Vanessa Redgrave
Acting • Born 1937-01-30
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.
Filmography
189 credits
A Man for All Seasons
Movie • 1966
Anne Boleyn
Mission: Impossible
Movie • 1996
Max
Blow-Up
Movie • 1966
Jane
The Palestinian
Movie • 1977
Self
The House of the Spirits
Movie • 1993
Nivea del Valle
Girl, Interrupted
Movie • 1999
Dr. Wick
Murder on the Orient Express
Movie • 1974
Mary Debenham
Atonement
Movie • 2007
Briony Tallis (Age 77)
Oh! What a Lovely War
Movie • 1969
Sylvia Pankhurst
Wilde
Movie • 1997
Lady Speranza Wilde
The Pledge
Movie • 2001
Annalise Hansen
Evening
Movie • 2007
Ann Lord
Yanks
Movie • 1979
Helen
Good Boy!
Movie • 2003
The Greater Dane (voice)
Agatha
Movie • 1979
Agatha Christie
Deep Impact
Movie • 1998
Robin Lerner
The Devils
Movie • 1971
Sister Jeanne des Anges
Howards End
Movie • 1992
Ruth Wilcox
The Shell Seekers
Movie • 2007
Penelope Keeling
1961
Movie • 2000
Edith Tree
Circus at Clopton Hall
Movie • 1961
Narrator
Prick Up Your Ears
Movie • 1987
Peggy Ramsay
If These Walls Could Talk 2
Movie • 2000
Edith Tree
Tonite Let's All Make Love in London
Movie • 1967
Self
The Bostonians
Movie • 1984
Olive Chancellor
Venus
Movie • 2006
Valerie
A Month by the Lake
Movie • 1995
Miss Bentley
How About You...
Movie • 2007
Georgia Platts
Mother's Boys
Movie • 1993
Lydia
The Charge of the Light Brigade
Movie • 1968
Mrs Clarissa Morris
Julia
Movie • 1977
Julia
The Seven-Per-Cent Solution
Movie • 1976
Lola Deveraux
The Gathering Storm
Movie • 2002
Clemmie Churchill
Isadora
Movie • 1968
Isadora Duncan
Morgan: A Suitable Case for Treatment
Movie • 1966
Leonie Delt
Lulu on the Bridge
Movie • 1998
Catherine Moore
Anonymous
Movie • 2011
Queen Elizabeth I
Sparrow
Movie • 1994
Suor Agata
The Riddle
Movie • 2007
Roberta Elliot
Miral
Movie • 2010
Bertha Spafford
Bear Island
Movie • 1979
Heddi Lindquist
The Fever
Movie • 2007
The woman
Mary, Queen of Scots
Movie • 1971
Mary, Queen of Scots
Mrs. Dalloway
Movie • 1997
Mrs. Clarissa Dalloway
The Trojan Women
Movie • 1971
Andromache
Little Odessa
Movie • 1994
Irina Shapira
Alice, Through the Looking
Movie • 2021
Narrator
Cars 2
Movie • 2011
The Queen / Mama Topolino (voice)
The Whistleblower
Movie • 2010
Madeleine Rees
Comrades
Movie • 1987
Mrs. Carlyle
The White Countess
Movie • 2005
Princess Vera Belinskya
Camelot
Movie • 1967
Guenevere
Playing for Time
Movie • 1980
Fania Fenelon
A Rumor of Angels
Movie • 2000
Maddy Bennett
Robinson in Ruins
Movie • 2010
Narrator
The Boy at the Back of the Class
Movie
Queen
Bella Mafia
Movie • 1997
Graziella Luciano
Eugene O’Neill: A Documentary Film
Movie • 2006
Self
Sing Sing
Movie • 1983
la Regina
All That I Am
Movie
A Quiet Place in the Country
Movie • 1968
Flavia
The Wind in the Willows
Movie • 1995
Grandmother / Narrator
The Willows in Winter
Movie • 1996
Grandmother / Narrator
Foxcatcher
Movie • 2014
Jean du Pont
Coriolanus
Movie • 2011
Volumnia
The Locket
Movie • 2002
Esther Huish
Down Came a Blackbird
Movie • 1995
Anna Lenke
Byron
Movie • 2003
Lady Melbourne
Crime and Punishment
Movie • 2002
Rodion's mother
Great Moments in Aviation
Movie • 1994
Dr. Angela Bead
Song for Marion
Movie • 2012
Marion
The Butler
Movie • 2013
Annabeth Westfall
Steaming
Movie • 1985
Nancy
Short Order
Movie • 2005
Wetherby
Movie • 1985
Jean Travers
Déjà Vu
Movie • 1998
Skelly
Out of Season
Movie • 1975
Ann
A Man for All Seasons
Movie • 1988
Lady Alice More
What Ever Happened to Baby Jane?
Movie • 1991
Blanche Hudson
Exile in Buyukada
Movie • 2000
Narrator
Vacation
Movie • 1971
Immacolata Meneghelli
Behind the Mask
Movie • 1958
Pamela Benson-Gray
The Sea Gull
Movie • 1968
Nina
The Body
Movie • 1970
Narrator
Consuming Passions
Movie • 1988
Mrs. Garza
Stalin's Funeral
Movie • 1990
English journalist
Electric Burma: The Concert for Aung San Suu Kyi - Words I Never Said
Movie • 2016
Self
Dealing and Wheeling in Small Arms
Movie • 2007
Narrator
The Thirteenth Tale
Movie • 2013
Vida Winter
Orpheus Descending
Movie • 1990
Lady Torrance
The Ballad of the Sad Cafe
Movie • 1991
Miss Amelia
They
Movie • 1993
Florence Latimer
Looking for Richard
Movie • 1996
Self - Interviewee
Second Serve
Movie • 1986
Renee Richards
Two Mothers for Zachary
Movie • 1996
Nancy Shaffell
The Ghost of Richard Harris
Movie • 2022
Self
The Secret Scripture
Movie • 2017
Old Roseanne McNulty
Merchant Ivory
Movie • 2024
Self
Smilla's Sense of Snow
Movie • 1997
Elsa Lübing
Last Will. & Testament
Movie • 2012
On Our Way
Movie • 2023
The Sailor from Gibraltar
Movie • 1967
Sheila
A Sunday in September
Movie • 1961
Self
Elio Petri: Notes About a Filmmaker
Movie • 2005
Self
The Last Will and Testament of Rosalind Leigh
Movie • 2012
Rosalind Leigh
Mirka
Movie • 2000
Kalsan
Ein Job
Movie • 2008
Hannah Silbergrau
Michael Redgrave: My Father
Movie • 1997
Self
My Body, My Child
Movie • 1982
Leenie Cabrezi
The Go-Between
Movie • 2015
Older Marian
Entree Des Artists
Movie • 2020
Henry's Grandmother
The Wound and the Gift
Movie • 2014
Cradle Will Rock
Movie • 1999
Countess Constance La Grave
A Wall of Silence
Movie • 1993
Kate Benson
The Thief Lord
Movie • 2006
Sister Antonia
As You Like It
Movie • 1963
Rosalind
Almeida Theatre Live: Richard III
Movie • 2016
Queen Margaret
Hell on Earth: The Desecration & Resurrection of The Devils
Movie • 2002
Self
The Estate
Movie • 2025
Breath of Life
Movie • 1990
Suor Crocifissa
Thank You, Doctor Rey
Movie • 2004
herself
Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs
Movie • 1984
The Evil Queen
The Keeper: The Legend of Omar Khayyam
Movie • 2005
Miss Sangorski
Uninvited
Movie • 2000
Mrs. Rutterburn
Dropout
Movie • 1970
Mary
Sea Sorrow
Movie • 2017
Self
Film Stars Don't Die in Liverpool
Movie • 2017
Jeanne McDougall
Georgetown
Movie • 2019
Elsa Brecht
Right to Work March
Movie • 1972
The Aspern Papers
Movie • 2019
Juliana Bordereau
The Adventures of Young Indiana Jones: Love's Sweet Song
Movie • 2000
Vicky's Mother
Romeo.Juliet
Movie • 1990
Mother Capulet (voice)
A Mother with Two Children Expecting Her Third
Movie • 1970
Herself
Red and Blue
Movie • 1968
Jacky
Joan Didion: The Center Will Not Hold
Movie • 2017
Self
Red, White, and Zero
Movie • 1968
Jacky
No Arks
Movie • 1969
Narrator
Mrs Lowry & Son
Movie • 2019
Elizabeth Lowry
Three Sovereigns for Sarah
Movie • 1985
Sarah Cloyce
Escape to Life: The Erika and Klaus Mann Story
Movie • 2001
(voice)
Alida Valli: In Her Own Words
Movie • 2021
Self
Letters to Juliet
Movie • 2010
Claire
Restraint
Movie • 2008
Sky News Reader #2
Katherine Jenkins Christmas Spectacular
Movie • 2020
Self
The Lost Girls
Movie • 2022
Great Nana
Finding You
Movie • 2021
Cathleen Sweeney
Searching for Debra Winger
Movie • 2002
Self
Nothing Like a Dame
Movie • 2018
Self (archive footage)
God, Smell and Her
Movie • 2009
The Fifth War
Movie • 1980
Maggie
Movie • 1964
Maggie
The Crystal Planet
Movie
The Matriarch (voice)
Cold Storage
Movie • 2026
Ma Rooney
Common Wealth
Movie • 2025
Self
Behind the Mask : The IRA and Sinn Fein
Movie • 1997
Self
Inside the Actors Studio
TV • 1994
Self
The View
TV • 1997
Self
Today
TV • 1952
Self
Nip/Tuck
TV • 2003
Dr.Erica Noughton
The Early Show
TV • 1999
Self
Hallmark Hall of Fame
TV • 1951
Esther Huish
Intimate Portrait
TV • 1993
Self
Peter the Great
TV • 1986
Sophia
The Oscars
TV • 1953
Self
Call the Midwife
TV • 2012
Jennifer Worth (voice)
Black Box
TV • 2014
Dr. Hartramph
Jack and the Beanstalk: The Real Story
TV • 2001
Countess Wilhelmina
Shakespeare Uncovered
TV • 2012
Herself
Wagner
TV • 1983
Cosima von Bulow
Political Animals
TV • 2012
Diane Nash
Wetten, dass..?
TV • 1981
Self
Man in an Orange Shirt
TV • 2017
Flora Berryman
Hollywood U.K.: British Cinema in the Sixties
TV • 1993
Self
Byron
TV • 2003
Lady Melbourne
The Day of the Triffids
TV • 2009
Durrant
Faerie Tale Theatre
TV • 1982
The Evil Queen
Young Catherine
TV • 1991
Empress Elizabeth
Goldene Kamera
TV • 1984
Self
Three Sovereigns for Sarah
TV • 1985
Sarah Cloyce
Omnibus
TV • 1967
Self
Sabine Christiansen
TV • 1998
Self
NDR Talk Show
TV • 1979
Self
Golden Globe Awards
TV • 1944
Self - Nominee
Seitenblicke
TV • 1987
self
A Picture of Katherine Mansfield
TV • 1973
Katherine Mansfield
Sunday-Night Play
TV • 1960
Monica Claverton-Ferry
Nip/Tuck
TV • 2003
Dr. Erica Noughton
Playhouse Presents
TV • 2012
Theatre Night
TV • 1957
Caroline Lester