Vanessa Redgrave
Acting
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.
TV Shows(36)
Man in an Orange Shirt
Flora Berryman
2017
Black Box
Dr. Hartramph
2014
Political Animals
Diane Nash
2012
Shakespeare Uncovered
Herself
2012
Playhouse Presents
Elderly Woman
2012
Call the Midwife
Jennifer Worth (voice)
2012
The Day of the Triffids
Durrant
2009
Nip/Tuck
Dr.Erica Noughton
2003
Byron
Lady Melbourne
2003
Jack and the Beanstalk: The Real Story
Countess Wilhelmina
2001
The Early Show
Self
1999
Sabine Christiansen
Self
1998
The View
Self
1997
Inside the Actors Studio
Self
1994
Intimate Portrait
Self
1993
Hollywood U.K.: British Cinema in the Sixties
Self
1993
Young Catherine
Empress Elizabeth
1991
Seitenblicke
self
1987
Peter the Great
Sophia
1986
Three Sovereigns for Sarah
Sarah Cloyce
1985
Goldene Kamera
Self
1984
Wagner
Cosima von Bulow
1983
Faerie Tale Theatre
The Evil Queen
1982
Wetten, dass..?
Self
1981
NDR Talk Show
Self
1979
A Picture of Katherine Mansfield
Katherine Mansfield
1973
Omnibus
Self
1967
One Pair of Eyes
1967
Sunday-Night Play
Monica Claverton-Ferry
1960
Theatre Night
Caroline Lester
1957
Armchair Theatre
Sally
1956
Tony Awards
Self - Presenter
1956
The Oscars
Self
1953
Today
Self
1952
Hallmark Hall of Fame
Esther Huish
1951
Golden Globe Awards
Self - Nominee
1944
Movies(155)
The Crystal Planet
The Matriarch (voice)
2026
Cold Storage
Ma Rooney
2026
The Estate
2025
Common Wealth
Self
2025
Merchant Ivory
Self
2024
On Our Way
2023
The Ghost of Richard Harris
Self
2022
The Lost Girls
Great Nana
2022
Alice, Through the Looking
Narrator
2021
Alida Valli: In Her Own Words
Self
2021
Finding You
Cathleen Sweeney
2021
Katherine Jenkins Christmas Spectacular
Self
2020
Entree Des Artists
Henry's Grandmother
2020
Mrs Lowry & Son
Elizabeth Lowry
2019
Georgetown
Elsa Brecht
2019
The Aspern Papers
Juliana Bordereau
2019
Nothing Like a Dame
Self (archive footage)
2018
Film Stars Don't Die in Liverpool
Jeanne McDougall
2017
Sea Sorrow
Self
2017
Joan Didion: The Center Will Not Hold
Self
2017
The Secret Scripture
Old Roseanne McNulty
2017
Electric Burma: The Concert for Aung San Suu Kyi - Words I Never Said
Self
2016
Almeida Theatre Live: Richard III
Queen Margaret
2016
The Go-Between
Older Marian
2015
Foxcatcher
Jean du Pont
2014
The Wound and the Gift
2014
The Thirteenth Tale
Vida Winter
2013
The Butler
Annabeth Westfall
2013
The Last Will and Testament of Rosalind Leigh
Rosalind Leigh
2012
Last Will. & Testament
2012
Song for Marion
Marion
2012
Anonymous
Queen Elizabeth I
2011
Cars 2
The Queen / Mama Topolino (voice)
2011
Coriolanus
Volumnia
2011
Robinson in Ruins
Narrator
2010
Miral
Bertha Spafford
2010
The Whistleblower
Madeleine Rees
2010
Letters to Juliet
Claire
2010
God, Smell and Her
2009
Ein Job
Hannah Silbergrau
2008
Restraint
Sky News Reader #2
2008
How About You...
Georgia Platts
2007
The Shell Seekers
Penelope Keeling
2007
The Riddle
Roberta Elliot
2007
The Fever
The woman
2007
Evening
Ann Lord
2007
Atonement
Briony Tallis (Age 77)
2007
Dealing and Wheeling in Small Arms
Narrator
2007
Venus
Valerie
2006
Eugene O’Neill: A Documentary Film
Self
2006
The Thief Lord
Sister Antonia
2006
The White Countess
Princess Vera Belinskya
2005
Elio Petri: Notes About a Filmmaker
Self
2005
The Keeper: The Legend of Omar Khayyam
Miss Sangorski
2005
Short Order
Marianne
2005
Thank You, Doctor Rey
herself
2004
Good Boy!
The Greater Dane (voice)
2003
Byron
Lady Melbourne
2003
The Locket
Esther Huish
2002
Hell on Earth: The Desecration & Resurrection of The Devils
Self
2002
Searching for Debra Winger
Self
2002
Crime and Punishment
Rodion's mother
2002
The Gathering Storm
Clemmie Churchill
2002
Escape to Life: The Erika and Klaus Mann Story
(voice)
2001
The Pledge
Annalise Hansen
2001
A Rumor of Angels
Maddy Bennett
2000
The Adventures of Young Indiana Jones: Love's Sweet Song
Vicky's Mother
2000
Uninvited
Mrs. Rutterburn
2000
Mirka
Kalsan
2000
1961
Edith Tree
2000
If These Walls Could Talk 2
Edith Tree
2000
Exile in Buyukada
Narrator
2000
Girl, Interrupted
Dr. Wick
1999
Cradle Will Rock
Countess Constance La Grave
1999
Lulu on the Bridge
Catherine Moore
1998
Deep Impact
Robin Lerner
1998
Déjà Vu
Skelly
1998
Bella Mafia
Graziella Luciano
1997
Behind the Mask : The IRA and Sinn Fein
Self
1997
Wilde
Lady Speranza Wilde
1997
Mrs. Dalloway
Mrs. Clarissa Dalloway
1997
Michael Redgrave: My Father
Self
1997
Smilla's Sense of Snow
Elsa Lübing
1997
The Willows in Winter
Grandmother / Narrator
1996
Looking for Richard
Self - Interviewee
1996
Two Mothers for Zachary
Nancy Shaffell
1996
Mission: Impossible
Max
1996
The Wind in the Willows
Grandmother / Narrator
1995
Down Came a Blackbird
Anna Lenke
1995
A Month by the Lake
Miss Bentley
1995
Little Odessa
Irina Shapira
1994
Great Moments in Aviation
Dr. Angela Bead
1994
Sparrow
Suor Agata
1994
They
Florence Latimer
1993
The House of the Spirits
Nivea del Valle
1993
Mother's Boys
Lydia
1993
A Wall of Silence
Kate Benson
1993
Howards End
Ruth Wilcox
1992
The Ballad of the Sad Cafe
Miss Amelia
1991
What Ever Happened to Baby Jane?
Blanche Hudson
1991
Breath of Life
Suor Crocifissa
1990
Orpheus Descending
Lady Torrance
1990
Stalin's Funeral
English journalist
1990
Romeo.Juliet
Mother Capulet (voice)
1990
A Man for All Seasons
Lady Alice More
1988
Consuming Passions
Mrs. Garza
1988
Comrades
Mrs. Carlyle
1987
Prick Up Your Ears
Peggy Ramsay
1987
Second Serve
Renee Richards
1986
Wetherby
Jean Travers
1985
Steaming
Nancy
1985
Three Sovereigns for Sarah
Sarah Cloyce
1985
Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs
The Evil Queen
1984
The Bostonians
Olive Chancellor
1984
Sing Sing
la Regina
1983
My Body, My Child
Leenie Cabrezi
1982
Playing for Time
Fania Fenelon
1980
The Fifth War
1980
Bear Island
Heddi Lindquist
1979
Yanks
Helen
1979
Agatha
Agatha Christie
1979
Julia
Julia
1977
The Palestinian
Self
1977
The Seven-Per-Cent Solution
Lola Deveraux
1976
Out of Season
Ann
1975
Murder on the Orient Express
Mary Debenham
1974
Right to Work March
1972
Mary, Queen of Scots
Mary, Queen of Scots
1971
Vacation
Immacolata Meneghelli
1971
The Devils
Sister Jeanne des Anges
1971
The Trojan Women
Andromache
1971
Dropout
Mary
1970
The Body
Narrator
1970
A Mother with Two Children Expecting Her Third
Herself
1970
No Arks
Narrator
1969
Oh! What a Lovely War
Sylvia Pankhurst
1969
The Sea Gull
Nina
1968
A Quiet Place in the Country
Flavia
1968
Isadora
Isadora Duncan
1968
Red and Blue
Jacky
1968
The Charge of the Light Brigade
Mrs Clarissa Morris
1968
Red, White, and Zero
Jacky
1968
Camelot
Guenevere
1967
Tonite Let's All Make Love in London
Self
1967
The Sailor from Gibraltar
Sheila
1967
Blow-Up
Jane
1966
A Man for All Seasons
Anne Boleyn
1966
Morgan: A Suitable Case for Treatment
Leonie Delt
1966
Maggie
Maggie
1964
As You Like It
Rosalind
1963
A Sunday in September
Self
1961
Circus at Clopton Hall
Narrator
1961
Behind the Mask
Pamela Benson-Gray
1958
The Boy at the Back of the Class
Queen
All That I Am