Vanessa Redgrave

Biography

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.

Known For

The View

Golden Globe Awards

Tony Awards

Tony Awards

Tony Awards

Call the Midwife

NDR Talk Show

Nip/Tuck

All Movies (155)

• The Crystal Planet2026 · as The Matriarch (voice)
• Cold Storage2026 · as Mary Rooney
• The Estate2025
• Common Wealth2025 · as Self
• Merchant Ivory2024 · as Self
• On Our Way2023
• The Ghost of Richard Harris2022 · as Self
• The Lost Girls2022 · as Great Nana
• Alice, Through the Looking2021 · as Narrator
• Alida Valli: In Her Own Words2021 · as Self
• Finding You2021 · as Cathleen Sweeney
• Katherine Jenkins Christmas Spectacular2020 · as Self
• Entree Des Artists2020 · as Henry's Grandmother
• Mrs Lowry & Son2019 · as Elizabeth Lowry
• Georgetown2019 · as Elsa Brecht
• The Aspern Papers2019 · as Juliana Bordereau
• Nothing Like a Dame2018 · as Self (archive footage)
• Film Stars Don't Die in Liverpool2017 · as Jeanne McDougall
• Sea Sorrow2017 · as Self
• Joan Didion: The Center Will Not Hold2017 · as Self
• The Secret Scripture2017 · as Old Roseanne McNulty
• Electric Burma: The Concert for Aung San Suu Kyi - Words I Never Said2016 · as Self
• Almeida Theatre Live: Richard III2016 · as Queen Margaret
• The Go-Between2015 · as Older Marian
• Foxcatcher2014 · as Jean du Pont
• The Wound and the Gift2014
• The Thirteenth Tale2013 · as Vida Winter
• The Butler2013 · as Annabeth Westfall
• The Last Will and Testament of Rosalind Leigh2012 · as Rosalind Leigh
• Last Will. & Testament2012
• Song for Marion2012 · as Marion
• Anonymous2011 · as Queen Elizabeth I
• Cars 22011 · as The Queen / Mama Topolino (voice)
• Coriolanus2011 · as Volumnia
• Robinson in Ruins2010 · as Narrator
• Miral2010 · as Bertha Spafford
• The Whistleblower2010 · as Madeleine Rees
• Letters to Juliet2010 · as Claire
• God, Smell and Her2009
• Ein Job2008 · as Hannah Silbergrau
• Restraint2008 · as Sky News Reader #2
• How About You...2007 · as Georgia Platts
• The Shell Seekers2007 · as Penelope Keeling
• The Riddle2007 · as Roberta Elliot
• The Fever2007 · as The woman
• Evening2007 · as Ann Lord
• Atonement2007 · as Briony Tallis (Age 77)
• Dealing and Wheeling in Small Arms2007 · as Narrator
• Venus2006 · as Valerie
• Eugene O’Neill: A Documentary Film2006 · as Self
• The Thief Lord2006 · as Sister Antonia
• The White Countess2005 · as Princess Vera Belinskya
• Elio Petri: Notes About a Filmmaker2005 · as Self
• The Keeper: The Legend of Omar Khayyam2005 · as Miss Sangorski
• Short Order2005 · as Marianne
• Thank You, Doctor Rey2003 · as herself
• Good Boy!2003 · as The Greater Dane (voice)
• Byron2003 · as Lady Melbourne
• The Locket2002 · as Esther Huish
• Hell on Earth: The Desecration & Resurrection of The Devils2002 · as Self
• Searching for Debra Winger2002 · as Self
• Crime and Punishment2002 · as Rodion's mother
• The Gathering Storm2002 · as Clemmie Churchill
• Escape to Life: The Erika and Klaus Mann Story2001 · as (voice)
• The Pledge2001 · as Annalise Hansen
• A Rumor of Angels2000 · as Maddy Bennett
• The Adventures of Young Indiana Jones: Love's Sweet Song2000 · as Vicky's Mother
• Uninvited2000 · as Mrs. Rutterburn
• Mirka2000 · as Kalsan
• 19612000 · as Edith Tree
• If These Walls Could Talk 22000 · as Edith Tree
• Exile in Buyukada2000 · as Narrator
• Girl, Interrupted1999 · as Dr. Wick
• Cradle Will Rock1999 · as Countess Constance La Grave
• Lulu on the Bridge1998 · as Catherine Moore
• Deep Impact1998 · as Robin Lerner
• Déjà Vu1998 · as Skelly
• Bella Mafia1997 · as Graziella Luciano
• Behind the Mask : The IRA and Sinn Fein1997 · as Self
• Wilde1997 · as Lady Speranza Wilde
• Mrs. Dalloway1997 · as Mrs. Clarissa Dalloway
• Michael Redgrave: My Father1997 · as Self
• Smilla's Sense of Snow1997 · as Elsa Lübing
• The Willows in Winter1996 · as Grandmother / Narrator
• Looking for Richard1996 · as Self - Interviewee
• Two Mothers for Zachary1996 · as Nancy Shaffell
• Mission: Impossible1996 · as Max
• The Wind in the Willows1995 · as Grandmother / Narrator
• Down Came a Blackbird1995 · as Anna Lenke
• A Month by the Lake1995 · as Miss Bentley
• Little Odessa1994 · as Irina Shapira
• Great Moments in Aviation1994 · as Dr. Angela Bead
• Sparrow1994 · as Suor Agata
• They1993 · as Florence Latimer
• The House of the Spirits1993 · as Nivea del Valle
• Mother's Boys1993 · as Lydia
• A Wall of Silence1993 · as Kate Benson
• Howards End1992 · as Ruth Wilcox
• The Ballad of the Sad Cafe1991 · as Miss Amelia
• What Ever Happened to Baby Jane?1991 · as Blanche Hudson
• Breath of Life1990 · as Suor Crocifissa
• Orpheus Descending1990 · as Lady Torrance
• Stalin's Funeral1990 · as English journalist
• Romeo.Juliet1990 · as Mother Capulet (voice)
• A Man for All Seasons1988 · as Lady Alice More
• Consuming Passions1988 · as Mrs. Garza
• Comrades1987 · as Mrs. Carlyle
• Prick Up Your Ears1987 · as Peggy Ramsay
• Second Serve1986 · as Renee Richards
• Wetherby1985 · as Jean Travers
• Steaming1985 · as Nancy
• Three Sovereigns for Sarah1985 · as Sarah Cloyce
• Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs1984 · as The Evil Queen
• The Bostonians1984 · as Olive Chancellor
• Sing Sing1983 · as la Regina
• My Body, My Child1982 · as Leenie Cabrezi
• Playing for Time1980 · as Fania Fenelon
• The Fifth War1980
• Bear Island1979 · as Heddi Lindquist
• Yanks1979 · as Helen
• Agatha1979 · as Agatha Christie
• Julia1977 · as Julia
• The Palestinian1977 · as Self
• The Seven-Per-Cent Solution1976 · as Lola Deveraux
• Out of Season1975 · as Ann
• Murder on the Orient Express1974 · as Mary Debenham
• Right to Work March1972
• Mary, Queen of Scots1971 · as Mary, Queen of Scots
• Vacation1971 · as Immacolata Meneghelli
• The Devils1971 · as Sister Jeanne des Anges
• The Trojan Women1971 · as Andromache
• Dropout1970 · as Mary
• The Body1970 · as Narrator
• A Mother with Two Children Expecting Her Third1970 · as Herself
• No Arks1969 · as Narrator
• Oh! What a Lovely War1969 · as Sylvia Pankhurst
• The Sea Gull1968 · as Nina
• A Quiet Place in the Country1968 · as Flavia
• Isadora1968 · as Isadora Duncan
• Red and Blue1968 · as Jacky
• The Charge of the Light Brigade1968 · as Mrs Clarissa Morris
• Red, White, and Zero1968 · as Jacky
• Camelot1967 · as Guenevere
• Tonite Let's All Make Love in London1967 · as Self
• The Sailor from Gibraltar1967 · as Sheila
• Blow-Up1966 · as Jane
• A Man for All Seasons1966 · as Anne Boleyn
• Morgan: A Suitable Case for Treatment1966 · as Leonie Delt
• Maggie1964 · as Maggie
• As You Like It1963 · as Rosalind
• A Sunday in September1961 · as Self
• Circus at Clopton Hall1961 · as Narrator
• Behind the Mask1958 · as Pamela Benson-Gray
• The Boy at the Back of the Class— · as Queen
• All That I Am—

All TV Shows (41)

• Man in an Orange Shirt2017 · as Flora Berryman
• Black Box2014 · as Dr. Hartramph
• Political Animals2012 · as Diane Nash
• Shakespeare Uncovered2012 · as Herself
• Playhouse Presents2012 · as Elderly Woman
• Call the Midwife2012 · as Jennifer Worth (voice)
• The Day of the Triffids2009 · as Durrant
• Nip/Tuck2003 · as Dr.Erica Noughton
• Nip/Tuck2003 · as Dr. Erica Noughton
• Byron2003 · as Lady Melbourne
• Jack and the Beanstalk: The Real Story2001 · as Countess Wilhelmina
• The Early Show1999 · as Self
• Sabine Christiansen1998 · as Self
• The View1997 · as Self
• Inside the Actors Studio1994 · as Self
• Intimate Portrait1993 · as Self
• Hollywood U.K.: British Cinema in the Sixties1993 · as Self
• Young Catherine1991 · as Empress Elizabeth
• Seitenblicke1987 · as self
• Peter the Great1986 · as Sophia
• Screen Two1985 · as Dr. Angela Bead
• Three Sovereigns for Sarah1985 · as Sarah Cloyce
• Goldene Kamera1984 · as Self
• Wagner1983 · as Cosima von Bulow
• Faerie Tale Theatre1982 · as The Evil Queen
• Wetten, dass..?1981 · as Self
• NDR Talk Show1979 · as Self
• A Picture of Katherine Mansfield1973 · as Katherine Mansfield
• Film '721971 · as Self
• Omnibus1967 · as Self
• One Pair of Eyes1967
• Sunday-Night Play1960 · as Monica Claverton-Ferry
• Theatre Night1957 · as Caroline Lester
• Armchair Theatre1956 · as Sally
• Tony Awards1956 · as Self - Presenter
• Tony Awards1956 · as Self - Winner
• Tony Awards1956 · as Self - Nominee
• The Oscars1953 · as Self
• Today1952 · as Self
• Hallmark Hall of Fame1951 · as Esther Huish
• Golden Globe Awards1944 · as Self - Nominee