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.
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Filmography
all 184
Movies 154
self 37
TV Shows 30
Narrator 11
Voice 3
Cold Storage (2025)
Merchant Ivory (2023)
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)
Capital in the Twenty-First Century (2019)
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)
Man in an Orange Shirt (2017)
The Secret Scripture (2017)
Electric Burma: The Concert for Aung San Suu Kyi - Words I Never Said (2016)
Off Frame AKA Revolution Until Victory (2016)
Almeida Theatre Live: Richard III (2016)
The Go-Between (2015)
Foxcatcher (2014)
The Wound and the Gift (2014)
Black Box (2014)
And the Oscar Goes To... (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)
Political Animals (2012)
Shakespeare Uncovered (2012)
Call the Midwife (2012)
Anonymous (2011)
Cars 2 (2011)
Coriolanus (2011)
Robinson in Ruins (2010)
Animals United (2010)
Miral (2010)
The Whistleblower (2010)
Letters to Juliet (2010)
The Day of the Triffids (2009)
God, Smell and Her (2009)
Sex, Drugs and Rock 'n' Roll: The 60s Revealed (2008)
Ein Job (2008)
Restraint (2008)
How About You... (2007)
The Shell Seekers (2007)
The Riddle (2007)
Atonement (2007)
Evening (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)
The Fever (2004)
Good Boy! (2003)
Byron (2003)
Nip/Tuck (2003)
Byron (2003)
The Locket (2002)
Hell on Earth: The Desecration & Resurrection of The Devils (2002)
Thank You, Doctor Rey (2002)
Searching for Debra Winger (2002)
Crime and Punishment (2002)
The Gathering Storm (2002)
Jack and the Beanstalk: The Real Story (2001)
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)
If These Walls Could Talk 2 (2000)
1961 (2000)
Exile in Buyukada (2000)
Girl, Interrupted (1999)
Cradle Will Rock (1999)
The Early Show (1999)
Lulu on the Bridge (1998)
Deep Impact (1998)
Déjà Vu (1998)
Sabine Christiansen (1998)
Bella Mafia (1997)
Wilde (1997)
Mrs. Dalloway (1997)
The View (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)
Dear Antonioni (1995)
Little Odessa (1994)
Inside the Actors Studio (1994)
Great Moments in Aviation (1994)
Sparrow (1994)
They (1993)
Intimate Portrait (1993)
The House of the Spirits (1993)
Mother's Boys (1993)
Hollywood U.K.: British Cinema in the Sixties (1993)
A Wall of Silence (1993)
Howards End (1992)
The Ballad of the Sad Cafe (1991)
Young Catherine (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)
Seitenblicke (1987)
Comrades (1987)
Prick Up Your Ears (1987)
Peter the Great (1986)
Second Serve (1986)
Wetherby (1985)
Steaming (1985)
Three Sovereigns for Sarah (1985)
Three Sovereigns for Sarah (1985)
Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs (1984)
The Bostonians (1984)
Sing Sing (1983)
Wagner (1983)
Faerie Tale Theatre (1982)
My Body, My Child (1982)
Wetten, dass..? (1981)
Playing for Time (1980)
The Fifth War (1980)
Red, White, and Zero (1979)
Bear Island (1979)
Yanks (1979)
Agatha (1979)
NDR Talk Show (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)
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)
Goldene Kamera Verleihung (1966)
As You Like It (1963)
A Sunday in September (1961)
Circus at Clopton Hall (1961)
Behind the Mask (1958)
Tony Awards (1956)
The Oscars (1953)
Today (1952)
Hallmark Hall of Fame (1951)
The Boy At The Back Of The Class
A Picture of Katherine Mansfield
All That I Am
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Known ForActing
GenderFemale
Birthday1937-01-30 (87 years old)
Birth PlaceBlackheath, United Kingdom
Height
RelationshipsTony Richardson (1962-04-29 - 1967-01-01), Timothy Dalton (1971-01-01 - 1986-01-01)
SpouseFranco Nero
ChildrenCarlo Gabriel Nero, Joely Richardson, Natasha Richardson
FatherMichael Redgrave
MotherRachel Kempson
SiblingsCorin Redgrave, Lynn Redgrave
CitizenshipsUnited Kingdom
Also Known AsVanessa Redgreiv, 바네사 레드그레이브, Ванесса Редгрейв
AwardsEvening Standard Theatre Award for Best Actress, Commandeur des Arts et des Lettres, Commander of the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire, Commander of the Order of the British Empire, Dame Commander of the Order of the British Empire, Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Actress in a Play, Volpi Cup for Best Actress, Golden Globe Award for Best Supporting Actress – Series, Miniseries or Television Film, Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Miniseries or a Movie, Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actress in a Miniseries or a Movie, Donostia Award, Cannes Film Festival Award for Best Actress, Golden Globe Award for Best Supporting Actress – Motion Picture, Academy Fellowship Award, European Film Academy Lifetime Achievement Award, Tony Award for Best Actress in a Play, Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress
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