
Vanessa Redgrave
Department: Acting
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

A Man for All Seasons
1966

Mission: Impossible
1996

Blow-Up
1966

The Palestinian
1977

The House of the Spirits
1993

Girl, Interrupted
1999

Murder on the Orient Express
1974

Atonement
2007

Oh! What a Lovely War
1969

Wilde
1997

The Pledge
2001

Evening
2007

Yanks
1979

Good Boy!
2003

Agatha
1979

Deep Impact
1998

The Devils
1971

Howards End
1992

The Shell Seekers
2007

1961
2000

Circus at Clopton Hall
1961

Prick Up Your Ears
1987

If These Walls Could Talk 2
2000

Tonite Let's All Make Love in London
1967

The Bostonians
1984

Venus
2006

A Month by the Lake
1995

How About You...
2007

Mother's Boys
1993

The Charge of the Light Brigade
1968

Julia
1977

The Seven-Per-Cent Solution
1976

The Gathering Storm
2002

Isadora
1968

Morgan: A Suitable Case for Treatment
1966

Lulu on the Bridge
1998

Anonymous
2011

Sparrow
1994

The Riddle
2007

Miral
2010

Bear Island
1979

The Fever
2007

Mary, Queen of Scots
1971

Mrs. Dalloway
1997

The Trojan Women
1971

Little Odessa
1994

Alice, Through the Looking
2021

Cars 2
2011

The Whistleblower
2010

Comrades
1987

The White Countess
2005

Camelot
1967

Playing for Time
1980

A Rumor of Angels
2000

Robinson in Ruins
2010

The Boy at the Back of the Class
—

Bella Mafia
1997

Eugene O’Neill: A Documentary Film
2006

Sing Sing
1983

All That I Am
—

A Quiet Place in the Country
1968

The Wind in the Willows
1995

The Willows in Winter
1996

Foxcatcher
2014

Coriolanus
2011

The Locket
2002

Down Came a Blackbird
1995

Byron
2003

Crime and Punishment
2002

Great Moments in Aviation
1994

Song for Marion
2012

The Butler
2013

Steaming
1985

Short Order
2005

Wetherby
1985

Déjà Vu
1998

Out of Season
1975

A Man for All Seasons
1988

What Ever Happened to Baby Jane?
1991

Exile in Buyukada
2000

Vacation
1971

Behind the Mask
1958

The Sea Gull
1968

The Body
1970

Consuming Passions
1988

Stalin's Funeral
1990

Electric Burma: The Concert for Aung San Suu Kyi - Words I Never Said
2016

Dealing and Wheeling in Small Arms
2007

The Thirteenth Tale
2013

Orpheus Descending
1990

The Ballad of the Sad Cafe
1991

They
1993

Looking for Richard
1996

Second Serve
1986

Two Mothers for Zachary
1996

The Ghost of Richard Harris
2022

The Secret Scripture
2017

Merchant Ivory
2024

Smilla's Sense of Snow
1997

Last Will. & Testament
2012

On Our Way
2023

The Sailor from Gibraltar
1967

A Sunday in September
1961

Elio Petri: Notes About a Filmmaker
2005

The Last Will and Testament of Rosalind Leigh
2012

Mirka
2000

Ein Job
2008

Michael Redgrave: My Father
1997

My Body, My Child
1982

The Go-Between
2015

Entree Des Artists
2020

The Wound and the Gift
2014

Cradle Will Rock
1999

A Wall of Silence
1993

The Thief Lord
2006

As You Like It
1963

Almeida Theatre Live: Richard III
2016

Hell on Earth: The Desecration & Resurrection of The Devils
2002

The Estate
2025

Breath of Life
1990

Thank You, Doctor Rey
2004

Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs
1984

The Keeper: The Legend of Omar Khayyam
2005

Uninvited
2000

Dropout
1970

Sea Sorrow
2017

Film Stars Don't Die in Liverpool
2017

Georgetown
2019

Right to Work March
1972

The Aspern Papers
2019

The Adventures of Young Indiana Jones: Love's Sweet Song
2000

Romeo.Juliet
1990

A Mother with Two Children Expecting Her Third
1970

Red and Blue
1968

Joan Didion: The Center Will Not Hold
2017

Red, White, and Zero
1968

No Arks
1969

Mrs Lowry & Son
2019

Three Sovereigns for Sarah
1985

Escape to Life: The Erika and Klaus Mann Story
2001

Alida Valli: In Her Own Words
2021

Letters to Juliet
2010

Restraint
2008

Katherine Jenkins Christmas Spectacular
2020

The Lost Girls
2022

Finding You
2021

Searching for Debra Winger
2002

Nothing Like a Dame
2018

God, Smell and Her
2009

The Fifth War
1980

Maggie
1964

The Crystal Planet
—

Cold Storage
2026

Common Wealth
2025

Behind the Mask : The IRA and Sinn Fein
1997

Inside the Actors Studio
1994

The View
1997

Today
1952

Nip/Tuck
2003

The Early Show
1999

Hallmark Hall of Fame
1951

Intimate Portrait
1993

Peter the Great
1986

The Oscars
1953

Call the Midwife
2012

Black Box
2014

Jack and the Beanstalk: The Real Story
2001

Shakespeare Uncovered
2012

Wagner
1983

Political Animals
2012

Wetten, dass..?
1981

Man in an Orange Shirt
2017

Hollywood U.K.: British Cinema in the Sixties
1993

Byron
2003

The Day of the Triffids
2009

Faerie Tale Theatre
1982

Young Catherine
1991

Goldene Kamera
1984

Three Sovereigns for Sarah
1985

Omnibus
1967

Sabine Christiansen
1998

NDR Talk Show
1979

Golden Globe Awards
1944

Seitenblicke
1987

A Picture of Katherine Mansfield
1973

Sunday-Night Play
1960

Nip/Tuck
2003

Theatre Night
1957

One Pair of Eyes
1967

Playhouse Presents
2012

Armchair Theatre
1956

Tony Awards
1956

Tony Awards
1956

Tony Awards
1956