Vanessa Redgrave
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Vanessa Redgrave

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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.

Films Featuring Vanessa Redgrave

A Man for All Seasons

19667.3

Mission: Impossible

19967.0

Blow-Up

19667.3

The Palestinian

19779.0

The House of the Spirits

19936.9

Girl, Interrupted

19997.6

Murder on the Orient Express

19747.1

Atonement

20077.6

Oh! What a Lovely War

19696.6

Wilde

19976.6

The Pledge

20016.6

Evening

20075.8

Yanks

19795.9

Good Boy!

20035.6

Agatha

19796.1

Deep Impact

19986.2

Howards End

19927.0

The Devils

19717.4

The Shell Seekers

20076.9

1961

2000

Circus at Clopton Hall

1961

Prick Up Your Ears

19876.7

If These Walls Could Talk 2

20006.5

Tonite Let's All Make Love in London

19674.5

The Bostonians

19845.6

Venus

20066.6

A Month by the Lake

19955.7

How About You...

20076.3

Mother's Boys

19935.4

The Charge of the Light Brigade

19686.2

Julia

19776.5

The Seven-Per-Cent Solution

19766.2

The Gathering Storm

20026.6

Isadora

19686.2

Morgan: A Suitable Case for Treatment

19666.3

Lulu on the Bridge

19985.8

Anonymous

20116.4

Sparrow

19947.4

The Riddle

20074.8

Miral

20105.8

Bear Island

19796.1

The Fever

20045.4

Mary, Queen of Scots

19716.7

Mrs. Dalloway

19975.7

The Trojan Women

19716.2

Little Odessa

19946.5

Alice, Through the Looking

2021

Cars 2

20116.2

The Whistleblower

20106.7

Comrades

19876.9

The White Countess

20056.2

Camelot

19676.2

Playing for Time

19806.9

A Rumor of Angels

20006.7

Robinson in Ruins

20106.8

The Boy at the Back of the Class

The Boy at the Back of the Class

Bella Mafia

19976.6

Eugene O’Neill: A Documentary Film

2006

Sing Sing

19835.3

All That I Am

A Quiet Place in the Country

19686.3

The Willows in Winter

19966.7

The Wind in the Willows

19957.1

Foxcatcher

20146.7

Coriolanus

20115.8

The Locket

20025.2

Down Came a Blackbird

19958.1

Byron

20034.8

Crime and Punishment

20025.2

Great Moments in Aviation

19944.9

Song for Marion

20126.8

The Butler

20137.3

Steaming

19855.3

Short Order

20055.1

Wetherby

19856.0

Déjà Vu

19985.5

Out of Season

19755.5

A Man for All Seasons

19887.0

What Ever Happened to Baby Jane?

19914.9

Exile in Buyukada

200010.0

Vacation

19714.8

Behind the Mask

19586.4

The Sea Gull

19686.3

The Body

19704.6

Consuming Passions

19888.3

Stalin's Funeral

19903.7

Electric Burma: The Concert for Aung San Suu Kyi - Words I Never Said

2016

Dealing and Wheeling in Small Arms

2007

The Thirteenth Tale

20136.6

Orpheus Descending

19904.6

The Ballad of the Sad Cafe

19915.8

They

19937.4

Looking for Richard

19966.8

Second Serve

19865.3

Two Mothers for Zachary

19966.0

The Ghost of Richard Harris

20227.5

The Secret Scripture

20177.2

Merchant Ivory

20247.7

Smilla's Sense of Snow

19976.4

Last Will. & Testament

20125.3

On Our Way

20233.5

The Sailor from Gibraltar

19675.8

A Sunday in September

1961

Elio Petri: Notes About a Filmmaker

20056.7

The Last Will and Testament of Rosalind Leigh

20125.0

Mirka

20009.0

Ein Job

2008

Michael Redgrave: My Father

1997

My Body, My Child

19829.0

The Go-Between

20156.8

Entree Des Artists

Entree Des Artists

2020

The Wound and the Gift

2014

Cradle Will Rock

19996.5

A Wall of Silence

19935.7

The Thief Lord

20066.0

As You Like It

As You Like It

19637.0

Almeida Theatre Live: Richard III

20167.7

Hell on Earth: The Desecration & Resurrection of The Devils

20026.4

The Estate

20255.0

Breath of Life

199010.0

Thank You, Doctor Rey

20035.5

Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs

19846.4

The Keeper: The Legend of Omar Khayyam

20055.4

Uninvited

20005.3

Dropout

19705.6

Sea Sorrow

20175.3

Film Stars Don't Die in Liverpool

20176.4

Georgetown

20195.9

Right to Work March

1972

The Aspern Papers

20194.5

The Adventures of Young Indiana Jones: Love's Sweet Song

20005.2

Romeo.Juliet

19907.5

A Mother with Two Children Expecting Her Third

19705.0

Red and Blue

19687.5

Joan Didion: The Center Will Not Hold

20177.3

Red, White, and Zero

19685.0

No Arks

1969

Mrs Lowry & Son

20196.4

Three Sovereigns for Sarah

1985

Escape to Life: The Erika and Klaus Mann Story

20014.8

Alida Valli: In Her Own Words

20219.2

Letters to Juliet

20107.0

Restraint

20085.9

Katherine Jenkins Christmas Spectacular

20208.3

The Lost Girls

20224.9

Finding You

20216.9

Searching for Debra Winger

20026.4

Nothing Like a Dame

20186.8

God, Smell and Her

2009

The Fifth War

1980

Maggie

Maggie

1964

The Crystal Planet

2026

Cold Storage

20266.8

Common Wealth

2025

Behind the Mask : The IRA and Sinn Fein

Behind the Mask : The IRA and Sinn Fein

199710.0