FMovies Logo
Vanessa Redgrave
Vanessa Redgrave

Vanessa Redgrave

ActingBorn January 30, 1937 (age 89)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.

Filmography

2026
The Crystal Planet

as The Matriarch (voice)

Movie
2026
Cold Storage

as Mary Rooney

Movie
2025Movie
2025Movie
2024Movie
2023Movie
2022
The Lost Girls

as Great Nana

Movie
2021Movie
2021
Finding You

as Cathleen Sweeney

Movie
2020
Entree Des Artists

as Henry's Grandmother

Movie
2019
Mrs Lowry & Son

as Elizabeth Lowry

Movie
2019
Georgetown

as Elsa Brecht

Movie
2019
The Aspern Papers

as Juliana Bordereau

Movie
2018
Nothing Like a Dame

as Self (archive footage)

Movie
2017Movie
2017
Sea Sorrow

as Self

Movie
2017
Man in an Orange Shirt

as Flora Berryman

TV
2017
The Secret Scripture

as Old Roseanne McNulty

Movie
2016Movie
2015
The Go-Between

as Older Marian

Movie
2014
Foxcatcher

as Jean du Pont

Movie
2014
Black Box

as Dr. Hartramph

TV
2013
The Thirteenth Tale

as Vida Winter

Movie
2013
The Butler

as Annabeth Westfall

Movie
2012Movie
2012
Political Animals

as Diane Nash

TV
2012TV
2012
Playhouse Presents

as Elderly Woman

TV
2012
Call the Midwife

as Jennifer Worth (voice)

TV
2011
Anonymous

as Queen Elizabeth I

Movie
2011
Cars 2

as The Queen / Mama Topolino (voice)

Movie
2011
Coriolanus

as Volumnia

Movie
2010Movie
2010
Miral

as Bertha Spafford

Movie
2010
The Whistleblower

as Madeleine Rees

Movie
2010Movie
2009TV
2008
Ein Job

as Hannah Silbergrau

Movie
2008
Restraint

as Sky News Reader #2

Movie
2007
How About You...

as Georgia Platts

Movie
2007
The Shell Seekers

as Penelope Keeling

Movie
2007
The Riddle

as Roberta Elliot

Movie
2007
The Fever

as The woman

Movie
2007
Evening

as Ann Lord

Movie
2007
Atonement

as Briony Tallis (Age 77)

Movie
2006
Venus

as Valerie

Movie
2006
The Thief Lord

as Sister Antonia

Movie
2005
The White Countess

as Princess Vera Belinskya

Movie
2005Movie
2005
Short Order

as Marianne

Movie
2003Movie
2003
Good Boy!

as The Greater Dane (voice)

Movie
2003
Byron

as Lady Melbourne

Movie
2003
Nip/Tuck

as Dr.Erica Noughton

TV
2003
Nip/Tuck

as Dr. Erica Noughton

TV
2003
Byron

as Lady Melbourne

TV
2002
The Locket

as Esther Huish

Movie
2002
Crime and Punishment

as Rodion's mother

Movie
2002
The Gathering Storm

as Clemmie Churchill

Movie
2001TV
2001
The Pledge

as Annalise Hansen

Movie
2000
A Rumor of Angels

as Maddy Bennett

Movie
2000
Uninvited

as Mrs. Rutterburn

Movie
2000
Mirka

as Kalsan

Movie
2000
1961

as Edith Tree

Movie
2000Movie
2000Movie
1999Movie
1999
Cradle Will Rock

as Countess Constance La Grave

Movie
1999TV
1998
Lulu on the Bridge

as Catherine Moore

Movie
1998
Deep Impact

as Robin Lerner

Movie
1998
Déjà Vu

as Skelly

Movie
1998TV
1997
Bella Mafia

as Graziella Luciano

Movie
1997
Wilde

as Lady Speranza Wilde

Movie
1997
Mrs. Dalloway

as Mrs. Clarissa Dalloway

Movie
1997
The View

as Self

TV
1997
Smilla's Sense of Snow

as Elsa Lübing

Movie
1996
The Willows in Winter

as Grandmother / Narrator

Movie
1996
Looking for Richard

as Self - Interviewee

Movie
1996
Two Mothers for Zachary

as Nancy Shaffell

Movie
1996Movie
1995
The Wind in the Willows

as Grandmother / Narrator

Movie
1995Movie
1995
A Month by the Lake

as Miss Bentley

Movie
1994
Little Odessa

as Irina Shapira

Movie
1994
Great Moments in Aviation

as Dr. Angela Bead

Movie
1994
Sparrow

as Suor Agata

Movie
1993
They

as Florence Latimer

Movie
1993TV
1993
The House of the Spirits

as Nivea del Valle

Movie
1993Movie
1993
A Wall of Silence

as Kate Benson

Movie
1992
Howards End

as Ruth Wilcox

Movie
1991Movie
1991Movie
1991
Young Catherine

as Empress Elizabeth

TV
1990
Breath of Life

as Suor Crocifissa

Movie
1990
Orpheus Descending

as Lady Torrance

Movie
1990
Stalin's Funeral

as English journalist

Movie
1990
Romeo.Juliet

as Mother Capulet (voice)

Movie
1988
A Man for All Seasons

as Lady Alice More

Movie
1988
Consuming Passions

as Mrs. Garza

Movie
1987TV
1987
Comrades

as Mrs. Carlyle

Movie
1987
Prick Up Your Ears

as Peggy Ramsay

Movie
1986TV
1986
Second Serve

as Renee Richards

Movie
1985
Wetherby

as Jean Travers

Movie
1985
Steaming

as Nancy

Movie
1985Movie
1985
Screen Two

as Dr. Angela Bead

TV
1985TV
1984Movie
1984
The Bostonians

as Olive Chancellor

Movie
1984TV
1983
Sing Sing

as la Regina

Movie
1983
Wagner

as Cosima von Bulow

TV
1982
Faerie Tale Theatre

as The Evil Queen

TV
1982
My Body, My Child

as Leenie Cabrezi

Movie
1981TV
1980
Playing for Time

as Fania Fenelon

Movie
1980Movie
1979
Bear Island

as Heddi Lindquist

Movie
1979
Yanks

as Helen

Movie
1979
Agatha

as Agatha Christie

Movie
1979TV
1977
Julia

as Julia

Movie
1977Movie
1976Movie
1975Movie
1974Movie
1973
A Picture of Katherine Mansfield

as Katherine Mansfield

TV
1971
Mary, Queen of Scots

as Mary, Queen of Scots

Movie
1971
Film '72

as Self

TV
1971
Vacation

as Immacolata Meneghelli

Movie
1971
The Devils

as Sister Jeanne des Anges

Movie
1971
The Trojan Women

as Andromache

Movie
1970
Dropout

as Mary

Movie
1970
The Body

as Narrator

Movie
1969
No Arks

as Narrator

Movie
1969
Oh! What a Lovely War

as Sylvia Pankhurst

Movie
1968Movie
1968
Isadora

as Isadora Duncan

Movie
1968
Red and Blue

as Jacky

Movie
1968
The Charge of the Light Brigade

as Mrs Clarissa Morris

Movie
1968Movie
1967
Camelot

as Guenevere

Movie
1967
Omnibus

as Self

TV
1967Movie
1966
Blow-Up

as Jane

Movie
1966
A Man for All Seasons

as Anne Boleyn

Movie
1964
Maggie

as Maggie

Movie
1963
As You Like It

as Rosalind

Movie
1961Movie
1961Movie
1960
Sunday-Night Play

as Monica Claverton-Ferry

TV
1958
Behind the Mask

as Pamela Benson-Gray

Movie
1957
Theatre Night

as Caroline Lester

TV
1956TV
1956
Tony Awards

as Self - Presenter

TV
1956
Tony Awards

as Self - Winner

TV
1956
Tony Awards

as Self - Nominee

TV
1953
The Oscars

as Self

TV
1952
Today

as Self

TV
1951
Hallmark Hall of Fame

as Esther Huish

TV
1944
Golden Globe Awards

as Self - Nominee

TV

Personal Info

DepartmentActing
BirthdayJanuary 30, 1937
Place of BirthGreenwich, London, England, UK
Popularity2.3