
Vanessa Redgrave
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
Credits
- 2026 · Cold Storage as Ma Rooney
- 2025 · Common Wealth as Self
- 2023 · On Our Way as
- 2022 · The Ghost of Richard Harris as Self
- 2022 · The Lost Girls as Great Nana
- 2021 · Alida Valli: In Her Own Words as Self
- 2021 · Finding You as Cathleen Sweeney
- 2020 · Katherine Jenkins Christmas Spectacular as Self
- 2019 · Georgetown as Elsa Brecht
- 2018 · Nothing Like a Dame as Self (archive footage)
- 2017 · 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 · Man in an Orange Shirt as Flora Berryman
- 2017 · The Secret Scripture as Old Roseanne McNulty
- 2016 · Almeida Theatre Live: Richard III as Queen Margaret
- 2014 · Foxcatcher as Jean du Pont
- 2014 · Black Box as Dr. Hartramph
- 2013 · The Thirteenth Tale as Vida Winter
- 2013 · The Butler as Annabeth Westfall
- 2012 · The Last Will and Testament of Rosalind Leigh as Rosalind Leigh
- 2012 · Song for Marion as Marion
- 2012 · Political Animals as Diane Nash
- 2012 · Shakespeare Uncovered as Herself
- 2012 · Playhouse Presents as
- 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 · How About You... as Georgia Platts
- 2007 · The Riddle as Roberta Elliot
- 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
- 2005 · Short Order as
- 2004 · The Fever as The woman
- 2004 · Thank You, Doctor Rey as herself
- 2003 · Good Boy! as The Greater Dane (voice)
- 2003 · Byron as Lady Melbourne
- 2003 · Nip/Tuck as Dr.Erica Noughton
- 2003 · Nip/Tuck as Dr. Erica Noughton
- 2003 · Byron as Lady Melbourne
- 2002 · The Locket as Esther Huish
- 2002 · Crime and Punishment as Rodion's mother
- 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 · Uninvited as Mrs. Rutterburn
- 2000 · If These Walls Could Talk 2 as Edith Tree
- 2000 · Exile in Buyukada as Narrator
- 1999 · Girl, Interrupted as Dr. Wick
- 1999 · Cradle Will Rock as Countess Constance La Grave
- 1999 · The Early Show as Self
- 1998 · Lulu on the Bridge as Catherine Moore
- 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 · Michael Redgrave: My Father as Self
- 1997 · Smilla's Sense of Snow as Elsa Lübing
- 1996 · The Willows in Winter as Grandmother / Narrator
- 1996 · Looking for Richard as Self - Interviewee
- 1996 · Mission: Impossible as Max
- 1995 · The Wind in the Willows as Grandmother / Narrator
- 1995 · Down Came a Blackbird as Anna Lenke
- 1995 · A Month by the Lake as Miss Bentley
- 1994 · Little Odessa as Irina Shapira
- 1994 · Great Moments in Aviation as Dr. Angela Bead
- 1993 · Intimate Portrait as Self
- 1993 · They as Florence Latimer
- 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 · The Ballad of the Sad Cafe as Miss Amelia
- 1991 · What Ever Happened to Baby Jane? as Blanche Hudson
- 1991 · Young Catherine as Empress Elizabeth
- 1990 · Breath of Life as Suor Crocifissa
- 1990 · Stalin's Funeral as English journalist
- 1990 · Romeo.Juliet as Mother Capulet (voice)
- 1988 · Consuming Passions as Mrs. Garza
- 1987 · Seitenblicke as self
- 1987 · Comrades as Mrs. Carlyle
- 1987 · Prick Up Your Ears as Peggy Ramsay
- 1986 · Peter the Great as Sophia
- 1985 · Wetherby as Jean Travers
- 1985 · Steaming as Nancy
- 1985 · Three Sovereigns for Sarah as Sarah Cloyce
- 1984 · Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs as The Evil Queen
- 1984 · The Bostonians as Olive Chancellor
- 1984 · Goldene Kamera as Self
- 1983 · Sing Sing as la Regina
- 1983 · Wagner as Cosima von Bulow
- 1982 · Faerie Tale Theatre as The Evil Queen
- 1981 · Wetten, dass..? as Self
- 1980 · Playing for Time as Fania Fenelon
- 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
- 1976 · The Seven-Per-Cent Solution as Lola Deveraux
- 1975 · Out of Season as Ann
- 1974 · Murder on the Orient Express as Mary Debenham
- 1972 · Right to Work March as
- 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
- 1970 · Dropout as Mary
- 1970 · The Body as Narrator
- 1970 · A Mother with Two Children Expecting Her Third as Herself
- 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
- 1968 · Red, White, and Zero as Jacky
- 1967 · Camelot as Guenevere
- 1967 · Omnibus as Self
- 1967 · Tonite Let's All Make Love in London as Self
- 1966 · Blow-Up as Jane
- 1966 · A Man for All Seasons as Anne Boleyn
- 1966 · Morgan: A Suitable Case for Treatment as Leonie Delt
- 1960 · Sunday-Night Play as Monica Claverton-Ferry
- 1958 · Behind the Mask as Pamela Benson-Gray
- 1956 · Tony Awards as Self - Winner
- 1956 · Tony Awards as Self - Presenter
- 1956 · Tony Awards as Self - Nominee
- 1953 · The Oscars as Self
- 1952 · Today as Self
- 1951 · Hallmark Hall of Fame as Esther Huish
- Future · All That I Am as
- Future · The Estate as
- 2024 · Merchant Ivory as Self
- 2021 · Alice, Through the Looking as Narrator
- 2020 · Entree Des Artists as Henry's Grandmother
- 2019 · Mrs Lowry & Son as Elizabeth Lowry
- 2019 · The Aspern Papers as Juliana Bordereau
- 2016 · Electric Burma: The Concert for Aung San Suu Kyi - Words I Never Said as Self
- 2015 · The Go-Between as Older Marian
- 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 · The Shell Seekers as Penelope Keeling
- 2007 · Dealing and Wheeling in Small Arms as Narrator
- 2006 · Eugene O’Neill: A Documentary Film as Self
- 2005 · Elio Petri: Notes About a Filmmaker as Self
- 2005 · The Keeper: The Legend of Omar Khayyam as Miss Sangorski
- 2002 · Hell on Earth: The Desecration & Resurrection of The Devils as Self
- 2002 · Searching for Debra Winger as Self
- 2001 · Escape to Life: The Erika and Klaus Mann Story as (voice)
- 2000 · A Rumor of Angels as Maddy Bennett
- 2000 · The Adventures of Young Indiana Jones: Love's Sweet Song as Vicky's Mother
- 2000 · Mirka as Kalsan
- 2000 · 1961 as Edith Tree
- 1998 · Déjà Vu as Skelly
- 1996 · Two Mothers for Zachary as Nancy Shaffell
- 1994 · Inside the Actors Studio as Self
- 1994 · Sparrow as Suor Agata
- 1993 · A Wall of Silence as Kate Benson
- 1990 · Orpheus Descending as Lady Torrance
- 1988 · A Man for All Seasons as Lady Alice More
- 1986 · Second Serve as Renee Richards
- 1985 · Three Sovereigns for Sarah as Sarah Cloyce
- 1982 · My Body, My Child as Leenie Cabrezi
- 1980 · The Fifth War as
- 1977 · The Palestinian as Self
- 1973 · A Picture of Katherine Mansfield as Katherine Mansfield
- 1969 · No Arks as Narrator
- 1968 · Red and Blue as Jacky
- 1967 · The Sailor from Gibraltar as Sheila
- 1964 · Maggie as Maggie
- 1963 · As You Like It as Rosalind
- 1961 · A Sunday in September as Self
- Future · The Boy at the Back of the Class as Queen
- Future · The Crystal Planet as The Matriarch (voice)
- 1961 · Circus at Clopton Hall as Narrator
- 1944 · Golden Globe Awards as Self - Nominee