Vanessa Redgrave

ActorProducerDirectorWriter Jan 30 (age 89) Greenwich, London, England, UK 1944–2026 (82 year career)

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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 als…

Known For

Film

Mission: Impossible

Max

Film

Atonement

Briony Tallis (Age 77)

Film

Girl, Interrupted

Dr. Wick

Film

The Butler

Annabeth Westfall

Film

Letters to Juliet

Claire

Film

Cars 2

The Queen / Mama Topolino (voice)

Film

Blow-Up

Jane

Film

Foxcatcher

Jean du Pont

Filmography

Acting (192)

Movies (155)

Cold Storage

as Ma Rooney

The Estate

Common Wealth

as Self

Merchant Ivory

as Self

On Our Way

The Lost Girls

as Great Nana

The Ghost of Richard Harris

as Self

Finding You

as Cathleen Sweeney

Alida Valli: In Her Own Words

2021

as Self

9.2

Alice, Through the Looking

2021

as Narrator

Katherine Jenkins Christmas Spectacular

2020

as Self

8.5

Entree Des Artists

2020

as Henry's Grandmother

Mrs Lowry & Son

as Elizabeth Lowry

Georgetown

as Elsa Brecht

The Aspern Papers

as Juliana Bordereau

Nothing Like a Dame

as Self (archive footage)

6.8

Film Stars Don't Die in Liverpool

2017

as Jeanne McDougall

6.4

The Secret Scripture

2017

as Old Roseanne McNulty

7.3

Joan Didion: The Center Will Not Hold

as Self

Sea Sorrow

as Self

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

2016

as Self

Almeida Theatre Live: Richard III

as Queen Margaret

The Go-Between

as Older Marian

Foxcatcher

as Jean du Pont

The Wound and the Gift

The Butler

as Annabeth Westfall

The Thirteenth Tale

as Vida Winter

Song for Marion

as Marion

Last Will. & Testament

2012

7.0

The Last Will and Testament of Rosalind Leigh

2012

as Rosalind Leigh

5.0

Cars 2

2011

as The Queen / Mama Topolino (voice)

Coriolanus

as Volumnia

Anonymous

as Queen Elizabeth I

Miral

as Bertha Spafford

Letters to Juliet

as Claire

The Whistleblower

as Madeleine Rees

Robinson in Ruins

as Narrator

God, Smell and Her

Restraint

as Sky News Reader #2

5.9

Ein Job

2008

as Hannah Silbergrau

Atonement

2007

as Briony Tallis (Age 77)

7.6

Dealing and Wheeling in Small Arms

2007

as Narrator

Evening

as Ann Lord

The Riddle

as Roberta Elliot

The Fever

as The woman

How About You...

as Georgia Platts

The Shell Seekers

as Penelope Keeling

The Thief Lord

as Sister Antonia

Venus

as Valerie

Eugene O’Neill: A Documentary Film

2006

as Self

Short Order

2005

as Marianne

4.4

The White Countess

2005

as Princess Vera Belinskya

6.2

The Keeper: The Legend of Omar Khayyam

2005

as Miss Sangorski

5.0

Elio Petri: Notes About a Filmmaker

2005

as Self

6.7

Thank You, Doctor Rey

2004

as herself

5.0

Good Boy!

2003

as The Greater Dane (voice)

Byron

as Lady Melbourne

The Gathering Storm

as Clemmie Churchill

The Locket

as Esther Huish

Crime and Punishment

as Rodion's mother

Searching for Debra Winger

2002

as Self

6.3

Hell on Earth: The Desecration & Resurrection of The Devils

as Self

The Pledge

as Annalise Hansen

Escape to Life: The Erika and Klaus Mann Story

2001

as (voice)

4.2

Exile in Buyukada

2000

as Narrator

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

2000

as Vicky's Mother

5.2

If These Walls Could Talk 2

as Edith Tree

A Rumor of Angels

as Maddy Bennett

1961

as Edith Tree

Uninvited

2000

as Mrs. Rutterburn

3.5

Mirka

2000

as Kalsan

Girl, Interrupted

1999

as Dr. Wick

7.6

Cradle Will Rock

1999

as Countess Constance La Grave

Deep Impact

as Robin Lerner

Lulu on the Bridge

as Catherine Moore

Déjà Vu

as Skelly

Wilde

as Lady Speranza Wilde

6.6

Behind The Mask

1997

as Self

Michael Redgrave: My Father

1997

as Self

Bella Mafia

1997

as Graziella Luciano

6.6

Mrs. Dalloway

1997

as Mrs. Clarissa Dalloway

5.5

Smilla's Sense of Snow

as Elsa Lübing

Mission: Impossible

as Max

The Willows in Winter

1996

as Grandmother / Narrator

6.5

Looking for Richard

1996

as Self - Interviewee

6.8

Two Mothers for Zachary

1996

as Nancy Shaffell

5.8

The Wind in the Willows

1995

as Grandmother / Narrator

7.0

A Month by the Lake

1995

as Miss Bentley

5.6

Down Came a Blackbird

as Anna Lenke

Little Odessa

as Irina Shapira

Sparrow

as Suor Agata

Great Moments in Aviation

1994

as Dr. Angela Bead

4.6

The House of the Spirits

as Nivea del Valle

They

as Florence Latimer

Mother's Boys

as Lydia

A Wall of Silence

as Kate Benson

Howards End

as Ruth Wilcox

The Ballad of the Sad Cafe

1991

as Miss Amelia

5.5

What Ever Happened to Baby Jane?

1991

as Blanche Hudson

4.5

Breath of Life

1990

as Suor Crocifissa

Orpheus Descending

1990

as Lady Torrance

3.3

Romeo.Juliet

1990

as Mother Capulet (voice)

5.0

Stalin's Funeral

1990

as English journalist

2.8

Consuming Passions

1988

as Mrs. Garza

8.0

A Man for All Seasons

as Lady Alice More

Comrades

as Mrs. Carlyle

Prick Up Your Ears

as Peggy Ramsay

Second Serve

as Renee Richards

Three Sovereigns for Sarah

1985

as Sarah Cloyce

Steaming

as Nancy

Wetherby

as Jean Travers

Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs

as The Evil Queen

The Bostonians

as Olive Chancellor

Sing Sing

as la Regina

My Body, My Child

as Leenie Cabrezi

The Fifth War

Playing for Time

as Fania Fenelon

Yanks

as Helen

Agatha

as Agatha Christie

Bear Island

as Heddi Lindquist

Julia

as Julia

The Palestinian

as Self

The Seven-Per-Cent Solution

as Lola Deveraux

Out of Season

as Ann

Murder on the Orient Express

as Mary Debenham

Right to Work March

The Devils

as Sister Jeanne des Anges

7.5

Mary, Queen of Scots

1971

as Mary, Queen of Scots

6.7

Vacation

1971

as Immacolata Meneghelli

4.6

The Trojan Women

1971

as Andromache

6.2

A Mother with Two Children Expecting Her Third

as Herself

The Body

as Narrator

Dropout

as Mary

Oh! What a Lovely War

1969

as Sylvia Pankhurst

6.7

No Arks

1969

as Narrator

Isadora

as Isadora Duncan

The Sea Gull

as Nina

A Quiet Place in the Country

1968

as Flavia

6.2

The Charge of the Light Brigade

1968

as Mrs Clarissa Morris

Red, White, and Zero

as Jacky

Red and Blue

as Jacky

Camelot

as Guenevere

Tonite Let's All Make Love in London

1967

as Self

2.8

The Sailor from Gibraltar

1967

as Sheila

5.7

A Man for All Seasons

as Anne Boleyn

Blow-Up

as Jane

Morgan: A Suitable Case for Treatment

1966

as Leonie Delt

6.2

Maggie

1964

as Maggie

As You Like It

1963

as Rosalind

Circus at Clopton Hall

1961

as Narrator

A Sunday in September

1961

as Self

Behind the Mask

1958

as Pamela Benson-Gray

6.0

The Boy at the Back of the Class

as Queen

The Crystal Planet

as The Matriarch (voice)

All That I Am

Television (37)

Man in an Orange Shirt

as Flora Berryman

Black Box

as Dr. Hartramph

Call the Midwife

as Jennifer Worth (voice)

Call the Midwife

as Mature Jenny

Playhouse Presents

Political Animals

as Diane Nash

Shakespeare Uncovered

2012

as Herself

7.5

The Day of the Triffids

as Durrant

Nip/Tuck

as Dr.Erica Noughton

Byron

as Lady Melbourne

Jack and the Beanstalk: The Real Story

2001

as Countess Wilhelmina

The Early Show

as Self

Sabine Christiansen

as Self

The View

1997

as Self

4.3

Inside the Actors Studio

as Self

Intimate Portrait

as Self

Hollywood U.K.: British Cinema in the Sixties

1993

as Self

Young Catherine

1991

as Empress Elizabeth

5.7

Seitenblicke

1987

as self

Peter the Great

1986

as Sophia

8.0

Three Sovereigns for Sarah

1985

as Sarah Cloyce

Goldene Kamera

as Self

Wagner

as Cosima von Bulow

Faerie Tale Theatre

as The Evil Queen

Wetten, dass..?

as Self

NDR Talk Show

as Self

A Picture of Katherine Mansfield

1973

as Katherine Mansfield

Omnibus

as Self

One Pair of Eyes

Sunday-Night Play

as Monica Claverton-Ferry

Theatre Night

1957

as Caroline Lester

Tony Awards

as Self - Presenter

Armchair Theatre

as Sally

The Oscars

as Self

Today

as Self

Hallmark Hall of Fame

as Esther Huish

Golden Globe Awards

as Self - Nominee

Crew (6)

Movies (6)

The Estate

2025

Executive Producer

Sea Sorrow

Director

Sea Sorrow

Screenplay

The Fever

Executive Producer

Occupied Palestine

Producer

The Palestinian

Producer