Vanessa Redgrave
Personal Info
Known for
Acting
Gender
Female
Birthday
1937-01-30 (88 years old)
Place of Birth
Greenwich, London, England, UK
Vanessa Redgrave
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
Acting
The Crystal Planet
as The Matriarch (voice)
The Boy at the Back of the Class
as Queen
(2026)
Cold Storage
as Ma Rooney
(2025)
Common Wealth
as Self
(2024)
Merchant Ivory
as Self
(2023)
(2022)
The Ghost of Richard Harris
as Self
(2022)
The Lost Girls
as Great Nana
(2021)
Finding You
as Cathleen Sweeney
(2021)
(2021)
Alice, Through the Looking
as Narrator
(2020)
(2020)
Entree Des Artists
as Henry's Grandmother
(2019)
Georgetown
as Elsa Brecht
(2019)
Mrs Lowry & Son
as Elizabeth Lowry
(2019)
The Aspern Papers
as Juliana Bordereau
(2018)
Nothing Like a Dame
as Self (archive footage)
(2017)
Film Stars Don't Die in Liverpool
as Jeanne McDougall
(2017)
(2017)
Sea Sorrow
as Self
(2017)
The Secret Scripture
as Old Roseanne McNulty
(2016)
Almeida Theatre Live: Richard III
as Queen Margaret
(2016)
(2015)
The Go-Between
as Older Marian
(2014)
Foxcatcher
as Jean du Pont
(2014)
(2013)
The Butler
as Annabeth Westfall
(2013)
The Thirteenth Tale
as Vida Winter
(2012)
The Last Will and Testament of Rosalind Leigh
as Rosalind Leigh
(2012)
Song for Marion
as Marion
(2012)
(2011)
Cars 2
as The Queen / Mama Topolino (voice)
(2011)
Anonymous
as Queen Elizabeth I
(2011)
Coriolanus
as Volumnia
(2010)
Letters to Juliet
as Claire
(2010)
The Whistleblower
as Madeleine Rees
(2010)
Miral
as Bertha Spafford
(2010)
Robinson in Ruins
as Narrator
(2009)
(2008)
Restraint
as Sky News Reader #2
(2008)
Ein Job
as Hannah Silbergrau
(2007)
Atonement
as Briony Tallis (Age 77)
(2007)
How About You...
as Georgia Platts
(2007)
Evening
as Ann Lord
(2007)
The Riddle
as Roberta Elliot
(2007)
The Shell Seekers
as Penelope Keeling
(2007)
Dealing and Wheeling in Small Arms
as Narrator
(2006)
Venus
as Valerie
(2006)
The Thief Lord
as Sister Antonia
(2006)
(2005)
The White Countess
as Princess Vera Belinskya
(2005)
(2005)
The Keeper: The Legend of Omar Khayyam
as Miss Sangorski
(2005)
(2004)
The Fever
as The woman
(2004)
Thank You, Doctor Rey
as herself
(2003)
Byron
as Lady Melbourne
(2003)
Good Boy!
as The Greater Dane (voice)
(2002)
The Gathering Storm
as Clemmie Churchill
(2002)
The Locket
as Esther Huish
(2002)
Crime and Punishment
as Rodion's mother
(2002)
(2002)
Searching for Debra Winger
as Self
(2001)
The Pledge
as Annalise Hansen
(2001)
(2000)
Mirka
as Kalsan
(2000)
If These Walls Could Talk 2
as Edith Tree
(2000)
Uninvited
as Mrs. Rutterburn
(2000)
Exile in Buyukada
as Narrator
(2000)
The Adventures of Young Indiana Jones: Love's Sweet Song
as Vicky's Mother
(2000)
A Rumor of Angels
as Maddy Bennett
(2000)
1961
as Edith Tree
(1999)
Girl, Interrupted
as Dr. Wick
(1999)
Cradle Will Rock
as Countess Constance La Grave
(1998)
Deep Impact
as Robin Lerner
(1998)
Déjà Vu
as Skelly
(1998)
Lulu on the Bridge
as Catherine Moore
(1997)
Mrs. Dalloway
as Mrs. Clarissa Dalloway
(1997)
Wilde
as Lady Speranza Wilde
(1997)
Smilla's Sense of Snow
as Elsa Lübing
(1997)
Bella Mafia
as Graziella Luciano
(1997)
Michael Redgrave: My Father
as Self
(1996)
Mission: Impossible
as Max
(1996)
The Willows in Winter
as Grandmother / Narrator
(1996)
Looking for Richard
as Self - Interviewee
(1996)
Two Mothers for Zachary
as Nancy Shaffell
(1995)
The Wind in the Willows
as Grandmother / Narrator
(1995)
A Month by the Lake
as Miss Bentley
(1995)
Down Came a Blackbird
as Anna Lenke
(1994)
Little Odessa
as Irina Shapira
(1994)
Great Moments in Aviation
as Dr. Angela Bead
(1994)
Sparrow
as Suor Agata
(1993)
The House of the Spirits
as Nivea del Valle
(1993)
Mother's Boys
as Lydia
(1993)
They
as Florence Latimer
(1993)
A Wall of Silence
as Kate Benson
(1992)
Howards End
as Ruth Wilcox
(1991)
What Ever Happened to Baby Jane?
as Blanche Hudson
(1991)
The Ballad of the Sad Cafe
as Miss Amelia
(1990)
Breath of Life
as Suor Crocifissa
(1990)
Stalin's Funeral
as English journalist
(1990)
Romeo.Juliet
as Mother Capulet (voice)
(1990)
Orpheus Descending
as Lady Torrance
(1988)
Consuming Passions
as Mrs. Garza
(1988)
A Man for All Seasons
as Lady Alice More
(1987)
Prick Up Your Ears
as Peggy Ramsay
(1987)
Comrades
as Mrs. Carlyle
(1986)
Second Serve
as Renee Richards
(1985)
Wetherby
as Jean Travers
(1985)
Three Sovereigns for Sarah
as Sarah Cloyce
(1985)
Steaming
as Nancy
(1984)
Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs
as The Evil Queen
(1984)
The Bostonians
as Olive Chancellor
(1983)
Sing Sing
as la Regina
(1982)
My Body, My Child
as Leenie Cabrezi
(1980)
Playing for Time
as Fania Fenelon
(1980)
(1979)
Agatha
as Agatha Christie
(1979)
Bear Island
as Heddi Lindquist
(1979)
Yanks
as Helen
(1979)
Red, White, and Zero
as Jacky
(1977)
Julia
as Julia
(1977)
The Palestinian
as Self
(1976)
The Seven-Per-Cent Solution
as Lola Deveraux
(1975)
Out of Season
as Ann
(1974)
Murder on the Orient Express
as Mary Debenham
(1972)
(1971)
The Trojan Women
as Andromache
(1971)
The Devils
as Sister Jeanne des Anges
(1971)
Mary, Queen of Scots
as Mary, Queen of Scots
(1971)
Vacation
as Immacolata Meneghelli
(1970)
(1970)
Dropout
as Mary
(1970)
The Body
as Narrator
(1969)
Oh! What a Lovely War
as Sylvia Pankhurst
(1969)
No Arks
as Narrator
(1968)
Isadora
as Isadora Duncan
(1968)
The Charge of the Light Brigade
as Mrs Clarissa Morris
(1968)
The Sea Gull
as Nina
(1968)
A Quiet Place in the Country
as Flavia
(1968)
Red and Blue
as Jacky
(1967)
Camelot
as Guenevere
(1967)
(1967)
The Sailor from Gibraltar
as Sheila
(1966)
Morgan: A Suitable Case for Treatment
as Leonie Delt
(1966)
Blow-Up
as Jane
(1966)
A Man for All Seasons
as Anne Boleyn
(1964)
Maggie
as Maggie
(1963)
As You Like It
as Rosalind
(1961)
A Sunday in September
as Self
(1961)
Circus at Clopton Hall
as Narrator
(1958)
Behind the Mask
as Pamela Benson-Gray
Crew
The Estate
Executive Producer
(2017)
Sea Sorrow
Director, Screenplay
(2004)
The Fever
Executive Producer
(1977)
The Palestinian
Producer