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Vanessa Redgrave

Known for: Acting

Biography: 1937-01-30 (88 years old)

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 ing 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 191

Movies 158

self 40

TV Shows 33

Narrator 9

Voice 6

Producer 2

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Vanessa Redgrave

Biography

Filmography

all 191

Movies 158

self 40

TV Shows 33

Narrator 9

Voice 6

Producer 2

Cold Storage (2025)

Merchant Ivory (2024)

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)

Entree Des Artists (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)

Evening (2007)

Atonement (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)

Thank You, Doctor Rey (2004)

Good Boy! (2003)

Byron (2003)

Nip/Tuck (2003)

Byron (2003)

The Locket (2002)

Hell on Earth: The Desecration & Resurrection of The Devils (2002)