
Vanessa Redgrave
Born January 30, 1937 · Greenwich, London, England, UK
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.
Notable Appearances
Movies

Cars 2

Mission: Impossible

Cold Storage

Deep Impact

Atonement

The Trojan Women

Girl, Interrupted

Letters to Juliet

Murder on the Orient Express

The Butler

The House of the Spirits

The Pledge

A Man for All Seasons

The Devils

Foxcatcher

Film Stars Don't Die in Liverpool

The Whistleblower

Blow-Up

The Charge of the Light Brigade

Finding You

Howards End

Merchant Ivory

Georgetown

Wilde

Anonymous

Cradle Will Rock

Good Boy!

Song for Marion

Prick Up Your Ears

Smilla's Sense of Snow

Right to Work March

Nothing Like a Dame
TV Shows

Golden Globe Awards

Nip/Tuck

Call the Midwife

Tony Awards

Screen Two

Intimate Portrait

Wetten, dass..?

Omnibus

The Oscars

Today

Faerie Tale Theatre

Arena

Playhouse Presents

The Early Show

Black Box

Political Animals

Hallmark Hall of Fame

Jack and the Beanstalk: The Real Story

Theatre Night

The Day of the Triffids

Man in an Orange Shirt

Hollywood U.K.: British Cinema in the Sixties

Peter the Great

One Pair of Eyes

Armchair Theatre

Shakespeare Uncovered

Inside the Actors Studio

Byron

Wagner

Young Catherine

A Picture of Katherine Mansfield

Three Sovereigns for Sarah
More Movies

If These Walls Could Talk 2

Julia

Looking for Richard

Camelot

Yanks

Mother's Boys

The Estate

The Gathering Storm

The White Countess

Little Odessa

Lulu on the Bridge

The Seven-Per-Cent Solution

The Thief Lord

Mary, Queen of Scots

Restraint

Coriolanus

Mrs Lowry & Son

Evening

Venus

The Secret Scripture

Bella Mafia

Oh! What a Lovely War

The Wind in the Willows

Bear Island

A Rumor of Angels

Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs

A Month by the Lake

The Ballad of the Sad Cafe

The Ghost of Richard Harris

Sparrow

The Lost Girls

The Adventures of Young Indiana Jones: Love's Sweet Song

Two Mothers for Zachary

Joan Didion: The Center Will Not Hold

Orpheus Descending

Miral

Playing for Time

Great Moments in Aviation

Mrs. Dalloway

Morgan: A Suitable Case for Treatment

Romeo.Juliet

The Shell Seekers

The Willows in Winter

A Quiet Place in the Country

Down Came a Blackbird

Eugene O’Neill: A Documentary Film

What Ever Happened to Baby Jane?

A Man for All Seasons

The Fever

Consuming Passions

The Bostonians

Short Order

My Body, My Child

The Thirteenth Tale

The Last Will and Testament of Rosalind Leigh

Sing Sing

Tonite Let's All Make Love in London

Vacation

Michael Redgrave: My Father

The Locket

On Our Way

The Palestinian

The Go-Between

The Sea Gull

Almeida Theatre Live: Richard III

The Crystal Planet

Agatha

Wetherby

The Aspern Papers

Red, White, and Zero

All That I Am

Three Sovereigns for Sarah

Stalin's Funeral

The Sailor from Gibraltar

Elio Petri: Notes About a Filmmaker

Isadora

The Keeper: The Legend of Omar Khayyam

They

Crime and Punishment

Comrades

Hell on Earth: The Desecration & Resurrection of The Devils

How About You...

Searching for Debra Winger

Second Serve

Electric Burma: The Concert for Aung San Suu Kyi - Words I Never Said

Alice, Through the Looking

Katherine Jenkins Christmas Spectacular

Thank You, Doctor Rey

Last Will. & Testament

A Wall of Silence

Déjà Vu

The Riddle

Alida Valli: In Her Own Words

Dropout

Dealing and Wheeling in Small Arms

The Body

1961

Behind the Mask

Sea Sorrow

Breath of Life

Byron

Out of Season

Steaming

God, Smell and Her

Red and Blue

Uninvited

A Sunday in September

Mirka

Once Upon a Time... Little Odessa

Escape to Life: The Erika and Klaus Mann Story

Circus at Clopton Hall

Ein Job

No Arks

Robinson in Ruins

The Wound and the Gift

The Fifth War

A Mother with Two Children Expecting Her Third

Common Wealth




