Vanessa Redgrave
Acting
Born: January 30, 1937 (age 89) · Greenwich, London, England, UK
Highest Rated
Biography
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
Mission: Impossible
1996
Cars 2
2011
Atonement
2007
Girl, Interrupted
1999
Deep Impact
1998
The Butler
2013
Letters to Juliet
2010
Foxcatcher
2014
Murder on the Orient Express
1974
Blow-Up
1966
The Pledge
2001
Anonymous
2011
Photos (14)
Movies (129)
Cars 2
The Queen / Mama Topolino (voice)
Mission: Impossible
Max
Cold Storage
Mary Rooney
Deep Impact
Robin Lerner
Atonement
Briony Tallis (Age 77)
Murder on the Orient Express
Mary Debenham
Girl, Interrupted
Dr. Wick
The Pledge
Annalise Hansen
Letters to Juliet
Claire
The House of the Spirits
Nivea del Valle
The Devils
Sister Jeanne des Anges
The Trojan Women
Andromache
The Butler
Annabeth Westfall
Howards End
Ruth Wilcox
Foxcatcher
Jean du Pont
Blow-Up
Jane
Anonymous
Queen Elizabeth I
Little Odessa
Irina Shapira
A Man for All Seasons
Anne Boleyn
The Secret Scripture
Old Roseanne McNulty
The Whistleblower
Madeleine Rees
Coriolanus
Volumnia
Finding You
Cathleen Sweeney
Wilde
Lady Speranza Wilde
Julia
Julia
Georgetown
Elsa Brecht
Restraint
Sky News Reader #2
The Wind in the Willows
Grandmother / Narrator (voice)
Smilla's Sense of Snow
Elsa Lübing
Yanks
Helen
The Estate
2025
Romeo.Juliet
Mother Capulet (voice)
Camelot
Guenevere
The White Countess
Princess Vera Belinskya
Film Stars Don't Die in Liverpool
Jeanne McDougall
Bella Mafia
Graziella Luciano
Good Boy!
The Greater Dane (voice)
Evening
Ann Lord
Song for Marion
Marion
Cradle Will Rock
Countess Constance La Grave
If These Walls Could Talk 2
Edith Tree
The Thief Lord
Sister Antonia
The Charge of the Light Brigade
Mrs Clarissa Morris
Oh! What a Lovely War
Sylvia Pankhurst
The Gathering Storm
Clemmie Churchill
Mother's Boys
Lydia
The Bostonians
Olive Chancellor
Mrs. Dalloway
Mrs. Clarissa Dalloway
Consuming Passions
Mrs. Garza
Vacation
Immacolata Meneghelli
Lulu on the Bridge
Catherine Moore
Orpheus Descending
Lady Torrance
The Seven-Per-Cent Solution
Lola Deveraux
Agatha
Agatha Christie
Bear Island
Heddi Lindquist
Prick Up Your Ears
Peggy Ramsay
Sparrow
Suor Agata
Crime and Punishment
Rodion's mother
Sing Sing
la Regina
Short Order
Marianne
The Crystal Planet
The Matriarch (voice)
Venus
Valerie
Mrs Lowry & Son
Elizabeth Lowry
Stalin's Funeral
English journalist
The Lost Girls
Great Nana
The Fever
The woman
The Locket
Esther Huish
Miral
Bertha Spafford
Mary, Queen of Scots
Mary, Queen of Scots
The Shell Seekers
Penelope Keeling
Isadora
Isadora Duncan
A Month by the Lake
Miss Bentley
The Thirteenth Tale
Vida Winter
They
Florence Latimer
The Adventures of Young Indiana Jones: Love's Sweet Song
Vicky's Mother
Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs
The Evil Queen
Playing for Time
Fania Fenelon
The Sea Gull
Nina
The Go-Between
Older Marian
Red, White, and Zero
Jacky
What Ever Happened to Baby Jane?
Blanche Hudson
How About You...
Georgia Platts
Second Serve
Renee Richards
A Quiet Place in the Country
Flavia
A Man for All Seasons
Lady Alice More
My Body, My Child
Leenie Cabrezi
The Willows in Winter
Grandmother / Narrator
The Sailor from Gibraltar
Sheila
Wetherby
Jean Travers
Great Moments in Aviation
Dr. Angela Bead
Last Will. & Testament
2012
The Last Will and Testament of Rosalind Leigh
Rosalind Leigh
The Aspern Papers
Juliana Bordereau
A Rumor of Angels
Maddy Bennett
Behind the Mask
Pamela Benson-Gray
Almeida Theatre Live: Richard III
Queen Margaret
Two Mothers for Zachary
Nancy Shaffell
Red and Blue
Jacky
Dropout
Mary
The Riddle
Roberta Elliot
Comrades
Mrs. Carlyle
1961
Edith Tree
Déjà Vu
Skelly
Morgan: A Suitable Case for Treatment
Leonie Delt
The Ballad of the Sad Cafe
Miss Amelia
The Keeper: The Legend of Omar Khayyam
Miss Sangorski
Dealing and Wheeling in Small Arms
Narrator
Mirka
Kalsan
On Our Way
2023
Exile in Buyukada
Narrator
Uninvited
Mrs. Rutterburn
A Wall of Silence
Kate Benson
Steaming
Nancy
Right to Work March
1972
The Body
Narrator
Byron
Lady Melbourne
Escape to Life: The Erika and Klaus Mann Story
(voice)
Out of Season
Ann
Circus at Clopton Hall
Narrator
The Fifth War
1980
Ein Job
Hannah Silbergrau
Three Sovereigns for Sarah
Sarah Cloyce
Down Came a Blackbird
Anna Lenke
Alice, Through the Looking
Narrator
Robinson in Ruins
Narrator
Breath of Life
Suor Crocifissa
The Wound and the Gift
2014
God, Smell and Her
2009
No Arks
Narrator
TV Shows (22)
Nip/Tuck
Dr.Erica Noughton · 7 eps
Nip/Tuck
Dr. Erica Noughton · 3 eps
American Playhouse
Sarah Cloyce · 3 eps
Call the Midwife
Jennifer Worth (voice) · 117 eps
Screen Two
Dr. Angela Bead · 1 eps
Playhouse Presents
Elderly Woman · 1 eps
Faerie Tale Theatre
The Evil Queen · 1 eps
Political Animals
Diane Nash · 1 eps
Black Box
Dr. Hartramph · 13 eps
Theatre Night
Caroline Lester · 1 eps
Jack and the Beanstalk: The Real Story
Countess Wilhelmina · 2 eps
Man in an Orange Shirt
Flora Berryman · 2 eps
Peter the Great
Sophia · 4 eps
One Pair of Eyes
1 eps
The Day of the Triffids
Durrant · 2 eps
Byron
Lady Melbourne · 2 eps
Hallmark Hall of Fame
Esther Huish · 1 eps
A Picture of Katherine Mansfield
Katherine Mansfield · 6 eps
Armchair Theatre
Sally · 1 eps
Wagner
Cosima von Bulow · 10 eps
Young Catherine
Empress Elizabeth · 2 eps
Three Sovereigns for Sarah
Sarah Cloyce · 3 eps
Self / Appearances (35)
Golden Globe Awards
Self - Nominee · 3 eps
The View
Self · 1 eps
NDR Talk Show
Self · 1 eps
Tony Awards
Self - Presenter · 3 eps
Tony Awards
Self - Winner · 1 eps
Tony Awards
Self - Nominee · 1 eps
Omnibus
Self · 1 eps
Intimate Portrait
Self · 1 eps
The Oscars
Self · 4 eps
Today
Self · 1 eps
Wetten, dass..?
Self · 1 eps
Hollywood U.K.: British Cinema in the Sixties
Self · 2 eps
The Early Show
Self · 1 eps
Looking for Richard
Self - Interviewee
Shakespeare Uncovered
Herself · 1 eps
The Palestinian
Self
Merchant Ivory
Self
Nothing Like a Dame
Self (archive footage)
Inside the Actors Studio
Self · 1 eps
Searching for Debra Winger
Self
Thank You, Doctor Rey
herself
Eugene O’Neill: A Documentary Film
Self
Michael Redgrave: My Father
Self
Sea Sorrow
Self
The Ghost of Richard Harris
Self
Joan Didion: The Center Will Not Hold
Self
Elio Petri: Notes About a Filmmaker
Self
Electric Burma: The Concert for Aung San Suu Kyi - Words I Never Said
Self
Tonite Let's All Make Love in London
Self
Hell on Earth: The Desecration & Resurrection of The Devils
Self
A Mother with Two Children Expecting Her Third
Herself
A Sunday in September
Self
Alida Valli: In Her Own Words
Self
Katherine Jenkins Christmas Spectacular
Self
Common Wealth
Self
