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.
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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Filmography (Movies)
Cold Storage
Character:Ma Rooney
Release Date:22/01/2026
The Estate
Character:
Release Date:25/11/2025
Common Wealth
Character:Self
Release Date:01/08/2025
Merchant Ivory
Character:Self
Release Date:30/08/2024
On Our Way
Character:
Release Date:19/05/2023
The Ghost of Richard Harris
Character:Self
Release Date:31/08/2022
The Lost Girls
Character:Great Nana
Release Date:17/06/2022
Alice, Through the Looking
Character:Narrator
Release Date:12/11/2021
Alida Valli: In Her Own Words
Character:Self
Release Date:17/05/2021
Finding You
Character:Cathleen Sweeney
Release Date:13/05/2021
Katherine Jenkins Christmas Spectacular
Character:Self
Release Date:01/12/2020
Entree Des Artists
Character:Henry's Grandmother
Release Date:01/06/2020
Mrs Lowry & Son
Character:Elizabeth Lowry
Release Date:30/08/2019
Georgetown
Character:Elsa Brecht
Release Date:14/05/2019
The Aspern Papers
Character:Juliana Bordereau
Release Date:11/01/2019
Nothing Like a Dame
Character:Self (archive footage)
Release Date:02/05/2018
Film Stars Don't Die in Liverpool
Character:Jeanne McDougall
Release Date:17/11/2017
Sea Sorrow
Character:Self
Release Date:08/11/2017
Joan Didion: The Center Will Not Hold
Character:Self
Release Date:11/10/2017
The Secret Scripture
Character:Old Roseanne McNulty
Release Date:23/03/2017
Electric Burma: The Concert for Aung San Suu Kyi - Words I Never Said
Character:Self
Release Date:17/09/2016
Almeida Theatre Live: Richard III
Character:Queen Margaret
Release Date:21/07/2016
The Go-Between
Character:Older Marian
Release Date:20/09/2015
Foxcatcher
Character:Jean du Pont
Release Date:14/11/2014
The Wound and the Gift
Character:
Release Date:30/09/2014
The Thirteenth Tale
Character:Vida Winter
Release Date:30/12/2013
The Butler
Character:Annabeth Westfall
Release Date:16/08/2013
The Last Will and Testament of Rosalind Leigh
Character:Rosalind Leigh
Release Date:09/11/2012
Last Will. & Testament
Character:
Release Date:23/10/2012
Song for Marion
Character:Marion
Release Date:15/09/2012
Anonymous
Character:Queen Elizabeth I
Release Date:21/10/2011
Cars 2
Character:The Queen / Mama Topolino (voice)
Release Date:11/06/2011
Coriolanus
Character:Volumnia
Release Date:14/02/2011
Robinson in Ruins
Character:Narrator
Release Date:19/11/2010
Miral
Character:Bertha Spafford
Release Date:15/09/2010
The Whistleblower
Character:Madeleine Rees
Release Date:13/09/2010
Letters to Juliet
Character:Claire
Release Date:13/05/2010
God, Smell and Her
Character:
Release Date:28/01/2009
Ein Job
Character:Hannah Silbergrau
Release Date:26/09/2008
Restraint
Character:Sky News Reader #2
Release Date:19/08/2008
How About You...
Character:Georgia Platts
Release Date:16/11/2007
The Shell Seekers
Character:Penelope Keeling
Release Date:18/10/2007
The Riddle
Character:Roberta Elliot
Release Date:14/10/2007
The Fever
Character:The woman
Release Date:13/06/2007
Evening
Character:Ann Lord
Release Date:09/06/2007
Atonement
Character:Briony Tallis (Age 77)
Release Date:27/02/2007
Dealing and Wheeling in Small Arms
Character:Narrator
Release Date:04/01/2007
Venus
Character:Valerie
Release Date:02/09/2006
Eugene O’Neill: A Documentary Film
Character:Self
Release Date:27/03/2006
The Thief Lord
Character:Sister Antonia
Release Date:04/01/2006
The White Countess
Character:Princess Vera Belinskya
Release Date:30/10/2005
Elio Petri: Notes About a Filmmaker
Character:Self
Release Date:03/09/2005
The Keeper: The Legend of Omar Khayyam
Character:Miss Sangorski
Release Date:10/06/2005
Short Order
Character:
Release Date:01/01/2005
Thank You, Doctor Rey
Character:herself
Release Date:20/08/2004
Good Boy!
Character:The Greater Dane (voice)
Release Date:10/10/2003
Byron
Character:Lady Melbourne
Release Date:27/09/2003
The Locket
Character:Esther Huish
Release Date:08/12/2002
Hell on Earth: The Desecration & Resurrection of The Devils
Character:Self
Release Date:24/11/2002
Searching for Debra Winger
Character:Self
Release Date:13/07/2002
Crime and Punishment
Character:Rodion's mother
Release Date:01/06/2002
The Gathering Storm
Character:Clemmie Churchill
Release Date:22/04/2002
Escape to Life: The Erika and Klaus Mann Story
Character:(voice)
Release Date:05/04/2001
The Pledge
Character:Annalise Hansen
Release Date:19/01/2001
A Rumor of Angels
Character:Maddy Bennett
Release Date:08/09/2000
The Adventures of Young Indiana Jones: Love's Sweet Song
Character:Vicky's Mother
Release Date:12/07/2000
Uninvited
Character:Mrs. Rutterburn
Release Date:19/05/2000
Mirka
Character:Kalsan
Release Date:10/03/2000
1961
Character:Edith Tree
Release Date:05/03/2000
If These Walls Could Talk 2
Character:Edith Tree
Release Date:05/03/2000
Exile in Buyukada
Character:Narrator
Release Date:01/01/2000
Girl, Interrupted
Character:Dr. Wick
Release Date:21/12/1999
Cradle Will Rock
Character:Countess Constance La Grave
Release Date:10/12/1999
Lulu on the Bridge
Character:Catherine Moore
Release Date:06/09/1998
Deep Impact
Character:Robin Lerner
Release Date:08/05/1998
Déjà Vu
Character:Skelly
Release Date:22/04/1998
Bella Mafia
Character:Graziella Luciano
Release Date:16/11/1997
Behind The Mask
Character:Self
Release Date:21/10/1997
Wilde
Character:Lady Speranza Wilde
Release Date:01/09/1997
Mrs. Dalloway
Character:Mrs. Clarissa Dalloway
Release Date:01/09/1997
Michael Redgrave: My Father
Character:Self
Release Date:13/07/1997
Smilla's Sense of Snow
Character:Elsa Lübing
Release Date:28/02/1997
The Willows in Winter
Character:Grandmother / Narrator
Release Date:26/12/1996
Looking for Richard
Character:Self - Interviewee
Release Date:11/10/1996
Two Mothers for Zachary
Character:Nancy Shaffell
Release Date:22/09/1996
Mission: Impossible
Character:Max
Release Date:22/05/1996
The Wind in the Willows
Character:Grandmother / Narrator
Release Date:24/12/1995
Down Came a Blackbird
Character:Anna Lenke
Release Date:22/10/1995
A Month by the Lake
Character:Miss Bentley
Release Date:11/09/1995
Little Odessa
Character:Irina Shapira
Release Date:28/10/1994
Great Moments in Aviation
Character:Dr. Angela Bead
Release Date:01/05/1994
Sparrow
Character:Suor Agata
Release Date:04/02/1994
They
Character:Florence Latimer
Release Date:14/11/1993
The House of the Spirits
Character:Nivea del Valle
Release Date:21/10/1993
Mother's Boys
Character:Lydia
Release Date:01/10/1993
A Wall of Silence
Character:Kate Benson
Release Date:10/06/1993
Howards End
Character:Ruth Wilcox
Release Date:13/03/1992
The Ballad of the Sad Cafe
Character:Miss Amelia
Release Date:28/03/1991
What Ever Happened to Baby Jane?
Character:Blanche Hudson
Release Date:17/02/1991
Breath of Life
Character:Suor Crocifissa
Release Date:11/10/1990
Orpheus Descending
Character:Lady Torrance
Release Date:01/06/1990
Stalin's Funeral
Character:English journalist
Release Date:21/04/1990
Romeo.Juliet
Character:Mother Capulet (voice)
Release Date:01/01/1990
A Man for All Seasons
Character:Lady Alice More
Release Date:21/12/1988
Consuming Passions
Character:Mrs. Garza
Release Date:06/04/1988
Comrades
Character:Mrs. Carlyle
Release Date:23/08/1987
Prick Up Your Ears
Character:Peggy Ramsay
Release Date:17/04/1987
Second Serve
Character:Renee Richards
Release Date:01/01/1986
Wetherby
Character:Jean Travers
Release Date:19/06/1985
Steaming
Character:Nancy
Release Date:22/05/1985
Three Sovereigns for Sarah
Character:Sarah Cloyce
Release Date:01/05/1985
Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs
Character:The Evil Queen
Release Date:16/07/1984
The Bostonians
Character:Olive Chancellor
Release Date:01/05/1984
Sing Sing
Character:la Regina
Release Date:15/10/1983
My Body, My Child
Character:Leenie Cabrezi
Release Date:11/04/1982
Playing for Time
Character:Fania Fenelon
Release Date:30/09/1980
The Fifth War
Character:
Release Date:01/01/1980
Bear Island
Character:Heddi Lindquist
Release Date:05/12/1979
Yanks
Character:Helen
Release Date:19/09/1979
Agatha
Character:Agatha Christie
Release Date:09/02/1979
Julia
Character:Julia
Release Date:01/10/1977
The Palestinian
Character:Self
Release Date:28/04/1977
The Seven-Per-Cent Solution
Character:Lola Deveraux
Release Date:24/10/1976
Out of Season
Character:Ann
Release Date:31/05/1975
Murder on the Orient Express
Character:Mary Debenham
Release Date:22/11/1974
Right to Work March
Character:
Release Date:19/10/1972
Mary, Queen of Scots
Character:Mary, Queen of Scots
Release Date:22/12/1971
Vacation
Character:Immacolata Meneghelli
Release Date:04/09/1971
The Devils
Character:Sister Jeanne des Anges
Release Date:16/07/1971
The Trojan Women
Character:Andromache
Release Date:01/05/1971
Dropout
Character:Mary
Release Date:18/12/1970
The Body
Character:Narrator
Release Date:09/10/1970
A Mother with Two Children Expecting Her Third
Character:Herself
Release Date:10/08/1970
No Arks
Character:Narrator
Release Date:01/06/1969
Oh! What a Lovely War
Character:Sylvia Pankhurst
Release Date:10/03/1969
The Sea Gull
Character:Nina
Release Date:23/12/1968
A Quiet Place in the Country
Character:Flavia
Release Date:14/11/1968
Isadora
Character:Isadora Duncan
Release Date:14/09/1968
Red and Blue
Character:Jacky
Release Date:08/08/1968
The Charge of the Light Brigade
Character:Mrs Clarissa Morris
Release Date:10/04/1968
Red, White, and Zero
Character:Jacky
Release Date:30/01/1968
Camelot
Character:Guenevere
Release Date:25/10/1967
Tonite Let's All Make Love in London
Character:Self
Release Date:26/09/1967
The Sailor from Gibraltar
Character:Sheila
Release Date:01/01/1967
Blow-Up
Character:Jane
Release Date:18/12/1966
A Man for All Seasons
Character:Anne Boleyn
Release Date:13/12/1966
Morgan: A Suitable Case for Treatment
Character:Leonie Delt
Release Date:03/04/1966
Maggie
Character:Maggie
Release Date:25/01/1964
As You Like It
Character:Rosalind
Release Date:21/03/1963
A Sunday in September
Character:Self
Release Date:18/09/1961
Circus at Clopton Hall
Character:Narrator
Release Date:01/01/1961
Behind the Mask
Character:Pamela Benson-Gray
Release Date:23/11/1958
Television Appearances
The 52nd Annual Emmy Awards
Character:Self - Winner
Man in an Orange Shirt
Character:Flora Berryman
Black Box
Character:Dr. Hartramph
Political Animals
Character:Diane Nash
Shakespeare Uncovered
Character:Herself
Playhouse Presents
Character:
Call the Midwife
Character:Jennifer Worth (voice)
The Day of the Triffids
Character:Durrant
Nip/Tuck
Character:Dr.Erica Noughton
Nip/Tuck
Character:Dr. Erica Noughton
Byron
Character:Lady Melbourne
Jack and the Beanstalk: The Real Story
Character:Countess Wilhelmina
The Early Show
Character:Self
Sabine Christiansen
Character:Self
The View
Character:Self
Inside the Actors Studio
Character:Self
Intimate Portrait
Character:Self
Hollywood U.K.: British Cinema in the Sixties
Character:Self
Young Catherine
Character:Empress Elizabeth
Seitenblicke
Character:self
Peter the Great
Character:Sophia
Three Sovereigns for Sarah
Character:Sarah Cloyce
Goldene Kamera
Character:Self
Wagner
Character:Cosima von Bulow
Faerie Tale Theatre
Character:The Evil Queen
Wetten, dass..?
Character:Self
NDR Talk Show
Character:Self
A Picture of Katherine Mansfield
Character:Katherine Mansfield
Omnibus
Character:Self
Sunday-Night Play
Character:Monica Claverton-Ferry
Theatre Night
Character:Caroline Lester
Tony Awards
Character:Self - Winner
Tony Awards
Character:Self - Presenter
Tony Awards
Character:Self - Nominee
The Oscars
Character:Self
Today
Character:Self
Hallmark Hall of Fame
Character:Esther Huish
Golden Globe Awards
Character:Self - Nominee
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