Vanessa Redgrave
Born January 30, 1937 (Age: 89)
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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.
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
Cold Storage
2026
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as Ma Rooney
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Age: 88
The Ghost of Richard Harris
2022
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as Self
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Age: 85
Finding You
2021
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as Cathleen Sweeney
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Age: 84
Film Stars Don't Die in Liverpool
2017
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as Jeanne McDougall
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Age: 80
The Secret Scripture
2017
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as Old Roseanne McNulty
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Age: 80
Foxcatcher
2014
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as Jean du Pont
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Age: 77
The Butler
2013
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as Annabeth Westfall
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Age: 76
Song for Marion
2012
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as Marion
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Age: 75
Anonymous
2011
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as Queen Elizabeth I
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Age: 74
Cars 2
2011
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as The Queen / Mama Topolino (voice)
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Age: 74
Coriolanus
2011
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as Volumnia
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Age: 74
Miral
2010
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as Bertha Spafford
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Age: 73
Letters to Juliet
2010
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as Claire
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Age: 73
How About You...
2007
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as Georgia Platts
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Age: 70
The Riddle
2007
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as Roberta Elliot
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Age: 70
Evening
2007
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as Ann Lord
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Age: 70
Atonement
2007
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as Briony Tallis (Age 77)
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Age: 70
Eugene O’Neill: A Documentary Film
2006
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as Self
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Age: 69
The Thief Lord
2006
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as Sister Antonia
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Age: 68
The White Countess
2005
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as Princess Vera Belinskya
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Age: 68
The Keeper: The Legend of Omar Khayyam
2005
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as Miss Sangorski
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Age: 68
The Pledge
2001
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as Annalise Hansen
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Age: 63
Uninvited
2000
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as Mrs. Rutterburn
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Age: 63
Mirka
2000
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as Kalsan
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Age: 63
If These Walls Could Talk 2
2000
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as Edith Tree
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Age: 63
Exile in Buyukada
2000
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as Narrator
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Age: 62
Girl, Interrupted
1999
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as Dr. Wick
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Age: 62
Cradle Will Rock
1999
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as Countess Constance La Grave
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Age: 62
Deep Impact
1998
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as Robin Lerner
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Age: 61
No Image
Behind the Mask : The IRA and Sinn Fein
1997
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as Self
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Age: 60
Wilde
1997
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as Lady Speranza Wilde
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Age: 60
Mrs. Dalloway
1997
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as Mrs. Clarissa Dalloway
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Age: 60
Michael Redgrave: My Father
1997
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as Self
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Age: 60
Smilla's Sense of Snow
1997
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as Elsa Lübing
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Age: 60
Looking for Richard
1996
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as Self - Interviewee
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Age: 59
Mission: Impossible
1996
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as Max
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Age: 59
A Month by the Lake
1995
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as Miss Bentley
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Age: 58
The House of the Spirits
1993
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as Nivea del Valle
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Age: 56
Howards End
1992
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as Ruth Wilcox
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Age: 55
The Ballad of the Sad Cafe
1991
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as Miss Amelia
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Age: 54
Romeo.Juliet
1990
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as Mother Capulet (voice)
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Age: 52
Agatha
1979
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as Agatha Christie
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Age: 42
Julia
1977
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as Julia
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Age: 40
The Palestinian
1977
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as Self
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Age: 40
Murder on the Orient Express
1974
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as Mary Debenham
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Age: 37
The Devils
1971
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as Sister Jeanne des Anges
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Age: 34
No Arks
1969
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as Narrator
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Age: 32
Red, White, and Zero
1968
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as Jacky
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Age: 31
A Man for All Seasons
1966
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as Anne Boleyn
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Age: 29
No Image
Maggie
1964
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as Maggie
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Age: 26
A Sunday in September
1961
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as Self
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Age: 24
Circus at Clopton Hall
1961
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as Narrator
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Age: 23