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Personal Info
Known For
Acting
Birthday
January 30, 1937
Place of Birth
Greenwich, London, England, UK
Also Known As
- Vanessa Redgreiv
- 바네사 레드그레이브
- Ванесса Редгрейв
Vanessa Redgrave
2.5 Popularity
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
Credits
Cold Storage
as Ma Rooney
2026
0.0
🎬
The Estate
2025
0.0
Common Wealth
as Self
2025
0.0
Merchant Ivory
as Self
2024
7.7
On Our Way
2023
3.5
The Ghost of Richard Harris
as Self
2022
7.5
The Lost Girls
as Great Nana
2022
5.1
Alice, Through the Looking
as Narrator
2021
0.0
Alida Valli: In Her Own Words
as Self
2021
9.2
Finding You
as Cathleen Sweeney
2021
6.9
Katherine Jenkins Christmas Spectacular
as Self
2020
8.5
🎬
The 52nd Annual Emmy Awards
as Self - Winner
2020
0.0
🎬
Entree Des Artists
as Henry's Grandmother
2020
0.0
Mrs Lowry & Son
as Elizabeth Lowry
2019
6.4
Georgetown
as Elsa Brecht
2019
5.9
The Aspern Papers
as Juliana Bordereau
2019
4.5
Nothing Like a Dame
as Self (archive footage)
2018
6.8
Film Stars Don't Die in Liverpool
as Jeanne McDougall
2017
6.4
Sea Sorrow
as Self
2017
5.3
Joan Didion: The Center Will Not Hold
as Self
2017
7.3
Man in an Orange Shirt
as Flora Berryman
2017
7.5
The Secret Scripture
as Old Roseanne McNulty
2017
7.3
Electric Burma: The Concert for Aung San Suu Kyi - Words I Never Said
as Self
2016
0.0
Almeida Theatre Live: Richard III
as Queen Margaret
2016
7.7
The Go-Between
as Older Marian
2015
6.8
Foxcatcher
as Jean du Pont
2014
6.7
The Wound and the Gift
2014
0.0
Black Box
as Dr. Hartramph
2014
6.4
The Thirteenth Tale
as Vida Winter
2013
6.5
The Butler
as Annabeth Westfall
2013
7.3
The Last Will and Testament of Rosalind Leigh
as Rosalind Leigh
2012
5.0
Last Will. & Testament
2012
7.0
Song for Marion
as Marion
2012
6.8
Political Animals
as Diane Nash
2012
7.1
Shakespeare Uncovered
as Herself
2012
7.5
Playhouse Presents
2012
6.0
Call the Midwife
as Jennifer Worth (voice)
2012
7.5
Anonymous
as Queen Elizabeth I
2011
6.4
Cars 2
as The Queen / Mama Topolino (voice)
2011
6.2
Coriolanus
as Volumnia
2011
5.8
Robinson in Ruins
as Narrator
2010
6.8
Miral
as Bertha Spafford
2010
5.7
The Whistleblower
as Madeleine Rees
2010
6.7
Letters to Juliet
as Claire
2010
7.0
The Day of the Triffids
as Durrant
2009
5.9
God, Smell and Her
2009
0.0
Ein Job
as Hannah Silbergrau
2008
0.0
Restraint
as Sky News Reader #2
2008
5.9
How About You...
as Georgia Platts
2007
6.2
The Shell Seekers
as Penelope Keeling
2007
6.9
The Riddle
as Roberta Elliot
2007
4.8
The Fever
as The woman
2007
5.3
Evening
as Ann Lord
2007
5.8
Atonement
as Briony Tallis (Age 77)
2007
7.6
Dealing and Wheeling in Small Arms
as Narrator
2007
0.0
Venus
as Valerie
2006
6.6
Eugene O’Neill: A Documentary Film
as Self
2006
0.0
The Thief Lord
as Sister Antonia
2006
5.9
The White Countess
as Princess Vera Belinskya
2005
6.2
Elio Petri: Notes About a Filmmaker
as Self
2005
6.7
The Keeper: The Legend of Omar Khayyam
as Miss Sangorski
2005
5.0
Short Order
2005
4.4
Thank You, Doctor Rey
as herself
2004
5.0
Good Boy!
as The Greater Dane (voice)
2003
5.5
Byron
as Lady Melbourne
2003
4.3
Nip/Tuck
as Dr.Erica Noughton
2003
7.2
Nip/Tuck
as Dr. Erica Noughton
2003
7.2
Byron
as Lady Melbourne
2003
5.0
The Locket
as Esther Huish
2002
5.0
Hell on Earth: The Desecration & Resurrection of The Devils
as Self
2002
6.4
Searching for Debra Winger
as Self
2002
6.3
Crime and Punishment
as Rodion's mother
2002
5.0
The Gathering Storm
as Clemmie Churchill
2002
6.6
Jack and the Beanstalk: The Real Story
as Countess Wilhelmina
2001
6.8
Escape to Life: The Erika and Klaus Mann Story
as (voice)
2001
4.2
The Pledge
as Annalise Hansen
2001
6.6
A Rumor of Angels
as Maddy Bennett
2000
6.6
The Adventures of Young Indiana Jones: Love's Sweet Song
as Vicky's Mother
2000
5.2
Uninvited
as Mrs. Rutterburn
2000
3.5
Mirka
as Kalsan
2000
0.0
1961
as Edith Tree
2000
0.0
If These Walls Could Talk 2
as Edith Tree
2000
6.5
Exile in Buyukada
as Narrator
2000
0.0
Girl, Interrupted
as Dr. Wick
1999
7.6
Cradle Will Rock
as Countess Constance La Grave
1999
6.4
The Early Show
as Self
1999
6.2
Lulu on the Bridge
as Catherine Moore
1998
5.8
Deep Impact
as Robin Lerner
1998
6.2
Déjà Vu
as Skelly
1998
5.3
🎬
Sabine Christiansen
as Self
1998
0.0
Bella Mafia
as Graziella Luciano
1997
6.6
🎬
Behind The Mask
as Self
1997
0.0
Wilde
as Lady Speranza Wilde
1997
6.6
Mrs. Dalloway
as Mrs. Clarissa Dalloway
1997
5.5
The View
as Self
1997
4.3
Michael Redgrave: My Father
as Self
1997
0.0
Smilla's Sense of Snow
as Elsa Lübing
1997
6.3
The Willows in Winter
as Grandmother / Narrator
1996
6.6
Looking for Richard
as Self - Interviewee
1996
6.8
Two Mothers for Zachary
as Nancy Shaffell
1996
5.8
Mission: Impossible
as Max
1996
7.0
The Wind in the Willows
as Grandmother / Narrator
1995
7.0
Down Came a Blackbird
as Anna Lenke
1995
8.2
A Month by the Lake
as Miss Bentley
1995
5.6
Little Odessa
as Irina Shapira
1994
6.4
Inside the Actors Studio
as Self
1994
7.5
Great Moments in Aviation
as Dr. Angela Bead
1994
4.6
Sparrow
as Suor Agata
1994
7.4
Intimate Portrait
as Self
1993
4.5
They
as Florence Latimer
1993
7.4
The House of the Spirits
as Nivea del Valle
1993
6.9
Mother's Boys
as Lydia
1993
5.3
Hollywood U.K.: British Cinema in the Sixties
as Self
1993
0.0
A Wall of Silence
as Kate Benson
1993
5.4
Howards End
as Ruth Wilcox
1992
7.0
The Ballad of the Sad Cafe
as Miss Amelia
1991
5.5
Young Catherine
as Empress Elizabeth
1991
5.7
What Ever Happened to Baby Jane?
as Blanche Hudson
1991
4.5
Breath of Life
as Suor Crocifissa
1990
0.0
Orpheus Descending
as Lady Torrance
1990
3.3
Stalin's Funeral
as English journalist
1990
2.8
Romeo.Juliet
as Mother Capulet (voice)
1990
5.0
A Man for All Seasons
as Lady Alice More
1988
6.8
Consuming Passions
as Mrs. Garza
1988
8.0
🎬
Seitenblicke
as self
1987
0.0
Comrades
as Mrs. Carlyle
1987
6.8
Prick Up Your Ears
as Peggy Ramsay
1987
6.6
Peter the Great
as Sophia
1986
8.0
Second Serve
as Renee Richards
1986
4.7
Wetherby
as Jean Travers
1985
5.9
Steaming
as Nancy
1985
5.1
Three Sovereigns for Sarah
as Sarah Cloyce
1985
0.0
Three Sovereigns for Sarah
as Sarah Cloyce
1985
0.0
Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs
as The Evil Queen
1984
6.0
The Bostonians
as Olive Chancellor
1984
5.5
🎬
Goldene Kamera
as Self
1984
5.7
Sing Sing
as la Regina
1983
5.2
Wagner
as Cosima von Bulow
1983
6.3
Faerie Tale Theatre
as The Evil Queen
1982
8.1
My Body, My Child
as Leenie Cabrezi
1982
9.0
Wetten, dass..?
as Self
1981
5.3
Playing for Time
as Fania Fenelon
1980
6.8
The Fifth War
1980
0.0
Bear Island
as Heddi Lindquist
1979
6.0
Yanks
as Helen
1979
5.9
NDR Talk Show
as Self
1979
6.5
Agatha
as Agatha Christie
1979
6.1
Julia
as Julia
1977
6.4
The Palestinian
as Self
1977
10.0
The Seven-Per-Cent Solution
as Lola Deveraux
1976
6.2
Out of Season
as Ann
1975
5.0
Murder on the Orient Express
as Mary Debenham
1974
7.1
A Picture of Katherine Mansfield
as Katherine Mansfield
1973
5.5
Right to Work March
1972
0.0
Mary, Queen of Scots
as Mary, Queen of Scots
1971
6.6
Vacation
as Immacolata Meneghelli
1971
4.6
The Devils
as Sister Jeanne des Anges
1971
7.5
The Trojan Women
as Andromache
1971
6.2
Dropout
as Mary
1970
4.8
The Body
as Narrator
1970
4.0
A Mother with Two Children Expecting Her Third
as Herself
1970
4.0
No Arks
as Narrator
1969
0.0
Oh! What a Lovely War
as Sylvia Pankhurst
1969
6.7
The Sea Gull
as Nina
1968
6.2
A Quiet Place in the Country
as Flavia
1968
6.2
Isadora
as Isadora Duncan
1968
6.1
Red and Blue
as Jacky
1968
6.0
The Charge of the Light Brigade
as Mrs Clarissa Morris
1968
6.0
Red, White, and Zero
as Jacky
1968
5.0
Camelot
as Guenevere
1967
6.2
Omnibus
as Self
1967
7.2
Tonite Let's All Make Love in London
as Self
1967
2.8
The Sailor from Gibraltar
as Sheila
1967
5.7
Blow-Up
as Jane
1966
7.3
A Man for All Seasons
as Anne Boleyn
1966
7.3
Morgan: A Suitable Case for Treatment
as Leonie Delt
1966
6.2
🎬
Maggie
as Maggie
1964
0.0
🎬
As You Like It
as Rosalind
1963
0.0
A Sunday in September
as Self
1961
0.0
Circus at Clopton Hall
as Narrator
1961
0.0
🎬
Sunday-Night Play
as Monica Claverton-Ferry
1960
0.0
Behind the Mask
as Pamela Benson-Gray
1958
6.0
Theatre Night
as Caroline Lester
1957
0.0
Tony Awards
as Self - Winner
1956
5.9
Tony Awards
as Self - Presenter
1956
5.9
Tony Awards
as Self - Nominee
1956
5.9
The Oscars
as Self
1953
7.0
Today
as Self
1952
5.6
Hallmark Hall of Fame
as Esther Huish
1951
8.6
Golden Globe Awards
as Self - Nominee
1944
7.2
🎬
The Crystal Planet
as The Matriarch (voice)
N/A
0.0
🎬
The Boy at the Back of the Class
as Queen
N/A
0.0
🎬
All That I Am
N/A
0.0