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Vanessa Redgrave
Actor, Producer, Director, WriterBorn January 30, 1937 (88 years)
Vanessa Redgrave CBE 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.
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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| 2025 | Cold Storage · as Ma Rooney |
| 2022 | The Lost Girls · as Great Nana |
| 2021 | |
| 2020 | Finding You · as Cathleen Sweeney |
| 2019 | Worzel Gummidge (2019) (TV Series) · as Peg |
| 2019 | Mrs Lowry & Son · as Elizabeth Lowry |
| 2019 | Georgetown · as Elsa Brecht |
| 2018 | The Aspern Papers · as Juliana Bordereau |
| 2017 | Film Stars Don't Die in Liverpool · as Jeanne Mcdougall |
| 2017 | Man In An Orange Shirt (TV Series) · as Flora Berryman |
| 2016 | The Secret Scripture · as Old Roseanne Mcnulty |
| 2016 | Richard III · as Queen Margaret |
| 2015 | The Go-Between · as Older Marian |
| 2014 | Foxcatcher · as Jean Du Pont |
| 2014 | |
| 2014 | Black Box (TV Series) · as Dr. Hartramph |
| 2013 | The Thirteenth Tale · as Vida Winter |
| 2013 | The Butler · as Annabeth Westfall |
| 2013 | Song for Marion: Deleted Scenes · as Marion |
| 2013 | The Butler: An American Story · as Annabeth Westfall |
| 2012 | The Last Will and Testament of Rosalind Leigh · as Rosalind Leigh |
| 2012 | |
| 2012 | Unfinished Song · as Marion |
| 2012 | Political Animals (TV Series) · as Diane Nash |
| 2012 | Playhouse Presents (TV Series) · as Elderly Woman |
| 2012 | Call the Midwife (TV Series) · as Jennifer Worth (voice) |
| 2011 | Anonymous · as Queen Elizabeth I |
| 2011 | Cars 2 · as The Queen / Mama Topolino (voice) |
| 2011 | Coriolanus · as Volumnia |
| 2010 | Robinson in Ruins · as Narrator |
| 2010 | Animals United · as Winifred |
| 2010 | The Whistleblower · as Madeleine Rees |
| 2010 | |
| 2010 | Letters to Juliet · as Claire |
| 2009 | The Day of the Triffids (2009) (TV Series) · as Durrant |
| 2009 | Identity of the Soul · as Narrator |
| 2008 | |
| 2008 | Premio Donostia a Meryl Streep · as Ann Lord |
| 2008 | Ein Job · as Hannah Silbergrau |
| 2008 | Restraint · as Sky News Reader #2 |
| 2007 | Agatha Christie: A Woman of Mystery · as Mary Debenham |
| 2007 | How About You · as Georgia Platts |
| 2007 | The Riddle · as Roberta Elliot |
| 2007 | Atonement · as Briony Tallis (age 77) |
| 2007 | Evening · as Ann Lord |
| 2007 | Dealing and Wheeling in Small Arms · as Narrator |
| 2006 | The Shell Seekers · as Penelope Keeling |
| 2006 | Venus · as Valerie |
| 2006 | The Thief Lord · as Sister Antonia |
| 2005 | The White Countess · as Princess Vera Belinskya |
| 2005 | The Keeper: The Legend of Omar Khayyam · as Miss Sangorski |
| 2005 | |
| 2004 | The Fever · as The Woman |
| 2003 | Good Boy · as The Greater Dane (voice) |
| 2003 | Byron · as Lady Melbourne |
| 2003 | |
| 2003 | Byron (TV Series) · as Lady Melbourne |
| 2002 | The Locket · as Esther Huish |
| 2002 | Crime and Punishment · as Rodion's Mother |
| 2002 | The Gathering Storm · as Clemmie Churchill |
| 2001 | Jack and the Beanstalk: The Real Story (TV Series) · as Countess Wilhelmina |
| 2001 | The Pledge · as Annalise Hansen |
| 2000 | Escape to Life: The Erika and Klaus Mann Story · as (voice) |
| 2000 | Twentieth Century Fox: The Blockbuster Years · as Julia |
| 2000 | A Rumor of Angels · as Maddy Bennett |
| 2000 | The Adventures of Young Indiana Jones: Love's Sweet Song · as Vicky's Mother |
| 2000 | Mirka · as Kalsan |
| 2000 | If These Walls Could Talk 2 · as Edith Tree |
| 2000 | Exile in Buyukada · as Narrator |
| 2000 | The 3 Kings · as Priestess |
| 1999 | Uninvited · as Mrs. Rutterburn |
| 1999 | Girl, Interrupted · as Dr. Wick |
| 1999 | Cradle Will Rock · as Countess Constance La Grave |
| 1999 | Eleonora · as Eleonora Pimentel |
| 1998 | Lulu on the Bridge · as Catherine Moore |
| 1998 | Deep Impact · as Robin Lerner |
| 1997 | Deja Vu · as Skelly |
| 1997 | Bella Mafia · as Graziella Luciano |
| 1997 | Venice Report · as Lady 'speranza' Wilde |
| 1997 | Wilde · as Lady Speranza Wilde |
| 1997 | Mrs Dalloway · as Mrs. Clarissa Dalloway |
| 1997 | Smilla's Sense of Snow · as Elsa Lübing |
| 1996 | The Willows in Winter · as Grandmother / Narrator |
| 1996 | Two Mothers for Zachary · as Nancy Shaffell |
| 1996 | Mission: Impossible · as Max |
| 1995 | The Wind in the Willows · as Grandmother / Narrator |
| 1995 | Down Came a Blackbird · as Anna Lenke |
| 1995 | A Month by the Lake · as Miss Bentley |
| 1994 | Little Odessa · as Irina Shapira |
| 1994 | Shades of Fear · as Dr. Angela Bead |
| 1994 | Mother's Boys · as Lydia |
| 1994 | In Ismail's Custody · as Actress |
| 1993 | Children of the Mist · as Florence Latimer |
| 1993 | The House of the Spirits · as Nivea Del Valle |
| 1993 | A Wall of Silence · as Kate Benson |
| 1993 | Sparrow · as Suor Agata |
| 1992 | Howards End · as Ruth Wilcox |
| 1992 | The Young Indiana Jones Chronicles (TV Series) · as Vicky's Mother |
| 1991 | The Ballad of the Sad Cafe · as Miss Amelia |
| 1991 | What Ever Happened to Baby Jane? · as Blanche Hudson |
| 1991 | Young Catherine (TV Series) · as Empress Elizabeth |
| 1991 | Young Catherine · as Empress Elizabeth |
| 1990 | Breath of Life · as Suor Crocifissa |
| 1990 | Orpheus Descending · as Lady Torrance |
| 1990 | Pokhorony Stalina · as English Journalist |
| 1990 | Romeo.Juliet · as Mother Capulet (voice) |
| 1988 | Consuming Passions · as Mrs. Garza |
| 1988 | A Man for All Seasons · as Lady Alice More |
| 1988 | American Experience (TV Series) · as Mary Tyrone |
| 1987 | Prick Up Your Ears · as Peggy Ramsay |
| 1986 | Comrades · as Mrs. Carlyle |
| 1986 | Second Serve · as Renee Richards |
| 1986 | Peter the Great (TV Series) · as Sophia |
| 1985 | |
| 1985 | Three Sovereigns for Sarah (TV Series) · as Sarah Cloyce |
| 1985 | Steaming · as Nancy |
| 1985 | The Wandering Company · as Olive Chancellor |
| 1984 | The Bostonians · as Olive Chancellor |
| 1983 | Sing Sing · as La Regina |
| 1983 | Wagner (TV Series) · as Cosima Von Bulow |
| 1982 | Faerie Tale Theatre (TV Series) · as The Evil Queen |
| 1982 | My Body, My Child · as Leenie Cabrezi |
| 1980 | American Playhouse (TV Series) · as Sarah Cloyce |
| 1980 | Playing for Time · as Fania Fenelon |
| 1979 | Yanks · as Helen |
| 1979 | Bear Island · as Heddi Lindquist |
| 1979 | Agatha · as Agatha Christie |
| 1977 | Julia · as Julia |
| 1976 | The Seven-Per-Cent Solution · as Lola Deveraux |
| 1975 | Out of Season · as Ann |
| 1974 | Murder on the Orient Express · as Mary Debenham |
| 1973 | A Picture of Katherine Mansfield (TV Series) · as Katherine Mansfield |
| 1972 | |
| 1971 | Mary, Queen of Scots · as Mary, Queen Of Scots |
| 1971 | The Trojan Women · as Andromache |
| 1971 | Vacation · as Immacolata Meneghelli |
| 1971 | The Devils · as Sister Jeanne Des Anges |
| 1970 | Dropout · as Mary |
| 1970 | The Body · as Narrator |
| 1969 | The Coward Revue · as Cast |
| 1969 | No Arks · as Narrator |
| 1969 | Oh! What a Lovely War · as Sylvia Pankhurst |
| 1968 | The Sea Gull · as Nina |
| 1968 | A Quiet Place in the Country · as Flavia |
| 1968 | |
| 1968 | The Charge of the Light Brigade · as Mrs Clarissa Morris |
| 1967 | Camelot · as Guenevere |
| 1967 | The Sailor from Gibraltar · as Sheila |
| 1966 | Blow-Up · as Jane |
| 1966 | A Man for All Seasons · as Anne Boleyn |
| 1966 | Morgan! · as Leonie Delt |
| 1966 | A Farewell to Arms (TV Series) · as Catherine Barkley |
| 1963 | First Night (TV Series) · as Maggie |
| 1963 | Love Story (1963) (TV Series) · as Anne-Marie Roche |
| 1963 | As You Like It · as Rosalind |
| 1961 | Circus at Clopton Hall · as Narrator |
| 1960 | BBC Sunday-Night Play (TV Series) · as Monica Claverton-Ferry |
| 1959 | A Midsummer Night's Dream · as Helena |
| 1958 | Behind the Mask · as Pamela Benson-Gray |
| 1957 | Theatre Night (TV Series) · as Caroline Lester |
| 1956 | Armchair Theatre (TV Series) · as Sally |
| 1951 | Hallmark Hall Of Fame (TV Series) · as Esther Huish |
| 1950 | Sunday Night Theatre (TV Series) · as Maid Of Honour |