Vanessa Redgrave
Known for Acting · 193 credits
- Born
- 1937-01-30 (age 89)
- Place of birth
- Greenwich, London, England, UK
- Also known as
- Vanessa Redgreiv · 바네사 레드그레이브 · Ванесса Редгрейв
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
TV Shows (38)
Call the Midwife
2012
as Jennifer Worth (voice)
The View
1997
as Self
Golden Globe Awards
1944
as Self - Nominee
Tony Awards
1956
as Self - Presenter / Self - Winner / Self - Nominee
NDR Talk Show
1979
as Self
Nip/Tuck
2003
as Dr.Erica Noughton / Dr. Erica Noughton
Omnibus
1967
as Self
Wetten, dass..?
1981
as Self
Intimate Portrait
1993
as Self
Screen Two
1985
as Dr. Angela Bead
The Oscars
1953
as Self
Goldene Kamera
1984
as Self
Film '72
1971
as Self
Faerie Tale Theatre
1982
as The Evil Queen
Today
1952
as Self
Sabine Christiansen
1998
as Self
Playhouse Presents
2012
as Elderly Woman
Sunday-Night Play
1960
as Monica Claverton-Ferry
Seitenblicke
1987
as self
Political Animals
2012
as Diane Nash
Black Box
2014
as Dr. Hartramph
Hallmark Hall of Fame
1951
as Esther Huish
Jack and the Beanstalk: The Real Story
2001
as Countess Wilhelmina
The Early Show
1999
as Self
Theatre Night
1957
as Caroline Lester
The Day of the Triffids
2009
as Durrant
Peter the Great
1986
as Sophia
Man in an Orange Shirt
2017
as Flora Berryman
Armchair Theatre
1956
as Sally
One Pair of Eyes
1967
Hollywood U.K.: British Cinema in the Sixties
1993
as Self
Byron
2003
as Lady Melbourne
Wagner
1983
as Cosima von Bulow
Inside the Actors Studio
1994
as Self
Young Catherine
1991
as Empress Elizabeth
Shakespeare Uncovered
2012
as Herself
A Picture of Katherine Mansfield
1973
as Katherine Mansfield
Three Sovereigns for Sarah
1985
as Sarah Cloyce
Movies (155)
Cold Storage
2026
as Mary Rooney
Cars 2
2011
as The Queen / Mama Topolino (voice)
Mission: Impossible
1996
as Max
Atonement
2007
as Briony Tallis (Age 77)
Girl, Interrupted
1999
as Dr. Wick
Deep Impact
1998
as Robin Lerner
Murder on the Orient Express
1974
as Mary Debenham
The Butler
2013
as Annabeth Westfall
Letters to Juliet
2010
as Claire
Camelot
1967
as Guenevere
The House of the Spirits
1993
as Nivea del Valle
Howards End
1992
as Ruth Wilcox
Coriolanus
2011
as Volumnia
Wilde
1997
as Lady Speranza Wilde
The Pledge
2001
as Annalise Hansen
Foxcatcher
2014
as Jean du Pont
The Devils
1971
as Sister Jeanne des Anges
Finding You
2021
as Cathleen Sweeney
Blow-Up
1966
as Jane
The Whistleblower
2010
as Madeleine Rees
Georgetown
2019
as Elsa Brecht
A Man for All Seasons
1966
as Anne Boleyn
Anonymous
2011
as Queen Elizabeth I
Evening
2007
as Ann Lord
Yanks
1979
as Helen
Cradle Will Rock
1999
as Countess Constance La Grave
Little Odessa
1994
as Irina Shapira
The Secret Scripture
2017
as Old Roseanne McNulty
Song for Marion
2012
as Marion
If These Walls Could Talk 2
2000
as Edith Tree
Film Stars Don't Die in Liverpool
2017
as Jeanne McDougall
Bear Island
1979
as Heddi Lindquist
The White Countess
2005
as Princess Vera Belinskya
Restraint
2008
as Sky News Reader #2
The Fever
2007
as The woman
Smilla's Sense of Snow
1997
as Elsa Lübing
Venus
2006
as Valerie
Julia
1977
as Julia
The Adventures of Young Indiana Jones: Love's Sweet Song
2000
as Vicky's Mother
The Charge of the Light Brigade
1968
as Mrs Clarissa Morris
Maggie
1964
as Maggie
Looking for Richard
1996
as Self - Interviewee
Oh! What a Lovely War
1969
as Sylvia Pankhurst
Mother's Boys
1993
as Lydia
The Lost Girls
2022
as Great Nana
Bella Mafia
1997
as Graziella Luciano
Mary, Queen of Scots
1971
as Mary, Queen of Scots
The Thirteenth Tale
2013
as Vida Winter
Crime and Punishment
2002
as Rodion's mother
The Seven-Per-Cent Solution
1976
as Lola Deveraux
Alida Valli: In Her Own Words
2021
as Self
Good Boy!
2003
as The Greater Dane (voice)
The Bostonians
1984
as Olive Chancellor
The Estate
2025
The Wind in the Willows
1995
as Grandmother / Narrator
The Gathering Storm
2002
as Clemmie Churchill
Comrades
1987
as Mrs. Carlyle
Sing Sing
1983
as la Regina
Almeida Theatre Live: Richard III
2016
as Queen Margaret
Miral
2010
as Bertha Spafford
Searching for Debra Winger
2002
as Self
Mrs. Dalloway
1997
as Mrs. Clarissa Dalloway
Byron
2003
as Lady Melbourne
Nothing Like a Dame
2018
as Self (archive footage)
Prick Up Your Ears
1987
as Peggy Ramsay
The Thief Lord
2006
as Sister Antonia
The Trojan Women
1971
as Andromache
Vacation
1971
as Immacolata Meneghelli
Playing for Time
1980
as Fania Fenelon
A Quiet Place in the Country
1968
as Flavia
Sea Sorrow
2017
as Self
Agatha
1979
as Agatha Christie
Wetherby
1985
as Jean Travers
Consuming Passions
1988
as Mrs. Garza
The Riddle
2007
as Roberta Elliot
Morgan: A Suitable Case for Treatment
1966
as Leonie Delt
Isadora
1968
as Isadora Duncan
The Last Will and Testament of Rosalind Leigh
2012
as Rosalind Leigh
A Man for All Seasons
1988
as Lady Alice More
Second Serve
1986
as Renee Richards
The Sea Gull
1968
as Nina
The Palestinian
1977
as Self
Eugene O’Neill: A Documentary Film
2006
as Self
Stalin's Funeral
1990
as English journalist
Sparrow
1994
as Suor Agata
Lulu on the Bridge
1998
as Catherine Moore
Orpheus Descending
1990
as Lady Torrance
The Keeper: The Legend of Omar Khayyam
2005
as Miss Sangorski
The Ballad of the Sad Cafe
1991
as Miss Amelia
A Month by the Lake
1995
as Miss Bentley
How About You...
2007
as Georgia Platts
The Aspern Papers
2019
as Juliana Bordereau
1961
2000
as Edith Tree
Joan Didion: The Center Will Not Hold
2017
as Self
The Boy at the Back of the Class
as Queen
Mrs Lowry & Son
2019
as Elizabeth Lowry
Down Came a Blackbird
1995
as Anna Lenke
They
1993
as Florence Latimer
The Locket
2002
as Esther Huish
Merchant Ivory
2024
as Self
The Shell Seekers
2007
as Penelope Keeling
Hell on Earth: The Desecration & Resurrection of The Devils
2002
as Self
Thank You, Doctor Rey
2003
as herself
Red and Blue
1968
as Jacky
Red, White, and Zero
1968
as Jacky
Steaming
1985
as Nancy
Dropout
1970
as Mary
Electric Burma: The Concert for Aung San Suu Kyi - Words I Never Said
2016
as Self
Tonite Let's All Make Love in London
1967
as Self
Alice, Through the Looking
2021
as Narrator
A Rumor of Angels
2000
as Maddy Bennett
What Ever Happened to Baby Jane?
1991
as Blanche Hudson
Two Mothers for Zachary
1996
as Nancy Shaffell
Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs
1984
as The Evil Queen
The Go-Between
2015
as Older Marian
The Ghost of Richard Harris
2022
as Self
The Willows in Winter
1996
as Grandmother / Narrator
Mirka
2000
as Kalsan
Katherine Jenkins Christmas Spectacular
2020
as Self
Great Moments in Aviation
1994
as Dr. Angela Bead
About 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 Magica… With 193 credits spanning from 1944 to 2026, Vanessa Redgrave has appeared in 155 films and 38 TV shows.
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Most Popular Vanessa Redgrave Movies
- Cold Storage (2026) — as Mary Rooney
- Cars 2 (2011) — as The Queen / Mama Topolino (voice)
- Mission: Impossible (1996) — as Max
- Atonement (2007) — as Briony Tallis (Age 77)
- Girl, Interrupted (1999) — as Dr. Wick
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