Vanessa Redgrave

Personal Info

Known For

Acting

Known Credits

190

Gender

Female

Birthday

1937-01-30 (88 years old)

Place of Birth

Greenwich, London, England, UK

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 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

  • NDR Talk Show

    NDR Talk Show

  • Tony Awards

    Tony Awards

  • Tony Awards

    Tony Awards

  • Tony Awards

    Tony Awards

  • Golden Globe Awards

    Golden Globe Awards

  • Call the Midwife

    Call the Midwife

  • Wetten, dass..?

    Wetten, dass..?

  • Nip/Tuck

    Nip/Tuck

  • Nip/Tuck

    Nip/Tuck

  • The View

    The View

  • Intimate Portrait

    Intimate Portrait

  • Cars 2

    Cars 2

  • Sabine Christiansen

    Sabine Christiansen

  • Mission: Impossible

    Mission: Impossible

  • The Oscars

    The Oscars

  • Faerie Tale Theatre

    Faerie Tale Theatre

  • Omnibus

    Omnibus

  • Deep Impact

    Deep Impact

  • Today

    Today

  • The Butler

    The Butler

  • Goldene Kamera

    Goldene Kamera

  • Sunday-Night Play

    Sunday-Night Play

  • Seitenblicke

    Seitenblicke

  • Atonement

    Atonement

  • Murder on the Orient Express

    Murder on the Orient Express

  • Girl, Interrupted

    Girl, Interrupted

  • Cradle Will Rock

    Cradle Will Rock

  • The Wind in the Willows

    The Wind in the Willows

  • The House of the Spirits

    The House of the Spirits

  • The Thirteenth Tale

    The Thirteenth Tale

  • Mrs. Dalloway

    Mrs. Dalloway

  • Common Wealth

    Common Wealth

  • Morgan: A Suitable Case for Treatment

    Morgan: A Suitable Case for Treatment

  • Political Animals

    Political Animals

  • A Mother with Two Children Expecting Her Third

    A Mother with Two Children Expecting Her Third

  • Vacation

    Vacation

  • Venus

    Venus

  • The Ghost of Richard Harris

    The Ghost of Richard Harris

  • On Our Way

    On Our Way

  • The Last Will and Testament of Rosalind Leigh

    The Last Will and Testament of Rosalind Leigh

  • If These Walls Could Talk 2

    If These Walls Could Talk 2

  • Camelot

    Camelot

  • Foxcatcher

    Foxcatcher

  • What Ever Happened to Baby Jane?

    What Ever Happened to Baby Jane?

  • Wilde

    Wilde

  • Anonymous

    Anonymous

  • Georgetown

    Georgetown

  • Film Stars Don't Die in Liverpool

    Film Stars Don't Die in Liverpool

  • Playhouse Presents

    Playhouse Presents

  • Joan Didion: The Center Will Not Hold

    Joan Didion: The Center Will Not Hold

  • Blow-Up

    Blow-Up

  • The Trojan Women

    The Trojan Women

  • The Sea Gull

    The Sea Gull

  • Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs

    Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs

  • How About You...

    How About You...

  • Howards End

    Howards End

  • The Devils

    The Devils

  • The Pledge

    The Pledge

  • Evening

    Evening

  • Finding You

    Finding You

  • Letters to Juliet

    Letters to Juliet

  • Playing for Time

    Playing for Time

  • The Riddle

    The Riddle

  • Uninvited

    Uninvited

  • The Charge of the Light Brigade

    The Charge of the Light Brigade

  • Byron

    Byron

  • Sea Sorrow

    Sea Sorrow

  • Coriolanus

    Coriolanus

  • The Early Show

    The Early Show

  • Cold Storage

    Cold Storage

  • Alida Valli: In Her Own Words

    Alida Valli: In Her Own Words

  • Jack and the Beanstalk: The Real Story

    Jack and the Beanstalk: The Real Story

  • Almeida Theatre Live: Richard III

    Almeida Theatre Live: Richard III

  • The White Countess

    The White Countess

  • Prick Up Your Ears

    Prick Up Your Ears

  • Great Moments in Aviation

    Great Moments in Aviation

  • Wetherby

    Wetherby

  • Down Came a Blackbird

    Down Came a Blackbird

  • The Day of the Triffids

    The Day of the Triffids

  • Song for Marion

    Song for Marion

  • Little Odessa

    Little Odessa

  • Crime and Punishment

    Crime and Punishment

  • Right to Work March

    Right to Work March

  • Restraint

    Restraint

  • Bear Island

    Bear Island

  • Nothing Like a Dame

    Nothing Like a Dame

  • Hallmark Hall of Fame

    Hallmark Hall of Fame

  • The Estate

    The Estate

  • Romeo.Juliet

    Romeo.Juliet

  • Black Box

    Black Box

  • Oh! What a Lovely War

    Oh! What a Lovely War

  • Breath of Life

    Breath of Life

  • The Bostonians

    The Bostonians

  • Tonite Let's All Make Love in London

    Tonite Let's All Make Love in London

  • Peter the Great

    Peter the Great

  • Mother's Boys

    Mother's Boys

  • Smilla's Sense of Snow

    Smilla's Sense of Snow

  • The Willows in Winter

    The Willows in Winter

  • Man in an Orange Shirt

    Man in an Orange Shirt

  • A Man for All Seasons

    A Man for All Seasons

  • Bella Mafia

    Bella Mafia

  • Consuming Passions

    Consuming Passions

  • The Seven-Per-Cent Solution

    The Seven-Per-Cent Solution

  • Steaming

    Steaming

  • Isadora

    Isadora

  • All That I Am

    All That I Am

  • Three Sovereigns for Sarah

    Three Sovereigns for Sarah

  • Red, White, and Zero

    Red, White, and Zero

  • The Fever

    The Fever

  • Stalin's Funeral

    Stalin's Funeral

  • Comrades

    Comrades

  • Behind the Mask

    Behind the Mask

  • Agatha

    Agatha

  • Shakespeare Uncovered

    Shakespeare Uncovered

  • The Lost Girls

    The Lost Girls

  • The Thief Lord

    The Thief Lord

  • Thank You, Doctor Rey

    Thank You, Doctor Rey

  • The Locket

    The Locket

  • Entree Des Artists

    Entree Des Artists

  • The Whistleblower

    The Whistleblower

  • Dropout

    Dropout

  • The Body

    The Body

  • Déjà Vu

    Déjà Vu

  • They

    They

  • Sing Sing

    Sing Sing

  • Byron

    Byron

  • Hollywood U.K.: British Cinema in the Sixties

    Hollywood U.K.: British Cinema in the Sixties

  • Wagner

    Wagner

  • Michael Redgrave: My Father

    Michael Redgrave: My Father

  • Good Boy!

    Good Boy!

  • Looking for Richard

    Looking for Richard

  • Mary, Queen of Scots

    Mary, Queen of Scots

  • Merchant Ivory

    Merchant Ivory

  • Lulu on the Bridge

    Lulu on the Bridge

  • The Sailor from Gibraltar

    The Sailor from Gibraltar

  • Exile in Buyukada

    Exile in Buyukada

  • Miral

    Miral

  • Hell on Earth: The Desecration & Resurrection of The Devils

    Hell on Earth: The Desecration & Resurrection of The Devils

  • Julia

    Julia

  • Young Catherine

    Young Catherine

  • Short Order

    Short Order

  • Yanks

    Yanks

  • Three Sovereigns for Sarah

    Three Sovereigns for Sarah

  • The Go-Between

    The Go-Between

  • Eugene O’Neill: A Documentary Film

    Eugene O’Neill: A Documentary Film

  • The Secret Scripture

    The Secret Scripture

  • The Wound and the Gift

    The Wound and the Gift

  • Inside the Actors Studio

    Inside the Actors Studio

  • A Quiet Place in the Country

    A Quiet Place in the Country

  • Out of Season

    Out of Season

  • The Ballad of the Sad Cafe

    The Ballad of the Sad Cafe

  • God, Smell and Her

    God, Smell and Her

  • A Sunday in September

    A Sunday in September

  • My Body, My Child

    My Body, My Child

  • A Man for All Seasons

    A Man for All Seasons

  • Alice, Through the Looking

    Alice, Through the Looking

  • A Picture of Katherine Mansfield

    A Picture of Katherine Mansfield

  • The Aspern Papers

    The Aspern Papers

  • The Palestinian

    The Palestinian

  • As You Like It

    As You Like It

  • Searching for Debra Winger

    Searching for Debra Winger

  • Electric Burma: The Concert for Aung San Suu Kyi - Words I Never Said

    Electric Burma: The Concert for Aung San Suu Kyi - Words I Never Said

  • Second Serve

    Second Serve

  • Sparrow

    Sparrow

  • The Gathering Storm

    The Gathering Storm

  • Red and Blue

    Red and Blue

  • Orpheus Descending

    Orpheus Descending

  • The Adventures of Young Indiana Jones 7: Love's Sweet Song

    The Adventures of Young Indiana Jones 7: Love's Sweet Song

  • The Shell Seekers

    The Shell Seekers

  • Mrs Lowry & Son

    Mrs Lowry & Son

  • Last Will. & Testament

    Last Will. & Testament

  • The Crystal Planet

    The Crystal Planet

  • A Month by the Lake

    A Month by the Lake

  • The Boy at the Back of the Class

    The Boy at the Back of the Class

  • Escape to Life: The Erika and Klaus Mann Story

    Escape to Life: The Erika and Klaus Mann Story

  • Circus at Clopton Hall

    Circus at Clopton Hall

  • The Keeper: The Legend of Omar Khayyam

    The Keeper: The Legend of Omar Khayyam

  • Maggie

    Maggie

  • Elio Petri: Notes About a Filmmaker

    Elio Petri: Notes About a Filmmaker

  • A Rumor of Angels

    A Rumor of Angels

  • Two Mothers for Zachary

    Two Mothers for Zachary

  • Mirka

    Mirka

  • Dealing and Wheeling in Small Arms

    Dealing and Wheeling in Small Arms

  • A Wall of Silence

    A Wall of Silence

  • 1961

    1961

  • Robinson in Ruins

    Robinson in Ruins

  • Katherine Jenkins Christmas Spectacular

    Katherine Jenkins Christmas Spectacular

  • The Fifth War

    The Fifth War

  • Ein Job

    Ein Job

  • No Arks

    No Arks