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