Personal Info
Known For:
Acting
Birthday:
January 30, 1937
Place of Birth:
Greenwich, London, England, UK
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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.
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Known For
Filmography
| Year | Movie | Role |
|---|---|---|
| 2024 | Merchant Ivory | Self |
| 2023 | On Our Way | |
| 2022 | The Ghost of Richard Harris | Self |
| 2022 | The Lost Girls | Great Nana |
| 2021 | Alice, Through the Looking | Narrator |
| 2021 | Alida Valli: In Her Own Words | Self |
| 2021 | Finding You | Cathleen Sweeney |
| 2020 | Entree Des Artists | Henry's Grandmother |
| 2020 | Katherine Jenkins Christmas Spectacular | Self |
| 2019 | Georgetown | Elsa Brecht |
| 2019 | The Aspern Papers | Juliana Bordereau |
| 2019 | Mrs Lowry & Son | Elizabeth Lowry |
| 2018 | Nothing Like a Dame | Self (archive footage) |
| 2017 | The Secret Scripture | Old Roseanne McNulty |
| 2017 | Sea Sorrow | Self |
| 2017 | Film Stars Don't Die in Liverpool | Jeanne McDougall |
| 2017 | Joan Didion: The Center Will Not Hold | Self |
| 2016 | Electric Burma: The Concert for Aung San Suu Kyi - Words I Never Said | Self |
| 2016 | Almeida Theatre Live: Richard III | Queen Margaret |
| 2015 | The Go-Between | Older Marian |
| 2014 | Foxcatcher | Jean du Pont |
| 2014 | The Wound and the Gift | |
| 2014 | And the Oscar Goes To... | Self (archive footage) |
| 2013 | The Butler | Annabeth Westfall |
| 2013 | The Thirteenth Tale | Vida Winter |
| 2012 | Song for Marion | Marion |
| 2012 | Last Will. & Testament | |
| 2012 | The Last Will and Testament of Rosalind Leigh | Rosalind Leigh |
| 2011 | Anonymous | Queen Elizabeth I |
| 2011 | Cars 2 | The Queen / Mama Topolino (voice) |
| 2011 | Coriolanus | Volumnia |
| 2010 | Miral | Bertha Spafford |
| 2010 | The Whistleblower | Madeleine Rees |
| 2010 | Robinson in Ruins | Narrator |
| 2010 | Letters to Juliet | Claire |
| 2009 | God, Smell and Her | |
| 2008 | Ein Job | Hannah Silbergrau |
| 2008 | Restraint | Sky News Reader #2 |
| 2007 | Atonement | Briony Tallis (Age 77) |
| 2007 | Evening | Ann Lord |
| 2007 | The Shell Seekers | Penelope Keeling |
| 2007 | How About You... | Georgia Platts |
| 2007 | The Riddle | Roberta Elliot |
| 2007 | Dealing and Wheeling in Small Arms | Narrator |
| 2006 | Venus | Valerie |
| 2006 | Eugene O’Neill: A Documentary Film | Self |
| 2006 | The Thief Lord | Sister Antonia |
| 2005 | The White Countess | Princess Vera Belinskya |
| 2005 | Short Order | |
| 2005 | Elio Petri: Notes About a Filmmaker | Self |
| 2005 | The Keeper: The Legend of Omar Khayyam | Miss Sangorski |
| 2004 | The Fever | The woman |
| 2004 | Thank You, Doctor Rey | herself |
| 2003 | Good Boy! | The Greater Dane (voice) |
| 2003 | Byron | Lady Melbourne |
| 2002 | The Gathering Storm | Clemmie Churchill |
| 2002 | The Locket | Esther Huish |
| 2002 | Crime and Punishment | Rodion's mother |
| 2002 | Hell on Earth: The Desecration & Resurrection of The Devils | Self |
| 2002 | Searching for Debra Winger | Self |
| 2001 | The Pledge | Annalise Hansen |
| 2001 | Escape to Life: The Erika and Klaus Mann Story | (voice) |
| 2000 | 1961 | Edith Tree |
| 2000 | If These Walls Could Talk 2 | Edith Tree |
| 2000 | A Rumor of Angels | Maddy Bennett |
| 2000 | Exile in Buyukada | Narrator |
| 2000 | Mirka | Kalsan |
| 2000 | Uninvited | Mrs. Rutterburn |
| 2000 | The Adventures of Young Indiana Jones: Love's Sweet Song | Vicky's Mother |
| 1999 | Girl, Interrupted | Dr. Wick |
| 1999 | Cradle Will Rock | Countess Constance La Grave |
| 1998 | Deep Impact | Robin Lerner |
| 1998 | Lulu on the Bridge | Catherine Moore |
| 1998 | Déjà Vu | Skelly |
| 1997 | Wilde | Lady Speranza Wilde |
| 1997 | Mrs. Dalloway | Mrs. Clarissa Dalloway |
| 1997 | Bella Mafia | Graziella Luciano |
| 1997 | Smilla's Sense of Snow | Elsa Lübing |
| 1997 | Michael Redgrave: My Father | Self |
| 1996 | Mission: Impossible | Max |
| 1996 | The Willows in Winter | Grandmother / Narrator |
| 1996 | Looking for Richard | Self - Interviewee |
| 1996 | Two Mothers for Zachary | Nancy Shaffell |
| 1995 | A Month by the Lake | Miss Bentley |
| 1995 | The Wind in the Willows | Grandmother / Narrator |
| 1995 | Down Came a Blackbird | Anna Lenke |
| 1994 | Sparrow | Suor Agata |
| 1994 | Little Odessa | Irina Shapira |
| 1994 | Great Moments in Aviation | Dr. Angela Bead |
| 1993 | The House of the Spirits | Nivea del Valle |
| 1993 | Mother's Boys | Lydia |
| 1993 | They | Florence Latimer |
| 1993 | A Wall of Silence | Kate Benson |
| 1992 | Howards End | Ruth Wilcox |
| 1991 | What Ever Happened to Baby Jane? | Blanche Hudson |
| 1991 | The Ballad of the Sad Cafe | Miss Amelia |
| 1990 | Stalin's Funeral | English journalist |
| 1990 | Orpheus Descending | Lady Torrance |
| 1990 | Breath of Life | Suor Crocifissa |
| 1990 | Romeo.Juliet | Mother Capulet (voice) |
| 1988 | A Man for All Seasons | Lady Alice More |
| 1988 | Consuming Passions | Mrs. Garza |
| 1987 | Prick Up Your Ears | Peggy Ramsay |
| 1987 | Comrades | Mrs. Carlyle |
| 1986 | Second Serve | Renee Richards |
| 1985 | Steaming | Nancy |
| 1985 | Wetherby | Jean Travers |
| 1985 | Three Sovereigns for Sarah | Sarah Cloyce |
| 1984 | The Bostonians | Olive Chancellor |
| 1984 | Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs | The Evil Queen |
| 1983 | Sing Sing | la Regina |
| 1982 | My Body, My Child | Leenie Cabrezi |
| 1980 | Playing for Time | Fania Fenelon |
| 1980 | The Fifth War | |
| 1979 | Yanks | Helen |
| 1979 | Agatha | Agatha Christie |
| 1979 | Bear Island | Heddi Lindquist |
| 1979 | Red, White, and Zero | Jacky |
| 1977 | The Palestinian | Self |
| 1977 | Julia | Julia |
| 1976 | The Seven-Per-Cent Solution | Lola Deveraux |
| 1975 | Out of Season | Ann |
| 1974 | Murder on the Orient Express | Mary Debenham |
| 1972 | Right to Work March | |
| 1971 | The Devils | Sister Jeanne des Anges |
| 1971 | Mary, Queen of Scots | Mary, Queen of Scots |
| 1971 | The Trojan Women | Andromache |
| 1971 | Vacation | Immacolata Meneghelli |
| 1970 | The Body | Narrator |
| 1970 | Dropout | Mary |
| 1970 | A Mother with Two Children Expecting Her Third | Herself |
| 1969 | Oh! What a Lovely War | Sylvia Pankhurst |
| 1969 | No Arks | Narrator |
| 1968 | The Charge of the Light Brigade | Mrs Clarissa Morris |
| 1968 | Isadora | Isadora Duncan |
| 1968 | A Quiet Place in the Country | Flavia |
| 1968 | The Sea Gull | Nina |
| 1968 | Red and Blue | Jacky |
| 1967 | Tonite Let's All Make Love in London | Self |
| 1967 | Camelot | Guenevere |
| 1967 | The Sailor from Gibraltar | Sheila |
| 1966 | A Man for All Seasons | Anne Boleyn |
| 1966 | Blow-Up | Jane |
| 1966 | Morgan: A Suitable Case for Treatment | Leonie Delt |
| 1964 | Maggie | Maggie |
| 1963 | As You Like It | Rosalind |
| 1961 | Circus at Clopton Hall | Narrator |
| 1961 | A Sunday in September | Self |
| 1958 | Behind the Mask | Pamela Benson-Gray |
| The Boy at the Back of the Class | Queen | |
| All That I Am | ||
| The Estate | ||
| The Crystal Planet | The Matriarch (voice) |
| Year | TV Show | Role |
|---|---|---|
| 2017 | Man in an Orange Shirt | Flora Berryman |
| 2014 | Black Box | Dr. Hartramph |
| 2012 | Call the Midwife | Jennifer Worth (voice) |
| 2012 | Shakespeare Uncovered | Herself |
| 2012 | Political Animals | Diane Nash |
| 2009 | The Day of the Triffids | Durrant |
| 2003 | Nip/Tuck | |
| 2003 | Byron | Lady Melbourne |
| 2001 | Jack and the Beanstalk: The Real Story | Countess Wilhelmina |
| 1999 | The Early Show | Self |
| 1998 | Sabine Christiansen | Self |
| 1997 | The View | Self |
| 1994 | Inside the Actors Studio | Self |
| 1993 | Intimate Portrait | Self |
| 1993 | Hollywood U.K.: British Cinema in the Sixties | Self |
| 1991 | Young Catherine | Empress Elizabeth |
| 1987 | Seitenblicke | self |
| 1986 | Peter the Great | Sophia |
| 1985 | Three Sovereigns for Sarah | Sarah Cloyce |
| 1984 | Goldene Kamera Verleihung | Self |
| 1983 | Wagner | Cosima von Bulow |
| 1982 | Faerie Tale Theatre | The Evil Queen |
| 1981 | Wetten, dass..? | Self |
| 1979 | NDR Talk Show | Self |
| 1973 | A Picture of Katherine Mansfield | Katherine Mansfield |
| 1967 | Omnibus | Self |
| 1960 | Sunday-Night Play | Monica Claverton-Ferry |
| 1956 | Tony Awards | Self - Winner |
| 1956 | Tony Awards | Self - Presenter |
| 1956 | Tony Awards | Self - Nominee |
| 1953 | The Oscars | Self |
| 1952 | Today | Self |
| 1951 | Hallmark Hall of Fame | Esther Huish |
| 1944 | Golden Globe Awards | Self - Winner |
| 1944 | Golden Globe Awards | Self - Nominee |