
Vanessa Redgrave
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…
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Filmography
Acting (192)
Movies (155)
Cold Storage
2026as Ma Rooney
The Estate
2025
Common Wealth
2025as Self
Merchant Ivory
2024as Self
On Our Way
2023
The Lost Girls
2022as Great Nana
The Ghost of Richard Harris
2022as Self
Finding You
2021as Cathleen Sweeney
Alida Valli: In Her Own Words
2021as Self
Alice, Through the Looking
2021as Narrator
Katherine Jenkins Christmas Spectacular
2020as Self
Entree Des Artists
2020as Henry's Grandmother
Mrs Lowry & Son
2019as Elizabeth Lowry
Georgetown
2019as Elsa Brecht
The Aspern Papers
2019as Juliana Bordereau
Nothing Like a Dame
2018as Self (archive footage)
Film Stars Don't Die in Liverpool
2017as Jeanne McDougall
The Secret Scripture
2017as Old Roseanne McNulty
Joan Didion: The Center Will Not Hold
2017as Self
Sea Sorrow
2017as Self
Electric Burma: The Concert for Aung San Suu Kyi - Words I Never Said
2016as Self
Almeida Theatre Live: Richard III
2016as Queen Margaret
The Go-Between
2015as Older Marian
Foxcatcher
2014as Jean du Pont
The Wound and the Gift
2014
The Butler
2013as Annabeth Westfall
The Thirteenth Tale
2013as Vida Winter
Song for Marion
2012as Marion
Last Will. & Testament
2012
The Last Will and Testament of Rosalind Leigh
2012as Rosalind Leigh
Cars 2
2011as The Queen / Mama Topolino (voice)
Coriolanus
2011as Volumnia
Anonymous
2011as Queen Elizabeth I
Miral
2010as Bertha Spafford
Letters to Juliet
2010as Claire
The Whistleblower
2010as Madeleine Rees
Robinson in Ruins
2010as Narrator
God, Smell and Her
2009
Restraint
2008as Sky News Reader #2
Ein Job
2008as Hannah Silbergrau
Atonement
2007as Briony Tallis (Age 77)
Dealing and Wheeling in Small Arms
2007as Narrator
Evening
2007as Ann Lord
The Riddle
2007as Roberta Elliot
The Fever
2007as The woman
How About You...
2007as Georgia Platts
The Shell Seekers
2007as Penelope Keeling
The Thief Lord
2006as Sister Antonia
Venus
2006as Valerie
Eugene O’Neill: A Documentary Film
2006as Self
Short Order
2005as Marianne
The White Countess
2005as Princess Vera Belinskya
The Keeper: The Legend of Omar Khayyam
2005as Miss Sangorski
Elio Petri: Notes About a Filmmaker
2005as Self
Thank You, Doctor Rey
2004as herself
Good Boy!
2003as The Greater Dane (voice)
Byron
2003as Lady Melbourne
The Gathering Storm
2002as Clemmie Churchill
The Locket
2002as Esther Huish
Crime and Punishment
2002as Rodion's mother
Searching for Debra Winger
2002as Self
Hell on Earth: The Desecration & Resurrection of The Devils
2002as Self
The Pledge
2001as Annalise Hansen
Escape to Life: The Erika and Klaus Mann Story
2001as (voice)
Exile in Buyukada
2000as Narrator
The Adventures of Young Indiana Jones: Love's Sweet Song
2000as Vicky's Mother
If These Walls Could Talk 2
2000as Edith Tree
A Rumor of Angels
2000as Maddy Bennett
1961
2000as Edith Tree
Uninvited
2000as Mrs. Rutterburn
Mirka
2000as Kalsan
Girl, Interrupted
1999as Dr. Wick
Cradle Will Rock
1999as Countess Constance La Grave
Deep Impact
1998as Robin Lerner
Lulu on the Bridge
1998as Catherine Moore
Déjà Vu
1998as Skelly
Wilde
1997as Lady Speranza Wilde
Behind The Mask
1997as Self
Michael Redgrave: My Father
1997as Self
Bella Mafia
1997as Graziella Luciano
Mrs. Dalloway
1997as Mrs. Clarissa Dalloway
Smilla's Sense of Snow
1997as Elsa Lübing
Mission: Impossible
1996as Max
The Willows in Winter
1996as Grandmother / Narrator
Looking for Richard
1996as Self - Interviewee
Two Mothers for Zachary
1996as Nancy Shaffell
The Wind in the Willows
1995as Grandmother / Narrator
A Month by the Lake
1995as Miss Bentley
Down Came a Blackbird
1995as Anna Lenke
Little Odessa
1994as Irina Shapira
Sparrow
1994as Suor Agata
Great Moments in Aviation
1994as Dr. Angela Bead
The House of the Spirits
1993as Nivea del Valle
They
1993as Florence Latimer
Mother's Boys
1993as Lydia
A Wall of Silence
1993as Kate Benson
Howards End
1992as Ruth Wilcox
The Ballad of the Sad Cafe
1991as Miss Amelia
What Ever Happened to Baby Jane?
1991as Blanche Hudson
Breath of Life
1990as Suor Crocifissa
Orpheus Descending
1990as Lady Torrance
Romeo.Juliet
1990as Mother Capulet (voice)
Stalin's Funeral
1990as English journalist
Consuming Passions
1988as Mrs. Garza
A Man for All Seasons
1988as Lady Alice More
Comrades
1987as Mrs. Carlyle
Prick Up Your Ears
1987as Peggy Ramsay
Second Serve
1986as Renee Richards
Three Sovereigns for Sarah
1985as Sarah Cloyce
Steaming
1985as Nancy
Wetherby
1985as Jean Travers
Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs
1984as The Evil Queen
The Bostonians
1984as Olive Chancellor
Sing Sing
1983as la Regina
My Body, My Child
1982as Leenie Cabrezi
The Fifth War
1980
Playing for Time
1980as Fania Fenelon
Yanks
1979as Helen
Agatha
1979as Agatha Christie
Bear Island
1979as Heddi Lindquist
Julia
1977as Julia
The Palestinian
1977as Self
The Seven-Per-Cent Solution
1976as Lola Deveraux
Out of Season
1975as Ann
Murder on the Orient Express
1974as Mary Debenham
Right to Work March
1972
The Devils
1971as Sister Jeanne des Anges
Mary, Queen of Scots
1971as Mary, Queen of Scots
Vacation
1971as Immacolata Meneghelli
The Trojan Women
1971as Andromache
A Mother with Two Children Expecting Her Third
1970as Herself
The Body
1970as Narrator
Dropout
1970as Mary
Oh! What a Lovely War
1969as Sylvia Pankhurst
No Arks
1969as Narrator
Isadora
1968as Isadora Duncan
The Sea Gull
1968as Nina
A Quiet Place in the Country
1968as Flavia
The Charge of the Light Brigade
1968as Mrs Clarissa Morris
Red, White, and Zero
1968as Jacky
Red and Blue
1968as Jacky
Camelot
1967as Guenevere
Tonite Let's All Make Love in London
1967as Self
The Sailor from Gibraltar
1967as Sheila
A Man for All Seasons
1966as Anne Boleyn
Blow-Up
1966as Jane
Morgan: A Suitable Case for Treatment
1966as Leonie Delt
Maggie
1964as Maggie
As You Like It
1963as Rosalind
Circus at Clopton Hall
1961as Narrator
A Sunday in September
1961as Self
Behind the Mask
1958as Pamela Benson-Gray
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
2017as Flora Berryman
Black Box
2014as Dr. Hartramph
Call the Midwife
2012as Jennifer Worth (voice)
Call the Midwife
2012as Mature Jenny
Playhouse Presents
2012
Political Animals
2012as Diane Nash
Shakespeare Uncovered
2012as Herself
The Day of the Triffids
2009as Durrant
Nip/Tuck
2003as Dr.Erica Noughton
Byron
2003as Lady Melbourne
Jack and the Beanstalk: The Real Story
2001as Countess Wilhelmina
The Early Show
1999as Self
Sabine Christiansen
1998as Self
The View
1997as Self
Inside the Actors Studio
1994as Self
Intimate Portrait
1993as Self
Hollywood U.K.: British Cinema in the Sixties
1993as Self
Young Catherine
1991as Empress Elizabeth
Seitenblicke
1987as self
Peter the Great
1986as Sophia
Three Sovereigns for Sarah
1985as Sarah Cloyce
Goldene Kamera
1984as Self
Wagner
1983as Cosima von Bulow
Faerie Tale Theatre
1982as The Evil Queen
Wetten, dass..?
1981as Self
NDR Talk Show
1979as Self
A Picture of Katherine Mansfield
1973as Katherine Mansfield
Omnibus
1967as Self
One Pair of Eyes
1967Sunday-Night Play
1960as Monica Claverton-Ferry
Theatre Night
1957as Caroline Lester
Tony Awards
1956as Self - Presenter
Armchair Theatre
1956as Sally
The Oscars
1953as Self
Today
1952as Self
Hallmark Hall of Fame
1951as Esther Huish
Golden Globe Awards
1944as Self - Nominee
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