
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
- 2026 · Cold Storage as Ma Rooney
- 2024 · Merchant Ivory as Self
- 2023 · On Our Way as
- 2022 · The Ghost of Richard Harris as Self
- 2022 · The Lost Girls as Great Nana
- 2020 · Katherine Jenkins Christmas Spectacular as Self
- 2018 · Nothing Like a Dame as Self (archive footage)
- 2017 · Sea Sorrow as Self
- 2017 · Joan Didion: The Center Will Not Hold as Self
- 2014 · Black Box as Dr. Hartramph
- 2012 · Song for Marion as Marion
- 2012 · Shakespeare Uncovered as Herself
- 2009 · God, Smell and Her as
- 2008 · Restraint as Sky News Reader #2
- 2007 · How About You... as Georgia Platts
- 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
- 2003 · Good Boy! as The Greater Dane (voice)
- 2003 · Byron as Lady Melbourne
- 2002 · Hell on Earth: The Desecration & Resurrection of The Devils as Self
- 2000 · Uninvited as Mrs. Rutterburn
- 1999 · The Early Show as Self
- 1998 · Lulu on the Bridge as Catherine Moore
- 1997 · Wilde as Lady Speranza Wilde
- 1996 · The Willows in Winter as Grandmother / Narrator
- 1993 · They as Florence Latimer
- 1991 · Young Catherine as Empress Elizabeth
- 1990 · Breath of Life as Suor Crocifissa
- 1987 · Prick Up Your Ears as Peggy Ramsay
- 1986 · Peter the Great as Sophia
- 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
- 1983 · Wagner as Cosima von Bulow
- 1979 · Red, White, and Zero as Jacky
- 1979 · Bear Island as Heddi Lindquist
- 1979 · Yanks as Helen
- 1979 · Agatha as Agatha Christie
- 1976 · The Seven-Per-Cent Solution as Lola Deveraux
- 1973 · A Picture of Katherine Mansfield as Katherine Mansfield
- 1971 · Vacation as Immacolata Meneghelli
- 1970 · Dropout as Mary
- 1970 · A Mother with Two Children Expecting Her Third as Herself
- 1966 · A Man for All Seasons as Anne Boleyn
- 1958 · Behind the Mask as Pamela Benson-Gray
- 1952 · Today as Self
- Future · The Crystal Planet as The Matriarch (voice)
- 2021 · Alice, Through the Looking as Narrator
- 2021 · Alida Valli: In Her Own Words as Self
- 2021 · Finding You as Cathleen Sweeney
- 2020 · Entree Des Artists as Henry's Grandmother
- 2019 · Mrs Lowry & Son as Elizabeth Lowry
- 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
- 2016 · Electric Burma: The Concert for Aung San Suu Kyi - Words I Never Said as Self
- 2016 · Almeida Theatre Live: Richard III as Queen Margaret
- 2015 · The Go-Between as Older Marian
- 2014 · Foxcatcher as Jean du Pont
- 2014 · The Wound and the Gift as
- 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 · Last Will. & Testament as
- 2012 · Political Animals as Diane Nash
- 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 · Robinson in Ruins as Narrator
- 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 · Ein Job as Hannah Silbergrau
- 2007 · Dealing and Wheeling in Small Arms as Narrator
- 2005 · Elio Petri: Notes About a Filmmaker as Self
- 2005 · The Keeper: The Legend of Omar Khayyam as Miss Sangorski
- 2002 · The Locket as Esther Huish
- 2002 · Searching for Debra Winger as Self
- Future · All That I Am as
- 2007 · The Shell Seekers as Penelope Keeling
- 2007 · The Riddle as Roberta Elliot
- 2007 · Evening as Ann Lord
- 2007 · Atonement as Briony Tallis (Age 77)
- 2006 · Venus as Valerie
- 2006 · Eugene O’Neill: A Documentary Film as Self
- 2004 · Thank You, Doctor Rey as herself
- 2003 · Byron as Lady Melbourne
- 2003 · Nip/Tuck as Dr.Erica Noughton
- 2003 · Nip/Tuck as Dr. Erica Noughton
- 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 · Escape to Life: The Erika and Klaus Mann Story as (voice)
- 2001 · The Pledge as Annalise Hansen
- 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 · If These Walls Could Talk 2 as Edith Tree
- 2000 · 1961 as Edith Tree
- 2000 · Exile in Buyukada as Narrator
- 1999 · Girl, Interrupted as Dr. Wick
- 1999 · Cradle Will Rock as Countess Constance La Grave
- 1998 · Deep Impact as Robin Lerner
- 1998 · Déjà Vu as Skelly
- 1998 · Sabine Christiansen as Self
- 1997 · Bella Mafia as Graziella Luciano
- 1997 · Mrs. Dalloway as Mrs. Clarissa Dalloway
- 1997 · The View as Self
- 1997 · Michael Redgrave: My Father as Self
- 1997 · Smilla's Sense of Snow as Elsa Lübing
- 1996 · Looking for Richard as Self - Interviewee
- 1996 · Two Mothers for Zachary as Nancy Shaffell
- 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 · Inside the Actors Studio as Self
- 1994 · Great Moments in Aviation as Dr. Angela Bead
- 1994 · Sparrow as Suor Agata
- 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
- 1993 · A Wall of Silence as Kate Benson
- 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
- 1990 · Orpheus Descending as Lady Torrance
- 1990 · Stalin's Funeral as English journalist
- 1990 · Romeo.Juliet as Mother Capulet (voice)
- 1988 · A Man for All Seasons as Lady Alice More
- 1988 · Consuming Passions as Mrs. Garza
- 1987 · Seitenblicke as self
- 1987 · Comrades as Mrs. Carlyle
- 1986 · Second Serve as Renee Richards
- 1985 · Wetherby as Jean Travers
- 1985 · Three Sovereigns for Sarah as Sarah Cloyce
- 1984 · Goldene Kamera Verleihung as Self
- 1983 · Sing Sing as la Regina
- 1982 · Faerie Tale Theatre as The Evil Queen
- 1982 · My Body, My Child as Leenie Cabrezi
- 1981 · Wetten, dass..? as Self
- 1980 · Playing for Time as Fania Fenelon
- 1980 · The Fifth War as
- 1979 · NDR Talk Show as Self
- 1977 · Julia as Julia
- 1977 · The Palestinian as Self
- 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 · The Devils as Sister Jeanne des Anges
- 1971 · The Trojan Women as Andromache
- 1970 · The Body as Narrator
- 1969 · No Arks as Narrator
- 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 · Red and Blue as Jacky
- 1968 · The Charge of the Light Brigade as Mrs Clarissa Morris
- 1967 · Camelot as Guenevere
- 1967 · Omnibus as Self
- 1967 · Tonite Let's All Make Love in London as Self
- 1967 · The Sailor from Gibraltar as Sheila
- 1966 · Blow-Up as Jane
- 1966 · Morgan: A Suitable Case for Treatment as Leonie Delt
- 1964 · Maggie as Maggie
- Future · The Estate as
- 1963 · As You Like It as Rosalind
- 1961 · A Sunday in September as Self
- 1961 · Circus at Clopton Hall as Narrator
- 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
- 1951 · Hallmark Hall of Fame as Esther Huish
- 1944 · Golden Globe Awards as Self - Nominee
- Future · The Boy at the Back of the Class as Queen