Vanessa Redgrave
- Known for
- Acting
- Born
- January 30, 1937
- Birthplace
- 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.
Filmography
- Mexico Song
Mexico Song TBA
Actor
- The Turning Door
The Turning Door TBA
as (voice)
All That I Am TBA
Actor
- The Boy at the Back of the Class
The Boy at the Back of the Class TBA
as Queen
The Crystal Planet 2026
as The Matriarch (voice)
Cold Storage 2026
as Mary Rooney
The Estate 2025
Actor, Executive Producer
Common Wealth 2025
as Self
Merchant Ivory 2024
as Self
On Our Way 2023
Actor
The Ghost of Richard Harris 2022
as Self
The Lost Girls 2022
as Great Nana
Alice, Through the Looking 2021
as Narrator
Alida Valli: In Her Own Words 2021
as Self
Finding You 2021
as Cathleen Sweeney
Katherine Jenkins Christmas Spectacular 2020
as Self
- Entree Des Artists
Entree Des Artists 2020
as Henry's Grandmother
Mrs Lowry & Son 2019
as Elizabeth Lowry
Georgetown 2019
as Elsa Brecht
The Aspern Papers 2019
as Juliana Bordereau
Nothing Like a Dame 2018
as Self (archive footage)
Film Stars Don't Die in Liverpool 2017
as Jeanne McDougall
Sea Sorrow 2017
as Self, Director, Screenplay
Joan Didion: The Center Will Not Hold 2017
as Self
The Secret Scripture 2017
as Old Roseanne McNulty
Electric Burma: The Concert for Aung San Suu Kyi - Words I Never Said 2016
as Self
Almeida Theatre Live: Richard III 2016
as Queen Margaret
The Go-Between 2015
as Older Marian
Foxcatcher 2014
as Jean du Pont
The Wound and the Gift 2014
Actor
Once Upon a Time... Little Odessa 2014
as Self
The Thirteenth Tale 2013
as Vida Winter
The Butler 2013
as Annabeth Westfall
The Last Will and Testament of Rosalind Leigh 2012
as Rosalind Leigh
Last Will. & Testament 2012
Actor
Song for Marion 2012
as Marion
Anonymous 2011
as Queen Elizabeth I
Cars 2 2011
as The Queen / Mama Topolino (voice)
Coriolanus 2011
as Volumnia
Robinson in Ruins 2010
as Narrator
Miral 2010
as Bertha Spafford
The Whistleblower 2010
as Madeleine Rees
Letters to Juliet 2010
as Claire
God, Smell and Her 2009
Actor
Ein Job 2008
as Hannah Silbergrau
Restraint 2008
as Sky News Reader #2
How About You... 2007
as Georgia Platts
The Shell Seekers 2007
as Penelope Keeling
The Riddle 2007
as Roberta Elliot
Evening 2007
as Ann Lord
Atonement 2007
as Briony Tallis (Age 77)
Dealing and Wheeling in Small Arms 2007
as Narrator
Venus 2006
as Valerie
Eugene O’Neill: A Documentary Film 2006
as Self
The Thief Lord 2006
as Sister Antonia
The White Countess 2005
as Princess Vera Belinskya
Elio Petri: Notes About a Filmmaker 2005
as Self
The Keeper: The Legend of Omar Khayyam 2005
as Miss Sangorski
Short Order 2005
as Marianne
The Fever 2004
as The woman, Executive Producer
Thank You, Doctor Rey 2003
as herself
Good Boy! 2003
as The Greater Dane (voice)
Byron 2003
as Lady Melbourne
The Locket 2002
as Esther Huish
Hell on Earth: The Desecration & Resurrection of The Devils 2002
as Self
Searching for Debra Winger 2002
as Self
Crime and Punishment 2002
as Rodion's mother
The Gathering Storm 2002
as Clemmie Churchill
Escape to Life: The Erika and Klaus Mann Story 2001
as (voice)
The Pledge 2001
as Annalise Hansen
A Rumor of Angels 2000
as Maddy Bennett
The Adventures of Young Indiana Jones: Love's Sweet Song 2000
as Vicky's Mother
Uninvited 2000
as Mrs. Rutterburn
Mirka 2000
as Kalsan
If These Walls Could Talk 2 2000
as Edith Tree
1961 2000
as Edith Tree
Exile in Buyukada 2000
as Narrator
Girl, Interrupted 1999
as Dr. Wick
Cradle Will Rock 1999
as Countess Constance La Grave
Lulu on the Bridge 1998
as Catherine Moore
Deep Impact 1998
as Robin Lerner
Déjà Vu 1998
as Skelly
Bella Mafia 1997
as Graziella Luciano
- Behind the Mask : The IRA and Sinn Fein
Behind the Mask : The IRA and Sinn Fein 1997
as Self
Mrs. Dalloway 1997
as Mrs. Clarissa Dalloway
Wilde 1997
as Lady Speranza Wilde
Michael Redgrave: My Father 1997
as Self
Smilla's Sense of Snow 1997
as Elsa Lübing
The Willows in Winter 1996
as Grandmother / Narrator
Looking for Richard 1996
as Self - Interviewee
Two Mothers for Zachary 1996
as Nancy Shaffell
Mission: Impossible 1996
as Max
The Wind in the Willows 1995
as Grandmother / Narrator (voice)
Down Came a Blackbird 1995
as Anna Lenke
A Month by the Lake 1995
as Miss Bentley
Little Odessa 1994
as Irina Shapira
Great Moments in Aviation 1994
as Dr. Angela Bead
Sparrow 1994
as Suor Agata
They 1993
as Florence Latimer
The House of the Spirits 1993
as Nivea del Valle
Mother's Boys 1993
as Lydia
A Wall of Silence 1993
as Kate Benson
Howards End 1992
as Ruth Wilcox
The Ballad of the Sad Cafe 1991
as Miss Amelia
What Ever Happened to Baby Jane? 1991
as Blanche Hudson
Breath of Life 1990
as Suor Crocifissa
Orpheus Descending 1990
as Lady Torrance
Stalin's Funeral 1990
as English journalist
Romeo.Juliet 1990
as Mother Capulet (voice)
A Man for All Seasons 1988
as Lady Alice More
Consuming Passions 1988
as Mrs. Garza
Comrades 1987
as Mrs. Carlyle
Prick Up Your Ears 1987
as Peggy Ramsay
Second Serve 1986
as Renee Richards
Wetherby 1985
as Jean Travers
Steaming 1985
as Nancy
Three Sovereigns for Sarah 1985
as Sarah Cloyce
Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs 1984
as The Evil Queen
The Bostonians 1984
as Olive Chancellor
Sing Sing 1983
as la Regina
My Body, My Child 1982
as Leenie Cabrezi
Playing for Time 1980
as Fania Fenelon
The Fifth War 1980
Actor
Bear Island 1979
as Heddi Lindquist
Yanks 1979
as Helen
Agatha 1979
as Agatha Christie
The Palestinian 1978
as Self, Producer
Julia 1977
as Julia
The Seven-Per-Cent Solution 1976
as Lola Deveraux
Out of Season 1975
as Ann
Murder on the Orient Express 1974
as Mary Debenham
Right to Work March 1972
Actor
Mary, Queen of Scots 1971
as Mary, Queen of Scots
Vacation 1971
as Immacolata Meneghelli
The Devils 1971
as Sister Jeanne des Anges
The Trojan Women 1971
as Andromache
Dropout 1970
as Mary
The Body 1970
as Narrator
A Mother with Two Children Expecting Her Third 1970
as Herself
No Arks 1969
as Narrator
Oh! What a Lovely War 1969
as Sylvia Pankhurst
The Sea Gull 1968
as Nina
A Quiet Place in the Country 1968
as Flavia
Isadora 1968
as Isadora Duncan
Red and Blue 1968
as Jacky
The Charge of the Light Brigade 1968
as Mrs Clarissa Morris
Red, White, and Zero 1968
as Jacky
Camelot 1967
as Guenevere
Tonite Let's All Make Love in London 1967
as Self
The Sailor from Gibraltar 1967
as Sheila
Blow-Up 1966
as Jane
A Man for All Seasons 1966
as Anne Boleyn
Morgan: A Suitable Case for Treatment 1966
as Leonie Delt
- Maggie
Maggie 1964
as Maggie
- As You Like It
As You Like It 1963
as Rosalind
A Sunday in September 1961
as Self
Circus at Clopton Hall 1961
as Narrator
Behind the Mask 1958
as Pamela Benson-Gray
Credits from TMDB.