Acting
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
The Crystal Planet
Film · 2026
Cold Storage
Film · 2026
The Estate
Film · 2025
Common Wealth
Film · 2025
Merchant Ivory
Film · 2024
On Our Way
Film · 2023
The Ghost of Richard Harris
Film · 2022
The Lost Girls
Film · 2022
Alice, Through the Looking
Film · 2021
Alida Valli: In Her Own Words
Film · 2021
Finding You
Film · 2021
Entree Des Artists
Film · 2020
Katherine Jenkins Christmas Spectacular
Film · 2020
Georgetown
Film · 2019
The Aspern Papers
Film · 2019
Mrs Lowry & Son
Film · 2019
Nothing Like a Dame
Film · 2018
The Secret Scripture
Film · 2017
Sea Sorrow
Film · 2017
Film Stars Don't Die in Liverpool
Film · 2017
Joan Didion: The Center Will Not Hold
Film · 2017
Man in an Orange Shirt
Series · 2017
Electric Burma: The Concert for Aung San Suu Kyi - Words I Never Said
Film · 2016
Almeida Theatre Live: Richard III
Film · 2016
The Go-Between
Film · 2015
Foxcatcher
Film · 2014
The Wound and the Gift
Film · 2014
Once Upon a Time... Little Odessa
Film · 2014
Black Box
Series · 2014
The Butler
Film · 2013
The Thirteenth Tale
Film · 2013
Song for Marion
Film · 2012
Last Will. & Testament
Film · 2012
The Last Will and Testament of Rosalind Leigh
Film · 2012
Call the Midwife
Series · 2012
Shakespeare Uncovered
Series · 2012
Political Animals
Series · 2012
Playhouse Presents
Series · 2012
Anonymous
Film · 2011
Cars 2
Film · 2011
Coriolanus
Film · 2011
Miral
Film · 2010
The Whistleblower
Film · 2010
Robinson in Ruins
Film · 2010
Letters to Juliet
Film · 2010
God, Smell and Her
Film · 2009
The Day of the Triffids
Series · 2009
Ein Job
Film · 2008
Restraint
Film · 2008
Atonement
Film · 2007
Evening
Film · 2007
The Shell Seekers
Film · 2007
How About You...
Film · 2007
The Riddle
Film · 2007
Dealing and Wheeling in Small Arms
Film · 2007
Venus
Film · 2006
Eugene O’Neill: A Documentary Film
Film · 2006
The Thief Lord
Film · 2006
The White Countess
Film · 2005
Short Order
Film · 2005
Elio Petri: Notes About a Filmmaker
Film · 2005
The Keeper: The Legend of Omar Khayyam
Film · 2005
The Fever
Film · 2004
Good Boy!
Film · 2003
Byron
Film · 2003
Thank You, Doctor Rey
Film · 2003
Nip/Tuck
Series · 2003
Byron
Series · 2003
Nip/Tuck
Series · 2003
The Gathering Storm
Film · 2002
The Locket
Film · 2002
Crime and Punishment
Film · 2002
Hell on Earth: The Desecration & Resurrection of The Devils
Film · 2002
Searching for Debra Winger
Film · 2002
The Pledge
Film · 2001
Escape to Life: The Erika and Klaus Mann Story
Film · 2001
Jack and the Beanstalk: The Real Story
Series · 2001
1961
Film · 2000
If These Walls Could Talk 2
Film · 2000
A Rumor of Angels
Film · 2000
Exile in Buyukada
Film · 2000
Mirka
Film · 2000
Uninvited
Film · 2000
The Adventures of Young Indiana Jones: Love's Sweet Song
Film · 2000
Girl, Interrupted
Film · 1999
Cradle Will Rock
Film · 1999
The Early Show
Series · 1999
Deep Impact
Film · 1998
Lulu on the Bridge
Film · 1998
Déjà Vu
Film · 1998
Sabine Christiansen
Series · 1998
Wilde
Film · 1997
Mrs. Dalloway
Film · 1997
Bella Mafia
Film · 1997
Smilla's Sense of Snow
Film · 1997
Michael Redgrave: My Father
Film · 1997
Behind the Mask : The IRA and Sinn Fein
Film · 1997
The View
Series · 1997
Mission: Impossible
Film · 1996
The Willows in Winter
Film · 1996
Looking for Richard
Film · 1996
Two Mothers for Zachary
Film · 1996
A Month by the Lake
Film · 1995
The Wind in the Willows
Film · 1995
Down Came a Blackbird
Film · 1995
Sparrow
Film · 1994
Little Odessa
Film · 1994
Great Moments in Aviation
Film · 1994
Inside the Actors Studio
Series · 1994
The House of the Spirits
Film · 1993
Mother's Boys
Film · 1993
They
Film · 1993
A Wall of Silence
Film · 1993
Intimate Portrait
Series · 1993
Hollywood U.K.: British Cinema in the Sixties
Series · 1993
Howards End
Film · 1992
What Ever Happened to Baby Jane?
Film · 1991
The Ballad of the Sad Cafe
Film · 1991
Young Catherine
Series · 1991
Stalin's Funeral
Film · 1990
Orpheus Descending
Film · 1990
Breath of Life
Film · 1990
Romeo.Juliet
Film · 1990
A Man for All Seasons
Film · 1988
Consuming Passions
Film · 1988
Prick Up Your Ears
Film · 1987
Comrades
Film · 1987
Seitenblicke
Series · 1987
Second Serve
Film · 1986
Peter the Great
Series · 1986
Steaming
Film · 1985
Wetherby
Film · 1985
Three Sovereigns for Sarah
Film · 1985
Three Sovereigns for Sarah
Series · 1985
Screen Two
Series · 1985
The Bostonians
Film · 1984
Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs
Film · 1984
Goldene Kamera
Series · 1984
Sing Sing
Film · 1983
Wagner
Series · 1983
My Body, My Child
Film · 1982
Faerie Tale Theatre
Series · 1982
American Playhouse
Series · 1982
Wetten, dass..?
Series · 1981
Playing for Time
Film · 1980
The Fifth War
Film · 1980
Yanks
Film · 1979
Agatha
Film · 1979
Bear Island
Film · 1979
NDR Talk Show
Series · 1979
The Palestinian
Film · 1978
The South Bank Show
Series · 1978
Julia
Film · 1977
The Seven-Per-Cent Solution
Film · 1976
Out of Season
Film · 1975
Arena
Series · 1975
Murder on the Orient Express
Film · 1974
A Picture of Katherine Mansfield
Series · 1973
Right to Work March
Film · 1972
The Devils
Film · 1971
Mary, Queen of Scots
Film · 1971
The Trojan Women
Film · 1971
Vacation
Film · 1971
Film '72
Series · 1971
The Body
Film · 1970
Dropout
Film · 1970
A Mother with Two Children Expecting Her Third
Film · 1970
Oh! What a Lovely War
Film · 1969
No Arks
Film · 1969
The Charge of the Light Brigade
Film · 1968
Isadora
Film · 1968
A Quiet Place in the Country
Film · 1968
The Sea Gull
Film · 1968
Red and Blue
Film · 1968
Red, White, and Zero
Film · 1968
Tonite Let's All Make Love in London
Film · 1967
Camelot
Film · 1967
The Sailor from Gibraltar
Film · 1967
Omnibus
Series · 1967
One Pair of Eyes
Series · 1967
A Man for All Seasons
Film · 1966
Blow-Up
Film · 1966
Morgan: A Suitable Case for Treatment
Film · 1966
Maggie
Film · 1964
As You Like It
Film · 1963
Circus at Clopton Hall
Film · 1961
A Sunday in September
Film · 1961
Sunday-Night Play
Series · 1960
Behind the Mask
Film · 1958
Theatre Night
Series · 1957
Armchair Theatre
Series · 1956
Tony Awards
Series · 1956
Tony Awards
Series · 1956
Tony Awards
Series · 1956
The Oscars
Series · 1953
Today
Series · 1952
Hallmark Hall of Fame
Series · 1951
Golden Globe Awards
Series · 1944
The Boy at the Back of the Class
Film
All That I Am
Film
The Turning Door
Film