Acting
Vanessa Redgrave
EN, IT, FR, SV cinema · 157 credits
Born
30 January 1937 (age 89)
Birthplace
Greenwich, London, England, UK
Also known as Vanessa Redgreiv · Dame 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 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
Filmography
The Crystal Planet
as The Matriarch (voice)
Cold Storage
as Mary Rooney
The Estate
Actor, Executive Producer
Merchant Ivory
as Self
The Lost Girls
as Great Nana
Alice, Through the Looking
as Narrator
Finding You
as Cathleen Sweeney
Entree Des Artists
2020
Entree Des Artists
as Henry's Grandmother
Georgetown
as Elsa Brecht
The Aspern Papers
as Juliana Bordereau
Mrs Lowry & Son
as Elizabeth Lowry
Nothing Like a Dame
as Self (archive footage)
The Secret Scripture
as Old Roseanne McNulty
Sea Sorrow
as Self, Director, Screenplay
Film Stars Don't Die in Liverpool
as Jeanne McDougall
Almeida Theatre Live: Richard III
as Queen Margaret
The Go-Between
as Older Marian
Foxcatcher
as Jean du Pont
The Butler
as Annabeth Westfall
The Thirteenth Tale
as Vida Winter
Song for Marion
as Marion
The Last Will and Testament of Rosalind Leigh
as Rosalind Leigh
Anonymous
as Queen Elizabeth I
Cars 2
as The Queen / Mama Topolino (voice)
Coriolanus
as Volumnia
Miral
as Bertha Spafford
The Whistleblower
as Madeleine Rees
Robinson in Ruins
as Narrator
Letters to Juliet
as Claire
Ein Job
as Hannah Silbergrau
Restraint
as Sky News Reader #2
Atonement
as Briony Tallis (Age 77)
Evening
as Ann Lord
The Shell Seekers
as Penelope Keeling
How About You...
as Georgia Platts
The Riddle
as Roberta Elliot
Venus
as Valerie
The Thief Lord
as Sister Antonia
The White Countess
as Princess Vera Belinskya
Short Order
as Marianne
The Keeper: The Legend of Omar Khayyam
as Miss Sangorski
The Fever
as The woman, Executive Producer
Good Boy!
as The Greater Dane (voice)
Byron
as Lady Melbourne
Thank You, Doctor Rey
as herself
The Gathering Storm
as Clemmie Churchill
The Locket
as Esther Huish
Crime and Punishment
as Rodion's mother
The Pledge
as Annalise Hansen
1961
as Edith Tree
If These Walls Could Talk 2
as Edith Tree
A Rumor of Angels
as Maddy Bennett
Exile in Buyukada
as Narrator
Mirka
as Kalsan
Uninvited
as Mrs. Rutterburn
The Adventures of Young Indiana Jones: Love's Sweet Song
as Vicky's Mother
Girl, Interrupted
as Dr. Wick
Cradle Will Rock
as Countess Constance La Grave
Deep Impact
as Robin Lerner
Lulu on the Bridge
as Catherine Moore
Déjà Vu
as Skelly
Wilde
as Lady Speranza Wilde
Mrs. Dalloway
as Mrs. Clarissa Dalloway
Bella Mafia
as Graziella Luciano
Smilla's Sense of Snow
as Elsa Lübing
Behind the Mask : The IRA and Sinn Fein
1997
Behind the Mask : The IRA and Sinn Fein
as Self
The Willows in Winter
as Grandmother / Narrator
Looking for Richard
as Self - Interviewee
Two Mothers for Zachary
as Nancy Shaffell
A Month by the Lake
as Miss Bentley
The Wind in the Willows
as Grandmother / Narrator (voice)
Down Came a Blackbird
as Anna Lenke
Sparrow
as Suor Agata
Little Odessa
as Irina Shapira
Great Moments in Aviation
as Dr. Angela Bead
The House of the Spirits
as Nivea del Valle
Mother's Boys
as Lydia
They
as Florence Latimer
A Wall of Silence
as Kate Benson
Howards End
as Ruth Wilcox
What Ever Happened to Baby Jane?
as Blanche Hudson
The Ballad of the Sad Cafe
as Miss Amelia
Stalin's Funeral
as English journalist
Orpheus Descending
as Lady Torrance
Breath of Life
as Suor Crocifissa
Romeo.Juliet
as Mother Capulet (voice)
A Man for All Seasons
as Lady Alice More
Consuming Passions
as Mrs. Garza
Prick Up Your Ears
as Peggy Ramsay
Comrades
as Mrs. Carlyle
Second Serve
as Renee Richards
Steaming
as Nancy
Wetherby
as Jean Travers
Three Sovereigns for Sarah
as Sarah Cloyce
The Bostonians
as Olive Chancellor
Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs
as The Evil Queen
Sing Sing
as la Regina
My Body, My Child
as Leenie Cabrezi
Playing for Time
as Fania Fenelon
Yanks
as Helen
Agatha
as Agatha Christie
Bear Island
as Heddi Lindquist
The Palestinian
as Self, Producer
Julia
as Julia
The Seven-Per-Cent Solution
as Lola Deveraux
Murder on the Orient Express
as Mary Debenham
The Devils
as Sister Jeanne des Anges
Mary, Queen of Scots
as Mary, Queen of Scots
The Trojan Women
as Andromache
Vacation
as Immacolata Meneghelli
The Body
as Narrator
Dropout
as Mary
Oh! What a Lovely War
as Sylvia Pankhurst
No Arks
as Narrator
The Charge of the Light Brigade
as Mrs Clarissa Morris
Isadora
as Isadora Duncan
The Sea Gull
as Nina
Red and Blue
as Jacky
Red, White, and Zero
as Jacky
Camelot
as Guenevere
A Man for All Seasons
as Anne Boleyn
Blow-Up
as Jane
Morgan: A Suitable Case for Treatment
as Leonie Delt
Maggie
1964
Maggie
as Maggie
As You Like It
1963
As You Like It
as Rosalind
Circus at Clopton Hall
as Narrator
Behind the Mask
as Pamela Benson-Gray