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Vanessa Redgrave
Actor, Director
Born January 30, 1937 (85 years)
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
| 2022 | The Lost Girls · as Great Nana |
| 2021 | Alida · as Sé stessa |
| 2020 | Finding You · as Cathleen Sweeney |
| 2019 | Georgetown · as Elsa Brecht |
| 2019 | Mrs Lowry & Son · as Elizabeth Lowry |
| 2019 | Worzel Gummidge (2019) (TV Series) · as Peg |
| 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 | Richard III · as Queen Margaret |
| 2016 | The Secret Scripture · as Old Roseanne McNulty |
| 2015 | The Go-Between · as Older Marian |
| 2014 | Foxcatcher · as Jean du Pont |
| 2014 | Black Box (TV Series) · as Dr. Hartramph |
| 2013 | Lee Daniels' The Butler · as Annabeth Westfall |
| 2013 | The Thirteenth Tale · as Vida Winter |
| 2013 | Song for Marion: Deleted Scenes · as Marion |
| 2012 | The Last Will and Testament of Rosalind Leigh · as Rosalind Leigh |
| 2012 | Unfinished Song · as Marion |
| 2012 | Last Will & Testament · as Unknown |
| 2012 | Political Animals (TV Series) · as Diane Nash |
| 2012 | Call the Midwife (TV Series) · as Mature Jenny |
| 2011 | Cars 2 · as The Queen / Mama Topolino (voice) |
| 2011 | Coriolanus · as Volumnia |
| 2011 | Anonymous · as Queen Elizabeth I |
| 2010 | Letters to Juliet · as Claire |
| 2010 | Miral · as Bertha Spafford |
| 2010 | Conference of Animals · as Winifred |
| 2010 | Robinson in Ruins · as Narrator |
| 2010 | The Whistleblower · as Madeleine Rees |
| 2009 | The Day of the Triffids (2009) (TV Series) · as Durrant |
| 2009 | Identity of the Soul · as Narrator |
| 2008 | Restraint · as Sky News Reader #2 |
| 2008 | God, Smell and Her · as Unknown |
| 2007 | Atonement · as Briony Tallis (Age 77) |
| 2007 | The Shell Seekers · as Penelope Keeling |
| 2007 | The Riddle · as Roberta Elliot |
| 2007 | How About You · as Georgia Platts |
| 2007 | Dealing and Wheeling in Small Arms · as Narrator |
| 2007 | Evening · as Ann Lord |
| 2006 | The Thief Lord · as Sister Antonia |
| 2006 | Venus · as Valerie |
| 2005 | The White Countess · as Princess Vera Belinskya |
| 2005 | The Keeper: The Legend of Omar Khayyam · as Miss Sangorski |
| 2005 | Short Order · as Marianne |
| 2004 | The Fever · as Woman |
| 2003 | Good Boy · as The Greater Dane (voice) |
| 2003 | Byron · as Lady Melbourne |
| 2003 | Nip/Tuck (TV Series) · as Unknown |
| 2003 | |
| 2002 | The Locket · as Esther Huish |
| 2002 | Crime and Punishment · as Rodion's mother |
| 2002 | The Adventures of Young Indiana Jones (TV Series) · as Vicky'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 | If These Walls Could Talk 2 · as Edith Tree |
| 2000 | Exile in Buyukada · as Narrator |
| 2000 | Twentieth Century Fox: The Blockbuster Years · as Julia |
| 2000 | Escape to Life: The Erika and Klaus Mann Story · as (voice) |
| 2000 | Mirka · as Unknown |
| 2000 | A Rumor of Angels · as Maddy Bennett |
| 2000 | Widow of the Revolution: The Anna Larina Story · as Anna Larina |
| 1999 | Girl, Interrupted · as Dr. Wick |
| 1999 | Cradle Will Rock · as Countess Constance La Grave |
| 1998 | Deep Impact · as Robin Lerner |
| 1998 | Lulu on the Bridge · as Catherine Moore |
| 1997 | Smilla's Sense of Snow · as Elsa Lübing |
| 1997 | Wilde · as Lady Speranza Wilde |
| 1997 | Mrs Dalloway · as Mrs. Clarissa Dalloway |
| 1997 | Bella Mafia · as Graziella Luciano |
| 1997 | |
| 1996 | Mission: Impossible · as Max Mitsopolis |
| 1996 | The Willows in Winter · as Grandmother / Narrator |
| 1996 | Two Mothers for Zachary · as Unknown |
| 1995 | A Month by the Lake · as Miss Bentley |
| 1995 | Down Came a Blackbird · as Anna Lenke |
| 1995 | The Wind in the Willows · as Grandmother / Narrator |
| 1994 | Little Odessa · as Irina Shapira |
| 1994 | Great Moments in Aviation · as Dr. Angela Bead |
| 1993 | The House of the Spirits · as Nivea del Valle |
| 1993 | Mother's Boys · as Lydia |
| 1993 | Children of the Mist · as Florence Latimer |
| 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 | Pokhorony Stalina · as English journalist |
| 1988 | A Man for All Seasons · as Lady Alice More |
| 1988 | Consuming Passions · as Mrs. Garza |
| 1987 | Prick Up Your Ears · as Peggy Ramsay |
| 1987 | American Experience (TV Series) · as Mary Tyrone |
| 1986 | Comrades · as Mrs. Carlyle |
| 1985 | Steaming · as Nancy |
| 1985 | Wetherby · as Jean Travers |
| 1984 | The Bostonians · as Olive Chancellor |
| 1984 | The Wandering Company · 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 |
| 1980 | Playing for Time · as Fania Fenelon |
| 1979 | Yanks · as Helen |
| 1979 | Agatha · as Agatha Christie |
| 1979 | Bear Island · as Heddi Lindquist |
| 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 |
| 1972 | Right to Work March · as Unknown |
| 1971 | The Devils · as Sister Jeanne des Anges |
| 1971 | Mary, Queen of Scots · as Mary, Queen of Scots |
| 1971 | The Trojan Women · as Andromache |
| 1970 | The Body · as Narrator |
| 1970 | Dropout · as Mary |
| 1969 | Oh! What a Lovely War · as Sylvia Pankhurst |
| 1969 | No Arks · as Narrator |
| 1968 | Isadora · as Isadora Duncan |
| 1968 | The Sea Gull · as Nina |
| 1968 | A Quiet Place in the Country · as Flavia |
| 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 |
| 1958 | Behind the Mask · as Pamela Benson-Gray |
| 1956 | Armchair Theatre (TV Series) · as Sally |
| 1952 | Today (TV Series) · as Unknown |
| 1951 | Hallmark Hall Of Fame (TV Series) · as Esther Huish |