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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Movies (42)
Cold Storage
as Ma Rooney
2026
The Estate
2025
Common Wealth
as Self
2025
Merchant Ivory
as Self
2024
On Our Way
2023
The Ghost of Richard Harris
as Self
2022
The Lost Girls
as Great Nana
2022
Alice, Through the Looking
as Narrator
2021
Alida Valli: In Her Own Words
as Self
2021
Finding You
as Cathleen Sweeney
2021
Katherine Jenkins Christmas Spectacular
as Self
2020
Entree Des Artists
as Henry's Grandmother
2020
Mrs Lowry & Son
as Elizabeth Lowry
2019
Georgetown
as Elsa Brecht
2019
The Aspern Papers
as Juliana Bordereau
2019
Nothing Like a Dame
as Self (archive footage)
2018
Film Stars Don't Die in Liverpool
as Jeanne McDougall
2017
Sea Sorrow
as Self
2017
Joan Didion: The Center Will Not Hold
as Self
2017
The Secret Scripture
as Old Roseanne McNulty
2017
Electric Burma: The Concert for Aung San Suu Kyi - Words I Never Said
as Self
2016
Almeida Theatre Live: Richard III
as Queen Margaret
2016
The Go-Between
as Older Marian
2015
Foxcatcher
as Jean du Pont
2014
The Wound and the Gift
2014
The Thirteenth Tale
as Vida Winter
2013
The Butler
as Annabeth Westfall
2013
The Last Will and Testament of Rosalind Leigh
as Rosalind Leigh
2012
Last Will. & Testament
2012
Song for Marion
as Marion
2012
Anonymous
as Queen Elizabeth I
2011
Cars 2
as The Queen / Mama Topolino (voice)
2011
Coriolanus
as Volumnia
2011
Robinson in Ruins
as Narrator
2010
Miral
as Bertha Spafford
2010
The Whistleblower
as Madeleine Rees
2010
Letters to Juliet
as Claire
2010
God, Smell and Her
2009
Ein Job
as Hannah Silbergrau
2008
Restraint
as Sky News Reader #2
2008
How About You...
as Georgia Platts
2007
The Shell Seekers
as Penelope Keeling
2007
TV Shows (8)
The 52nd Annual Emmy Awards
as Self - Winner
2020
Man in an Orange Shirt
as Flora Berryman
2017
Black Box
as Dr. Hartramph
2014
Political Animals
as Diane Nash
2012
Shakespeare Uncovered
as Herself
2012
Playhouse Presents
2012
Call the Midwife
as Jennifer Worth (voice)
2012
The Day of the Triffids
as Durrant
2009