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Vanessa Redgrave

Vanessa Redgrave

Acting
Born: Jan 30, 1937
From: Greenwich, London, England, UK
Credits: 30 titles

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 …

Filmography

Title Character Year Rating
Atonement Briony Tallis (Age 77) 2007 7.635
Evening Ann Lord 2007 5.8
The Shell Seekers Penelope Keeling 2007 6.9
How About You... Georgia Platts 2007 6.2
Venus Valerie 2006 6.633
Good Boy! The Greater Dane (voice) 2003 5.572
The Pledge Annalise Hansen 2001 6.6
1961 Edith Tree 2000
If These Walls Could Talk 2 Edith Tree 2000 6.5
Girl, Interrupted Dr. Wick 1999 7.564
Deep Impact Robin Lerner 1998 6.231
Wilde Lady Speranza Wilde 1997 6.589
Mission: Impossible Max 1996 7.023
A Month by the Lake Miss Bentley 1995 5.698
The House of the Spirits Nivea del Valle 1993 6.944
Mother's Boys Lydia 1993 5.342
Howards End Ruth Wilcox 1992 6.995
Prick Up Your Ears Peggy Ramsay 1987 6.672
The Bostonians Olive Chancellor 1984 5.594
Yanks Helen 1979 5.884
Agatha Agatha Christie 1979 6.102
The Palestinian Self 1977 9.0
Murder on the Orient Express Mary Debenham 1974 7.143
The Devils Sister Jeanne des Anges 1971 7.45
Oh! What a Lovely War Sylvia Pankhurst 1969 6.73
The Charge of the Light Brigade Mrs Clarissa Morris 1968 6.187
Tonite Let's All Make Love in London Self 1967 4.5
A Man for All Seasons Anne Boleyn 1966 7.351
Blow-Up Jane 1966 7.323
Circus at Clopton Hall Narrator 1961
Quick Facts
Known forActing
Credits30
Born1937
FromGreenwich, London, England, …