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