Vanessa Redgrave
Acting
1937-01-30 · Greenwich, London, England, UK
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.
Filmography
TheatersThe Crystal Planet
2026 · Movie
Cold Storage
2026 · Movie
The Estate
2025 · Movie
Common Wealth
2025 · Movie
Merchant Ivory
2024 · Movie
On Our Way
2023 · Movie
The Ghost of Richard Harris
2022 · Movie
The Lost Girls
2022 · Movie
Alice, Through the Looking
2021 · Movie
Alida Valli: In Her Own Words
2021 · Movie
Finding You
2021 · Movie
Katherine Jenkins Christmas Spectacular
2020 · Movie
Entree Des Artists
2020 · Movie
Mrs Lowry & Son
2019 · Movie
Georgetown
2019 · Movie
The Aspern Papers
2019 · Movie
Nothing Like a Dame
2018 · Movie
Film Stars Don't Die in Liverpool
2017 · Movie
Sea Sorrow
2017 · Movie
Joan Didion: The Center Will Not Hold
2017 · Movie
Man in an Orange Shirt
2017 · Series
The Secret Scripture
2017 · Movie
Electric Burma: The Concert for Aung San Suu Kyi - Words I Never Said
2016 · Movie
Almeida Theatre Live: Richard III
2016 · Movie
The Go-Between
2015 · Movie
Foxcatcher
2014 · Movie
The Wound and the Gift
2014 · Movie
Black Box
2014 · Series
The Thirteenth Tale
2013 · Movie
The Butler
2013 · Movie
The Last Will and Testament of Rosalind Leigh
2012 · Movie
Last Will. & Testament
2012 · Movie
Song for Marion
2012 · Movie
Political Animals
2012 · Series
Shakespeare Uncovered
2012 · Series
Playhouse Presents
2012 · Series
Call the Midwife
2012 · Series
Anonymous
2011 · Movie
Cars 2
2011 · Movie
Coriolanus
2011 · Movie
Robinson in Ruins
2010 · Movie
Miral
2010 · Movie
The Whistleblower
2010 · Movie
Letters to Juliet
2010 · Movie
The Day of the Triffids
2009 · Series
God, Smell and Her
2009 · Movie
Ein Job
2008 · Movie
Restraint
2008 · Movie
How About You...
2007 · Movie
The Shell Seekers
2007 · Movie
The Riddle
2007 · Movie
Evening
2007 · Movie
Atonement
2007 · Movie
Dealing and Wheeling in Small Arms
2007 · Movie
Venus
2006 · Movie
Eugene O’Neill: A Documentary Film
2006 · Movie
The Thief Lord
2006 · Movie
The White Countess
2005 · Movie
Elio Petri: Notes About a Filmmaker
2005 · Movie
The Keeper: The Legend of Omar Khayyam
2005 · Movie
Short Order
2005 · Movie
The Fever
2004 · Movie
Thank You, Doctor Rey
2003 · Movie
Good Boy!
2003 · Movie
Byron
2003 · Movie
Nip/Tuck
2003 · Series
Byron
2003 · Series
The Locket
2002 · Movie
Hell on Earth: The Desecration & Resurrection of The Devils
2002 · Movie
Searching for Debra Winger
2002 · Movie
Crime and Punishment
2002 · Movie
The Gathering Storm
2002 · Movie
Jack and the Beanstalk: The Real Story
2001 · Series
Escape to Life: The Erika and Klaus Mann Story
2001 · Movie
The Pledge
2001 · Movie
A Rumor of Angels
2000 · Movie
The Adventures of Young Indiana Jones: Love's Sweet Song
2000 · Movie
Uninvited
2000 · Movie
Mirka
2000 · Movie
If These Walls Could Talk 2
2000 · Movie
1961
2000 · Movie
Exile in Buyukada
2000 · Movie
Girl, Interrupted
1999 · Movie
Cradle Will Rock
1999 · Movie
The Early Show
1999 · Series
Lulu on the Bridge
1998 · Movie
Deep Impact
1998 · Movie
Déjà Vu
1998 · Movie
Sabine Christiansen
1998 · Series
Bella Mafia
1997 · Movie
Behind the Mask : The IRA and Sinn Fein
1997 · Movie
Wilde
1997 · Movie
Mrs. Dalloway
1997 · Movie
The View
1997 · Series
Michael Redgrave: My Father
1997 · Movie
Smilla's Sense of Snow
1997 · Movie
The Willows in Winter
1996 · Movie
Looking for Richard
1996 · Movie
Two Mothers for Zachary
1996 · Movie
Mission: Impossible
1996 · Movie
The Wind in the Willows
1995 · Movie
Down Came a Blackbird
1995 · Movie
A Month by the Lake
1995 · Movie
Little Odessa
1994 · Movie
Inside the Actors Studio
1994 · Series
Great Moments in Aviation
1994 · Movie
Sparrow
1994 · Movie
Intimate Portrait
1993 · Series
They
1993 · Movie
The House of the Spirits
1993 · Movie
Mother's Boys
1993 · Movie
Hollywood U.K.: British Cinema in the Sixties
1993 · Series
A Wall of Silence
1993 · Movie
Howards End
1992 · Movie
The Ballad of the Sad Cafe
1991 · Movie
Young Catherine
1991 · Series
What Ever Happened to Baby Jane?
1991 · Movie
Breath of Life
1990 · Movie
Orpheus Descending
1990 · Movie
Stalin's Funeral
1990 · Movie
Romeo.Juliet
1990 · Movie
A Man for All Seasons
1988 · Movie
Consuming Passions
1988 · Movie
Seitenblicke
1987 · Series
Comrades
1987 · Movie
Prick Up Your Ears
1987 · Movie
Peter the Great
1986 · Series
Second Serve
1986 · Movie
Wetherby
1985 · Movie
Steaming
1985 · Movie
Three Sovereigns for Sarah
1985 · Movie
Screen Two
1985 · Series
Three Sovereigns for Sarah
1985 · Series
Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs
1984 · Movie
The Bostonians
1984 · Movie
Goldene Kamera
1984 · Series
Sing Sing
1983 · Movie
Wagner
1983 · Series
Faerie Tale Theatre
1982 · Series
My Body, My Child
1982 · Movie
American Playhouse
1982 · Series
Wetten, dass..?
1981 · Series
Occupied Palestine
1981 · Movie
Playing for Time
1980 · Movie
The Fifth War
1980 · Movie
Bear Island
1979 · Movie
Yanks
1979 · Movie
NDR Talk Show
1979 · Series
Agatha
1979 · Movie
Julia
1977 · Movie
The Palestinian
1977 · Movie
The Seven-Per-Cent Solution
1976 · Movie
Out of Season
1975 · Movie
Murder on the Orient Express
1974 · Movie
A Picture of Katherine Mansfield
1973 · Series
Right to Work March
1972 · Movie
Mary, Queen of Scots
1971 · Movie
Film '72
1971 · Series
Vacation
1971 · Movie
The Devils
1971 · Movie
The Trojan Women
1971 · Movie
Dropout
1970 · Movie
The Body
1970 · Movie
A Mother with Two Children Expecting Her Third
1970 · Movie
No Arks
1969 · Movie
Oh! What a Lovely War
1969 · Movie
The Sea Gull
1968 · Movie
A Quiet Place in the Country
1968 · Movie
Isadora
1968 · Movie
Red and Blue
1968 · Movie
The Charge of the Light Brigade
1968 · Movie
Red, White, and Zero
1968 · Movie
Camelot
1967 · Movie
Omnibus
1967 · Series
Tonite Let's All Make Love in London
1967 · Movie
One Pair of Eyes
1967 · Series
The Sailor from Gibraltar
1967 · Movie
Blow-Up
1966 · Movie
A Man for All Seasons
1966 · Movie
Morgan: A Suitable Case for Treatment
1966 · Movie
Maggie
1964 · Movie
As You Like It
1963 · Movie
A Sunday in September
1961 · Movie
Circus at Clopton Hall
1961 · Movie
Sunday-Night Play
1960 · Series
Behind the Mask
1958 · Movie
Theatre Night
1957 · Series
Armchair Theatre
1956 · Series
Tony Awards
1956 · Series
The Oscars
1953 · Series
Today
1952 · Series
Hallmark Hall of Fame
1951 · Series
Golden Globe Awards
1944 · Series
The Boy at the Back of the Class
Movie
All That I Am
Movie