Vanessa Redgrave

Acting · 2.9 popularity

Age

Movies

155

Born: January 30, 1937
From: 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.

Works

155 films

Cars 2

20116.2

Cold Storage

20266.8

Mission: Impossible

19967.0

Deep Impact

19986.2

Atonement

20077.6

Murder on the Orient Express

19747.1

Girl, Interrupted

19997.6

Letters to Juliet

20107.0

The Butler

20137.3

The Pledge

20016.6

Finding You

20216.9

Howards End

19927.0

The House of the Spirits

19936.9

The Whistleblower

20106.7

The Devils

19717.4

Blow-Up

19667.3

Georgetown

20195.9

Anonymous

20116.4

Foxcatcher

20146.6

A Man for All Seasons

19667.3

Cradle Will Rock

19996.5

Coriolanus

20115.8

Wilde

19976.6

Restraint

20085.9

Film Stars Don't Die in Liverpool

20176.4

The Estate

20255.0

The Thief Lord

20066.0

Looking for Richard

19966.8

Mother's Boys

19935.4

Good Boy!

20035.6

The Trojan Women

19716.3

The Secret Scripture

20177.2

Yanks

19795.9

The Palestinian

19779.0

Smilla's Sense of Snow

19976.3

The Gathering Storm

20026.6

Camelot

19676.2

The Charge of the Light Brigade

19686.2

Song for Marion

20126.8

If These Walls Could Talk 2

20006.5

The White Countess

20056.2

Mary, Queen of Scots

19716.7

Sing Sing

19835.3

Bear Island

19796.1

Little Odessa

19946.5

Oh! What a Lovely War

19696.6

Searching for Debra Winger

20026.4

Julia

19776.5

Evening

20075.8

Almeida Theatre Live: Richard III

20167.7

Consuming Passions

19888.3

Merchant Ivory

20247.7

The Last Will and Testament of Rosalind Leigh

20125.0

Mrs. Dalloway

19975.7

Bella Mafia

19976.6

Isadora

19686.2

Stalin's Funeral

19903.7

A Quiet Place in the Country

19686.3

Nothing Like a Dame

20186.8

Prick Up Your Ears

19876.7

How About You...

20076.3

Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs

19846.4

Vacation

19714.8

Mrs Lowry & Son

20196.4

Dropout

19705.6

The Crystal Planet

2026

The Shell Seekers

20076.9

Last Will. & Testament

20125.3

The Locket

20025.2

The Seven-Per-Cent Solution

19766.2

Short Order

20055.1

The Bostonians

19845.5

Venus

20066.6

The Lost Girls

20224.9

Lulu on the Bridge

19985.9

Sparrow

19947.4

Miral

20105.8

The Aspern Papers

20194.5

Romeo.Juliet

19907.5

A Rumor of Angels

20006.7

Agatha

19796.1

Eugene O’Neill: A Documentary Film

2006

The Ghost of Richard Harris

20227.5

Crime and Punishment

20025.2

The Fever

20045.4

Elio Petri: Notes About a Filmmaker

20056.7

The Wind in the Willows

19957.1

Tonite Let's All Make Love in London

19674.5

Playing for Time

19806.9

Orpheus Descending

19904.6

A Man for All Seasons

19887.0

Thank You, Doctor Rey

20035.5

Maggie

1964

Morgan: A Suitable Case for Treatment

19666.3

My Body, My Child

19829.0

The Willows in Winter

19966.7

The Adventures of Young Indiana Jones: Love's Sweet Song

20005.2

Great Moments in Aviation

19944.9

The Boy at the Back of the Class

2026

They

19937.4

A Month by the Lake

19955.7

Wetherby

19856.0

The Thirteenth Tale

20136.6

What Ever Happened to Baby Jane?

19914.9

The Ballad of the Sad Cafe

19915.8

Joan Didion: The Center Will Not Hold

20177.3

On Our Way

20233.5

The Sailor from Gibraltar

19675.8

1961

2000

Second Serve

19865.3

Déjà Vu

19985.5

Two Mothers for Zachary

19966.0

The Keeper: The Legend of Omar Khayyam

20055.4

Circus at Clopton Hall

1961

Sea Sorrow

20175.3

The Go-Between

20156.8

Dealing and Wheeling in Small Arms

2007

Byron

20034.8

Michael Redgrave: My Father

1997

Behind the Mask : The IRA and Sinn Fein

199710.0

Uninvited

20005.3

Mirka

20009.0

Red, White, and Zero

19685.0

The Body

19704.6

Red and Blue

19687.5

Three Sovereigns for Sarah

1985

Comrades

19876.9

Behind the Mask

19586.4

The Fifth War

1980

The Riddle

20074.8

The Sea Gull

19686.3

Steaming

19855.3

As You Like It

19637.0

Alice, Through the Looking

2021

Alida Valli: In Her Own Words

20219.2

Ein Job

2008

A Sunday in September

1961

Escape to Life: The Erika and Klaus Mann Story

20014.8

Katherine Jenkins Christmas Spectacular

20208.3

Right to Work March

1972

A Wall of Silence

19935.7

Out of Season

19755.5

The Wound and the Gift

2014

Exile in Buyukada

200010.0

Down Came a Blackbird

19958.1

Breath of Life

199010.0

Entree Des Artists

2020

Robinson in Ruins

20106.8

Electric Burma: The Concert for Aung San Suu Kyi - Words I Never Said

2016

Hell on Earth: The Desecration & Resurrection of The Devils

20026.4

A Mother with Two Children Expecting Her Third

19705.0

All That I Am

2026

Common Wealth

2025

God, Smell and Her

2009

No Arks

1969