Known For
Acting
Born
Jan 30, 1937
Place of Birth
Greenwich, London, England, UK
Credits
195 titles
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.
Known For
Filmography
The Crystal Planet
The Matriarch (voice)
Cold Storage
Mary Rooney
The Estate
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 (archive footage)
Film Stars Don't Die in Liverpool
Jeanne McDougall
Sea Sorrow
Self
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
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
Herself
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