Vanessa Redgrave
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.
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Films (158)
The Crystal Planet
2026 · The Matriarch (voice)
Chambre froide
2026 · Mary Rooney
The Estate
2025 · Executive Producer
Common Wealth
2025 · Self
Merchant Ivory
2024 · Self
On Our Way
2023
The Ghost of Richard Harris
2022 · Self
The Lost Girls
2022 · Great Nana
Alice, Through the Looking
2021 · Narrator
Alida Valli: In Her Own Words
2021 · Self
Une vraie rencontre
2021 · Cathleen Sweeney
Katherine Jenkins Christmas Spectacular
2020 · Self
Entree Des Artists
2020 · Henry's Grandmother
Mrs Lowry & Son
2019 · Elizabeth Lowry
El crimen de Georgetown
2019 · Elsa Brecht
The Aspern Papers
2019 · Juliana Bordereau
Petites anecdotes entre stars
2018 · Self (archive footage)
Las estrellas de cine nunca mueren
2017 · Jeanne McDougall
Sea Sorrow
2017 · Self, Director, Screenplay
Joan Didion: The Center Will Not Hold
2017 · Self
Le Testament caché
2017 · Old Roseanne McNulty
Electric Burma: The Concert for Aung San Suu Kyi - Words I Never Said
2016 · Self
Almeida Theatre Live: Richard III
2016 · Queen Margaret
The Go-Between
2015 · Older Marian
Foxcatcher
2014 · Jean du Pont
The Wound and the Gift
2014
Once Upon a Time... Little Odessa
2014 · Self
The Thirteenth Tale
2013 · Vida Winter
Le Majordome
2013 · Annabeth Westfall
The Last Will and Testament of Rosalind Leigh
2012 · Rosalind Leigh
Last Will. & Testament
2012
Una canción para Marion
2012 · Marion
Anonyme
2011 · Queen Elizabeth I
Les bagnoles 2
2011 · The Queen / Mama Topolino (voice)
Ennemis jurés
2011 · Volumnia
Robinson in Ruins
2010 · Narrator
Miral
2010 · Bertha Spafford
Seule contre tous
2010 · Madeleine Rees
Lettres à Juliette
2010 · Claire
God, Smell and Her
2009
Ein Job
2008 · Hannah Silbergrau
Soumission
2008 · Sky News Reader #2
How About You...
2007 · Georgia Platts
Les pêcheurs de coquillages
2007 · Penelope Keeling
The Riddle
2007 · Roberta Elliot
Le temps d'un été
2007 · Ann Lord
Reviens-moi
2007 · Briony Tallis (Age 77)
Dealing and Wheeling in Small Arms
2007 · Narrator
Venus
2006 · Valerie
Eugene O’Neill: A Documentary Film
2006 · Self
Le Voleur de Venise
2006 · Sister Antonia
La Comtesse blanche
2005 · Princess Vera Belinskya
Elio Petri: Notes About a Filmmaker
2005 · Self
The Keeper: The Legend of Omar Khayyam
2005 · Miss Sangorski
Short Order
2005 · Marianne
La Fiebre
2004 · The woman, Executive Producer
Thank You, Doctor Rey
2003 · herself
Mon chien, ce héros !
2003 · The Greater Dane (voice)
Byron
2003 · Lady Melbourne
El Medallón
2002 · Esther Huish
Hell on Earth: The Desecration & Resurrection of The Devils
2002 · Self
Searching for Debra Winger
2002 · Self
Crime et châtiment
2002 · Rodion's mother
Churchill: Pour l'amour d'un empire
2002 · Clemmie Churchill
Escape to Life: The Erika and Klaus Mann Story
2001 · (voice)
Asesino Oculto
2001 · Annalise Hansen
La Rumeur des anges
2000 · Maddy Bennett
The Adventures of Young Indiana Jones: Love's Sweet Song
2000 · Vicky's Mother
Uninvited
2000 · Mrs. Rutterburn
Mirka
2000 · Kalsan
1961
2000 · Edith Tree
Sex revelations
2000 · Edith Tree
Exile in Buyukada
2000 · Narrator
Girl, Interrupted
1999 · Dr. Wick
Cradle Will Rock
1999 · Countess Constance La Grave
Lulu on the Bridge
1998 · Catherine Moore
Deep Impact
1998 · Robin Lerner
Déjà Vu
1998 · Skelly
Bella Mafia
1997 · Graziella Luciano
Behind the Mask : The IRA and Sinn Fein
1997 · Self
Wilde
1997 · Lady Speranza Wilde
Mrs. Dalloway
1997 · Mrs. Clarissa Dalloway
Michael Redgrave: My Father
1997 · Self
Smilla's Sense of Snow
1997 · Elsa Lübing
The Willows in Winter
1996 · Grandmother / Narrator
Looking for Richard
1996 · Self - Interviewee
Two Mothers for Zachary
1996 · Nancy Shaffell
Mission: Impossible
1996 · Max
The Wind in the Willows
1995 · Grandmother / Narrator (voice)
Down Came a Blackbird
1995 · Anna Lenke
A Month by the Lake
1995 · Miss Bentley
Little Odessa
1994 · Irina Shapira
Great Moments in Aviation
1994 · Dr. Angela Bead
Sparrow
1994 · Suor Agata
They
1993 · Florence Latimer
The House of the Spirits
1993 · Nivea del Valle
Mother's Boys
1993 · Lydia
A Wall of Silence
1993 · Kate Benson
Howards End
1992 · Ruth Wilcox
The Ballad of the Sad Cafe
1991 · Miss Amelia
What Ever Happened to Baby Jane?
1991 · Blanche Hudson
Breath of Life
1990 · Suor Crocifissa
Orpheus Descending
1990 · Lady Torrance
Stalin's Funeral
1990 · English journalist
Romeo.Juliet
1990 · Mother Capulet (voice)
A Man for All Seasons
1988 · Lady Alice More
Consuming Passions
1988 · Mrs. Garza
Comrades
1987 · Mrs. Carlyle
Prick Up Your Ears
1987 · Peggy Ramsay
Second Serve
1986 · Renee Richards
Wetherby
1985 · Jean Travers
Steaming
1985 · Nancy
Three Sovereigns for Sarah
1985 · Sarah Cloyce
Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs
1984 · The Evil Queen
The Bostonians
1984 · Olive Chancellor
Sing Sing
1983 · la Regina
My Body, My Child
1982 · Leenie Cabrezi
Playing for Time
1980 · Fania Fenelon
The Fifth War
1980
Bear Island
1979 · Heddi Lindquist
Yanks
1979 · Helen
Agatha
1979 · Agatha Christie
The Palestinian
1978 · Self, Producer
Julia
1977 · Julia
The Seven-Per-Cent Solution
1976 · Lola Deveraux
Out of Season
1975 · Ann
Murder on the Orient Express
1974 · Mary Debenham
Right to Work March
1972
Mary, Queen of Scots
1971 · Mary, Queen of Scots
Vacation
1971 · Immacolata Meneghelli
The Devils
1971 · Sister Jeanne des Anges
The Trojan Women
1971 · Andromache
Dropout
1970 · Mary
The Body
1970 · Narrator
A Mother with Two Children Expecting Her Third
1970 · Herself
No Arks
1969 · Narrator
Oh! What a Lovely War
1969 · Sylvia Pankhurst
The Sea Gull
1968 · Nina
A Quiet Place in the Country
1968 · Flavia
Isadora
1968 · Isadora Duncan
Red and Blue
1968 · Jacky
The Charge of the Light Brigade
1968 · Mrs Clarissa Morris
Red, White, and Zero
1968 · Jacky
Camelot
1967 · Guenevere
Tonite Let's All Make Love in London
1967 · Self
The Sailor from Gibraltar
1967 · Sheila
Blow-Up
1966 · Jane
A Man for All Seasons
1966 · Anne Boleyn
Morgan: A Suitable Case for Treatment
1966 · Leonie Delt
Maggie
1964 · Maggie
As You Like It
1963 · Rosalind
A Sunday in September
1961 · Self
Circus at Clopton Hall
1961 · Narrator
Behind the Mask
1958 · Pamela Benson-Gray
The Boy at the Back of the Class
· Queen
All That I Am
The Turning Door
· (voice)
Mexico Song
Séries (41)
L'Homme à la chemise orange
2017 · Flora Berryman
Boite noire
2014 · Dr. Hartramph
Political Animals
2012 · Diane Nash
Shakespeare Uncovered
2012 · Herself
Playhouse Presents
2012 · Elderly Woman
SOS sages-femmes
2012 · Jennifer Worth (voice)
Le Jour des Triffides
2009 · Durrant
Nip/Tuck
2003 · Dr.Erica Noughton, Dr. Erica Noughton
Byron
2003 · Lady Melbourne
Jack and the Beanstalk: The Real Story
2001 · Countess Wilhelmina
The Early Show
1999 · Self
Sabine Christiansen
1998 · Self
The View
1997 · Self
Inside the Actors Studio
1994 · Self
Intimate Portrait
1993 · Self
Hollywood U.K.: British Cinema in the Sixties
1993 · Self
Young Catherine
1991 · Empress Elizabeth
Seitenblicke
1987 · self
Peter the Great
1986 · Sophia
Screen Two
1985 · Dr. Angela Bead
Three Sovereigns for Sarah
1985 · Sarah Cloyce
Goldene Kamera
1984 · Self
Wagner
1983 · Cosima von Bulow
Faerie Tale Theatre
1982 · The Evil Queen
American Playhouse
1982 · Sarah Cloyce
Wetten, dass..?
1981 · Self
NDR Talk Show
1979 · Self
The South Bank Show
1978
Arena
1975
A Picture of Katherine Mansfield
1973 · Katherine Mansfield
Film '72
1971 · Self
Omnibus
1967 · Self
One Pair of Eyes
1967
Sunday-Night Play
1960 · Monica Claverton-Ferry
Theatre Night
1957 · Caroline Lester
Armchair Theatre
1956 · Sally
Tony Awards
1956 · Self - Presenter, Self - Winner, Self - Nominee
The Oscars
1953 · Self
Today
1952 · Self
Hallmark Hall of Fame
1951 · Esther Huish
Golden Globe Awards
1944 · Self - Nominee