Vanessa Redgrave
Known for Acting · 194 credits
- Born
- 1937-01-30 (age 89)
- Place of birth
- Greenwich, London, England, UK
- Also known as
- Vanessa Redgreiv · Dame Vanessa Redgrave
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 (39)
Golden Globe Awards
1944
as Self - Nominee
The View
1997
as Self
Nip/Tuck
2003
as Dr.Erica Noughton / Dr. Erica Noughton
Wetten, dass..?
1981
as Self
Tony Awards
1956
as Self - Presenter / Self - Winner / Self - Nominee
NDR Talk Show
1979
as Self
Call the Midwife
2012
as Jennifer Worth (voice)
Screen Two
1985
as Dr. Angela Bead
American Playhouse
1982
as Sarah Cloyce
Today
1952
as Self
Intimate Portrait
1993
as Self
Omnibus
1967
as Self
The Oscars
1953
as Self
Film '72
1971
as Self
Goldene Kamera
1984
as Self
Playhouse Presents
2012
as Elderly Woman
Faerie Tale Theatre
1982
as The Evil Queen
Sabine Christiansen
1998
as Self
Sunday-Night Play
1960
as Monica Claverton-Ferry
The Early Show
1999
as Self
Seitenblicke
1987
as self
Theatre Night
1957
as Caroline Lester
Hallmark Hall of Fame
1951
as Esther Huish
Black Box
2014
as Dr. Hartramph
Political Animals
2012
as Diane Nash
Man in an Orange Shirt
2017
as Flora Berryman
One Pair of Eyes
1967
The Day of the Triffids
2009
as Durrant
Jack and the Beanstalk: The Real Story
2001
as Countess Wilhelmina
Hollywood U.K.: British Cinema in the Sixties
1993
as Self
Armchair Theatre
1956
as Sally
Peter the Great
1986
as Sophia
Inside the Actors Studio
1994
as Self
Byron
2003
as Lady Melbourne
Wagner
1983
as Cosima von Bulow
Shakespeare Uncovered
2012
as Herself
Young Catherine
1991
as Empress Elizabeth
Three Sovereigns for Sarah
1985
as Sarah Cloyce
A Picture of Katherine Mansfield
1973
as Katherine Mansfield
Movies (155)
Cars 2
2011
as The Queen / Mama Topolino (voice)
Cold Storage
2026
as Mary Rooney
Mission: Impossible
1996
as Max
Girl, Interrupted
1999
as Dr. Wick
Atonement
2007
as Briony Tallis (Age 77)
Deep Impact
1998
as Robin Lerner
Letters to Juliet
2010
as Claire
The Estate
2025
The Palestinian
1977
as Self
Murder on the Orient Express
1974
as Mary Debenham
Stalin's Funeral
1990
as English journalist
The Butler
2013
as Annabeth Westfall
A Man for All Seasons
1966
as Anne Boleyn
The House of the Spirits
1993
as Nivea del Valle
Howards End
1992
as Ruth Wilcox
Wilde
1997
as Lady Speranza Wilde
Foxcatcher
2014
as Jean du Pont
The Pledge
2001
as Annalise Hansen
The Devils
1971
as Sister Jeanne des Anges
The Trojan Women
1971
as Andromache
Coriolanus
2011
as Volumnia
The Whistleblower
2010
as Madeleine Rees
The Secret Scripture
2017
as Old Roseanne McNulty
Georgetown
2019
as Elsa Brecht
Song for Marion
2012
as Marion
Restraint
2008
as Sky News Reader #2
Consuming Passions
1988
as Mrs. Garza
Maggie
1964
as Maggie
Merchant Ivory
2024
as Self
Anonymous
2011
as Queen Elizabeth I
Finding You
2021
as Cathleen Sweeney
Camelot
1967
as Guenevere
The Thief Lord
2006
as Sister Antonia
Sing Sing
1983
as la Regina
Romeo.Juliet
1990
as Mother Capulet (voice)
Blow-Up
1966
as Jane
Smilla's Sense of Snow
1997
as Elsa Lübing
Looking for Richard
1996
as Self - Interviewee
The Gathering Storm
2002
as Clemmie Churchill
Crime and Punishment
2002
as Rodion's mother
The Charge of the Light Brigade
1968
as Mrs Clarissa Morris
Good Boy!
2003
as The Greater Dane (voice)
Cradle Will Rock
1999
as Countess Constance La Grave
The Crystal Planet
2026
as The Matriarch (voice)
Film Stars Don't Die in Liverpool
2017
as Jeanne McDougall
Evening
2007
as Ann Lord
Short Order
2005
as Marianne
Orpheus Descending
1990
as Lady Torrance
Bella Mafia
1997
as Graziella Luciano
Julia
1977
as Julia
If These Walls Could Talk 2
2000
as Edith Tree
Yanks
1979
as Helen
Oh! What a Lovely War
1969
as Sylvia Pankhurst
Mrs. Dalloway
1997
as Mrs. Clarissa Dalloway
A Man for All Seasons
1988
as Lady Alice More
Little Odessa
1994
as Irina Shapira
The Thirteenth Tale
2013
as Vida Winter
The Wind in the Willows
1995
as Grandmother / Narrator
Mary, Queen of Scots
1971
as Mary, Queen of Scots
Sparrow
1994
as Suor Agata
Playing for Time
1980
as Fania Fenelon
Vacation
1971
as Immacolata Meneghelli
Nothing Like a Dame
2018
as Self (archive footage)
Mother's Boys
1993
as Lydia
Last Will. & Testament
2012
The Go-Between
2015
as Older Marian
Down Came a Blackbird
1995
as Anna Lenke
Prick Up Your Ears
1987
as Peggy Ramsay
Isadora
1968
as Isadora Duncan
The White Countess
2005
as Princess Vera Belinskya
Mrs Lowry & Son
2019
as Elizabeth Lowry
Thank You, Doctor Rey
2003
as herself
Lulu on the Bridge
1998
as Catherine Moore
A Rumor of Angels
2000
as Maddy Bennett
The Lost Girls
2022
as Great Nana
They
1993
as Florence Latimer
The Seven-Per-Cent Solution
1976
as Lola Deveraux
Dropout
1970
as Mary
Second Serve
1986
as Renee Richards
Michael Redgrave: My Father
1997
as Self
Bear Island
1979
as Heddi Lindquist
Two Mothers for Zachary
1996
as Nancy Shaffell
The Last Will and Testament of Rosalind Leigh
2012
as Rosalind Leigh
The Bostonians
1984
as Olive Chancellor
The Aspern Papers
2019
as Juliana Bordereau
Behind the Mask : The IRA and Sinn Fein
1997
as Self
A Month by the Lake
1995
as Miss Bentley
Great Moments in Aviation
1994
as Dr. Angela Bead
The Locket
2002
as Esther Huish
A Quiet Place in the Country
1968
as Flavia
Entree Des Artists
2020
as Henry's Grandmother
Agatha
1979
as Agatha Christie
How About You...
2007
as Georgia Platts
Venus
2006
as Valerie
My Body, My Child
1982
as Leenie Cabrezi
1961
2000
as Edith Tree
Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs
1984
as The Evil Queen
Red and Blue
1968
as Jacky
The Willows in Winter
1996
as Grandmother / Narrator
The Ballad of the Sad Cafe
1991
as Miss Amelia
Steaming
1985
as Nancy
Searching for Debra Winger
2002
as Self
Déjà Vu
1998
as Skelly
Joan Didion: The Center Will Not Hold
2017
as Self
Breath of Life
1990
as Suor Crocifissa
The Ghost of Richard Harris
2022
as Self
Behind the Mask
1958
as Pamela Benson-Gray
The Fever
2004
as The woman
Almeida Theatre Live: Richard III
2016
as Queen Margaret
The Wound and the Gift
2014
Miral
2010
as Bertha Spafford
Tonite Let's All Make Love in London
1967
as Self
As You Like It
1963
as Rosalind
Byron
2003
as Lady Melbourne
Sea Sorrow
2017
as Self
Morgan: A Suitable Case for Treatment
1966
as Leonie Delt
The Adventures of Young Indiana Jones: Love's Sweet Song
2000
as Vicky's Mother
A Wall of Silence
1993
as Kate Benson
Wetherby
1985
as Jean Travers
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 194 credits spanning from 1944 to 2026, Vanessa Redgrave has appeared in 155 films and 39 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
- Mission: Impossible (1996) — as Max
- Girl, Interrupted (1999) — as Dr. Wick
- Atonement (2007) — as Briony Tallis (Age 77)
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