Vanessa Redgrave

Born: 1937-01-30 in Greenwich, London, England, UK

Known For: Acting

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.

Filmography

2026

Cold Storage as Mary Rooney
The Crystal Planet as The Matriarch (voice)

2019

Georgetown as Elsa Brecht
The Aspern Papers as Juliana Bordereau
Mrs Lowry & Son as Elizabeth Lowry

2018

Nothing Like a Dame as Self (archive footage)

2017

Man in an Orange Shirt as Flora Berryman
The Secret Scripture as Old Roseanne McNulty
Film Stars Don't Die in Liverpool as Jeanne McDougall
Joan Didion: The Center Will Not Hold as Self
Sea Sorrow as Self

2016

Almeida Theatre Live: Richard III as Queen Margaret
Electric Burma: The Concert for Aung San Suu Kyi - Words I Never Said as Self

2015

The Go-Between as Older Marian

2014

Black Box as Dr. Hartramph
Foxcatcher as Jean du Pont
The Wound and the Gift

2013

The Butler as Annabeth Westfall
The Thirteenth Tale as Vida Winter

2012

Call the Midwife as Jennifer Worth (voice)
Playhouse Presents as Elderly Woman
Political Animals as Diane Nash
Shakespeare Uncovered as Herself
Song for Marion as Marion
The Last Will and Testament of Rosalind Leigh as Rosalind Leigh
Last Will. & Testament

2011

Cars 2 as The Queen / Mama Topolino (voice)
Anonymous as Queen Elizabeth I
Coriolanus as Volumnia

2010

Letters to Juliet as Claire
The Whistleblower as Madeleine Rees
Miral as Bertha Spafford
Robinson in Ruins as Narrator

2009

The Day of the Triffids as Durrant
God, Smell and Her

2008

Restraint as Sky News Reader #2
Ein Job as Hannah Silbergrau

2007

Atonement as Briony Tallis (Age 77)
Evening as Ann Lord
The Shell Seekers as Penelope Keeling
The Fever as The woman
The Riddle as Roberta Elliot
How About You... as Georgia Platts
Dealing and Wheeling in Small Arms as Narrator

2006

Venus as Valerie
Eugene O’Neill: A Documentary Film as Self
The Thief Lord as Sister Antonia

2005

The White Countess as Princess Vera Belinskya
The Keeper: The Legend of Omar Khayyam as Miss Sangorski
Elio Petri: Notes About a Filmmaker as Self
Short Order as Marianne

2004

Thank You, Doctor Rey as herself

2003

Nip/Tuck as Dr.Erica Noughton
Byron as Lady Melbourne
Good Boy! as The Greater Dane (voice)
Byron as Lady Melbourne

2002

Searching for Debra Winger as Self
The Gathering Storm as Clemmie Churchill
Crime and Punishment as Rodion's mother
The Locket as Esther Huish
Hell on Earth: The Desecration & Resurrection of The Devils as Self

2001

Jack and the Beanstalk: The Real Story as Countess Wilhelmina
The Pledge as Annalise Hansen
Escape to Life: The Erika and Klaus Mann Story as (voice)

2000

If These Walls Could Talk 2 as Edith Tree
The Adventures of Young Indiana Jones: Love's Sweet Song as Vicky's Mother
A Rumor of Angels as Maddy Bennett
Mirka as Kalsan
Uninvited as Mrs. Rutterburn
1961 as Edith Tree
Exile in Buyukada as Narrator

1999

Girl, Interrupted as Dr. Wick
The Early Show as Self
Cradle Will Rock as Countess Constance La Grave

1998

Deep Impact as Robin Lerner
Sabine Christiansen as Self
Lulu on the Bridge as Catherine Moore
Déjà Vu as Skelly

1997

The View as Self
Wilde as Lady Speranza Wilde
Smilla's Sense of Snow as Elsa Lübing
Mrs. Dalloway as Mrs. Clarissa Dalloway
Bella Mafia as Graziella Luciano
Michael Redgrave: My Father as Self
Behind the Mask : The IRA and Sinn Fein as Self

1996

Mission: Impossible as Max
Looking for Richard as Self - Interviewee
The Willows in Winter as Grandmother / Narrator
Two Mothers for Zachary as Nancy Shaffell

1995

A Month by the Lake as Miss Bentley
The Wind in the Willows as Grandmother / Narrator
Down Came a Blackbird as Anna Lenke

1994

Inside the Actors Studio as Self
Little Odessa as Irina Shapira
Sparrow as Suor Agata
Great Moments in Aviation as Dr. Angela Bead

1993

Intimate Portrait as Self
The House of the Spirits as Nivea del Valle
Hollywood U.K.: British Cinema in the Sixties as Self
Mother's Boys as Lydia
They as Florence Latimer
A Wall of Silence as Kate Benson

1992

Howards End as Ruth Wilcox

1991

Young Catherine as Empress Elizabeth
The Ballad of the Sad Cafe as Miss Amelia
What Ever Happened to Baby Jane? as Blanche Hudson

1990

Romeo.Juliet as Mother Capulet (voice)
Stalin's Funeral as English journalist
Breath of Life as Suor Crocifissa
Orpheus Descending as Lady Torrance

1988

A Man for All Seasons as Lady Alice More
Consuming Passions as Mrs. Garza

1987

Seitenblicke as self
Prick Up Your Ears as Peggy Ramsay
Comrades as Mrs. Carlyle

1986

Peter the Great as Sophia
Second Serve as Renee Richards

1985

Wetherby as Jean Travers
Three Sovereigns for Sarah as Sarah Cloyce
Steaming as Nancy
Three Sovereigns for Sarah as Sarah Cloyce

1984

Goldene Kamera as Self
The Bostonians as Olive Chancellor
Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs as The Evil Queen

1983

Wagner as Cosima von Bulow
Sing Sing as la Regina

1982

Faerie Tale Theatre as The Evil Queen
My Body, My Child as Leenie Cabrezi

1981

Wetten, dass..? as Self
Occupied Palestine ... (Producer)

1980

Playing for Time as Fania Fenelon
The Fifth War

1979

NDR Talk Show as Self
Yanks as Helen
Agatha as Agatha Christie
Bear Island as Heddi Lindquist

1977

Julia as Julia
The Palestinian as Self

1976

The Seven-Per-Cent Solution as Lola Deveraux

1975

Out of Season as Ann

1974

Murder on the Orient Express as Mary Debenham

1973

A Picture of Katherine Mansfield as Katherine Mansfield

1972

Right to Work March

1971

The Devils as Sister Jeanne des Anges
Vacation as Immacolata Meneghelli
Mary, Queen of Scots as Mary, Queen of Scots
The Trojan Women as Andromache

1970

Dropout as Mary
The Body as Narrator
A Mother with Two Children Expecting Her Third as Herself

1969

Oh! What a Lovely War as Sylvia Pankhurst
No Arks as Narrator

1968

The Charge of the Light Brigade as Mrs Clarissa Morris
A Quiet Place in the Country as Flavia
Isadora as Isadora Duncan
The Sea Gull as Nina
Red, White, and Zero as Jacky
Red and Blue as Jacky

1967

Omnibus as Self
Camelot as Guenevere
Tonite Let's All Make Love in London as Self
One Pair of Eyes
The Sailor from Gibraltar as Sheila

1966

Blow-Up as Jane
A Man for All Seasons as Anne Boleyn
Morgan: A Suitable Case for Treatment as Leonie Delt

1964

Maggie as Maggie

1963

As You Like It as Rosalind

1961

A Sunday in September as Self
Circus at Clopton Hall as Narrator

1960

Sunday-Night Play as Monica Claverton-Ferry

1958

Behind the Mask as Pamela Benson-Gray

1957

Theatre Night as Caroline Lester

1956

Tony Awards as Self - Presenter
Armchair Theatre as Sally

1953

The Oscars as Self

1952

Today as Self

1951

Hallmark Hall of Fame as Esther Huish

1944

Golden Globe Awards as Self - Nominee