Vanessa Redgrave
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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Acted in
Merchant Ivory
2024
as Self
On Our Way
2023
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
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
Joan Didion: The Center Will Not Hold
2017
as Self
Man in an Orange Shirt
2017
as Flora Berryman
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
Black Box
2014
as Dr. Hartramph
And the Oscar Goes To...
2014
as Self (archive footage)
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
Song for Marion
2012
as Marion
Political Animals
2012
as Diane Nash
Shakespeare Uncovered
2012
as Herself
Call the Midwife
2012
as Jennifer Worth (voice)
Call the Midwife
2012
as Mature Jennifer Worth (voice)
Call the Midwife
2012
as Mature Jenny
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
The Day of the Triffids
2009
as Durrant
God, Smell and Her
2009
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
The Fever
2004
as Woman
Thank You, Doctor Rey
2004
as herself
Good Boy!
2003
as The Greater Dane (voice)
Byron
2003
as Lady Melbourne
Nip/Tuck
2003
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
Jack and the Beanstalk: The Real Story
2001
as Countess Wilhelmina
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
1961
2000
as Edith Tree
If These Walls Could Talk 2
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
Wilde
1997
as Lady Speranza Wilde
Mrs. Dalloway
1997
as Mrs. Clarissa Dalloway
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
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
Intimate Portrait
1993
as Self
The House of the Spirits
1993
as Nivea del Valle
Mother's Boys
1993
as Lydia
Hollywood U.K.: British Cinema in the Sixties
1993
as Self
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
Young Catherine
1991
as Empress Elizabeth
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
Seitenblicke
1987
as self
Comrades
1987
as Mrs. Carlyle
Prick Up Your Ears
1987
as Peggy Ramsay
Peter the Great
1986
as Sophia
Second Serve
1986
as Renee Richards
Wetherby
1985
as Jean Travers
Steaming
1985
as Nancy
Three Sovereigns for Sarah
1985
as Sarah Cloyce
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
Wagner
1983
as Cosima von Bulow
Faerie Tale Theatre
1982
as The Evil Queen
My Body, My Child
1982
as Leenie Cabrezi
Playing for Time
1980
as Fania Fenelon
The Fifth War
1980
Red, White, and Zero
1979
as Jacky
Bear Island
1979
as Heddi Lindquist
Yanks
1979
as Helen
Agatha
1979
as Agatha Christie
Julia
1977
as Julia
The Palestinian
1977
as Self
The Seven-Per-Cent Solution
1976
as Lola Deveraux
Out of Season
1975
as Ann
Murder on the Orient Express
1974
as Mary Debenham
A Picture of Katherine Mansfield
1973
as Katherine Mansfield
Right to Work March
1972
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
Camelot
1967
as Guenevere
Omnibus
1967
as Self
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
1964
as Maggie
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
Tony Awards
1956
as Self - Winner
Tony Awards
1956
as Self - Presenter
Tony Awards
1956
as Self - Nominee
The Oscars
1953
as Self
Hallmark Hall of Fame
1951
as Esther Huish
The Boy At The Back Of The Class
as Queen
All That I Am
The Nest
as Elsie