Vanessa Redgrave
Acting
Born January 30, 1937 · 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.
Directed (1)
Acting (152)
Cold Storage
2026
The Estate
2025
Common Wealth
2025
Merchant Ivory
2024
On Our Way
2023
The Ghost of Richard Harris
2022
The Lost Girls
2022
Alice, Through the Looking
2021
Alida Valli: In Her Own Words
2021
Finding You
2021
Katherine Jenkins Christmas Spectacular
2020
Entree Des Artists
2020
Mrs Lowry & Son
2019
Georgetown
2019
The Aspern Papers
2019
Nothing Like a Dame
2018
Film Stars Don't Die in Liverpool
2017
Sea Sorrow
2017
Joan Didion: The Center Will Not Hold
2017
The Secret Scripture
2017
Electric Burma: The Concert for Aung San Suu Kyi - Words I Never Said
2016
Almeida Theatre Live: Richard III
2016
The Go-Between
2015
Foxcatcher
2014
The Wound and the Gift
2014
The Thirteenth Tale
2013
The Butler
2013
The Last Will and Testament of Rosalind Leigh
2012
Last Will. & Testament
2012
Song for Marion
2012
Anonymous
2011
Cars 2
2011
Coriolanus
2011
Robinson in Ruins
2010
Miral
2010
The Whistleblower
2010
Letters to Juliet
2010
God, Smell and Her
2009
Ein Job
2008
Restraint
2008
How About You...
2007
The Shell Seekers
2007
The Riddle
2007
The Fever
2007
Evening
2007
Atonement
2007
Dealing and Wheeling in Small Arms
2007
Venus
2006
Eugene O’Neill: A Documentary Film
2006
The Thief Lord
2006
The White Countess
2005
Elio Petri: Notes About a Filmmaker
2005
The Keeper: The Legend of Omar Khayyam
2005
Short Order
2005
Thank You, Doctor Rey
2004
Good Boy!
2003
Byron
2003
The Locket
2002
Hell on Earth: The Desecration & Resurrection of The Devils
2002
Searching for Debra Winger
2002
Crime and Punishment
2002
The Gathering Storm
2002
Escape to Life: The Erika and Klaus Mann Story
2001
The Pledge
2001
A Rumor of Angels
2000
The Adventures of Young Indiana Jones: Love's Sweet Song
2000
Uninvited
2000
Mirka
2000
1961
2000
If These Walls Could Talk 2
2000
Exile in Buyukada
2000
Girl, Interrupted
1999
Cradle Will Rock
1999
Lulu on the Bridge
1998
Deep Impact
1998
Déjà Vu
1998
Bella Mafia
1997
Behind the Mask : The IRA and Sinn Fein
1997
Wilde
1997
Mrs. Dalloway
1997
Michael Redgrave: My Father
1997
Smilla's Sense of Snow
1997
The Willows in Winter
1996
Looking for Richard
1996
Two Mothers for Zachary
1996
Mission: Impossible
1996
The Wind in the Willows
1995
Down Came a Blackbird
1995
A Month by the Lake
1995
Little Odessa
1994
Great Moments in Aviation
1994
Sparrow
1994
They
1993
The House of the Spirits
1993
Mother's Boys
1993
A Wall of Silence
1993
Howards End
1992
The Ballad of the Sad Cafe
1991
What Ever Happened to Baby Jane?
1991
Breath of Life
1990
Orpheus Descending
1990
Stalin's Funeral
1990
Romeo.Juliet
1990
A Man for All Seasons
1988
Consuming Passions
1988
Comrades
1987
Prick Up Your Ears
1987
Second Serve
1986
Wetherby
1985
Steaming
1985
Three Sovereigns for Sarah
1985
Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs
1984
The Bostonians
1984
Sing Sing
1983
My Body, My Child
1982
Playing for Time
1980
The Fifth War
1980
Bear Island
1979
Yanks
1979
Agatha
1979
Julia
1977
The Palestinian
1977
The Seven-Per-Cent Solution
1976
Out of Season
1975
Murder on the Orient Express
1974
Right to Work March
1972
Mary, Queen of Scots
1971
Vacation
1971
The Devils
1971
The Trojan Women
1971
Dropout
1970
The Body
1970
A Mother with Two Children Expecting Her Third
1970
No Arks
1969
Oh! What a Lovely War
1969
The Sea Gull
1968
A Quiet Place in the Country
1968
Isadora
1968
Red and Blue
1968
The Charge of the Light Brigade
1968
Red, White, and Zero
1968
Camelot
1967
Tonite Let's All Make Love in London
1967
The Sailor from Gibraltar
1967
Blow-Up
1966
A Man for All Seasons
1966
Morgan: A Suitable Case for Treatment
1966
Maggie
1964
As You Like It
1963
A Sunday in September
1961
Circus at Clopton Hall
1961
Behind the Mask
1958