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