Vanessa Redgrave
Acting
🎂 1937-01-30
Vanessa Redgrave CBE 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.
Cast credits(190)
Max
1996
Self - Winner
1956
Self - Presenter
1956
Self - Nominee
1956
Jennifer Worth (voice)
2012
Self - Nominee
1944
Dr.Erica Noughton
2003
Dr. Erica Noughton
2003
Self
1997
Self
1967
Self
1981
The Queen / Mama Topolino (voice)
2011
Self
1979
Self
1993
Self
1953
Self
1984
The Evil Queen
1982
Robin Lerner
1998
Dr. Wick
1999
Briony Tallis (Age 77)
2007
Self
1998
Annalise Hansen
2001
Jeanne McDougall
2017
Edith Tree
2000
Vida Winter
2013
English journalist
1990
Mary Debenham
1974
Annabeth Westfall
2013
Self (archive footage)
2014
self
1987
Nivea del Valle
1993
Claire
2010
2023
Kalsan
2000
Monica Claverton-Ferry
1960
Cathleen Sweeney
2021
Countess Wilhelmina
2001
Sylvia Pankhurst
1969
Countess Constance La Grave
1999
Jane
1966
Self - Interviewee
1996
Queen Elizabeth I
2011
Ruth Wilcox
1992
Ann Lord
2007
2012
Irina Shapira
1994
Jean Travers
1985
Mrs Clarissa Morris
1968
Miss Amelia
1991
Valerie
2006
Graziella Luciano
1997
Julia
1977
Anne Boleyn
1966
Elsa Lübing
1997
Lady Melbourne
2003
Durrant
2009
Elsa Brecht
2019
Grandmother / Narrator
1995
Volumnia
2011
Madeleine Rees
2010
Clemmie Churchill
2002
Jean du Pont
2014
Sister Jeanne des Anges
1971
Diane Nash
2012
Lady Speranza Wilde
1997
Old Roseanne McNulty
2017
Dr. Angela Bead
1994
Ma Rooney
Andromache
1971
Heddi Lindquist
1979
Self
1977
Mary, Queen of Scots
1971
Guenevere
1967
Isadora Duncan
1968
Renee Richards
1986
Sophia
1986
The Greater Dane (voice)
2003
Leonie Delt
1966
Agatha Christie
1979
Esther Huish
1951
Flora Berryman
2017
Narrator
2000
Blanche Hudson
1991
la Regina
1983
1972
Great Nana
2022
Older Marian
2015
Miss Bentley
1995
Mrs. Carlyle
1987
Self
1952
Maddy Bennett
2000
Nancy
1985
Jacky
1979
Sister Antonia
2006
Esther Huish
2002
Self
2006
Mrs. Clarissa Dalloway
1997
Sarah Cloyce
1985
Dr. Hartramph
2014
Self
2021
Nancy Shaffell
1996
Bertha Spafford
2010
Self
1967
Sky News Reader #2
2008
Elizabeth Lowry
2019
Self (archive footage)
2018
Self
1993
Immacolata Meneghelli
1971
Helen
1979
Princess Vera Belinskya
2005
Roberta Elliot
2007
Self
2022
Self
2017
Ann
1975
Nina
1968
Lady Melbourne
2003
Mrs. Garza
1988
Queen Margaret
2016
Kate Benson
1993
Marion
2012
Lydia
1993
Cosima von Bulow
1983
Herself
2012
Rodion's mother
2002
Self
2024
The woman
2004
2005
Juliana Bordereau
2019
Self
2017
Olive Chancellor
1984
Penelope Keeling
2007
Fania Fenelon
1980
Peggy Ramsay
1987
Empress Elizabeth
1991
Vicky's Mother
2000
Lola Deveraux
1976
2012
Sheila
1967
Self
2020
Katherine Mansfield
1973
Flavia
1968
Florence Latimer
1993
Suor Agata
1994
Anna Lenke
1995
Catherine Moore
1998
Sarah Cloyce
1985
Self
1994
Self
2016
Self
1999
Georgia Platts
2007
Mrs. Rutterburn
2000
The Matriarch (voice)
herself
2004
Grandmother / Narrator
1996
Lady Alice More
1988
Narrator
2021
Skelly
1998
Self
2002
Mary
1970
Pamela Benson-Gray
1958
2009
Self
1997
Narrator
1970
(voice)
2001
Leenie Cabrezi
1982
Lady Torrance
1990
Edith Tree
2000
Miss Sangorski
2005
Henry's Grandmother
2020
The Evil Queen
1984
Rosalind
1963
Self
2005
Jacky
1968
Self
2002
Suor Crocifissa
1990
Queen
Mother Capulet (voice)
1990
Self
1961
Rosalind Leigh
2012
Narrator
1969
Maggie
1964
Narrator
2010
Herself
1970
Narrator
1961
1980
Narrator
2007
2014
Hannah Silbergrau
2008