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