie
The Day of the Triffids
TV · as Durrant · 2 eps
Ein Job
Movie · as Hannah Silbergrau
Restraint
Movie · as Sky News Reader #2
Atonement
Movie · as Briony Tallis (Age 77)
Evening
Movie · as Ann Lord
The Shell Seekers
Movie · as Penelope Keeling
How About You...
Movie · as Georgia Platts
The Riddle
Movie · as Roberta Elliot
Dealing and Wheeling in Small Arms
Movie · as Narrator
Venus
Movie · as Valerie
Eugene O’Neill: A Documentary Film
Movie · as Self
The Thief Lord
Movie · as Sister Antonia
The White Countess
Movie · as Princess Vera Belinskya
Short Order
Movie · as Marianne
Elio Petri: Notes About a Filmmaker
Movie · as Self
The Keeper: The Legend of Omar Khayyam
Movie · as Miss Sangorski
The Fever
Movie · as The woman
Good Boy!
Movie · as The Greater Dane (voice)
Byron
Movie · as Lady Melbourne
Thank You, Doctor Rey
Movie · as herself
Nip/Tuck
TV · as Dr.Erica Noughton, Dr. Erica Noughton · 7 eps
Byron
TV · as Lady Melbourne · 2 eps
The Gathering Storm
Movie · as Clemmie Churchill
The Locket
Movie · as Esther Huish
Crime and Punishment
Movie · as Rodion's mother
Hell on Earth: The Desecration & Resurrection of The Devils
Movie · as Self
Searching for Debra Winger
Movie · as Self
The Pledge
Movie · as Annalise Hansen
Escape to Life: The Erika and Klaus Mann Story
Movie · as (voice)
Jack and the Beanstalk: The Real Story
TV · as Countess Wilhelmina · 2 eps
1961
Movie · as Edith Tree
If These Walls Could Talk 2
Movie · as Edith Tree
A Rumor of Angels
Movie · as Maddy Bennett
Exile in Buyukada
Movie · as Narrator
Mirka
Movie · as Kalsan
Uninvited
Movie · as Mrs. Rutterburn
The Adventures of Young Indiana Jones: Love's Sweet Song
Movie · as Vicky's Mother
Girl, Interrupted
Movie · as Dr. Wick
Cradle Will Rock
Movie · as Countess Constance La Grave
The Early Show
TV · as Self · 1 ep
Deep Impact
Movie · as Robin Lerner
Lulu on the Bridge
Movie · as Catherine Moore
Déjà Vu
Movie · as Skelly
Sabine Christiansen
TV · as Self · 1 ep
Wilde
Movie · as Lady Speranza Wilde
Mrs. Dalloway
Movie · as Mrs. Clarissa Dalloway
Bella Mafia
Movie · as Graziella Luciano
Smilla's Sense of Snow
Movie · as Elsa Lübing
Michael Redgrave: My Father
Movie · as Self
Behind the Mask : The IRA and Sinn Fein
Movie · as Self
The View
TV · as Self · 1 ep
Mission: Impossible
Movie · as Max
The Willows in Winter
Movie · as Grandmother / Narrator
Looking for Richard
Movie · as Self - Interviewee
Two Mothers for Zachary
Movie · as Nancy Shaffell
A Month by the Lake
Movie · as Miss Bentley
The Wind in the Willows
Movie · as Grandmother / Narrator (voice)
Down Came a Blackbird
Movie · as Anna Lenke
Sparrow
Movie · as Suor Agata
Little Odessa
Movie · as Irina Shapira
Great Moments in Aviation
Movie · as Dr. Angela Bead
Inside the Actors Studio
TV · as Self · 1 ep
The House of the Spirits
Movie · as Nivea del Valle
Mother's Boys
Movie · as Lydia
They
Movie · as Florence Latimer
A Wall of Silence
Movie · as Kate Benson
Intimate Portrait
TV · as Self · 1 ep
Hollywood U.K.: British Cinema in the Sixties
TV · as Self · 2 eps
Howards End
Movie · as Ruth Wilcox
What Ever Happened to Baby Jane?
Movie · as Blanche Hudson
The Ballad of the Sad Cafe
Movie · as Miss Amelia
Young Catherine
TV · as Empress Elizabeth · 2 eps
Stalin's Funeral
Movie · as English journalist
Orpheus Descending
Movie · as Lady Torrance
Breath of Life
Movie · as Suor Crocifissa
Romeo.Juliet
Movie · as Mother Capulet (voice)
A Man for All Seasons
Movie · as Lady Alice More
Consuming Passions
Movie · as Mrs. Garza
Prick Up Your Ears
Movie · as Peggy Ramsay
Comrades
Movie · as Mrs. Carlyle
Seitenblicke
TV · as self · 1 ep
Second Serve
Movie · as Renee Richards
Peter the Great
TV · as Sophia · 4 eps
Steaming
Movie · as Nancy
Wetherby
Movie · as Jean Travers
Three Sovereigns for Sarah
Movie · as Sarah Cloyce
Three Sovereigns for Sarah
TV · as Sarah Cloyce · 3 eps
Screen Two
TV · as Dr. Angela Bead · 1 ep
The Bostonians
Movie · as Olive Chancellor
Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs
Movie · as The Evil Queen
Goldene Kamera
TV · as Self · 2 eps
Sing Sing
Movie · as la Regina
Wagner
TV · as Cosima von Bulow · 10 eps
My Body, My Child
Movie · as Leenie Cabrezi
Faerie Tale Theatre
TV · as The Evil Queen · 1 ep
American Playhouse
TV · as Sarah Cloyce · 3 eps
Wetten, dass..?
TV · as Self · 1 ep
Playing for Time
Movie · as Fania Fenelon
The Fifth War
Movie
Yanks
Movie · as Helen
Agatha
Movie · as Agatha Christie
Bear Island
Movie · as Heddi Lindquist
NDR Talk Show
TV · as Self · 1 ep
The Palestinian
Movie · as Self
The South Bank Show
TV · 1 ep
Julia
Movie · as Julia
The Seven-Per-Cent Solution
Movie · as Lola Deveraux
Out of Season
Movie · as Ann
Arena
TV · 1 ep
Murder on the Orient Express
Movie · as Mary Debenham
A Picture of Katherine Mansfield
TV · as Katherine Mansfield · 6 eps
Right to Work March
Movie
The Devils
Movie · as Sister Jeanne des Anges
Mary, Queen of Scots
Movie · as Mary, Queen of Scots
The Trojan Women
Movie · as Andromache
Vacation
Movie · as Immacolata Meneghelli
Film '72
TV · as Self · 4 eps
The Body
Movie · as Narrator
Dropout
Movie · as Mary
A Mother with Two Children Expecting Her Third
Movie · as Herself
Oh! What a Lovely War
Movie · as Sylvia Pankhurst
No Arks
Movie · as Narrator
The Charge of the Light Brigade
Movie · as Mrs Clarissa Morris
Isadora
Movie · as Isadora Duncan
A Quiet Place in the Country
Movie · as Flavia
The Sea Gull
Movie · as Nina
Red and Blue
Movie · as Jacky
Red, White, and Zero
Movie · as Jacky
Tonite Let's All Make Love in London
Movie · as Self
Camelot
Movie · as Guenevere
The Sailor from Gibraltar
Movie · as Sheila
Omnibus
TV · as Self · 1 ep
One Pair of Eyes
TV · 1 ep
A Man for All Seasons
Movie · as Anne Boleyn
Blow-Up
Movie · as Jane
Morgan: A Suitable Case for Treatment
Movie · as Leonie Delt
Maggie
Movie · as Maggie
As You Like It
Movie · as Rosalind
Circus at Clopton Hall
Movie · as Narrator
A Sunday in September
Movie · as Self
Sunday-Night Play
TV · as Monica Claverton-Ferry · 1 ep
Behind the Mask
Movie · as Pamela Benson-Gray
Theatre Night
TV · as Caroline Lester · 1 ep
Armchair Theatre
TV · as Sally · 1 ep
Tony Awards
TV · as Self - Presenter, Self - Winner, Self - Nominee · 3 eps
The Oscars
TV · as Self · 4 eps
Today
TV · as Self · 1 ep
Hallmark Hall of Fame
TV · as Esther Huish · 1 ep
Golden Globe Awards
TV · as Self - Nominee · 3 eps