Vanessa Redgrave
Born 1937
Known for Mission: Impossible, Atonement, Deep Impact.
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.
Movie Credits
The Estate (2025)
The Lost Girls (2022)
Alice, Through the Looking (2021)
Mrs Lowry & Son (2019)
The Thirteenth Tale (2013)
Robinson in Ruins (2010)
The Shell Seekers (2006)
The Fever (2004)
The Locket (2002)
A Rumor of Angels (2000)
If These Walls Could Talk 2 (2000)
Mirka (2000)
Bella Mafia (1997)
Mrs. Dalloway (1997)
A Month by the Lake (1995)
Great Moments in Aviation (1994)
The Ballad of the Sad Cafe (1991)
What Ever Happened to Baby Jane? (1991)
Steaming (1985)
Wetherby (1985)
Playing for Time (1980)
Mary, Queen of Scots (1971)
The Devils (1971)
Isadora (1968)
The Aspern Papers (2018)
Song for Marion (2012)
The Last Will and Testament of Rosalind Leigh (2012)
The Whistleblower (2010)
How About You... (2007)
Crime and Punishment (2002)
The Gathering Storm (2002)
They (1993)
The Bostonians (1984)
Agatha (1979)
Bear Island (1979)
Julia (1977)
The Seven-Per-Cent Solution (1976)
The Trojan Women (1971)
Oh! What a Lovely War (1969)
A Quiet Place in the Country (1968)
The Charge of the Light Brigade (1968)
The Sea Gull (1968)
Camelot (1967)
Blow-Up (1966)
Morgan: A Suitable Case for Treatment (1966)
Katherine Jenkins Christmas Spectacular (2020)
Georgetown (2019)
The Secret Scripture (2016)
Evening (2007)
Byron (2003)
Wilde (1997)
Down Came a Blackbird (1995)
Prick Up Your Ears (1987)
Yanks (1979)
Cold Storage (2026)
The Go-Between (2015)
Letters to Juliet (2010)
Miral (2010)
Venus (2006)
Deep Impact (1998)
Little Odessa (1994)
Mother's Boys (1993)
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Ben Platt: Live from Radio City Music Hall (2020)
Anonymous (2011)
Atonement (2007)
The Keeper: The Legend of Omar Khayyam (2005)
The White Countess (2005)
The Wind in the Willows (1995)
Howards End (1992)
Behind the Mask (1958)
Coriolanus (2011)
The Riddle (2007)
Short Order (2005)
Lulu on the Bridge (1998)
Film Stars Don't Die in Liverpool (2017)
Good Boy! (2003)
Thank You, Doctor Rey (2002)
Smilla's Sense of Snow (1997)
