
Vanessa Redgrave
Known for Acting · 193 credits
- Born
- 1937-01-30 (age 89)
- Place of birth
- Greenwich, London, England, UK
- Also known as
- Vanessa Redgreiv · 바네사 레드그레이브 · Ванесса Редгрейв
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
TV Shows (38)

Call the Midwife
2012
as Jennifer Worth (voice)

The View
1997
as Self

Golden Globe Awards
1944
as Self - Nominee

NDR Talk Show
1979
as Self

Nip/Tuck
2003
as Dr.Erica Noughton / Dr. Erica Noughton

Tony Awards
1956
as Self - Presenter / Self - Winner / Self - Nominee

Wetten, dass..?
1981
as Self

Omnibus
1967
as Self

Intimate Portrait
1993
as Self

Screen Two
1985
as Dr. Angela Bead

The Oscars
1953
as Self

Faerie Tale Theatre
1982
as The Evil Queen
Film '72
1971
as Self
Goldene Kamera
1984
as Self
Sabine Christiansen
1998
as Self

Today
1952
as Self

Playhouse Presents
2012
as Elderly Woman
Sunday-Night Play
1960
as Monica Claverton-Ferry
Seitenblicke
1987
as self

Political Animals
2012
as Diane Nash

Black Box
2014
as Dr. Hartramph

Jack and the Beanstalk: The Real Story
2001
as Countess Wilhelmina

The Early Show
1999
as Self

Hallmark Hall of Fame
1951
as Esther Huish

The Day of the Triffids
2009
as Durrant

Peter the Great
1986
as Sophia

Man in an Orange Shirt
2017
as Flora Berryman

Theatre Night
1957
as Caroline Lester

Hollywood U.K.: British Cinema in the Sixties
1993
as Self

Armchair Theatre
1956
as Sally

Wagner
1983
as Cosima von Bulow

Byron
2003
as Lady Melbourne

Inside the Actors Studio
1994
as Self

Young Catherine
1991
as Empress Elizabeth

Shakespeare Uncovered
2012
as Herself

One Pair of Eyes
1967

A Picture of Katherine Mansfield
1973
as Katherine Mansfield

Three Sovereigns for Sarah
1985
as Sarah Cloyce
Movies (155)

Cars 2
2011
as The Queen / Mama Topolino (voice)

Cold Storage
2026
as Mary Rooney

Atonement
2007
as Briony Tallis (Age 77)

Mission: Impossible
1996
as Max

Girl, Interrupted
1999
as Dr. Wick

Deep Impact
1998
as Robin Lerner

Murder on the Orient Express
1974
as Mary Debenham

The Butler
2013
as Annabeth Westfall

The House of the Spirits
1993
as Nivea del Valle

Letters to Juliet
2010
as Claire

Wilde
1997
as Lady Speranza Wilde

The Pledge
2001
as Annalise Hansen

Foxcatcher
2014
as Jean du Pont

The Devils
1971
as Sister Jeanne des Anges

Finding You
2021
as Cathleen Sweeney

Howards End
1992
as Ruth Wilcox

The Whistleblower
2010
as Madeleine Rees

Blow-Up
1966
as Jane

Little Odessa
1994
as Irina Shapira

Anonymous
2011
as Queen Elizabeth I

Evening
2007
as Ann Lord

A Man for All Seasons
1966
as Anne Boleyn

Coriolanus
2011
as Volumnia

The White Countess
2005
as Princess Vera Belinskya

Camelot
1967
as Guenevere

Cradle Will Rock
1999
as Countess Constance La Grave

Film Stars Don't Die in Liverpool
2017
as Jeanne McDougall

The Secret Scripture
2017
as Old Roseanne McNulty

Restraint
2008
as Sky News Reader #2

The Charge of the Light Brigade
1968
as Mrs Clarissa Morris

Mary, Queen of Scots
1971
as Mary, Queen of Scots

Song for Marion
2012
as Marion

If These Walls Could Talk 2
2000
as Edith Tree

Georgetown
2019
as Elsa Brecht

Venus
2006
as Valerie

Julia
1977
as Julia

Smilla's Sense of Snow
1997
as Elsa Lübing

The Gathering Storm
2002
as Clemmie Churchill

Bear Island
1979
as Heddi Lindquist

Looking for Richard
1996
as Self - Interviewee

Searching for Debra Winger
2002
as Self

Yanks
1979
as Helen

Oh! What a Lovely War
1969
as Sylvia Pankhurst

The Thirteenth Tale
2013
as Vida Winter
Maggie
1964
as Maggie

Sing Sing
1983
as la Regina

Good Boy!
2003
as The Greater Dane (voice)

The Seven-Per-Cent Solution
1976
as Lola Deveraux

Bella Mafia
1997
as Graziella Luciano

Miral
2010
as Bertha Spafford

Mrs. Dalloway
1997
as Mrs. Clarissa Dalloway

Nothing Like a Dame
2018
as Self (archive footage)

Mother's Boys
1993
as Lydia

The Fever
2007
as The woman

Crime and Punishment
2002
as Rodion's mother

The Wind in the Willows
1995
as Grandmother / Narrator

The Lost Girls
2022
as Great Nana

Vacation
1971
as Immacolata Meneghelli

Playing for Time
1980
as Fania Fenelon

The Adventures of Young Indiana Jones: Love's Sweet Song
2000
as Vicky's Mother

The Bostonians
1984
as Olive Chancellor

Agatha
1979
as Agatha Christie

The Thief Lord
2006
as Sister Antonia

Comrades
1987
as Mrs. Carlyle

Morgan: A Suitable Case for Treatment
1966
as Leonie Delt

Prick Up Your Ears
1987
as Peggy Ramsay

Eugene O’Neill: A Documentary Film
2006
as Self

The Estate
2025

Sea Sorrow
2017
as Self

The Trojan Women
1971
as Andromache

Wetherby
1985
as Jean Travers

Isadora
1968
as Isadora Duncan

Hell on Earth: The Desecration & Resurrection of The Devils
2002
as Self

A Quiet Place in the Country
1968
as Flavia

Consuming Passions
1988
as Mrs. Garza

Tonite Let's All Make Love in London
1967
as Self

The Ghost of Richard Harris
2022
as Self

Merchant Ivory
2024
as Self

The Aspern Papers
2019
as Juliana Bordereau

Joan Didion: The Center Will Not Hold
2017
as Self

Red, White, and Zero
1968
as Jacky

Lulu on the Bridge
1998
as Catherine Moore

Sparrow
1994
as Suor Agata

Almeida Theatre Live: Richard III
2016
as Queen Margaret

Second Serve
1986
as Renee Richards

The Last Will and Testament of Rosalind Leigh
2012
as Rosalind Leigh

Mrs Lowry & Son
2019
as Elizabeth Lowry
The Boy at the Back of the Class
as Queen

The Ballad of the Sad Cafe
1991
as Miss Amelia

The Keeper: The Legend of Omar Khayyam
2005
as Miss Sangorski

How About You...
2007
as Georgia Platts

Byron
2003
as Lady Melbourne

Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs
1984
as The Evil Queen

A Man for All Seasons
1988
as Lady Alice More

1961
2000
as Edith Tree

The Sea Gull
1968
as Nina

A Month by the Lake
1995
as Miss Bentley

Stalin's Funeral
1990
as English journalist

Mirka
2000
as Kalsan

The Go-Between
2015
as Older Marian

On Our Way
2023

Alice, Through the Looking
2021
as Narrator

The Riddle
2007
as Roberta Elliot

Two Mothers for Zachary
1996
as Nancy Shaffell

Dropout
1970
as Mary

Elio Petri: Notes About a Filmmaker
2005
as Self

They
1993
as Florence Latimer

Steaming
1985
as Nancy

The Locket
2002
as Esther Huish

Thank You, Doctor Rey
2003
as herself

The Willows in Winter
1996
as Grandmother / Narrator

The Shell Seekers
2007
as Penelope Keeling

The Sailor from Gibraltar
1967
as Sheila

Behind the Mask
1958
as Pamela Benson-Gray

A Rumor of Angels
2000
as Maddy Bennett

Electric Burma: The Concert for Aung San Suu Kyi - Words I Never Said
2016
as Self

Great Moments in Aviation
1994
as Dr. Angela Bead

Three Sovereigns for Sarah
1985
as Sarah Cloyce

Uninvited
2000
as Mrs. Rutterburn

What Ever Happened to Baby Jane?
1991
as Blanche Hudson
About 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 Magica… With 193 credits spanning from 1944 to 2026, Vanessa Redgrave has appeared in 155 films and 38 TV shows.
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Most Popular Vanessa Redgrave Movies
- Cars 2 (2011) — as The Queen / Mama Topolino (voice)
- Cold Storage (2026) — as Mary Rooney
- Atonement (2007) — as Briony Tallis (Age 77)
- Mission: Impossible (1996) — as Max
- Girl, Interrupted (1999) — as Dr. Wick
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