Vanessa Redgrave
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.
192 acting credits · 1 directing credit
Acting · 192
Golden Globe Awards
1944
The View
1997
Call the Midwife
2012
Nip/Tuck
2003
Tony Awards
1956
NDR Talk Show
1979
Omnibus
1967
Wetten, dass..?
1981
Intimate Portrait
1993
The Oscars
1953
Cold Storage
2026
Faerie Tale Theatre
1982
Cars 2
2011
Mission: Impossible
1996
Goldene Kamera
1984
Film '72
1971
Playhouse Presents
2012
Atonement
2007
Sabine Christiansen
1998
Sunday-Night Play
1960
Today
1952
Girl, Interrupted
1999
Deep Impact
1998
Seitenblicke
1987
The House of the Spirits
1993
Political Animals
2012
Jack and the Beanstalk: The Real Story
2001
Black Box
2014
Murder on the Orient Express
1974
Letters to Juliet
2010
The Butler
2013
Hallmark Hall of Fame
1951
Finding You
2021
Wilde
1997
Man in an Orange Shirt
2017
The Devils
1971
Howards End
1992
The Day of the Triffids
2009
Blow-Up
1966
Theatre Night
1957
Hollywood U.K.: British Cinema in the Sixties
1993
Foxcatcher
2014
The Early Show
1999
Peter the Great
1986
The Pledge
2001
Armchair Theatre
1956
Film Stars Don't Die in Liverpool
2017
Wagner
1983
A Man for All Seasons
1966
Anonymous
2011
Byron
2003
Little Odessa
1994
Camelot
1967
The Whistleblower
2010
The Secret Scripture
2017
Cradle Will Rock
1999
Young Catherine
1991
The White Countess
2005
Julia
1977
Coriolanus
2011
If These Walls Could Talk 2
2000
The Gathering Storm
2002
Restraint
2008
Bear Island
1979
Inside the Actors Studio
1994
Smilla's Sense of Snow
1997
Venus
2006
Evening
2007
Looking for Richard
1996
Searching for Debra Winger
2002
Yanks
1979
Shakespeare Uncovered
2012
The Charge of the Light Brigade
1968
Vacation
1971
Good Boy!
2003
Mrs. Dalloway
1997
The Lost Girls
2022
Sing Sing
1983
Miral
2010
Prick Up Your Ears
1987
Bella Mafia
1997
Playing for Time
1980
The Seven-Per-Cent Solution
1976
One Pair of Eyes
1967
The Adventures of Young Indiana Jones: Love's Sweet Song
2000
Georgetown
2019
Oh! What a Lovely War
1969
The Estate
2025
Mary, Queen of Scots
1971
The Fever
2007
Mother's Boys
1993
Agatha
1979
Wetherby
1985
The Bostonians
1984
Crime and Punishment
2002
Merchant Ivory
2024
Sparrow
1994
The Trojan Women
1971
The Thief Lord
2006
Tonite Let's All Make Love in London
1967
The Locket
2002
A Quiet Place in the Country
1968
A Picture of Katherine Mansfield
1973
The Keeper: The Legend of Omar Khayyam
2005
The Ghost of Richard Harris
2022
Lulu on the Bridge
1998
Three Sovereigns for Sarah
1985
The Shell Seekers
2007
The Ballad of the Sad Cafe
1991
Comrades
1987
Hell on Earth: The Desecration & Resurrection of The Devils
2002
The Riddle
2007
The Sea Gull
1968
Mrs Lowry & Son
2019
The Wind in the Willows
1995
A Month by the Lake
1995
On Our Way
2023
Song for Marion
2012
Byron
2003
Joan Didion: The Center Will Not Hold
2017
Isadora
1968
Sea Sorrow
2017
Second Serve
1986
Morgan: A Suitable Case for Treatment
1966
Eugene O’Neill: A Documentary Film
2006
Dropout
1970
The Thirteenth Tale
2013
Nothing Like a Dame
2018
Thank You, Doctor Rey
2003
Déjà Vu
1998
Stalin's Funeral
1990
Two Mothers for Zachary
1996
Red, White, and Zero
1968
Almeida Theatre Live: Richard III
2016
Steaming
1985
How About You...
2007
They
1993
Elio Petri: Notes About a Filmmaker
2005
Consuming Passions
1988
Romeo.Juliet
1990
The Aspern Papers
2019
A Rumor of Angels
2000
The Last Will and Testament of Rosalind Leigh
2012
The Go-Between
2015
The Boy at the Back of the Class
—
Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs
1984
Three Sovereigns for Sarah
1985
Alice, Through the Looking
2021
What Ever Happened to Baby Jane?
1991
Down Came a Blackbird
1995
Katherine Jenkins Christmas Spectacular
2020
The Willows in Winter
1996
The Sailor from Gibraltar
1967
1961
2000
Last Will. & Testament
2012
A Man for All Seasons
1988
Great Moments in Aviation
1994
God, Smell and Her
2009
Michael Redgrave: My Father
1997
Short Order
2005
Mirka
2000
Escape to Life: The Erika and Klaus Mann Story
2001
Maggie
1964
My Body, My Child
1982
Breath of Life
1990
Orpheus Descending
1990
Ein Job
2008
Electric Burma: The Concert for Aung San Suu Kyi - Words I Never Said
2016
Behind the Mask
1958
The Body
1970
As You Like It
1963
Right to Work March
1972
The Palestinian
1977
Alida Valli: In Her Own Words
2021
Red and Blue
1968
The Crystal Planet
2026
Entree Des Artists
2020
Out of Season
1975
All That I Am
—
Uninvited
2000
A Wall of Silence
1993
Exile in Buyukada
2000
Behind the Mask : The IRA and Sinn Fein
1997
The Fifth War
1980
A Sunday in September
1961
Robinson in Ruins
2010
The Wound and the Gift
2014
Common Wealth
2025
No Arks
1969
A Mother with Two Children Expecting Her Third
1970
Dealing and Wheeling in Small Arms
2007
Circus at Clopton Hall
1961