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. Description above from the Wikipedia article Vanessa Redgrave, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Known For
Credits
- 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
- 2019 · The Aspern Papers as Juliana Bordereau
- 2017 · Joan Didion: The Center Will Not Hold as Self
- 2015 · The Go-Between as Older Marian
- 2007 · How About You... as Georgia Platts
- 2007 · The Shell Seekers as Penelope Keeling
- 2007 · The Riddle as Roberta Elliot
- 2005 · Short Order as
- 2004 · The Fever as Woman
- 2003 · Byron as Lady Melbourne
- 2002 · The Locket as Esther Huish
- 2002 · Searching for Debra Winger as Self
- 2002 · Crime and Punishment as Rodion's mother
- 2002 · The Adventures of Young Indiana Jones: Love's Sweet Song as Vicky's Mother
- 2000 · A Rumor of Angels as Maddy Bennett
- 2000 · Uninvited as Mrs. Rutterburn
- 1998 · Déjà Vu as Skelly
- 1996 · The Willows in Winter as Grandmother / Narrator
- 1995 · The Wind in the Willows as Grandmother / Narrator
- 1994 · Inside the Actors Studio as Self
- 1994 · Great Moments in Aviation as Dr. Angela Bead
- 1994 · Sparrow as Suor Agata
- 1993 · They as Florence Latimer
- 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 · Romeo.Juliet as Mother Capulet (voice)
- 1988 · A Man for All Seasons as Lady Alice More
- 1988 · Consuming Passions as Mrs. Garza
- 1987 · Comrades as Mrs. Carlyle
- 1986 · Second Serve as Renee Richards
- 1985 · Steaming as Nancy
- 1980 · Playing for Time as Fania Fenelon
- 1975 · Out of Season as Ann
- 1973 · A Picture of Katherine Mansfield as Katherine Mansfield
- 1971 · Vacation as Immacolata Meneghelli
- 1971 · The Trojan Women as Andromache
- 1970 · Dropout as Mary
- 1970 · The Body as Narrator
- 1968 · The Sea Gull as Nina
- 1968 · A Quiet Place in the Country as Flavia
- 1968 · Red and Blue as Jacky
- 1967 · The Sailor from Gibraltar as Sheila
- 1966 · Morgan: A Suitable Case for Treatment as Leonie Delt
- 1958 · Behind the Mask as Pamela Benson-Gray
- Future · The Estate as
- 2021 · Alice, Through the Looking as Narrator
- 2021 · Alida Valli: In Her Own Words as Self
- 2021 · Finding You as Cathleen Sweeney
- 2020 · Katherine Jenkins Christmas Spectacular as Self
- 2020 · Entree Des Artists as Henry's Grandmother
- 2019 · Mrs Lowry & Son as Elizabeth Lowry
- 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 · 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
- 2014 · Foxcatcher as Jean du Pont
- 2014 · The Wound and the Gift as
- 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 · The Last Will and Testament of Rosalind Leigh as Rosalind Leigh
- 2012 · Last Will. & Testament as
- 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)
- 2012 · Call the Midwife as Mature Jenny
- 2012 · Call the Midwife as Mature 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
- 2009 · God, Smell and Her as
- 2008 · Ein Job as Hannah Silbergrau
- 2008 · Restraint as Sky News Reader #2
- 2007 · Evening as Ann Lord
- 2007 · Atonement as Briony Tallis (Age 77)
- 2007 · Dealing and Wheeling in Small Arms as Narrator
- 2006 · Venus as Valerie
- 2006 · Eugene O’Neill: A Documentary Film as Self
- 2006 · The Thief Lord as Sister Antonia
- 2005 · The White Countess as Princess Vera Belinskya
- 2005 · Elio Petri: Notes About a Filmmaker as Self
- 2005 · The Keeper: The Legend of Omar Khayyam as Miss Sangorski
- 2004 · Thank You, Doctor Rey as herself
- 2003 · Good Boy! as The Greater Dane (voice)
- 2003 · Nip/Tuck as
- 2003 · Byron as Lady Melbourne
- 2002 · Hell on Earth: The Desecration & Resurrection of The Devils as Self
- 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 · 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
- 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 · Wilde as Lady Speranza Wilde
- 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 · Down Came a Blackbird as Anna Lenke
- 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
- 1993 · A Wall of Silence as Kate Benson
- 1992 · Howards End as Ruth Wilcox
- 1991 · Young Catherine as Empress Elizabeth
- 1990 · Breath of Life as Suor Crocifissa
- 1990 · Stalin's Funeral as English journalist
- 1987 · Seitenblicke as self
- 1987 · Prick Up Your Ears as Peggy Ramsay
- 1986 · Peter the Great as Sophia
- 1985 · Wetherby as Jean Travers
- 1985 · Three Sovereigns for Sarah as Sarah Cloyce
- 1985 · Three Sovereigns for Sarah as Sarah Cloyce
- Future · All That I Am as
- 1984 · Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs as The Evil Queen
- 1984 · The Bostonians as Olive Chancellor
- 1983 · Sing Sing as la Regina
- 1983 · Wagner as Cosima von Bulow
- 1982 · Faerie Tale Theatre as The Evil Queen
- 1982 · My Body, My Child as Leenie Cabrezi
- 1981 · Wetten, dass..? as Self
- 1980 · The Fifth War as
- 1979 · Red, White, and Zero as Jacky
- 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
- 1967 · Tonite Let's All Make Love in London as Self
- Future · The Boy At The Back Of The Class as Queen
- 1977 · The Palestinian as Self
- 1976 · The Seven-Per-Cent Solution as Lola Deveraux
- 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
- 1970 · A Mother with Two Children Expecting Her Third as Herself
- 1969 · No Arks as Narrator
- 1969 · Oh! What a Lovely War as Sylvia Pankhurst
- 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
- 1966 · Goldene Kamera Verleihung as Self
- 1963 · As You Like It as Rosalind
- 1961 · A Sunday in September as Self
- Future · The Nest as Elsie
- 1964 · Maggie as Maggie
- 1961 · Circus at Clopton Hall as Narrator
- 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
- 1944 · Golden Globe Awards as Self - Winner
- 1944 · Golden Globe Awards as Self - Nominee