Vanessa Redgrave

Personal Info

Known For Actor

Gender Female

Birthday 1937-01-30 (87 years old)

Place of Birth Greenwich, London, England, UK

Also Known As Vanessa Redgreiv, 바네사 레드그레이브, Ванесса Редгрейв

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. Description above from the Wikipedia article Vanessa Redgrave, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

Known For

Actor

The Nest

as Elsie

2024
2022
The Lost Girls

as Great Nana

2021
Finding You

as Cathleen Sweeney

2020
Entree Des Artists

as Henry's Grandmother

2019
Mrs Lowry & Son

as Elizabeth Lowry

2019
Georgetown

as Elsa Brecht

2019
The Aspern Papers

as Juliana Bordereau

2018
Nothing Like a Dame

as Self (archive footage)

2017
2017
Sea Sorrow

as Self

2017
The Secret Scripture

as Old Roseanne McNulty

2017
Man in an Orange Shirt

as Flora Berryman

2016
2015
The Go-Between

as Older Marian

2014
Foxcatcher

as Jean du Pont

2014
And the Oscar Goes To...

as Self (archive footage)

2014
Black Box

as Dr. Hartramph

2013
The Thirteenth Tale

as Vida Winter

2013
The Butler

as Annabeth Westfall

2012
Song for Marion

as Marion

2012
Political Animals

as Diane Nash

2012
2012
Call the Midwife

as Jennifer Worth (voice)

2012
Call the Midwife

as Mature Jennifer Worth (voice)

2012
Call the Midwife

as Mature Jenny

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
2008
Ein Job

as Hannah Silbergrau

2008
Restraint

as Sky News Reader #2

2007
How About You...

as Georgia Platts

2007
The Shell Seekers

as Penelope Keeling

2007
The Riddle

as Roberta Elliot

2007
Evening

as Ann Lord

2007
Atonement

as Briony Tallis (Age 77)

2006
Venus

as Valerie

2006
The Thief Lord

as Sister Antonia

2005
The White Countess

as Princess Vera Belinskya

2004
The Fever

as Woman

2004
2003
Good Boy!

as The Greater Dane (voice)

2003
Byron

as Lady Melbourne

2003
Byron

as Lady Melbourne

2002
The Locket

as Esther Huish

2002
Crime and Punishment

as Rodion's mother

2002
The Gathering Storm

as Clemmie Churchill

2001
The Pledge

as Annalise Hansen

2001
2000
A Rumor of Angels

as Maddy Bennett

2000
Uninvited

as Mrs. Rutterburn

2000
Mirka

as Kalsan

2000
1961

as Edith Tree

2000
2000
Exile in Buyukada

as Narrator

1999
Girl, Interrupted

as Dr. Wick

1999
Cradle Will Rock

as Countess Constance La Grave

1999
1998
Lulu on the Bridge

as Catherine Moore

1998
Deep Impact

as Robin Lerner

1998
Déjà Vu

as Skelly

1997
Bella Mafia

as Graziella Luciano

1997
Wilde

as Lady Speranza Wilde

1997
Mrs. Dalloway

as Mrs. Clarissa Dalloway

1997
Smilla's Sense of Snow

as Elsa Lübing

1997
The View

as Self

1996
The Willows in Winter

as Grandmother / Narrator

1996
Looking for Richard

as Self - Interviewee

1996
Two Mothers for Zachary

as Nancy Shaffell

1995
The Wind in the Willows

as Grandmother / Narrator

1995
Down Came a Blackbird

as Anna Lenke

1995
A Month by the Lake

as Miss Bentley

1994
Little Odessa

as Irina Shapira

1994
Great Moments in Aviation

as Dr. Angela Bead

1993
They

as Florence Latimer

1993
The House of the Spirits

as Nivea del Valle

1993
Mother's Boys

as Lydia

1993
A Wall of Silence

as Kate Benson

1993
1992
Howards End

as Ruth Wilcox

1991
1991
1991
Young Catherine

as Empress Elizabeth

1990
Breath of Life

as Suor Crocifissa

1990
Orpheus Descending

as Lady Torrance

1990
Stalin's Funeral

as English journalist

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

1987
Prick Up Your Ears

as Peggy Ramsay

1987
Seitenblicke

as self

1986
Second Serve

as Renee Richards

1986
Peter the Great

as Sophia

1985
Wetherby

as Jean Travers

1985
Steaming

as Nancy

1985
1985
1984
1984
The Bostonians

as Olive Chancellor

1983
Sing Sing

as la Regina

1983
Sparrow

as Suor Agata

1983
Wagner

as Cosima von Bulow

1982
My Body, My Child

as Leenie Cabrezi

1982
Faerie Tale Theatre

as The Evil Queen

1981
1980
Playing for Time

as Fania Fenelon

1979
Bear Island

as Heddi Lindquist

1979
Yanks

as Helen

1979
Agatha

as Agatha Christie

1979
1977
Julia

as Julia

1977
1976
1975
1974
1973
A Picture of Katherine Mansfield

as Katherine Mansfield

1971
Mary, Queen of Scots

as Mary, Queen of Scots

1971
Vacation

as Immacolata Meneghelli

1971
The Devils

as Sister Jeanne des Anges

1971
The Trojan Women

as Andromache

1970
Dropout

as Mary

1970
The Body

as Narrator

1969
No Arks

as Narrator

1969
Oh! What a Lovely War

as Sylvia Pankhurst

1968
The Sea Gull

as Nina

1968
Isadora

as Isadora Duncan

1968
Red and Blue

as Jacky

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

1964
Maggie

as Maggie

1963
As You Like It

as Rosalind

1961
1958
Behind the Mask

as Pamela Benson-Gray

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

Producer

The Estate

as Executive Producer

2004
The Fever

as Executive Producer

1977
The Palestinian

as Producer

Director

2017
Sea Sorrow

as Director

Writer

2017
Sea Sorrow

as Screenplay