Vanessa Redgrave
Personal Info
Known For
Acting
Gender
Female
Birthday
1937-01-30
Place of Birth
Greenwich, London, England, UK
Vanessa Redgrave
Biography
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.
Also Known For
A Man for All Seasons
Dec 13, 1966
Mission: Impossible
May 22, 1996
Blow-Up
Dec 18, 1966
The Palestinian
Apr 28, 1977
The House of the Spirits
Oct 21, 1993
Girl, Interrupted
Dec 21, 1999
Murder on the Orient Express
Nov 22, 1974
Atonement
Feb 27, 2007
Oh! What a Lovely War
Mar 10, 1969
Wilde
Sep 01, 1997
The Pledge
Jan 19, 2001
Evening
Jun 09, 2007
Yanks
Sep 01, 1979
Good Boy!
Oct 10, 2003
Agatha
Feb 09, 1979
Deep Impact
May 08, 1998
The Devils
Jul 16, 1971
Howards End
Mar 13, 1992
The Shell Seekers
Oct 18, 2007
1961
Mar 05, 2000
Circus at Clopton Hall
Jan 01, 1961
Prick Up Your Ears
Apr 17, 1987
If These Walls Could Talk 2
Mar 05, 2000
Tonite Let's All Make Love in London
Sep 26, 1967
The Bostonians
May 01, 1984
Venus
Sep 02, 2006
A Month by the Lake
Sep 11, 1995
How About You...
Nov 16, 2007
Mother's Boys
Oct 01, 1993
The Charge of the Light Brigade
Apr 10, 1968
Julia
Oct 01, 1977
The Seven-Per-Cent Solution
Oct 24, 1976
The Gathering Storm
Apr 22, 2002
Isadora
Sep 14, 1968
Morgan: A Suitable Case for Treatment
Apr 03, 1966
Lulu on the Bridge
Sep 06, 1998
Anonymous
Oct 21, 2011
Sparrow
Feb 04, 1994
The Riddle
Oct 14, 2007
Miral
Sep 15, 2010
Bear Island
Dec 05, 1979
The Fever
Sep 23, 2004
Mary, Queen of Scots
Dec 22, 1971
Mrs. Dalloway
Sep 01, 1997
The Trojan Women
May 01, 1971
Little Odessa
Oct 28, 1994
Alice, Through the Looking
Nov 12, 2021
Cars 2
Jun 11, 2011
The Whistleblower
Sep 13, 2010
Comrades
Aug 23, 1987
The White Countess
Oct 30, 2005
Camelot
Oct 25, 1967
Playing for Time
Sep 30, 1980
A Rumor of Angels
Sep 08, 2000
Robinson in Ruins
Nov 19, 2010
The Boy at the Back of the Class
Bella Mafia
Nov 16, 1997
Eugene O’Neill: A Documentary Film
Mar 27, 2006
Sing Sing
Oct 15, 1983
All That I Am
A Quiet Place in the Country
Nov 14, 1968
The Wind in the Willows
Dec 24, 1995
The Willows in Winter
Dec 26, 1996
Foxcatcher
Nov 14, 2014
Coriolanus
Feb 14, 2011
The Locket
Dec 08, 2002
Down Came a Blackbird
Oct 22, 1995
Byron
Sep 27, 2003
Crime and Punishment
Jun 01, 2002
Great Moments in Aviation
May 01, 1994
Song for Marion
Sep 15, 2012
The Butler
Aug 16, 2013
Steaming
May 22, 1985
Short Order
Jan 01, 2005
Wetherby
Jun 19, 1985
Déjà Vu
Apr 22, 1998
Out of Season
May 31, 1975
A Man for All Seasons
Dec 21, 1988
What Ever Happened to Baby Jane?
Feb 17, 1991
Exile in Buyukada
Jan 01, 2000
Vacation
Sep 04, 1971
Behind the Mask
Nov 23, 1958
The Sea Gull
Dec 23, 1968
The Body
Oct 09, 1970
Consuming Passions
Apr 06, 1988
Stalin's Funeral
Apr 21, 1990
Electric Burma: The Concert for Aung San Suu Kyi - Words I Never Said
Sep 17, 2016
Dealing and Wheeling in Small Arms
Jan 04, 2007
The Thirteenth Tale
Dec 30, 2013
Orpheus Descending
Jun 01, 1990
The Ballad of the Sad Cafe
Mar 28, 1991
They
Nov 14, 1993
Looking for Richard
Oct 11, 1996
Second Serve
Jan 01, 1986
Two Mothers for Zachary
Sep 22, 1996
The Ghost of Richard Harris
Aug 31, 2022
The Secret Scripture
Mar 23, 2017
Merchant Ivory
Aug 30, 2024
Smilla's Sense of Snow
Feb 28, 1997
Last Will. & Testament
Oct 23, 2012
On Our Way
May 19, 2023
The Sailor from Gibraltar
Jan 01, 1967
A Sunday in September
Sep 18, 1961
Elio Petri: Notes About a Filmmaker
Sep 03, 2005
The Last Will and Testament of Rosalind Leigh
Nov 09, 2012
Mirka
Mar 10, 2000
Ein Job
Sep 26, 2008
Michael Redgrave: My Father
Jul 13, 1997
My Body, My Child
Apr 11, 1982
The Go-Between
Sep 20, 2015
Entree Des Artists
Jun 01, 2020
The Wound and the Gift
Sep 30, 2014
Cradle Will Rock
Dec 10, 1999
A Wall of Silence
Jun 10, 1993
The Thief Lord
Jan 04, 2006
As You Like It
Mar 21, 1963
Almeida Theatre Live: Richard III
Jul 21, 2016
Hell on Earth: The Desecration & Resurrection of The Devils
Nov 24, 2002
The Estate
Breath of Life
Oct 11, 1990
Thank You, Doctor Rey
Aug 20, 2004
Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs
Jul 16, 1984
The Keeper: The Legend of Omar Khayyam
Jun 10, 2005
Uninvited
May 19, 2000
Dropout
Dec 18, 1970
Sea Sorrow
Nov 08, 2017
Film Stars Don't Die in Liverpool
Nov 17, 2017
Georgetown
May 14, 2019
Right to Work March
Oct 19, 1972
The Aspern Papers
Jan 11, 2019
The Adventures of Young Indiana Jones: Love's Sweet Song
Jul 12, 2000
Romeo.Juliet
Jan 01, 1990
A Mother with Two Children Expecting Her Third
Aug 10, 1970
Red and Blue
Aug 08, 1968
Joan Didion: The Center Will Not Hold
Oct 11, 2017
Red, White, and Zero
Dec 21, 1979
No Arks
Jun 01, 1969
Mrs Lowry & Son
Aug 30, 2019
Three Sovereigns for Sarah
May 01, 1985
And the Oscar Goes To...
Feb 01, 2014
Escape to Life: The Erika and Klaus Mann Story
Apr 05, 2001
Alida Valli: In Her Own Words
May 17, 2021
Letters to Juliet
May 13, 2010
Restraint
Aug 19, 2008
Katherine Jenkins Christmas Spectacular
Dec 01, 2020
The Lost Girls
Jun 17, 2022
Finding You
May 13, 2021
Searching for Debra Winger
Jul 13, 2002
Nothing Like a Dame
May 02, 2018
God, Smell and Her
Jan 28, 2009
The Fifth War
Jan 01, 1980
Maggie
Jan 25, 1964
The Crystal Planet
Inside the Actors Studio
Aug 14, 1994
The View
Aug 11, 1997
Today
Jan 14, 1952
Nip/Tuck
Jul 22, 2003
The Early Show
Nov 01, 1999
Hallmark Hall of Fame
Dec 24, 1951
Intimate Portrait
Nov 14, 1993
Peter the Great
Feb 02, 1986
The Oscars
Mar 19, 1953
Call the Midwife
Jan 15, 2012
Black Box
Apr 24, 2014
Jack and the Beanstalk: The Real Story
Dec 02, 2001
Shakespeare Uncovered
Jun 19, 2012
Wagner
Oct 03, 1983
Political Animals
Jul 15, 2012
Wetten, dass..?
Feb 14, 1981
Tony Awards
Apr 01, 1956
Man in an Orange Shirt
Jul 31, 2017
Hollywood U.K.: British Cinema in the Sixties
Sep 05, 1993
Byron
Jan 01, 2003
The Day of the Triffids
Dec 28, 2009
Faerie Tale Theatre
Sep 11, 1982
Young Catherine
Feb 17, 1991
Goldene Kamera Verleihung
Feb 03, 1984
Tony Awards
Apr 01, 1956
Three Sovereigns for Sarah
Jan 05, 1985
Omnibus
Oct 13, 1967
Sabine Christiansen
Jan 04, 1998
Tony Awards
Apr 01, 1956
NDR Talk Show
Feb 09, 1979
Golden Globe Awards
Jan 20, 1944
Seitenblicke
Oct 07, 1987
A Picture of Katherine Mansfield
May 01, 1973
Sunday-Night Play
Sep 25, 1960