Vanessa Redgrave

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.

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Personal info

Gender

Female

Birthday

1937-01-30

Place of birth

Greenwich, London, England, UK

Images

Cast

Blow-Up

Blow-Up

1966

7.33

Atonement

Atonement

2007

7.64

Wilde

Wilde

1997

6.60

The Pledge

The Pledge

2001

6.57

Evening

Evening

2007

5.85

Yanks

Yanks

1979

5.88

Good Boy!

Good Boy!

2003

5.54

Agatha

Agatha

1979

6.16

Deep Impact

Deep Impact

1998

6.20

Howards End

Howards End

1992

7.03

The Devils

The Devils

1971

7.50

1961

1961

2000

0.00

Venus

Venus

2006

6.60

Julia

Julia

1977

6.50

Isadora

Isadora

1968

6.09

Anonymous

Anonymous

2011

6.40

Sparrow

Sparrow

1994

7.40

The Riddle

The Riddle

2007

4.78

Bear Island

Bear Island

1979

5.87

Miral

Miral

2010

5.74

The Fever

The Fever

2004

5.30

Cars 2

Cars 2

2011

6.15

Comrades

Comrades

1987

6.80

Camelot

Camelot

1967

6.20

Bella Mafia

Bella Mafia

1997

6.61

Sing Sing

Sing Sing

1983

5.31

Foxcatcher

Foxcatcher

2014

6.65

Coriolanus

Coriolanus

2011

5.80

The Locket

The Locket

2002

5.25

Byron

Byron

2003

4.60

The Butler

The Butler

2013

7.33

Steaming

Steaming

1985

5.40

Short Order

Short Order

2005

4.40

Wetherby

Wetherby

1985

6.00

Vacation

Vacation

1971

4.80

The Sea Gull

The Sea Gull

1968

6.20

The Body

The Body

1970

4.43

They

They

1993

7.40

Second Serve

Second Serve

1986

5.40

On Our Way

On Our Way

2023

3.50

Mirka

Mirka

2000

0.00

Ein Job

Ein Job

2008

0.00

Uninvited

Uninvited

2000

3.50

Dropout

Dropout

1970

4.80

Sea Sorrow

Sea Sorrow

2017

5.29

Georgetown

Georgetown

2019

6.00

Romeo.Juliet

Romeo.Juliet

1990

5.00

Red and Blue

Red and Blue

1968

6.00

No Arks

No Arks

1969

0.00

Restraint

Restraint

2008

5.90

Finding You

Finding You

2021

6.90

Maggie

Maggie

1964

0.00