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 | — |
| Known for | Acting |
| Credits | 30 |
| Born | 1937 |
| From | Greenwich, London, England, … |