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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 S…
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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.
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Vanessa Redgrave's Filmography
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The Crystal Planet
as The Matriarch (voice)
Cold Storage
as Mary Rooney
The Estate
Common Wealth
as Self
Merchant Ivory
as Self
On Our Way
The Ghost of Richard Harris
as Self
The Lost Girls
as Great Nana
Alice, Through the Looking
as Narrator
Alida Valli: In Her Own Words
as Self
Finding You
as Cathleen Sweeney
Katherine Jenkins Christmas Spectacular
as Self
No Poster
Entree Des Artists
as Henry's Grandmother
Mrs Lowry & Son
as Elizabeth Lowry
Georgetown
as Elsa Brecht
The Aspern Papers
as Juliana Bordereau
Nothing Like a Dame
as Self (archive footage)
Film Stars Don't Die in Liverpool
as Jeanne McDougall
Sea Sorrow
as Self
Joan Didion: The Center Will Not Hold
as Self
The Secret Scripture
as Old Roseanne McNulty
Electric Burma: The Concert for Aung San Suu Kyi - Words I Never Said
as Self
Almeida Theatre Live: Richard III
as Queen Margaret
The Go-Between
as Older Marian
Foxcatcher
as Jean du Pont
The Wound and the Gift
Once Upon a Time... Little Odessa
as Self
The Thirteenth Tale
as Vida Winter
The Butler
as Annabeth Westfall
The Last Will and Testament of Rosalind Leigh
as Rosalind Leigh
Last Will. & Testament
Song for Marion
as Marion
Anonymous
as Queen Elizabeth I
Cars 2
as The Queen / Mama Topolino (voice)
Coriolanus
as Volumnia
Robinson in Ruins
as Narrator
Miral
as Bertha Spafford
The Whistleblower
as Madeleine Rees
Letters to Juliet
as Claire
God, Smell and Her
Ein Job
as Hannah Silbergrau
Restraint
as Sky News Reader #2
How About You...
as Georgia Platts
The Shell Seekers
as Penelope Keeling
The Riddle
as Roberta Elliot
Evening
as Ann Lord
Atonement
as Briony Tallis (Age 77)
Dealing and Wheeling in Small Arms
as Narrator
Venus
as Valerie
Eugene O’Neill: A Documentary Film
as Self
The Thief Lord
as Sister Antonia
The White Countess
as Princess Vera Belinskya
Elio Petri: Notes About a Filmmaker
as Self
The Keeper: The Legend of Omar Khayyam
as Miss Sangorski
Short Order
as Marianne
The Fever
as The woman
Thank You, Doctor Rey
as herself
Good Boy!
as The Greater Dane (voice)
Byron
as Lady Melbourne
The Locket
as Esther Huish
Hell on Earth: The Desecration & Resurrection of The Devils
as Self
Searching for Debra Winger
as Self
Crime and Punishment
as Rodion's mother
The Gathering Storm
as Clemmie Churchill
Escape to Life: The Erika and Klaus Mann Story
as (voice)
The Pledge
as Annalise Hansen
A Rumor of Angels
as Maddy Bennett
The Adventures of Young Indiana Jones: Love's Sweet Song
as Vicky's Mother
Uninvited
as Mrs. Rutterburn
Mirka
as Kalsan
If These Walls Could Talk 2
as Edith Tree
1961
as Edith Tree
Exile in Buyukada
as Narrator
Girl, Interrupted
as Dr. Wick
Cradle Will Rock
as Countess Constance La Grave
Lulu on the Bridge
as Catherine Moore
Deep Impact
as Robin Lerner
Déjà Vu
as Skelly
Bella Mafia
as Graziella Luciano
No Poster
Behind the Mask : The IRA and Sinn Fein
as Self
Wilde
as Lady Speranza Wilde
Mrs. Dalloway
as Mrs. Clarissa Dalloway
Michael Redgrave: My Father
as Self
Smilla's Sense of Snow
as Elsa Lübing
The Willows in Winter
as Grandmother / Narrator
Looking for Richard
as Self - Interviewee
Two Mothers for Zachary
as Nancy Shaffell
Mission: Impossible
as Max
The Wind in the Willows
as Grandmother / Narrator (voice)
Down Came a Blackbird
as Anna Lenke
A Month by the Lake
as Miss Bentley
Little Odessa
as Irina Shapira
Great Moments in Aviation
as Dr. Angela Bead
Sparrow
as Suor Agata
They
as Florence Latimer
The House of the Spirits
as Nivea del Valle
Mother's Boys
as Lydia
A Wall of Silence
as Kate Benson
Howards End
as Ruth Wilcox
The Ballad of the Sad Cafe
as Miss Amelia
What Ever Happened to Baby Jane?
as Blanche Hudson
Breath of Life
as Suor Crocifissa
Orpheus Descending
as Lady Torrance
Stalin's Funeral
as English journalist
Romeo.Juliet
as Mother Capulet (voice)
A Man for All Seasons
as Lady Alice More
Consuming Passions
as Mrs. Garza
Comrades
as Mrs. Carlyle
Prick Up Your Ears
as Peggy Ramsay
Second Serve
as Renee Richards
Wetherby
as Jean Travers
Steaming
as Nancy
Three Sovereigns for Sarah
as Sarah Cloyce
Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs
as The Evil Queen
The Bostonians
as Olive Chancellor
Sing Sing
as la Regina
My Body, My Child
as Leenie Cabrezi
Playing for Time
as Fania Fenelon
The Fifth War
Bear Island
as Heddi Lindquist
Yanks
as Helen
Agatha
as Agatha Christie
The Palestinian
as Self
Julia
as Julia
The Seven-Per-Cent Solution
as Lola Deveraux
Out of Season
as Ann
Murder on the Orient Express
as Mary Debenham
Right to Work March
Mary, Queen of Scots
as Mary, Queen of Scots
Vacation
as Immacolata Meneghelli
The Devils
as Sister Jeanne des Anges
The Trojan Women
as Andromache
Dropout
as Mary
The Body
as Narrator
A Mother with Two Children Expecting Her Third
as Herself
No Arks
as Narrator
Oh! What a Lovely War
as Sylvia Pankhurst
The Sea Gull
as Nina
A Quiet Place in the Country
as Flavia
Isadora
as Isadora Duncan
Red and Blue
as Jacky
The Charge of the Light Brigade
as Mrs Clarissa Morris
Red, White, and Zero
as Jacky
Camelot
as Guenevere
Tonite Let's All Make Love in London
as Self
The Sailor from Gibraltar
as Sheila
Blow-Up
as Jane
A Man for All Seasons
as Anne Boleyn
Morgan: A Suitable Case for Treatment
as Leonie Delt
No Poster
Maggie
as Maggie
No Poster
As You Like It
as Rosalind
A Sunday in September
as Self
Circus at Clopton Hall
as Narrator
Behind the Mask
as Pamela Benson-Gray
No Poster
The Turning Door
as (voice)
All That I Am
No Poster
The Boy at the Back of the Class
as Queen