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
Cars 2
(2011)
The Queen / Mama Topolino (voice)
Mission: Impossible
(1996)
Max Mitsopolis
Atonement
(2007)
Briony Tallis (Age 77)
Deep Impact
(1998)
Robin Lerner
The Pledge
(2001)
Annalise Hansen
Howards End
(1992)
Ruth Wilcox
The Butler
(2013)
Annabeth Westfall
Blow-Up
(1966)
Jane
Coriolanus
(2011)
Volumnia
Girl, Interrupted
(1999)
Dr. Wick
Isadora
(1968)
Isadora Duncan
Finding You
(2021)
Cathleen Sweeney
Anonymous
(2011)
Queen Elizabeth I
Murder on the Orient Express
(1974)
Mary Debenham
Letters to Juliet
(2010)
Claire
Georgetown
(2019)
Elsa Brecht
Full Filmography
Acting
Behind the Mask
(1958)
Pamela Benson-Gray
Circus at Clopton Hall
(1961)
Narrator
A Sunday in September
(1961)
Self
As You Like It
(1963)
Rosalind
A Man for All Seasons
(1966)
Anne Boleyn
Blow-Up
(1966)
Jane
Morgan: A Suitable Case for Treatment
(1966)
Leonie Delt
Camelot
(1967)
Guenevere
The Sailor from Gibraltar
(1967)
Sheila
Tonite Let's All Make Love in London
(1967)
Self
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
Oh! What a Lovely War
(1969)
Sylvia Pankhurst
No Arks
(1969)
Narrator
The Body
(1970)
Narrator
Dropout
(1970)
Mary
A Mother with Two Children Expecting Her Third
(1970)
Herself
The Devils
(1971)
Sister Jeanne des Anges
Mary, Queen of Scots
(1971)
Mary, Queen of Scots
The Trojan Women
(1971)
Andromache
Vacation
(1971)
Immacolata Meneghelli
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
Yanks
(1979)
Helen
Agatha
(1979)
Agatha Christie
Bear Island
(1979)
Heddi Lindquist
Red, White, and Zero
(1979)
Jacky
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
Steaming
(1985)
Nancy
Wetherby
(1985)
Jean Travers
Three Sovereigns for Sarah
(1985)
Sarah Cloyce
Second Serve
(1986)
Renee Richards
Prick Up Your Ears
(1987)
Peggy Ramsay
Comrades
(1987)
Mrs. Carlyle
A Man for All Seasons
(1988)
Lady Alice More
Consuming Passions
(1988)
Mrs. Garza
Stalin's Funeral
(1990)
English journalist
Orpheus Descending
(1990)
Lady Torrance
Breath of Life
(1990)
Suor Crocifissa
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
The House of the Spirits
(1993)
Nivea del Valle
Mother's Boys
(1993)
Lydia
They
(1993)
Florence Latimer
A Wall of Silence
(1993)
Kate Benson
Sparrow
(1994)
Suor Agata
Little Odessa
(1994)
Irina Shapira
Great Moments in Aviation
(1994)
Dr. Angela Bead
A Month by the Lake
(1995)
Miss Bentley
The Wind in the Willows
(1995)
Grandmother / Narrator
Down Came a Blackbird
(1995)
Anna Lenke
Mission: Impossible
(1996)
Max Mitsopolis
The Willows in Winter
(1996)
Grandmother / Narrator
Looking for Richard
(1996)
Self - Interviewee
Two Mothers for Zachary
(1996)
Nancy Shaffell
Wilde
(1997)
Lady Speranza Wilde
Mrs. Dalloway
(1997)
Mrs. Clarissa Dalloway
Bella Mafia
(1997)
Graziella Luciano
Smilla's Sense of Snow
(1997)
Elsa Lübing
Michael Redgrave: My Father
(1997)
Self
Deep Impact
(1998)
Robin Lerner
Lulu on the Bridge
(1998)
Catherine Moore
Déjà Vu
(1998)
Skelly
Girl, Interrupted
(1999)
Dr. Wick
Cradle Will Rock
(1999)
Countess Constance La Grave
If These Walls Could Talk 2
(2000)
Edith Tree
A Rumor of Angels
(2000)
Maddy Bennett
Mirka
(2000)
Kalsan
Uninvited
(2000)
Mrs. Rutterburn
The Adventures of Young Indiana Jones: Love's Sweet Song
(2000)
Vicky's Mother
1961
(2000)
Edith Tree
Exile in Buyukada
(2000)
Narrator
The Pledge
(2001)
Annalise Hansen
Escape to Life: The Erika and Klaus Mann Story
(2001)
(voice)
The Gathering Storm
(2002)
Clemmie Churchill
The Locket
(2002)
Esther Huish
Crime and Punishment
(2002)
Rodion's mother
Hell on Earth: The Desecration & Resurrection of The Devils
(2002)
Self
Thank You, Doctor Rey
(2002)
herself
Searching for Debra Winger
(2002)
Self
Good Boy!
(2003)
The Greater Dane (voice)
Byron
(2003)
Lady Melbourne
The Fever
(2004)
Woman
The White Countess
(2005)
Princess Vera Belinskya
Elio Petri: Notes About a Filmmaker
(2005)
Self
The Keeper: The Legend of Omar Khayyam
(2005)
Miss Sangorski
Short Order
(2005)
Venus
(2006)
Valerie
The Thief Lord
(2006)
Sister Antonia
Eugene O’Neill: A Documentary Film
(2006)
Self
Evening
(2007)
Ann Lord
The Shell Seekers
(2007)
Penelope Keeling
How About You...
(2007)
Georgia Platts
The Riddle
(2007)
Roberta Elliot
Dealing and Wheeling in Small Arms
(2007)
Narrator
Atonement
(2007)
Briony Tallis (Age 77)
Ein Job
(2008)
Hannah Silbergrau
Restraint
(2008)
Sky News Reader #2
God, Smell and Her
(2009)
Miral
(2010)
Bertha Spafford
The Whistleblower
(2010)
Madeleine Rees
Robinson in Ruins
(2010)
Narrator
Letters to Juliet
(2010)
Claire
Anonymous
(2011)
Queen Elizabeth I
Cars 2
(2011)
The Queen / Mama Topolino (voice)
Coriolanus
(2011)
Volumnia
Song for Marion
(2012)
Marion
The Last Will and Testament of Rosalind Leigh
(2012)
Rosalind Leigh
Last Will. & Testament
(2012)
The Butler
(2013)
Annabeth Westfall
The Thirteenth Tale
(2013)
Vida Winter
The Wound and the Gift
(2014)
Foxcatcher
(2014)
Jean du Pont
And the Oscar Goes To...
(2014)
Self (archive footage)
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
The Secret Scripture
(2017)
Old Roseanne McNulty
Sea Sorrow
(2017)
Self
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
The Aspern Papers
(2019)
Juliana Bordereau
Mrs Lowry & Son
(2019)
Elizabeth Lowry
Katherine Jenkins Christmas Spectacular
(2020)
Self
Entree Des Artists
(2020)
Henry's Grandmother
Alida Valli: In Her Own Words
(2021)
Self
Finding You
(2021)
Cathleen Sweeney
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
Writing
Directing