Vanessa Redgrave

Personal Info

Know 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 O...

Acting

1966

A Man for All Seasons

as Anne Boleyn

1966

Blow-Up

as Jane

1977

1993

The House of the Spirits

as Nivea del Valle

1999

1974

2007

Atonement

as Briony Tallis (Age 77)

1969

Oh! What a Lovely War

as Sylvia Pankhurst

1997

Wilde

as Lady Speranza Wilde

2001

The Pledge

as Annalise Hansen

2007

Evening

as Ann Lord

1979

Yanks

as Helen

2003

Good Boy!

as The Greater Dane (voice)

1979

Agatha

as Agatha Christie

1998

Deep Impact

as Robin Lerner

1992

Howards End

as Ruth Wilcox

1971

The Devils

as Sister Jeanne des Anges

2007

The Shell Seekers

as Penelope Keeling

2000

1961

as Edith Tree

1961

1987

Prick Up Your Ears

as Peggy Ramsay

1984

The Bostonians

as Olive Chancellor

2006

Venus

as Valerie

1995

A Month by the Lake

as Miss Bentley

2007

How About You...

as Georgia Platts

1993

1968

The Charge of the Light Brigade

as Mrs Clarissa Morris

1977

Julia

as Julia

1976

2002

The Gathering Storm

as Clemmie Churchill

1968

Isadora

as Isadora Duncan

1998

Lulu on the Bridge

as Catherine Moore

2011

Anonymous

as Queen Elizabeth I

1994

Sparrow

as Suor Agata

2007

The Riddle

as Roberta Elliot

2010

Miral

as Bertha Spafford

1979

Bear Island

as Heddi Lindquist

2004

The Fever

as The woman

1971

Mary, Queen of Scots

as Mary, Queen of Scots

1997

Mrs. Dalloway

as Mrs. Clarissa Dalloway

1971

The Trojan Women

as Andromache

1994

Little Odessa

as Irina Shapira

2011

Cars 2

as The Queen / Mama Topolino (voice)

2010

The Whistleblower

as Madeleine Rees

1987

Comrades

as Mrs. Carlyle

2005

The White Countess

as Princess Vera Belinskya

1967

Camelot

as Guenevere

1980

Playing for Time

as Fania Fenelon

2000

A Rumor of Angels

as Maddy Bennett

2010

1997

Bella Mafia

as Graziella Luciano

1983

Sing Sing

as la Regina

1996

The Willows in Winter

as Grandmother / Narrator

1995

The Wind in the Willows

as Grandmother / Narrator

2014

Foxcatcher

as Jean du Pont

2011

Coriolanus

as Volumnia

2002

The Locket

as Esther Huish

1995

2003

Byron

as Lady Melbourne

2002

Crime and Punishment

as Rodion's mother

1994

Great Moments in Aviation

as Dr. Angela Bead

2012

2013

The Butler

as Annabeth Westfall

1985

Steaming

as Nancy

1985

Wetherby

as Jean Travers

1998

Déjà Vu

as Skelly

1975

1988

A Man for All Seasons

as Lady Alice More

2000

1971

Vacation

as Immacolata Meneghelli

1958

Behind the Mask

as Pamela Benson-Gray

1968

1970

The Body

as Narrator

1988

Consuming Passions

as Mrs. Garza

1990

Stalin's Funeral

as English journalist

2013

The Thirteenth Tale

as Vida Winter

1990

Orpheus Descending

as Lady Torrance

1991

1993

They

as Florence Latimer

1996

Looking for Richard

as Self - Interviewee

1986

Second Serve

as Renee Richards

1996

Two Mothers for Zachary

as Nancy Shaffell

2017

The Secret Scripture

as Old Roseanne McNulty

2024

1997

Smilla's Sense of Snow

as Elsa Lübing

2000

Mirka

as Kalsan

2008

Ein Job

as Hannah Silbergrau

1982

My Body, My Child

as Leenie Cabrezi

2015

The Go-Between

as Older Marian

2020

Entree Des Artists

as Henry's Grandmother

1999

Cradle Will Rock

as Countess Constance La Grave

1993

A Wall of Silence

as Kate Benson

2006

The Thief Lord

as Sister Antonia

1963

As You Like It

as Rosalind

1990

Breath of Life

as Suor Crocifissa

2004

1984

2000

Uninvited

as Mrs. Rutterburn

1970

Dropout

as Mary

2017

Sea Sorrow

as Self

2017

2019

Georgetown

as Elsa Brecht

2019

The Aspern Papers

as Juliana Bordereau

1990

Romeo.Juliet

as Mother Capulet (voice)

1968

Red and Blue

as Jacky

1969

No Arks

as Narrator

2019

Mrs Lowry & Son

as Elizabeth Lowry

1985

2014

And the Oscar Goes To...

as Self (archive footage)

2010

2008

Restraint

as Sky News Reader #2

2022

The Lost Girls

as Great Nana

2021

Finding You

as Cathleen Sweeney

2018

Nothing Like a Dame

as Self (archive footage)

1964

Maggie

as Maggie

-

The Crystal Planet

as The Matriarch (voice)

Production

1977

The Palestinian

as Producer

2004

The Fever

as Executive Producer

2017

Sea Sorrow

as Director

2017

Sea Sorrow

as Screenplay

-

The Estate

as Executive Producer

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