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 | Ma Rooney | 2026-01-29 |
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The Estate | 2025-11-25 | |
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Common Wealth | Self | 2025-08-01 |
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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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Entree Des Artists | Henry's Grandmother | 2020-06-01 |
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Katherine Jenkins Christmas Spectacular | Self | 2020-12-01 |
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Mrs Lowry & Son | Elizabeth Lowry | 2019-08-30 |
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The Aspern Papers | Juliana Bordereau | 2019-01-11 |
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Georgetown | Elsa Brecht | 2019-05-14 |
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Nothing Like a Dame | Self (archive footage) | 2018-05-02 |
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Film Stars Don't Die in Liverpool | Jeanne McDougall | 2017-11-17 |
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The Secret Scripture | Old Roseanne McNulty | 2017-03-23 |
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Joan Didion: The Center Will Not Hold | Self | 2017-10-11 |
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Sea Sorrow | Self | 2017-11-08 |
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Almeida Theatre Live: Richard III | Queen Margaret | 2016-07-21 |
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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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The Go-Between | Older Marian | 2015-09-20 |
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Foxcatcher | Jean du Pont | 2014-11-14 |
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The Wound and the Gift | 2014-09-30 | |
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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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Song for Marion | Marion | 2012-09-15 |
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Last Will. & Testament | 2012-10-23 | |
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The Last Will and Testament of Rosalind Leigh | Rosalind Leigh | 2012-11-09 |
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Anonymous | Queen Elizabeth I | 2011-10-21 |
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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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Robinson in Ruins | Narrator | 2010-11-19 |
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Letters to Juliet | Claire | 2010-05-13 |
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Miral | Bertha Spafford | 2010-09-15 |
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The Whistleblower | Madeleine Rees | 2010-09-13 |
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Gud, lukt och henne | 2009-01-28 | |
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Restraint | Sky News Reader #2 | 2008-08-19 |
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Ein Job | Hannah Silbergrau | 2008-09-26 |
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Evening | Ann Lord | 2007-06-09 |
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The Shell Seekers | Penelope Keeling | 2007-10-18 |
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Dealing and Wheeling in Small Arms | Narrator | 2007-01-04 |
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The Fever | The woman | 2007-06-13 |
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How About You... | Georgia Platts | 2007-11-16 |
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Atonement | Briony Tallis (Age 77) | 2007-02-27 |
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The Riddle | Roberta Elliot | 2007-10-14 |
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Venus | Valerie | 2006-09-02 |
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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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Short Order | 2005-01-01 | |
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Elio Petri... appunti su un autore | Self | 2005-09-03 |
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The Keeper: The Legend of Omar Khayyam | Miss Sangorski | 2005-06-10 |
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The White Countess | Princess Vera Belinskya | 2005-10-30 |
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Merci Docteur Rey | herself | 2004-08-20 |
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Byron | Lady Melbourne | 2003-09-27 |
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Good Boy! | The Greater Dane (voice) | 2003-10-10 |
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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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Crime and Punishment | Rodion's mother | 2002-06-01 |
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Hell on Earth: The Desecration & Resurrection of The Devils | Self | 2002-11-24 |
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The Locket | Esther Huish | 2002-12-08 |
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The Pledge | Annalise Hansen | 2001-01-19 |
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Escape to Life: The Erika and Klaus Mann Story | (voice) | 2001-04-05 |
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Büyükada'da Sürgün | Narrator | 2000-01-01 |
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Uninvited | Mrs. Rutterburn | 2000-05-19 |
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A Rumor of Angels | Maddy Bennett | 2000-09-08 |
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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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Cradle Will Rock | Countess Constance La Grave | 1999-12-10 |
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Girl, Interrupted | Dr. Wick | 1999-12-21 |
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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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Déjà Vu | Skelly | 1998-04-22 |
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Bella Mafia | Graziella Luciano | 1997-11-16 |
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Michael Redgrave: My Father | Self | 1997-07-13 |
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Wilde | Lady Speranza Wilde | 1997-09-01 |
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Behind the Mask : The IRA and Sinn Fein | Self | 1997-10-21 |
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Smilla's Sense of Snow | Elsa Lübing | 1997-02-28 |
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Mrs. Dalloway | Mrs. Clarissa Dalloway | 1997-09-01 |
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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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Mission: Impossible | Max | 1996-05-22 |
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Two Mothers for Zachary | Nancy Shaffell | 1996-09-22 |
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The Wind in the Willows | Grandmother / Narrator | 1995-12-24 |
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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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Storia di una capinera | Suor Agata | 1994-02-04 |
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Little Odessa | Irina Shapira | 1994-10-28 |
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Great Moments in Aviation | Dr. Angela Bead | 1994-05-01 |
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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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Un muro de silencio | Kate Benson | 1993-06-10 |
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Mother's Boys | Lydia | 1993-10-01 |
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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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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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Romeo.Juliet | Mother Capulet (voice) | 1990-01-01 |
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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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Comrades | Mrs. Carlyle | 1987-08-23 |
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Prick Up Your Ears | Peggy Ramsay | 1987-04-17 |
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Second Serve | Renee Richards | 1986-01-01 |
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Steaming | Nancy | 1985-05-22 |
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Three Sovereigns for Sarah | Sarah Cloyce | 1985-05-01 |
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Wetherby | Jean Travers | 1985-06-19 |
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Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs | The Evil Queen | 1984-07-16 |
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The Bostonians | Olive Chancellor | 1984-05-01 |
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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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Playing for Time | Fania Fenelon | 1980-09-30 |
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The Fifth War | 1980-01-01 | |
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Bear Island | Heddi Lindquist | 1979-12-05 |
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Yanks | Helen | 1979-09-19 |
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Agatha | Agatha Christie | 1979-02-09 |
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The Palestinian | Self | 1977-04-28 |
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Julia | Julia | 1977-10-01 |
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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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La Vacanza | Immacolata Meneghelli | 1971-09-04 |
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The Trojan Women | Andromache | 1971-05-01 |
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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 Sea Gull | Nina | 1968-12-23 |
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The Charge of the Light Brigade | Mrs Clarissa Morris | 1968-04-10 |
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Un tranquillo posto di campagna | Flavia | 1968-11-14 |
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Isadora | Isadora Duncan | 1968-09-14 |
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Red, White, and Zero | Jacky | 1968-01-30 |
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Red and Blue | Jacky | 1968-08-08 |
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The Sailor from Gibraltar | Sheila | 1967-01-01 |
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Camelot | Guenevere | 1967-10-25 |
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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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Circus at Clopton Hall | Narrator | 1961-01-01 |
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A Sunday in September | Self | 1961-09-18 |
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Behind the Mask | Pamela Benson-Gray | 1958-11-23 |
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The Boy at the Back of the Class | Queen | |
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All That I Am | ||
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The Crystal Planet | The Matriarch (voice) |
