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.
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All Credits (187)
All That I Am
as Unknown
The Crystal Planet
as The Matriarch (voice)
The Estate
as Unknown
Common Wealth
as Self
Merchant Ivory
as Self
On Our Way
as Unknown
The Ghost of Richard Harris
as Self
The Lost Girls
as Great Nana
Alice, Through the Looking
as Narrator
Alida Valli: In Her Own Words
as Self
Finding You
as Cathleen Sweeney
Katherine Jenkins Christmas Spectacular
as Self
Mrs Lowry & Son
as Elizabeth Lowry
Georgetown
as Elsa Brecht
The Aspern Papers
as Juliana Bordereau
Nothing Like a Dame
as Self (archive footage)
Film Stars Don't Die in Liverpool
as Jeanne McDougall
Sea Sorrow
as Self
Joan Didion: The Center Will Not Hold
as Self
Man in an Orange Shirt
as Flora Berryman
The Secret Scripture
as Old Roseanne McNulty
Electric Burma: The Concert for Aung San Suu Kyi - Words I Never Said
as Self
Almeida Theatre Live: Richard III
as Queen Margaret
The Go-Between
as Older Marian
Foxcatcher
as Jean du Pont
The Wound and the Gift
as Unknown
Black Box
as Dr. Hartramph
Once Upon a Time... Little Odessa
as Self
The Thirteenth Tale
as Vida Winter
The Butler
as Annabeth Westfall
The Last Will and Testament of Rosalind Leigh
as Rosalind Leigh
Last Will. & Testament
as Unknown
Song for Marion
as Marion
Political Animals
as Diane Nash
Shakespeare Uncovered
as Herself
Playhouse Presents
as Elderly Woman
Call the Midwife
as Jennifer Worth (voice)
Anonymous
as Queen Elizabeth I
Coriolanus
as Volumnia
Robinson in Ruins
as Narrator
Miral
as Bertha Spafford
The Whistleblower
as Madeleine Rees
Letters to Juliet
as Claire
The Day of the Triffids
as Durrant
God, Smell and Her
as Unknown
Ein Job
as Hannah Silbergrau
Restraint
as Sky News Reader #2
How About You...
as Georgia Platts
The Shell Seekers
as Penelope Keeling
The Riddle
as Roberta Elliot
Evening
as Ann Lord
Atonement
as Briony Tallis (Age 77)
Dealing and Wheeling in Small Arms
as Narrator
Venus
as Valerie
Eugene O’Neill: A Documentary Film
as Self
The Thief Lord
as Sister Antonia
The White Countess
as Princess Vera Belinskya
Elio Petri: Notes About a Filmmaker
as Self
The Keeper: The Legend of Omar Khayyam
as Miss Sangorski
Short Order
as Marianne
The Fever
as The woman
Thank You, Doctor Rey
as herself
Good Boy!
as The Greater Dane (voice)
Byron
as Lady Melbourne
Nip/Tuck
as Dr.Erica Noughton
Nip/Tuck
as Dr. Erica Noughton
Byron
as Lady Melbourne
The Locket
as Esther Huish
Hell on Earth: The Desecration & Resurrection of The Devils
as Self
Searching for Debra Winger
as Self
Crime and Punishment
as Rodion's mother
The Gathering Storm
as Clemmie Churchill
Jack and the Beanstalk: The Real Story
as Countess Wilhelmina
Escape to Life: The Erika and Klaus Mann Story
as (voice)
The Pledge
as Annalise Hansen
A Rumor of Angels
as Maddy Bennett
The Adventures of Young Indiana Jones: Love's Sweet Song
as Vicky's Mother
Uninvited
as Mrs. Rutterburn
Mirka
as Kalsan
1961
as Edith Tree
If These Walls Could Talk 2
as Edith Tree
Exile in Buyukada
as Narrator
Girl, Interrupted
as Dr. Wick
Cradle Will Rock
as Countess Constance La Grave
The Early Show
as Self
Lulu on the Bridge
as Catherine Moore
Deep Impact
as Robin Lerner
Déjà Vu
as Skelly
Bella Mafia
as Graziella Luciano
Wilde
as Lady Speranza Wilde
Mrs. Dalloway
as Mrs. Clarissa Dalloway
The View
as Self
Michael Redgrave: My Father
as Self
Smilla's Sense of Snow
as Elsa Lübing
The Willows in Winter
as Grandmother / Narrator
Looking for Richard
as Self - Interviewee
Two Mothers for Zachary
as Nancy Shaffell
The Wind in the Willows
as Grandmother / Narrator (voice)
Down Came a Blackbird
as Anna Lenke
A Month by the Lake
as Miss Bentley
Little Odessa
as Irina Shapira
Inside the Actors Studio
as Self
Great Moments in Aviation
as Dr. Angela Bead
Sparrow
as Suor Agata
They
as Florence Latimer
Intimate Portrait
as Self
The House of the Spirits
as Nivea del Valle
Mother's Boys
as Lydia
Hollywood U.K.: British Cinema in the Sixties
as Self
A Wall of Silence
as Kate Benson
Howards End
as Ruth Wilcox
The Ballad of the Sad Cafe
as Miss Amelia
What Ever Happened to Baby Jane?
as Blanche Hudson
Young Catherine
as Empress Elizabeth
Breath of Life
as Suor Crocifissa
Orpheus Descending
as Lady Torrance
Stalin's Funeral
as English journalist
Romeo.Juliet
as Mother Capulet (voice)
A Man for All Seasons
as Lady Alice More
Consuming Passions
as Mrs. Garza
Comrades
as Mrs. Carlyle
Prick Up Your Ears
as Peggy Ramsay
Peter the Great
as Sophia
Second Serve
as Renee Richards
Wetherby
as Jean Travers
Steaming
as Nancy
Three Sovereigns for Sarah
as Sarah Cloyce
Screen Two
as Dr. Angela Bead
Three Sovereigns for Sarah
as Sarah Cloyce
Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs
as The Evil Queen
The Bostonians
as Olive Chancellor
Sing Sing
as la Regina
Wagner
as Cosima von Bulow
Faerie Tale Theatre
as The Evil Queen
My Body, My Child
as Leenie Cabrezi
American Playhouse
as Sarah Cloyce
Wetten, dass..?
as Self
Playing for Time
as Fania Fenelon
The Fifth War
as Unknown
Bear Island
as Heddi Lindquist
Yanks
as Helen
Agatha
as Agatha Christie
NDR Talk Show
as Self
The Palestinian
as Self
The South Bank Show
as Unknown
Julia
as Julia
The Seven-Per-Cent Solution
as Lola Deveraux
Arena
as Unknown
Out of Season
as Ann
Murder on the Orient Express
as Mary Debenham
A Picture of Katherine Mansfield
as Katherine Mansfield
Right to Work March
as Unknown
Mary, Queen of Scots
as Mary, Queen of Scots
Vacation
as Immacolata Meneghelli
The Devils
as Sister Jeanne des Anges
The Trojan Women
as Andromache
Dropout
as Mary
The Body
as Narrator
A Mother with Two Children Expecting Her Third
as Herself
No Arks
as Narrator
Oh! What a Lovely War
as Sylvia Pankhurst
The Sea Gull
as Nina
A Quiet Place in the Country
as Flavia
Isadora
as Isadora Duncan
Red and Blue
as Jacky
The Charge of the Light Brigade
as Mrs Clarissa Morris
Red, White, and Zero
as Jacky
Camelot
as Guenevere
Omnibus
as Self
Tonite Let's All Make Love in London
as Self
One Pair of Eyes
as Unknown
The Sailor from Gibraltar
as Sheila
Blow-Up
as Jane
A Man for All Seasons
as Anne Boleyn
Morgan: A Suitable Case for Treatment
as Leonie Delt
A Sunday in September
as Self
Circus at Clopton Hall
as Narrator
Behind the Mask
as Pamela Benson-Gray
Theatre Night
as Caroline Lester
Armchair Theatre
as Sally
Tony Awards
as Self - Presenter
Tony Awards
as Self - Winner
Tony Awards
as Self - Nominee
The Oscars
as Self
Today
as Self
Hallmark Hall of Fame
as Esther Huish
Golden Globe Awards
as Self - Nominee