1937-01-30 Greenwich, London, England, UK
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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Cold Storage | Mary Rooney | 2026-01-22 |
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The Crystal Planet | The Matriarch (voice) | 2026-08-13 |
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Common Wealth | Self | 2025-08-01 |
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The Estate | 2025-11-25 | |
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Merchant Ivory | Self | 2024-08-30 |
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On Our Way | 2023-05-19 | |
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The Lost Girls | Great Nana | 2022-06-17 |
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The Ghost of Richard Harris | Self | 2022-08-31 |
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Alida | Self | 2021-05-17 |
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Alice, Through the Looking | Narrator | 2021-11-12 |
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Finding You | Cathleen Sweeney | 2021-05-13 |
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Katherine Jenkins Christmas Spectacular | Self | 2020-12-01 |
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Entree Des Artists | Henry's Grandmother | 2020-06-01 |
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Mrs Lowry & Son | Elizabeth Lowry | 2019-08-30 |
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Georgetown | Elsa Brecht | 2019-05-14 |
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The Aspern Papers | Juliana Bordereau | 2019-01-11 |
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Nothing Like a Dame | Self (archive footage) | 2018-05-02 |
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Sea Sorrow | Self | 2017-11-08 |
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Joan Didion: The Center Will Not Hold | Self | 2017-10-11 |
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The Secret Scripture | Old Roseanne McNulty | 2017-03-23 |
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Film Stars Don't Die in Liverpool | Jeanne McDougall | 2017-11-17 |
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Electric Burma: The Concert for Aung San Suu Kyi - Words I Never Said | Self | 2016-09-17 |
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Almeida Theatre Live: Richard III | Queen Margaret | 2016-07-21 |
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The Go-Between | Older Marian | 2015-09-20 |
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The Wound and the Gift | 2014-09-30 | |
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Foxcatcher | Jean du Pont | 2014-11-14 |
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The Butler | Annabeth Westfall | 2013-08-16 |
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The Thirteenth Tale | Vida Winter | 2013-12-30 |
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The Last Will and Testament of Rosalind Leigh | Rosalind Leigh | 2012-11-09 |
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Last Will. & Testament | 2012-10-23 | |
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Song for Marion | Marion | 2012-09-15 |
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Cars 2 | The Queen / Mama Topolino (voice) | 2011-06-11 |
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Coriolanus | Volumnia | 2011-02-14 |
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Anonymous | Queen Elizabeth I | 2011-10-21 |
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Letters to Juliet | Claire | 2010-05-13 |
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The Whistleblower | Madeleine Rees | 2010-09-13 |
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Miral | Bertha Spafford | 2010-09-15 |
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Robinson in Ruins | Narrator | 2010-11-19 |
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Gud, lukt och henne | 2009-01-28 | |
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Ein Job | Hannah Silbergrau | 2008-09-26 |
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Restraint | Sky News Reader #2 | 2008-08-19 |
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Atonement | Briony Tallis (Age 77) | 2007-02-27 |
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How About You... | Georgia Platts | 2007-11-16 |
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The Shell Seekers | Penelope Keeling | 2007-10-18 |
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The Fever | The woman | 2007-06-13 |
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Evening | Ann Lord | 2007-06-09 |
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The Riddle | Roberta Elliot | 2007-10-14 |
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Dealing and Wheeling in Small Arms | Narrator | 2007-01-04 |
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Eugene O’Neill: A Documentary Film | Self | 2006-03-27 |
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The Thief Lord | Sister Antonia | 2006-01-04 |
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Venus | Valerie | 2006-09-02 |
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The White Countess | Princess Vera Belinskya | 2005-10-30 |
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The Keeper: The Legend of Omar Khayyam | Miss Sangorski | 2005-06-10 |
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Short Order | Marianne | 2005-01-01 |
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Elio Petri... appunti su un autore | Self | 2005-09-03 |
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Merci Docteur Rey | herself | 2003-12-03 |
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Good Boy! | The Greater Dane (voice) | 2003-10-10 |
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Byron | Lady Melbourne | 2003-09-27 |
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Crime and Punishment | Rodion's mother | 2002-06-01 |
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The Locket | Esther Huish | 2002-12-08 |
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Searching for Debra Winger | Self | 2002-07-13 |
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The Gathering Storm | Clemmie Churchill | 2002-04-22 |
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Hell on Earth: The Desecration & Resurrection of The Devils | Self | 2002-11-24 |
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Escape to Life: The Erika and Klaus Mann Story | (voice) | 2001-04-05 |
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The Pledge | Annalise Hansen | 2001-01-19 |
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Büyükada'da Sürgün | Narrator | 2000-01-01 |
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A Rumor of Angels | Maddy Bennett | 2000-09-08 |
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Uninvited | Mrs. Rutterburn | 2000-05-19 |
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The Adventures of Young Indiana Jones: Love's Sweet Song | Vicky's Mother | 2000-07-12 |
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Mirka | Kalsan | 2000-03-10 |
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1961 | Edith Tree | 2000-03-05 |
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If These Walls Could Talk 2 | Edith Tree | 2000-03-05 |
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Girl, Interrupted | Dr. Wick | 1999-12-21 |
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Cradle Will Rock | Countess Constance La Grave | 1999-12-10 |
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Déjà Vu | Skelly | 1998-04-22 |
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Lulu on the Bridge | Catherine Moore | 1998-09-06 |
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Deep Impact | Robin Lerner | 1998-05-08 |
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Smilla's Sense of Snow | Elsa Lübing | 1997-02-28 |
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Bella Mafia | Graziella Luciano | 1997-11-16 |
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Behind the Mask : The IRA and Sinn Fein | Self | 1997-10-21 |
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Michael Redgrave: My Father | Self | 1997-07-13 |
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Mrs. Dalloway | Mrs. Clarissa Dalloway | 1997-09-01 |
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Wilde | Lady Speranza Wilde | 1997-09-01 |
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Two Mothers for Zachary | Nancy Shaffell | 1996-09-22 |
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Mission: Impossible | Max | 1996-05-22 |
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Looking for Richard | Self - Interviewee | 1996-10-11 |
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The Willows in Winter | Grandmother / Narrator | 1996-12-26 |
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A Month by the Lake | Miss Bentley | 1995-09-11 |
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Down Came a Blackbird | Anna Lenke | 1995-10-22 |
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The Wind in the Willows | Grandmother / Narrator | 1995-12-24 |
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Little Odessa | Irina Shapira | 1994-10-28 |
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Storia di una capinera | Suor Agata | 1994-02-04 |
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Great Moments in Aviation | Dr. Angela Bead | 1994-05-01 |
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Mother's Boys | Lydia | 1993-10-01 |
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Un muro de silencio | Kate Benson | 1993-06-10 |
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The House of the Spirits | Nivea del Valle | 1993-10-21 |
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They | Florence Latimer | 1993-11-14 |
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Howards End | Ruth Wilcox | 1992-03-13 |
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The Ballad of the Sad Cafe | Miss Amelia | 1991-03-28 |
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What Ever Happened to Baby Jane? | Blanche Hudson | 1991-02-17 |
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Romeo.Juliet | Mother Capulet (voice) | 1990-01-01 |
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Diceria dell'untore | Suor Crocifissa | 1990-10-11 |
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Похороны Сталина | English journalist | 1990-04-21 |
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Orpheus Descending | Lady Torrance | 1990-06-01 |
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A Man for All Seasons | Lady Alice More | 1988-12-21 |
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Consuming Passions | Mrs. Garza | 1988-04-06 |
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Prick Up Your Ears | Peggy Ramsay | 1987-04-17 |
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Comrades | Mrs. Carlyle | 1987-08-23 |
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Second Serve | Renee Richards | 1986-01-01 |
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Three Sovereigns for Sarah | Sarah Cloyce | 1985-05-01 |
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Steaming | Nancy | 1985-05-22 |
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Wetherby | Jean Travers | 1985-06-19 |
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The Bostonians | Olive Chancellor | 1984-05-01 |
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Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs | The Evil Queen | 1984-07-16 |
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Sing Sing | la Regina | 1983-10-15 |
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My Body, My Child | Leenie Cabrezi | 1982-04-11 |
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The Fifth War | 1980-01-01 | |
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Playing for Time | Fania Fenelon | 1980-09-30 |
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Bear Island | Heddi Lindquist | 1979-12-05 |
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Agatha | Agatha Christie | 1979-02-09 |
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Yanks | Helen | 1979-09-19 |
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Julia | Julia | 1977-10-01 |
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The Palestinian | Self | 1977-04-28 |
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The Seven-Per-Cent Solution | Lola Deveraux | 1976-10-24 |
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Out of Season | Ann | 1975-05-31 |
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Murder on the Orient Express | Mary Debenham | 1974-11-22 |
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Right to Work March | 1972-10-19 | |
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The Devils | Sister Jeanne des Anges | 1971-07-16 |
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Mary, Queen of Scots | Mary, Queen of Scots | 1971-12-22 |
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The Trojan Women | Andromache | 1971-05-01 |
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La Vacanza | Immacolata Meneghelli | 1971-09-04 |
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Dropout | Mary | 1970-12-18 |
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A Mother with Two Children Expecting Her Third | Herself | 1970-08-10 |
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The Body | Narrator | 1970-10-09 |
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No Arks | Narrator | 1969-06-01 |
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Oh! What a Lovely War | Sylvia Pankhurst | 1969-03-10 |
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The Charge of the Light Brigade | Mrs Clarissa Morris | 1968-04-10 |
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The Sea Gull | Nina | 1968-12-23 |
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Un tranquillo posto di campagna | Flavia | 1968-11-14 |
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Red, White, and Zero | Jacky | 1968-01-30 |
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Isadora | Isadora Duncan | 1968-09-14 |
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Red and Blue | Jacky | 1968-08-08 |
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Camelot | Guenevere | 1967-10-25 |
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The Sailor from Gibraltar | Sheila | 1967-01-01 |
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Tonite Let's All Make Love in London | Self | 1967-09-26 |
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Morgan: A Suitable Case for Treatment | Leonie Delt | 1966-04-03 |
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Blow-Up | Jane | 1966-12-18 |
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A Man for All Seasons | Anne Boleyn | 1966-12-13 |
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Maggie | Maggie | 1964-01-25 |
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As You Like It | Rosalind | 1963-03-21 |
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A Sunday in September | Self | 1961-09-18 |
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Circus at Clopton Hall | Narrator | 1961-01-01 |
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Behind the Mask | Pamela Benson-Gray | 1958-11-23 |
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All That I Am | ||
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The Boy at the Back of the Class | Queen |
