Vanessa Redgrave
Photoplayd Industry Rating
Not enough rated films yet to compute a weighted score.
Roles are weighted by involvement: director 1.0, screenwriter 0.7, lead 0.8, supporting 0.4, crew 0.1.
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
Deep Impact (1998)
as Robin Lerner
Atonement (2007)
as Briony Tallis (Age 77)
Girl, Interrupted (1999)
as Dr. Wick
Letters to Juliet (2010)
as Claire
Murder on the Orient Express (1974)
as Mary Debenham
The House of the Spirits (1993)
as Nivea del Valle
The Butler (2013)
as Annabeth Westfall
Finding You (2021)
as Cathleen Sweeney
The Devils (1971)
as Sister Jeanne des Anges
The Estate (2025)
Actor
Blow-Up (1966)
as Jane
Howards End (1992)
as Ruth Wilcox
The Pledge (2001)
as Annalise Hansen
Foxcatcher (2014)
as Jean du Pont
Restraint (2008)
as Sky News Reader #2
Bella Mafia (1997)
as Graziella Luciano
Wilde (1997)
as Lady Speranza Wilde
A Man for All Seasons (1966)
as Anne Boleyn
Camelot (1967)
as Guenevere
Looking for Richard (1996)
as Self - Interviewee
The White Countess (2005)
as Princess Vera Belinskya
Julia (1977)
as Julia
The Trojan Women (1971)
as Andromache
Coriolanus (2011)
as Volumnia
Mary, Queen of Scots (1971)
as Mary, Queen of Scots
Short Order (2005)
as Marianne
Little Odessa (1994)
as Irina Shapira
Bear Island (1979)
as Heddi Lindquist
Anonymous (2011)
as Queen Elizabeth I
Georgetown (2019)
as Elsa Brecht
Smilla's Sense of Snow (1997)
as Elsa Lübing
The Whistleblower (2010)
as Madeleine Rees
Vacation (1971)
as Immacolata Meneghelli
The Secret Scripture (2017)
as Old Roseanne McNulty
The Bostonians (1984)
as Olive Chancellor
If These Walls Could Talk 2 (2000)
as Edith Tree
Evening (2007)
as Ann Lord
Film Stars Don't Die in Liverpool (2017)
as Jeanne McDougall
Yanks (1979)
as Helen
Good Boy! (2003)
as The Greater Dane (voice)
Cradle Will Rock (1999)
as Countess Constance La Grave
The Gathering Storm (2002)
as Clemmie Churchill
Mrs. Dalloway (1997)
as Mrs. Clarissa Dalloway
Mother's Boys (1993)
as Lydia
Merchant Ivory (2024)
as Self
The Charge of the Light Brigade (1968)
as Mrs Clarissa Morris
Searching for Debra Winger (2002)
as Self
Venus (2006)
as Valerie
Agatha (1979)
as Agatha Christie
The Willows in Winter (1996)
as Grandmother / Narrator
Romeo.Juliet (1990)
as Mother Capulet (voice)
The Fever (2007)
as The woman
Miral (2010)
as Bertha Spafford
Playing for Time (1980)
as Fania Fenelon
The Lost Girls (2022)
as Great Nana
Crime and Punishment (2002)
as Rodion's mother
The Thief Lord (2006)
as Sister Antonia
Sea Sorrow (2017)
as Self
The Locket (2002)
as Esther Huish
Song for Marion (2012)
as Marion
Sing Sing (1983)
as la Regina
Isadora (1968)
as Isadora Duncan
The Wind in the Willows (1995)
as Grandmother / Narrator
The Shell Seekers (2007)
as Penelope Keeling
The Body (1970)
as Narrator
The Thirteenth Tale (2013)
as Vida Winter
Wetherby (1985)
as Jean Travers
How About You... (2007)
as Georgia Platts
On Our Way (2023)
Actor
Oh! What a Lovely War (1969)
as Sylvia Pankhurst
Dropout (1970)
as Mary
A Rumor of Angels (2000)
as Maddy Bennett
The Riddle (2007)
as Roberta Elliot
The Seven-Per-Cent Solution (1976)
as Lola Deveraux
A Sunday in September (1961)
as Self
Lulu on the Bridge (1998)
as Catherine Moore
A Month by the Lake (1995)
as Miss Bentley
Mrs Lowry & Son (2019)
as Elizabeth Lowry
Second Serve (1986)
as Renee Richards
Prick Up Your Ears (1987)
as Peggy Ramsay
The Go-Between (2015)
as Older Marian
Déjà Vu (1998)
as Skelly
Consuming Passions (1988)
as Mrs. Garza
Thank You, Doctor Rey (2003)
as herself
A Quiet Place in the Country (1968)
as Flavia
The Sea Gull (1968)
as Nina
The Keeper: The Legend of Omar Khayyam (2005)
as Miss Sangorski
Red and Blue (1968)
as Jacky
They (1993)
as Florence Latimer
Steaming (1985)
as Nancy
What Ever Happened to Baby Jane? (1991)
as Blanche Hudson
Joan Didion: The Center Will Not Hold (2017)
as Self
Stalin's Funeral (1990)
as English journalist
Sparrow (1994)
as Suor Agata
Ein Job (2008)
as Hannah Silbergrau
Nothing Like a Dame (2018)
as Self (archive footage)
The Aspern Papers (2019)
as Juliana Bordereau
Orpheus Descending (1990)
as Lady Torrance
Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs (1984)
as The Evil Queen
Tonite Let's All Make Love in London (1967)
as Self
Behind the Mask (1958)
as Pamela Benson-Gray
The Crystal Planet (2026)
as The Matriarch (voice)
A Man for All Seasons (1988)
as Lady Alice More
The Last Will and Testament of Rosalind Leigh (2012)
as Rosalind Leigh
The Ballad of the Sad Cafe (1991)
as Miss Amelia
Comrades (1987)
as Mrs. Carlyle
Almeida Theatre Live: Richard III (2016)
as Queen Margaret
The Adventures of Young Indiana Jones: Love's Sweet Song (2000)
as Vicky's Mother
All That I Am (—)
Actor
Morgan: A Suitable Case for Treatment (1966)
as Leonie Delt
Down Came a Blackbird (1995)
as Anna Lenke
The Ghost of Richard Harris (2022)
as Self
Maggie (1964)
as Maggie
Out of Season (1975)
as Ann
Three Sovereigns for Sarah (1985)
as Sarah Cloyce
My Body, My Child (1982)
as Leenie Cabrezi
1961 (2000)
as Edith Tree
The Boy at the Back of the Class (—)
as Queen
Two Mothers for Zachary (1996)
as Nancy Shaffell
Mirka (2000)
as Kalsan
Last Will. & Testament (2012)
Actor
Red, White, and Zero (1968)
as Jacky
Hell on Earth: The Desecration & Resurrection of The Devils (2002)
as Self
No Arks (1969)
as Narrator
The Sailor from Gibraltar (1967)
as Sheila
Eugene O’Neill: A Documentary Film (2006)
as Self
Great Moments in Aviation (1994)
as Dr. Angela Bead
Alida Valli: In Her Own Words (2021)
as Self
As You Like It (1963)
as Rosalind
Byron (2003)
as Lady Melbourne
Entree Des Artists (2020)
as Henry's Grandmother
The Palestinian (1977)
as Self
God, Smell and Her (2009)
Actor
The Fifth War (1980)
Actor
Michael Redgrave: My Father (1997)
as Self
Electric Burma: The Concert for Aung San Suu Kyi - Words I Never Said (2016)
as Self
Behind the Mask : The IRA and Sinn Fein (1997)
as Self
Escape to Life: The Erika and Klaus Mann Story (2001)
as (voice)
Breath of Life (1990)
as Suor Crocifissa
Elio Petri: Notes About a Filmmaker (2005)
as Self
A Wall of Silence (1993)
as Kate Benson
Alice, Through the Looking (2021)
as Narrator
Right to Work March (1972)
Actor
Robinson in Ruins (2010)
as Narrator
Common Wealth (2025)
as Self
Uninvited (2000)
as Mrs. Rutterburn
Katherine Jenkins Christmas Spectacular (2020)
as Self
The Wound and the Gift (2014)
Actor
Exile in Buyukada (2000)
as Narrator
Circus at Clopton Hall (1961)
as Narrator
A Mother with Two Children Expecting Her Third (1970)
as Herself
Dealing and Wheeling in Small Arms (2007)
as Narrator