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 Ma Rooney
2025
- The Estate
- Common Wealth as Self
2024
- Merchant Ivory as Self
2023
2022
- The Lost Girls as Great Nana
- The Ghost of Richard Harris as Self
2021
- Alida Valli: In Her Own Words as Self
- Finding You as Cathleen Sweeney
- Alice, Through the Looking as Narrator
2020
- Entree Des Artists as Henry's Grandmother
- Katherine Jenkins Christmas Spectacular as Self
2019
- Georgetown as Elsa Brecht
- Mrs Lowry & Son as Elizabeth Lowry
- The Aspern Papers as Juliana Bordereau
2018
- Nothing Like a Dame as Self (archive footage)
2017
- Sea Sorrow as Self
- Film Stars Don't Die in Liverpool as Jeanne McDougall
- Joan Didion: The Center Will Not Hold as Self
- Man in an Orange Shirt as Flora Berryman
- The Secret Scripture as Old Roseanne McNulty
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
- Foxcatcher as Jean du Pont
- Black Box as Dr. Hartramph
- 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)
- Song for Marion as Marion
- Playhouse Presents
- Political Animals as Diane Nash
- The Last Will and Testament of Rosalind Leigh as Rosalind Leigh
- Shakespeare Uncovered as Herself
- 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
- Miral as Bertha Spafford
- The Whistleblower as Madeleine Rees
- Robinson in Ruins as Narrator
2009
- The Day of the Triffids as Durrant
- God, Smell and Her
2007
- Atonement as Briony Tallis (Age 77)
- Evening as Ann Lord
- The Riddle as Roberta Elliot
- The Fever as The woman
- How About You... as Georgia Platts
- The Shell Seekers as Penelope Keeling
- Dealing and Wheeling in Small Arms as Narrator
2006
- Venus as Valerie
- The Thief Lord as Sister Antonia
- Eugene O’Neill: A Documentary Film as Self
2005
- Short Order
- 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
2004
- Thank You, Doctor Rey as herself
2003
2002
- The Locket as Esther Huish
- The Gathering Storm as Clemmie Churchill
- Crime and Punishment as Rodion's mother
- Hell on Earth: The Desecration & Resurrection of The Devils as Self
- Searching for Debra Winger as Self
2001
- The Pledge as Annalise Hansen
- Jack and the Beanstalk: The Real Story as Countess Wilhelmina
- Escape to Life: The Erika and Klaus Mann Story as (voice)
2000
- If These Walls Could Talk 2 as Edith Tree
- Uninvited as Mrs. Rutterburn
- The Adventures of Young Indiana Jones: Love's Sweet Song as Vicky's Mother
- Exile in Buyukada as Narrator
- A Rumor of Angels as Maddy Bennett
- Mirka as Kalsan
- 1961 as Edith Tree
1999
- Girl, Interrupted as Dr. Wick
- Cradle Will Rock as Countess Constance La Grave
- The Early Show as Self
1998
- Sabine Christiansen as Self
- Deep Impact as Robin Lerner
- Déjà Vu as Skelly
- Lulu on the Bridge as Catherine Moore
1997
- The View as Self
- Wilde as Lady Speranza Wilde
- Mrs. Dalloway as Mrs. Clarissa Dalloway
- Smilla's Sense of Snow as Elsa Lübing
- Bella Mafia as Graziella Luciano
- Behind The Mask as Self
- Michael Redgrave: My Father as Self
1996
- Mission: Impossible as Max
- The Willows in Winter as Grandmother / Narrator
- Looking for Richard as Self - Interviewee
- Two Mothers for Zachary as Nancy Shaffell
1995
- The Wind in the Willows as Grandmother / Narrator
- Down Came a Blackbird as Anna Lenke
- A Month by the Lake as Miss Bentley
1994
- Little Odessa as Irina Shapira
- Great Moments in Aviation as Dr. Angela Bead
- Sparrow as Suor Agata
- Inside the Actors Studio as Self
1993
- Intimate Portrait as Self
- The House of the Spirits as Nivea del Valle
- They as Florence Latimer
- Mother's Boys as Lydia
- Hollywood U.K.: British Cinema in the Sixties as Self
- A Wall of Silence as Kate Benson
1992
- Howards End as Ruth Wilcox
1991
- The Ballad of the Sad Cafe as Miss Amelia
- What Ever Happened to Baby Jane? as Blanche Hudson
- Young Catherine as Empress Elizabeth
1990
- Romeo.Juliet as Mother Capulet (voice)
- Breath of Life as Suor Crocifissa
- Orpheus Descending as Lady Torrance
- Stalin's Funeral as English journalist
1988
- Consuming Passions as Mrs. Garza
- A Man for All Seasons as Lady Alice More
1987
- Comrades as Mrs. Carlyle
- Seitenblicke as self
- Prick Up Your Ears as Peggy Ramsay
1986
- Peter the Great as Sophia
- Second Serve as Renee Richards
1985
- Wetherby as Jean Travers
- Steaming as Nancy
- Three Sovereigns for Sarah as Sarah Cloyce
- 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
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
- Bear Island as Heddi Lindquist
- Agatha as Agatha Christie
- Yanks as Helen
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
1971
- The Devils as Sister Jeanne des Anges
- Vacation as Immacolata Meneghelli
- The Trojan Women as Andromache
- Mary, Queen of Scots as Mary, Queen of Scots
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
- Isadora as Isadora Duncan
- The Charge of the Light Brigade as Mrs Clarissa Morris
- The Sea Gull as Nina
- A Quiet Place in the Country as Flavia
- Red, White, and Zero as Jacky
- Red and Blue as Jacky
1967
- Omnibus as Self
- Camelot as Guenevere
- The Sailor from Gibraltar as Sheila
- Tonite Let's All Make Love in London as Self
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
1956
- Tony Awards as Self - Winner
1953
- The Oscars as Self
1952
- Today as Self
1951
- Hallmark Hall of Fame as Esther Huish
1944
- Golden Globe Awards as Self - Nominee