Actor
Vanessa Redgrave
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 als ...

Known For
Acting
2024 -- Merchant Ivory | Self
2023 -- On Our Way |
2022 -- The Ghost of Richard Harris | Self
2022 -- The Lost Girls | Great Nana
2021 -- Alice, Through the Looking | Narrator
2021 -- Alida Valli: In Her Own Words | Self
2021 -- Finding You | Cathleen Sweeney
2020 -- Katherine Jenkins Christmas Spectacular | Self
2020 -- Entree Des Artists | Henry's Grandmother
2019 -- Mrs Lowry & Son | Elizabeth Lowry
2019 -- Georgetown | Elsa Brecht
2019 -- The Aspern Papers | Juliana Bordereau
2018 -- Nothing Like a Dame | Self (archive footage)
2017 -- 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
2016 -- Electric Burma: The Concert for Aung San Suu Kyi - Words I Never Said | Self
2016 -- Almeida Theatre Live: Richard III | Queen Margaret
2015 -- The Go-Between | Older Marian
2014 -- Foxcatcher | Jean du Pont
2014 -- The Wound and the Gift |
2014 -- And the Oscar Goes To... | Self (archive footage)
2013 -- The Thirteenth Tale | Vida Winter
2013 -- The Butler | Annabeth Westfall
2012 -- The Last Will and Testament of Rosalind Leigh | Rosalind Leigh
2012 -- Last Will. & Testament |
2012 -- Song for Marion | Marion
2011 -- Anonymous | Queen Elizabeth I
2011 -- Cars 2 | The Queen / Mama Topolino (voice)
2011 -- Coriolanus | Volumnia
2010 -- Robinson in Ruins | Narrator
2010 -- Miral | Bertha Spafford
2010 -- The Whistleblower | Madeleine Rees
2010 -- Letters to Juliet | Claire
2009 -- God, Smell and Her |
2008 -- Ein Job | Hannah Silbergrau
2008 -- Restraint | Sky News Reader #2
2007 -- How About You... | Georgia Platts
2007 -- The Shell Seekers | Penelope Keeling
2007 -- The Riddle | Roberta Elliot
2007 -- Evening | Ann Lord
2007 -- Atonement | Briony Tallis (Age 77)
2007 -- Dealing and Wheeling in Small Arms | Narrator
2006 -- Venus | Valerie
2006 -- Eugene O’Neill: A Documentary Film | Self
2006 -- The Thief Lord | Sister Antonia
2005 -- 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 |
2004 -- The Fever | Woman
2004 -- Thank You, Doctor Rey | herself
2003 -- Good Boy! | The Greater Dane (voice)
2003 -- Byron | Lady Melbourne
2002 -- 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 -- The Adventures of Young Indiana Jones: Love's Sweet Song | Vicky's Mother
2001 -- Escape to Life: The Erika and Klaus Mann Story | (voice)
2001 -- The Pledge | Annalise Hansen
2000 -- A Rumor of Angels | Maddy Bennett
2000 -- Uninvited | Mrs. Rutterburn
2000 -- Mirka | Kalsan
2000 -- If These Walls Could Talk 2 | Edith Tree
2000 -- 1961 | Edith Tree
2000 -- Exile in Buyukada | Narrator
1999 -- Girl, Interrupted | Dr. Wick
1999 -- Cradle Will Rock | Countess Constance La Grave
1998 -- Lulu on the Bridge | Catherine Moore
1998 -- Deep Impact | Robin Lerner
1998 -- Déjà Vu | Skelly
1997 -- Bella Mafia | Graziella Luciano
1997 -- Mrs. Dalloway | Mrs. Clarissa Dalloway
1997 -- Wilde | Lady Speranza Wilde
1997 -- Michael Redgrave: My Father | Self
1997 -- Smilla's Sense of Snow | Elsa Lübing
1996 -- The Willows in Winter | Grandmother / Narrator
1996 -- Looking for Richard | Self - Interviewee
1996 -- Two Mothers for Zachary | Nancy Shaffell
1996 -- Mission: Impossible | Max
1995 -- The Wind in the Willows | Grandmother / Narrator
1995 -- Down Came a Blackbird | Anna Lenke
1995 -- A Month by the Lake | Miss Bentley
1994 -- Little Odessa | Irina Shapira
1994 -- Great Moments in Aviation | Dr. Angela Bead
1994 -- Sparrow | Suor Agata
1993 -- They | Florence Latimer
1993 -- The House of the Spirits | Nivea del Valle
1993 -- Mother's Boys | Lydia
1993 -- A Wall of Silence | Kate Benson
1992 -- Howards End | Ruth Wilcox
1991 -- The Ballad of the Sad Cafe | Miss Amelia
1991 -- What Ever Happened to Baby Jane? | Blanche Hudson
1990 -- Breath of Life | Suor Crocifissa
1990 -- Orpheus Descending | Lady Torrance
1990 -- Stalin's Funeral | English journalist
1990 -- Romeo.Juliet | Mother Capulet (voice)
1988 -- A Man for All Seasons | Lady Alice More
1988 -- Consuming Passions | Mrs. Garza
1987 -- Comrades | Mrs. Carlyle
1987 -- Prick Up Your Ears | Peggy Ramsay
1986 -- Second Serve | Renee Richards
1985 -- Wetherby | Jean Travers
1985 -- Steaming | Nancy
1985 -- Three Sovereigns for Sarah | Sarah Cloyce
1984 -- Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs | The Evil Queen
1984 -- The Bostonians | Olive Chancellor
1983 -- Sing Sing | la Regina
1982 -- My Body, My Child | Leenie Cabrezi
1980 -- Playing for Time | Fania Fenelon
1980 -- The Fifth War |
1979 -- Red, White, and Zero | Jacky
1979 -- Bear Island | Heddi Lindquist
1979 -- Yanks | Helen
1979 -- Agatha | Agatha Christie
1977 -- Julia | Julia
1977 -- The Palestinian | Self
1976 -- The Seven-Per-Cent Solution | Lola Deveraux
1975 -- Out of Season | Ann
1974 -- Murder on the Orient Express | Mary Debenham
1972 -- Right to Work March |
1971 -- Mary, Queen of Scots | Mary, Queen of Scots
1971 -- Vacation | Immacolata Meneghelli
1971 -- The Devils | Sister Jeanne des Anges
1971 -- The Trojan Women | Andromache
1970 -- Dropout | Mary
1970 -- The Body | Narrator
1970 -- A Mother with Two Children Expecting Her Third | Herself
1969 -- No Arks | Narrator
1969 -- Oh! What a Lovely War | Sylvia Pankhurst
1968 -- 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
1967 -- Camelot | Guenevere
1967 -- Tonite Let's All Make Love in London | Self
1967 -- The Sailor from Gibraltar | Sheila
1966 -- Blow-Up | Jane
1966 -- A Man for All Seasons | Anne Boleyn
1966 -- Morgan: A Suitable Case for Treatment | Leonie Delt
1964 -- Maggie | Maggie
1963 -- As You Like It | Rosalind
1961 -- A Sunday in September | Self
1961 -- Circus at Clopton Hall | Narrator
1958 -- Behind the Mask | Pamela Benson-Gray
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