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