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.
Acting (147 movies)
A Man for All Seasons
1966
Mission: Impossible
1996
Blow-Up
1966
The Palestinian
1977
The House of the Spirits
1993
Girl, Interrupted
1999
Murder on the Orient Express
1974
Atonement
2007
Oh! What a Lovely War
1969
Wilde
1997
The Pledge
2001
Evening
2007
Yanks
1979
Good Boy!
2003
Agatha
1979
Deep Impact
1998
The Devils
1971
Howards End
1992
The Shell Seekers
2007
1961
2000
Circus at Clopton Hall
1961
Prick Up Your Ears
1987
If These Walls Could Talk 2
2000
Tonite Let's All Make Love in London
1967
The Bostonians
1984
Venus
2006
A Month by the Lake
1995
How About You...
2007
Mother's Boys
1993
The Charge of the Light Brigade
1968
Julia
1977
The Seven-Per-Cent Solution
1976
The Gathering Storm
2002
Isadora
1968
Morgan: A Suitable Case for Treatment
1966
Lulu on the Bridge
1998
Anonymous
2011
Sparrow
1994
The Riddle
2007
Miral
2010
Bear Island
1979
The Fever
2004
Mary, Queen of Scots
1971
Mrs. Dalloway
1997
The Trojan Women
1971
Little Odessa
1994
Alice, Through the Looking
2021
Cars 2
2011
The Whistleblower
2010
Comrades
1987
The White Countess
2005
Camelot
1967
Playing for Time
1980
A Rumor of Angels
2000
Robinson in Ruins
2010
Bella Mafia
1997
Eugene O’Neill: A Documentary Film
2006
Sing Sing
1983
A Quiet Place in the Country
1968
The Wind in the Willows
1995
The Willows in Winter
1996
Foxcatcher
2014
Coriolanus
2011
The Locket
2002
Down Came a Blackbird
1995
Byron
2003
Crime and Punishment
2002
Great Moments in Aviation
1994
Song for Marion
2012
The Butler
2013
Steaming
1985
Short Order
2005
Wetherby
1985
Déjà Vu
1998
Out of Season
1975
A Man for All Seasons
1988
What Ever Happened to Baby Jane?
1991
Exile in Buyukada
2000
Vacation
1971
Behind the Mask
1958
The Sea Gull
1968
The Body
1970
Consuming Passions
1988
Stalin's Funeral
1990
Electric Burma: The Concert for Aung San Suu Kyi - Words I Never Said
2016
Dealing and Wheeling in Small Arms
2007
The Thirteenth Tale
2013
Orpheus Descending
1990
The Ballad of the Sad Cafe
1991
They
1993
Looking for Richard
1996
Second Serve
1986
Two Mothers for Zachary
1996
The Ghost of Richard Harris
2022
The Secret Scripture
2017
Merchant Ivory
2024
Smilla's Sense of Snow
1997
Last Will. & Testament
2012
On Our Way
2023
The Sailor from Gibraltar
1967
Directing (1 movie)
| Title | Year | Job |
|---|---|---|
| The Palestinian | 1977 | Producer |
| Occupied Palestine | 1981 | Producer |
| The Fever | 2004 | Executive Producer |
| Sea Sorrow | 2017 | Screenplay |
| The Estate | 2025 | Executive Producer |