Vanessa Redgrave
Acting
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
Acting194
movieThe Crystal Planet
2026
The Matriarch (voice)
movieCold Storage
2026
Mary Rooney
movieThe Lost Girls
2022
Great Nana
movieFinding You
2021
Cathleen Sweeney
Entree Des Artists
2020
Henry's Grandmother
movieMrs Lowry & Son
2019
Elizabeth Lowry
movieGeorgetown
2019
Elsa Brecht
movieThe Aspern Papers
2019
Juliana Bordereau
movieNothing Like a Dame
2018
Self (archive footage)
movieFilm Stars Don't Die in Liverpool
2017
Jeanne McDougall
tvMan in an Orange Shirt
2017
Flora Berryman
movieThe Secret Scripture
2017
Old Roseanne McNulty
movieAlmeida Theatre Live: Richard III
2016
Queen Margaret
movieThe Go-Between
2015
Older Marian
movieFoxcatcher
2014
Jean du Pont
tvBlack Box
2014
Dr. Hartramph
movieThe Thirteenth Tale
2013
Vida Winter
movieThe Butler
2013
Annabeth Westfall
movieThe Last Will and Testament of Rosalind Leigh
2012
Rosalind Leigh
movieSong for Marion
2012
Marion
tvPolitical Animals
2012
Diane Nash
tvShakespeare Uncovered
2012
Herself
tvPlayhouse Presents
2012
Elderly Woman
tvCall the Midwife
2012
Jennifer Worth (voice)
movieAnonymous
2011
Queen Elizabeth I
movieCars 2
2011
The Queen / Mama Topolino (voice)
movieCoriolanus
2011
Volumnia
movieRobinson in Ruins
2010
Narrator
movieMiral
2010
Bertha Spafford
movieThe Whistleblower
2010
Madeleine Rees
movieEin Job
2008
Hannah Silbergrau
movieRestraint
2008
Sky News Reader #2
movieHow About You...
2007
Georgia Platts
movieThe Shell Seekers
2007
Penelope Keeling
movieThe Riddle
2007
Roberta Elliot
movieEvening
2007
Ann Lord
movieAtonement
2007
Briony Tallis (Age 77)
movieVenus
2006
Valerie
movieThe Thief Lord
2006
Sister Antonia
movieThe White Countess
2005
Princess Vera Belinskya
movieThe Keeper: The Legend of Omar Khayyam
2005
Miss Sangorski
movieShort Order
2005
Marianne
movieThe Fever
2004
The woman
movieGood Boy!
2003
The Greater Dane (voice)
movieByron
2003
Lady Melbourne
tvNip/Tuck
2003
Dr.Erica Noughton / Dr. Erica Noughton
tvByron
2003
Lady Melbourne
movieThe Locket
2002
Esther Huish
movieCrime and Punishment
2002
Rodion's mother
movieThe Gathering Storm
2002
Clemmie Churchill
tvJack and the Beanstalk: The Real Story
2001
Countess Wilhelmina
movieThe Pledge
2001
Annalise Hansen
movieA Rumor of Angels
2000
Maddy Bennett
movieUninvited
2000
Mrs. Rutterburn
movieMirka
2000
Kalsan
movie1961
2000
Edith Tree
movieIf These Walls Could Talk 2
2000
Edith Tree
movieExile in Buyukada
2000
Narrator
movieGirl, Interrupted
1999
Dr. Wick
movieCradle Will Rock
1999
Countess Constance La Grave
movieLulu on the Bridge
1998
Catherine Moore
movieDeep Impact
1998
Robin Lerner
movieDéjà Vu
1998
Skelly
movieBella Mafia
1997
Graziella Luciano
movieWilde
1997
Lady Speranza Wilde
movieMrs. Dalloway
1997
Mrs. Clarissa Dalloway
tvThe View
1997
Self
movieSmilla's Sense of Snow
1997
Elsa Lübing
movieThe Willows in Winter
1996
Grandmother / Narrator
movieLooking for Richard
1996
Self - Interviewee
movieTwo Mothers for Zachary
1996
Nancy Shaffell
movieThe Wind in the Willows
1995
Grandmother / Narrator
movieDown Came a Blackbird
1995
Anna Lenke
movieA Month by the Lake
1995
Miss Bentley
movieLittle Odessa
1994
Irina Shapira
movieGreat Moments in Aviation
1994
Dr. Angela Bead
movieSparrow
1994
Suor Agata
movieThey
1993
Florence Latimer
movieThe House of the Spirits
1993
Nivea del Valle
movieA Wall of Silence
1993
Kate Benson
movieHowards End
1992
Ruth Wilcox
movieThe Ballad of the Sad Cafe
1991
Miss Amelia
movieWhat Ever Happened to Baby Jane?
1991
Blanche Hudson
tvYoung Catherine
1991
Empress Elizabeth
movieBreath of Life
1990
Suor Crocifissa
movieOrpheus Descending
1990
Lady Torrance
movieStalin's Funeral
1990
English journalist
movieRomeo.Juliet
1990
Mother Capulet (voice)
movieA Man for All Seasons
1988
Lady Alice More
movieConsuming Passions
1988
Mrs. Garza
movieComrades
1987
Mrs. Carlyle
moviePrick Up Your Ears
1987
Peggy Ramsay
tvPeter the Great
1986
Sophia
movieSecond Serve
1986
Renee Richards
movieWetherby
1985
Jean Travers
movieSteaming
1985
Nancy
movieThree Sovereigns for Sarah
1985
Sarah Cloyce
tvScreen Two
1985
Dr. Angela Bead
tvThree Sovereigns for Sarah
1985
Sarah Cloyce
movieSnow White and the Seven Dwarfs
1984
The Evil Queen
movieThe Bostonians
1984
Olive Chancellor
movieSing Sing
1983
la Regina
tvWagner
1983
Cosima von Bulow
tvFaerie Tale Theatre
1982
The Evil Queen
movieMy Body, My Child
1982
Leenie Cabrezi
tvAmerican Playhouse
1982
Sarah Cloyce
moviePlaying for Time
1980
Fania Fenelon
movieBear Island
1979
Heddi Lindquist
movieYanks
1979
Helen
movieAgatha
1979
Agatha Christie
movieJulia
1977
Julia
movieThe Seven-Per-Cent Solution
1976
Lola Deveraux
movieMurder on the Orient Express
1974
Mary Debenham
tvA Picture of Katherine Mansfield
1973
Katherine Mansfield
movieMary, Queen of Scots
1971
Mary, Queen of Scots
movieVacation
1971
Immacolata Meneghelli
movieThe Devils
1971
Sister Jeanne des Anges
movieThe Trojan Women
1971
Andromache
movieDropout
1970
Mary
movieThe Body
1970
Narrator
movieNo Arks
1969
Narrator
movieOh! What a Lovely War
1969
Sylvia Pankhurst
movieIsadora
1968
Isadora Duncan
movieThe Charge of the Light Brigade
1968
Mrs Clarissa Morris
movieCamelot
1967
Guenevere
tvOmnibus
1967
Self
movieBlow-Up
1966
Jane
movieA Man for All Seasons
1966
Anne Boleyn
Maggie
1964
Maggie
movieCircus at Clopton Hall
1961
Narrator
Sunday-Night Play
1960
Monica Claverton-Ferry
movieBehind the Mask
1958
Pamela Benson-Gray
tvTheatre Night
1957
Caroline Lester
tvTony Awards
1956
Self - Presenter / Self - Winner / Self - Nominee
tvThe Oscars
1953
Self
tvToday
1952
Self
tvHallmark Hall of Fame
1951
Esther Huish
tvGolden Globe Awards
1944
Self - Nominee
Production4
movieThe Estate
2025
Executive Producer
movieThe Fever
2004
Executive Producer
movieOccupied Palestine
1981
Producer
movieThe Palestinian
1977
Producer
Directing1
movieSea Sorrow
2017
Director
Writing1
movieSea Sorrow
2017
Screenplay