Vanessa Redgrave
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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
Credits
Cars 2 (2011)
as The Queen / Mama Topolino (voice)
Mission: Impossible (1996)
as Max
The Devils (1971)
as Sister Jeanne des Anges
Deep Impact (1998)
as Robin Lerner
Atonement (2007)
as Briony Tallis (Age 77)
The Butler (2013)
as Annabeth Westfall
Cold Storage (2026)
as Mary Rooney
Finding You (2021)
as Cathleen Sweeney
Murder on the Orient Express (1974)
as Mary Debenham
Girl, Interrupted (1999)
as Dr. Wick
Wilde (1997)
as Lady Speranza Wilde
Georgetown (2019)
as Elsa Brecht
The Estate (2025)
Actor
Letters to Juliet (2010)
as Claire
Foxcatcher (2014)
as Jean du Pont
A Man for All Seasons (1966)
as Anne Boleyn
Merchant Ivory (2024)
as Self
The House of the Spirits (1993)
as Nivea del Valle
Good Boy! (2003)
as The Greater Dane (voice)
The Pledge (2001)
as Annalise Hansen
Howards End (1992)
as Ruth Wilcox
Sing Sing (1983)
as la Regina
Restraint (2008)
as Sky News Reader #2
Yanks (1979)
as Helen
Song for Marion (2012)
as Marion
Blow-Up (1966)
as Jane
The Thief Lord (2006)
as Sister Antonia
Film Stars Don't Die in Liverpool (2017)
as Jeanne McDougall
Looking for Richard (1996)
as Self - Interviewee
The Whistleblower (2010)
as Madeleine Rees
Romeo.Juliet (1990)
as Mother Capulet (voice)
Maggie (1964)
as Maggie
Consuming Passions (1988)
as Mrs. Garza
Anonymous (2011)
as Queen Elizabeth I
Julia (1977)
as Julia
Mother's Boys (1993)
as Lydia
A Rumor of Angels (2000)
as Maddy Bennett
1961 (2000)
as Edith Tree
Coriolanus (2011)
as Volumnia
The Secret Scripture (2017)
as Old Roseanne McNulty
Orpheus Descending (1990)
as Lady Torrance
The Charge of the Light Brigade (1968)
as Mrs Clarissa Morris
Cradle Will Rock (1999)
as Countess Constance La Grave
Little Odessa (1994)
as Irina Shapira
The Crystal Planet (2026)
as The Matriarch (voice)
Stalin's Funeral (1990)
as English journalist
They (1993)
as Florence Latimer
Evening (2007)
as Ann Lord
Short Order (2005)
as Marianne
If These Walls Could Talk 2 (2000)
as Edith Tree
Nothing Like a Dame (2018)
as Self (archive footage)
The Palestinian (1978)
as Self
The Seven-Per-Cent Solution (1976)
as Lola Deveraux
Thank You, Doctor Rey (2003)
as herself
Camelot (1967)
as Guenevere
Smilla's Sense of Snow (1997)
as Elsa Lübing
The White Countess (2005)
as Princess Vera Belinskya
Oh! What a Lovely War (1969)
as Sylvia Pankhurst
My Body, My Child (1982)
as Leenie Cabrezi
Agatha (1979)
as Agatha Christie
Prick Up Your Ears (1987)
as Peggy Ramsay
A Man for All Seasons (1988)
as Lady Alice More
Last Will. & Testament (2012)
Actor
Bella Mafia (1997)
as Graziella Luciano
Bear Island (1979)
as Heddi Lindquist
The Gathering Storm (2002)
as Clemmie Churchill
The Wind in the Willows (1995)
as Grandmother / Narrator (voice)
Behind the Mask : The IRA and Sinn Fein (1997)
as Self
The Bostonians (1984)
as Olive Chancellor
Venus (2006)
as Valerie
Mary, Queen of Scots (1971)
as Mary, Queen of Scots
A Quiet Place in the Country (1968)
as Flavia
Miral (2010)
as Bertha Spafford
Lulu on the Bridge (1998)
as Catherine Moore
A Month by the Lake (1995)
as Miss Bentley
Mrs. Dalloway (1997)
as Mrs. Clarissa Dalloway
Mrs Lowry & Son (2019)
as Elizabeth Lowry
Once Upon a Time... Little Odessa (2014)
as Self
The Turning Door (—)
as (voice)
Crime and Punishment (2002)
as Rodion's mother
Michael Redgrave: My Father (1997)
as Self
On Our Way (2023)
Actor
Joan Didion: The Center Will Not Hold (2017)
as Self
The Lost Girls (2022)
as Great Nana
Tonite Let's All Make Love in London (1967)
as Self
Isadora (1968)
as Isadora Duncan
The Sailor from Gibraltar (1967)
as Sheila
Steaming (1985)
as Nancy
Morgan: A Suitable Case for Treatment (1966)
as Leonie Delt
Almeida Theatre Live: Richard III (2016)
as Queen Margaret
Playing for Time (1980)
as Fania Fenelon
The Thirteenth Tale (2013)
as Vida Winter
The Adventures of Young Indiana Jones: Love's Sweet Song (2000)
as Vicky's Mother
Comrades (1987)
as Mrs. Carlyle
Searching for Debra Winger (2002)
as Self
The Ghost of Richard Harris (2022)
as Self
The Riddle (2007)
as Roberta Elliot
Vacation (1971)
as Immacolata Meneghelli
Great Moments in Aviation (1994)
as Dr. Angela Bead
Wetherby (1985)
as Jean Travers
The Willows in Winter (1996)
as Grandmother / Narrator
What Ever Happened to Baby Jane? (1991)
as Blanche Hudson
The Aspern Papers (2019)
as Juliana Bordereau
The Last Will and Testament of Rosalind Leigh (2012)
as Rosalind Leigh
The Trojan Women (1971)
as Andromache
The Ballad of the Sad Cafe (1991)
as Miss Amelia
Red and Blue (1968)
as Jacky
Sparrow (1994)
as Suor Agata
Dropout (1970)
as Mary
The Locket (2002)
as Esther Huish
The Fever (2004)
as The woman
Three Sovereigns for Sarah (1985)
as Sarah Cloyce
The Sea Gull (1968)
as Nina
Two Mothers for Zachary (1996)
as Nancy Shaffell
Second Serve (1986)
as Renee Richards
Red, White, and Zero (1968)
as Jacky
Hell on Earth: The Desecration & Resurrection of The Devils (2002)
as Self
Eugene O’Neill: A Documentary Film (2006)
as Self
How About You... (2007)
as Georgia Platts
Katherine Jenkins Christmas Spectacular (2020)
as Self
Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs (1984)
as The Evil Queen
As You Like It (1963)
as Rosalind
Uninvited (2000)
as Mrs. Rutterburn
The Shell Seekers (2007)
as Penelope Keeling
Sea Sorrow (2017)
as Self
Right to Work March (1972)
Actor
A Wall of Silence (1993)
as Kate Benson
Mirka (2000)
as Kalsan
Alida Valli: In Her Own Words (2021)
as Self
Elio Petri: Notes About a Filmmaker (2005)
as Self
Down Came a Blackbird (1995)
as Anna Lenke
The Body (1970)
as Narrator
Byron (2003)
as Lady Melbourne
The Go-Between (2015)
as Older Marian
Behind the Mask (1958)
as Pamela Benson-Gray
Electric Burma: The Concert for Aung San Suu Kyi - Words I Never Said (2016)
as Self
Dealing and Wheeling in Small Arms (2007)
as Narrator
The Keeper: The Legend of Omar Khayyam (2005)
as Miss Sangorski
Alice, Through the Looking (2021)
as Narrator
A Mother with Two Children Expecting Her Third (1970)
as Herself
Ein Job (2008)
as Hannah Silbergrau
Déjà Vu (1998)
as Skelly
Breath of Life (1990)
as Suor Crocifissa
Out of Season (1975)
as Ann
All That I Am (—)
Actor
God, Smell and Her (2009)
Actor
Escape to Life: The Erika and Klaus Mann Story (2001)
as (voice)
Robinson in Ruins (2010)
as Narrator
Circus at Clopton Hall (1961)
as Narrator
A Sunday in September (1961)
as Self
The Wound and the Gift (2014)
Actor
The Boy at the Back of the Class (—)
as Queen
No Arks (1969)
as Narrator
Common Wealth (2025)
as Self
Entree Des Artists (2020)
as Henry's Grandmother
The Fifth War (1980)
Actor
Exile in Buyukada (2000)
as Narrator