Vanessa Redgrave
AKA: Vanessa Redgreiv
Birthday: 1937-01-30
Birthplace: Greenwich, London, England, UK
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.
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Filmography
Character: Nivea del Valle
Character: Briony Tallis (Age 77)
Character: Sylvia Pankhurst
Character: Lady Speranza Wilde
Character: Annalise Hansen
Character: The Greater Dane (voice)
Character: Agatha Christie
Character: Sister Jeanne des Anges
Character: Penelope Keeling
Character: Olive Chancellor
Character: Georgia Platts
Character: Mrs Clarissa Morris
Character: Clemmie Churchill
Character: Isadora Duncan
Character: Catherine Moore
Character: Queen Elizabeth I
Character: Roberta Elliot
Character: Bertha Spafford
Character: Heddi Lindquist
Character: Mary, Queen of Scots
Character: Mrs. Clarissa Dalloway
Character: The Queen / Mama Topolino (voice)
Character: Madeleine Rees
Character: Princess Vera Belinskya
Character: Graziella Luciano
Character: Grandmother / Narrator
Character: Grandmother / Narrator
Character: Lady Melbourne
Character: Rodion's mother
Character: Dr. Angela Bead
Character: Annabeth Westfall
Character: Lady Alice More
Character: Blanche Hudson
Character: Immacolata Meneghelli
Character: Pamela Benson-Gray
Character: English journalist
Character: Florence Latimer
Character: Self - Interviewee
Character: Renee Richards
Character: Nancy Shaffell
Character: Old Roseanne McNulty
Character: Rosalind Leigh
Character: Hannah Silbergrau
Character: Leenie Cabrezi
Character: Henry's Grandmother
Character: Countess Constance La Grave
Character: Sister Antonia
Character: Queen Margaret
Character: Suor Crocifissa
Character: The Evil Queen
Character: Miss Sangorski
Character: Mrs. Rutterburn
Character: Jeanne McDougall
Character: Juliana Bordereau
Character: Vicky's Mother
Character: Mother Capulet (voice)
Character: Elizabeth Lowry
Character: Self (archive footage)
Character: Sky News Reader #2
Character: Cathleen Sweeney
Character: Self (archive footage)