Vanessa Redgrave
Acting
- Born:
- 1937-01-30
- Place of birth:
- Greenwich, London, England, UK
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
Filmography
The Crystal Planet
Cold Storage
The Estate
Common Wealth
Merchant Ivory
On Our Way
The Ghost of Richard Harris
The Lost Girls
Alice, Through the Looking
Alida Valli: In Her Own Words
Finding You
Katherine Jenkins Christmas Spectacular
Entree Des Artists
Mrs Lowry & Son
Georgetown
The Aspern Papers
Nothing Like a Dame
Film Stars Don't Die in Liverpool
Sea Sorrow
Joan Didion: The Center Will Not Hold
Man in an Orange Shirt
The Secret Scripture
Electric Burma: The Concert for Aung San Suu Kyi - Words I Never Said
Almeida Theatre Live: Richard III
The Go-Between
Foxcatcher
The Wound and the Gift
Black Box
Once Upon a Time... Little Odessa
The Thirteenth Tale
The Butler
The Last Will and Testament of Rosalind Leigh
Last Will. & Testament
Song for Marion
Political Animals
Shakespeare Uncovered
Playhouse Presents
Call the Midwife
Anonymous
Cars 2
Coriolanus
Robinson in Ruins
Miral
The Whistleblower
Letters to Juliet
The Day of the Triffids
God, Smell and Her
Ein Job
Restraint
How About You...
The Shell Seekers
The Riddle
Evening
Atonement
Dealing and Wheeling in Small Arms
Venus
Eugene O’Neill: A Documentary Film
The Thief Lord
The White Countess
Elio Petri: Notes About a Filmmaker
The Keeper: The Legend of Omar Khayyam
Short Order
The Fever
Thank You, Doctor Rey
Good Boy!
Byron
Nip/Tuck
Byron
The Locket
Hell on Earth: The Desecration & Resurrection of The Devils
Searching for Debra Winger
Crime and Punishment
The Gathering Storm
Jack and the Beanstalk: The Real Story
Escape to Life: The Erika and Klaus Mann Story
The Pledge
A Rumor of Angels
The Adventures of Young Indiana Jones: Love's Sweet Song
Uninvited
Mirka
1961
If These Walls Could Talk 2
Exile in Buyukada
Girl, Interrupted
Cradle Will Rock
The Early Show
Lulu on the Bridge
Deep Impact
Déjà Vu
Sabine Christiansen
Bella Mafia
Behind the Mask : The IRA and Sinn Fein
Wilde
Mrs. Dalloway
The View
Michael Redgrave: My Father
Smilla's Sense of Snow
The Willows in Winter
Looking for Richard
Two Mothers for Zachary
Mission: Impossible
The Wind in the Willows
Down Came a Blackbird
A Month by the Lake
Little Odessa
Inside the Actors Studio
Great Moments in Aviation
Sparrow
They
Intimate Portrait
The House of the Spirits
Mother's Boys
Hollywood U.K.: British Cinema in the Sixties
A Wall of Silence
Howards End
The Ballad of the Sad Cafe
What Ever Happened to Baby Jane?
Young Catherine
Breath of Life
Orpheus Descending
Stalin's Funeral
Romeo.Juliet
A Man for All Seasons
Consuming Passions
Seitenblicke
Comrades
Prick Up Your Ears
Peter the Great
Second Serve
Wetherby
Steaming
Three Sovereigns for Sarah
Screen Two
Three Sovereigns for Sarah
Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs
The Bostonians
Goldene Kamera
Sing Sing
Wagner
Faerie Tale Theatre
My Body, My Child
American Playhouse
Wetten, dass..?
Playing for Time
The Fifth War
Bear Island
Yanks
Agatha
NDR Talk Show
The Palestinian
The South Bank Show
Julia
The Seven-Per-Cent Solution
Arena
Out of Season
Murder on the Orient Express
A Picture of Katherine Mansfield
Right to Work March
Mary, Queen of Scots
Film '72
Vacation
The Devils
The Trojan Women
Dropout
The Body
A Mother with Two Children Expecting Her Third
No Arks
Oh! What a Lovely War
The Sea Gull
A Quiet Place in the Country
Isadora
Red and Blue
The Charge of the Light Brigade
Red, White, and Zero
Camelot
Omnibus
Tonite Let's All Make Love in London
One Pair of Eyes
The Sailor from Gibraltar
Blow-Up
A Man for All Seasons
Morgan: A Suitable Case for Treatment
Maggie
As You Like It
A Sunday in September
Circus at Clopton Hall
Sunday-Night Play
Behind the Mask
Theatre Night
Armchair Theatre
Tony Awards
The Oscars
Today
Hallmark Hall of Fame
Golden Globe Awards
The Boy at the Back of the Class
All That I Am
The Turning Door