Person Details

Birthday: 1937-01-30 11:06:27

Aliases: Vanessa Redgreiv , 바네사 레드그레이브

Gender: Female

Place of birth: Greenwich, London, England, UK

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Movie Involvements: 126

TV Involvements: 21


Most Famous Work

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. Description above from the Wikipedia article Vanessa Redgrave, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

Most Famous Work

Intimate Portrait
Average
5

Intimate Portrait

(1993) Self
Call the Midwife
Average
7

Call the Midwife

(2012) Mature Jenny
Hallmark Hall of Fame
Average
9

Hallmark Hall of Fame

(1951) Esther Huish
Political Animals
Average
7

Political Animals

(2012) Diane Nash
Tony Awards
Average
5

Tony Awards

(1956) Self - Winner
Goldene Kamera Verleihung
Average
4
Mission: Impossible
Average
7

Mission: Impossible

(1996) Max Mitsopolis
Deep Impact
Average
6

Deep Impact

(1998) Robin Lerner

Acting

Year Character Movie/Tv
2023 Herself
N/A
2022 Self
Great Nana
2021 Narrator
Self
Cathleen Sweeney
2020 Self
2019 Elizabeth Lowry
Elsa Brecht
Juliana Bordereau
2018 Self (archive footage)
2017 Jeanne McDougall
Herself
Self
Flora Berryman
Old Roseanne McNulty
2016 Self
Queen Margaret
2015 Older Marian
2014 Jean du Pont
N/A
Dr. Hartramph
Self (archive footage)
2013 Vida Winter
Annabeth Westfall
2012 Rosalind Leigh
N/A
Marion
Diane Nash
Herself
Mature Jenny
2011 Queen Elizabeth I
The Queen / Mama Topolino (voice)
Volumnia
2010 Narrator
Bertha Spafford
Madeleine Rees
Claire
2009 Durrant
N/A
2008 Hannah Silbergrau
Sky News Reader #2
2007 Georgia Platts
Penelope Keeling
Roberta Elliot
Briony Tallis (Age 77)
Ann Lord
Narrator
2006 Valerie
Self
Sister Antonia
2005 Princess Vera Belinskya
Self
Miss Sangorski
N/A
2004 Woman
2003 The Greater Dane (voice)
Lady Melbourne
N/A
Lady Melbourne
2002 Esther Huish
Self
herself
Self
Rodion's mother
Clemmie Churchill
2001 Countess Wilhelmina
(voice)
Annalise Hansen
2000 Vicky's Mother
Maddy Bennett
Mrs. Rutterburn
Kalsan
Edith Tree
Edith Tree
Narrator
1999 Dr. Wick
Countess Constance La Grave
Self
1998 Catherine Moore
Robin Lerner
Skelly
Self
1997 Graziella Luciano
Mrs. Clarissa Dalloway
Lady Speranza Wilde
Self
Elsa Lübing
1996 Grandmother / Narrator
Self / Interview
Nancy Shaffell
Max Mitsopolis
1995 Grandmother / Narrator
Anna Lenke
Miss Bentley
1994 Irina Shapira
Self
Dr. Angela Bead
Lydia
Suor Agata
1993 Florence Latimer
Self
Nivea del Valle
Self
Kate Benson
1992 Ruth Wilcox
1991 Miss Amelia
Empress Elizabeth
Blanche Hudson
1990 Suor Crocifissa
Lady Torrance
English journalist
Mother Capulet (voice)
1988 Lady Alice More
Mrs. Garza
1987 self
Mrs. Carlyle
Peggy Ramsay
1986 Sophia
Renee Richards
1985 Jean Travers
Nancy
Sarah Cloyce
Sarah Cloyce
1984 The Evil Queen
Olive Chancellor
1983 la Regina
Cosima von Bulow
1982 The Evil Queen
Leenie Cabrezi
1981 Self
1980 Fania Fenelon
N/A
1979 Jacky
Heddi Lindquist
Helen
Self
Agatha Christie
1977 Julia
Self
1976 Lola Deveraux
1975 Ann
1974 Mary Debenham
1972 N/A
1971 Mary, Queen of Scots
Immacolata Meneghelli
Sister Jeanne des Anges
Andromache
1970 Mary
Narrator
Herself
1969 Narrator
Sylvia Pankhurst
1968 Nina
Flavia
Isadora Duncan
Jacky
Mrs Clarissa Morris
1967 Guenevere
Self
Sheila
1966 Jane
Anne Boleyn
Leonie Delt
Self
1963 Rosalind
1961 Self
Narrator
1958 Pamela Benson-Gray
1956 Self - Presenter
Self - Winner
1953 Self
1952 Self
1951 Esther Huish
Queen
N/A
Year Character Movie/Tv

Directing

Year Role Movie/Tv
2017 Director
Year Role Movie/Tv

Writing

Year Role Movie/Tv
2017 Screenplay
Year Role Movie/Tv

Production

Year Role Movie/Tv
2004 Executive Producer
1977 Producer
Year Role Movie/Tv

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