Vanessa Redgrave

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 of Vanessa Redgrave

  • The Crystal Planet (2026)
  • Cold Storage (2026)
  • The Estate (2025)
  • Common Wealth (2025)
  • Merchant Ivory (2024)
  • On Our Way (2023)
  • The Ghost of Richard Harris (2022)
  • The Lost Girls (2022)
  • Alice, Through the Looking (2021)
  • Alida Valli: In Her Own Words (2021)
  • Finding You (2021)
  • Katherine Jenkins Christmas Spectacular (2020)
  • Georgetown (2019)
  • The Aspern Papers (2019)
  • Mrs Lowry & Son (2019)
  • Nothing Like a Dame (2018)
  • The Secret Scripture (2017)
  • Sea Sorrow (2017)
  • Film Stars Don't Die in Liverpool (2017)
  • Joan Didion: The Center Will Not Hold (2017)
  • Man in an Orange Shirt (2017)
  • Electric Burma: The Concert for Aung San Suu Kyi - Words I Never Said (2016)
  • Almeida Theatre Live: Richard III (2016)
  • The Go-Between (2015)
  • Foxcatcher (2014)
  • The Wound and the Gift (2014)
  • Black Box (2014)
  • The Butler (2013)
  • The Thirteenth Tale (2013)
  • Song for Marion (2012)
  • Last Will. & Testament (2012)
  • The Last Will and Testament of Rosalind Leigh (2012)
  • Call the Midwife (2012)
  • Shakespeare Uncovered (2012)
  • Political Animals (2012)
  • Playhouse Presents (2012)
  • Anonymous (2011)
  • Cars 2 (2011)
  • Coriolanus (2011)
  • Miral (2010)