Vanessa Redgrave

Acting · 2.8 popularity

Age

Movies

155

Born: January 30, 1937
From: Greenwich, London, England, UK

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.

Works

155 films

Cars 2

20116.2

Cold Storage

20266.8

Mission: Impossible

19967.0

Deep Impact

19986.2

Atonement

20077.6

Murder on the Orient Express

19747.1

Girl, Interrupted

19997.6

Letters to Juliet

20107.0

The Butler

20137.3

The Pledge

20016.6

Howards End

19927.0

The House of the Spirits

19936.9

Finding You

20216.9

The Devils

19717.4

Foxcatcher

20146.7

Blow-Up

19667.3

The Whistleblower

20106.7

Anonymous

20116.4

Georgetown

20195.9

A Man for All Seasons

19667.3

Wilde

19976.6

Coriolanus

20115.8

The Thief Lord

20066.0

Restraint

20085.9

Mother's Boys

19935.4

Film Stars Don't Die in Liverpool

20176.4

Good Boy!

20035.6

Cradle Will Rock

19996.5

The Trojan Women

19716.3

Looking for Richard

19966.8

The Charge of the Light Brigade

19686.2

The Secret Scripture

20177.2

Camelot

19676.2

Smilla's Sense of Snow

19976.3

The Estate

20255.0

Yanks

19795.9

The Gathering Storm

20026.6

Little Odessa

19946.5

The Palestinian

19779.0

Song for Marion

20126.8

Bear Island

19796.1

Merchant Ivory

20247.7

If These Walls Could Talk 2

20006.5

Oh! What a Lovely War

19696.6

The White Countess

20056.2

Stalin's Funeral

19903.7

Consuming Passions

19888.3

Evening

20075.8

Julia

19776.5

Mary, Queen of Scots

19716.7

Almeida Theatre Live: Richard III

20167.7

Searching for Debra Winger

20026.4

Sing Sing

19835.3

Mrs. Dalloway

19975.7

The Bostonians

19845.5

Dropout

19705.6

Bella Mafia

19976.6

The Seven-Per-Cent Solution

19766.2

Mrs Lowry & Son

20196.4

Nothing Like a Dame

20186.8

Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs

19846.4

The Crystal Planet

2026

My Body, My Child

19829.0

Joan Didion: The Center Will Not Hold

20177.3

The Last Will and Testament of Rosalind Leigh

20125.0

Agatha

19796.1

Isadora

19686.2

The Locket

20025.2

A Quiet Place in the Country

19686.3

Venus

20066.6

Short Order

20055.1

Miral

20105.8

Maggie

1964

Vacation

19714.8

Lulu on the Bridge

19985.9

Prick Up Your Ears

19876.7

Thank You, Doctor Rey

20035.5

The Wind in the Willows

19957.1

The Ballad of the Sad Cafe

19915.8

Sparrow

19947.4

What Ever Happened to Baby Jane?

19914.9

Playing for Time

19806.9

Eugene O’Neill: A Documentary Film

2006

The Fever

20045.4

The Aspern Papers

20194.5

The Lost Girls

20224.9

Romeo.Juliet

19907.5

Crime and Punishment

20025.2

Orpheus Descending

19904.6

They

19937.4

Morgan: A Suitable Case for Treatment

19666.3

How About You...

20076.3

Last Will. & Testament

20125.3

The Shell Seekers

20076.9

Great Moments in Aviation

19944.9

A Rumor of Angels

20006.7

The Willows in Winter

19966.7

1961

2000

A Month by the Lake

19955.7

The Ghost of Richard Harris

20227.5

A Man for All Seasons

19887.0

On Our Way

20233.5

The Go-Between

20156.8

Déjà Vu

19985.5

Dealing and Wheeling in Small Arms

2007

The Boy at the Back of the Class

2026

Wetherby

19856.0

Tonite Let's All Make Love in London

19674.5

Elio Petri: Notes About a Filmmaker

20056.7

Two Mothers for Zachary

19966.0

Second Serve

19865.3

Byron

20034.8

Red and Blue

19687.5

The Sailor from Gibraltar

19675.8

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

20005.2

The Keeper: The Legend of Omar Khayyam

20055.4

Sea Sorrow

20175.3

The Thirteenth Tale

20136.6

Uninvited

20005.3

Michael Redgrave: My Father

1997

Comrades

19876.9

The Fifth War

1980

Three Sovereigns for Sarah

1985

Breath of Life

199010.0

The Sea Gull

19686.3

Katherine Jenkins Christmas Spectacular

20208.3

Robinson in Ruins

20106.8

Mirka

20009.0

Behind the Mask

19586.4

Behind the Mask : The IRA and Sinn Fein

199710.0

Circus at Clopton Hall

1961

Alida Valli: In Her Own Words

20219.2

The Riddle

20074.8

The Body

19704.6

Red, White, and Zero

19685.0

Alice, Through the Looking

2021

Steaming

19855.3

Escape to Life: The Erika and Klaus Mann Story

20014.8

As You Like It

19637.0

Out of Season

19755.5

Right to Work March

1972

Hell on Earth: The Desecration & Resurrection of The Devils

20026.4

Down Came a Blackbird

19958.1

A Sunday in September

1961

A Wall of Silence

19935.7

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

2016

Entree Des Artists

2020

Exile in Buyukada

200010.0

Ein Job

2008

A Mother with Two Children Expecting Her Third

19705.0

God, Smell and Her

2009

All That I Am

2026

The Wound and the Gift

2014

No Arks

1969

Common Wealth

2025