Vanessa Redgrave
Acting
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Acting Credits
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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
Filmography
The Crystal Planet
2026
as The Matriarch (voice)
Cold Storage
2026
as Mary Rooney
The Estate
2025
Common Wealth
2025
as Self
Merchant Ivory
2024
as Self
On Our Way
2023
The Ghost of Richard Harris
2022
as Self
The Lost Girls
2022
as Great Nana
Alice, Through the Looking
2021
as Narrator
Alida Valli: In Her Own Words
2021
as Self
Finding You
2021
as Cathleen Sweeney
Entree Des Artists
2020
as Henry's Grandmother
Katherine Jenkins Christmas Spectacular
2020
as Self
Georgetown
2019
as Elsa Brecht
The Aspern Papers
2019
as Juliana Bordereau
Mrs Lowry & Son
2019
as Elizabeth Lowry
Nothing Like a Dame
2018
as Self (archive footage)
The Secret Scripture
2017
as Old Roseanne McNulty
Sea Sorrow
2017
as Self
Film Stars Don't Die in Liverpool
2017
as Jeanne McDougall
Joan Didion: The Center Will Not Hold
2017
as Self
Man in an Orange Shirt
2017
as Flora Berryman
Electric Burma: The Concert for Aung San Suu Kyi - Words I Never Said
2016
as Self
Almeida Theatre Live: Richard III
2016
as Queen Margaret
The Go-Between
2015
as Older Marian
Foxcatcher
2014
as Jean du Pont
The Wound and the Gift
2014
Black Box
2014
as Dr. Hartramph
The Butler
2013
as Annabeth Westfall
The Thirteenth Tale
2013
as Vida Winter
Song for Marion
2012
as Marion
Last Will. & Testament
2012
The Last Will and Testament of Rosalind Leigh
2012
as Rosalind Leigh
Call the Midwife
2012
as Jennifer Worth (voice)
Shakespeare Uncovered
2012
as Herself
Political Animals
2012
as Diane Nash
Playhouse Presents
2012
as Elderly Woman
Anonymous
2011
as Queen Elizabeth I
Cars 2
2011
as The Queen / Mama Topolino (voice)
Coriolanus
2011
as Volumnia
Miral
2010
as Bertha Spafford
The Whistleblower
2010
as Madeleine Rees
Robinson in Ruins
2010
as Narrator
Letters to Juliet
2010
as Claire
God, Smell and Her
2009
The Day of the Triffids
2009
as Durrant
Ein Job
2008
as Hannah Silbergrau
Restraint
2008
as Sky News Reader #2
Atonement
2007
as Briony Tallis (Age 77)
Evening
2007
as Ann Lord
The Shell Seekers
2007
as Penelope Keeling
How About You...
2007
as Georgia Platts
The Riddle
2007
as Roberta Elliot
Dealing and Wheeling in Small Arms
2007
as Narrator
Venus
2006
as Valerie
Eugene O’Neill: A Documentary Film
2006
as Self
The Thief Lord
2006
as Sister Antonia
The White Countess
2005
as Princess Vera Belinskya
Short Order
2005
as Marianne
Elio Petri: Notes About a Filmmaker
2005
as Self
The Keeper: The Legend of Omar Khayyam
2005
as Miss Sangorski
The Fever
2004
as The woman
Good Boy!
2003
as The Greater Dane (voice)
Byron
2003
as Lady Melbourne
Thank You, Doctor Rey
2003
as herself
Nip/Tuck
2003
as Dr.Erica Noughton
Byron
2003
as Lady Melbourne
Nip/Tuck
2003
as Dr. Erica Noughton
The Gathering Storm
2002
as Clemmie Churchill
The Locket
2002
as Esther Huish
Crime and Punishment
2002
as Rodion's mother
Hell on Earth: The Desecration & Resurrection of The Devils
2002
as Self
Searching for Debra Winger
2002
as Self
The Pledge
2001
as Annalise Hansen
Escape to Life: The Erika and Klaus Mann Story
2001
as (voice)
Jack and the Beanstalk: The Real Story
2001
as Countess Wilhelmina
1961
2000
as Edith Tree
If These Walls Could Talk 2
2000
as Edith Tree
A Rumor of Angels
2000
as Maddy Bennett
Exile in Buyukada
2000
as Narrator
Mirka
2000
as Kalsan
Uninvited
2000
as Mrs. Rutterburn
The Adventures of Young Indiana Jones: Love's Sweet Song
2000
as Vicky's Mother
Girl, Interrupted
1999
as Dr. Wick
Cradle Will Rock
1999
as Countess Constance La Grave
The Early Show
1999
as Self
Deep Impact
1998
as Robin Lerner
Lulu on the Bridge
1998
as Catherine Moore
Déjà Vu
1998
as Skelly
Sabine Christiansen
1998
as Self
Wilde
1997
as Lady Speranza Wilde
Mrs. Dalloway
1997
as Mrs. Clarissa Dalloway
Bella Mafia
1997
as Graziella Luciano
Smilla's Sense of Snow
1997
as Elsa Lübing
Michael Redgrave: My Father
1997
as Self
Behind the Mask : The IRA and Sinn Fein
1997
as Self
The View
1997
as Self
Mission: Impossible
1996
as Max
The Willows in Winter
1996
as Grandmother / Narrator
Looking for Richard
1996
as Self - Interviewee
Two Mothers for Zachary
1996
as Nancy Shaffell
A Month by the Lake
1995
as Miss Bentley
The Wind in the Willows
1995
as Grandmother / Narrator (voice)
Down Came a Blackbird
1995
as Anna Lenke
Sparrow
1994
as Suor Agata
Little Odessa
1994
as Irina Shapira
Great Moments in Aviation
1994
as Dr. Angela Bead
Inside the Actors Studio
1994
as Self
The House of the Spirits
1993
as Nivea del Valle
Mother's Boys
1993
as Lydia
They
1993
as Florence Latimer
A Wall of Silence
1993
as Kate Benson
Intimate Portrait
1993
as Self
Hollywood U.K.: British Cinema in the Sixties
1993
as Self
Howards End
1992
as Ruth Wilcox
What Ever Happened to Baby Jane?
1991
as Blanche Hudson
The Ballad of the Sad Cafe
1991
as Miss Amelia
Young Catherine
1991
as Empress Elizabeth
Stalin's Funeral
1990
as English journalist
Orpheus Descending
1990
as Lady Torrance
Breath of Life
1990
as Suor Crocifissa
Romeo.Juliet
1990
as Mother Capulet (voice)
A Man for All Seasons
1988
as Lady Alice More
Consuming Passions
1988
as Mrs. Garza
Prick Up Your Ears
1987
as Peggy Ramsay
Comrades
1987
as Mrs. Carlyle
Seitenblicke
1987
as self
Second Serve
1986
as Renee Richards
Peter the Great
1986
as Sophia
Steaming
1985
as Nancy
Wetherby
1985
as Jean Travers
Three Sovereigns for Sarah
1985
as Sarah Cloyce
Three Sovereigns for Sarah
1985
as Sarah Cloyce
Screen Two
1985
as Dr. Angela Bead
The Bostonians
1984
as Olive Chancellor
Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs
1984
as The Evil Queen
Goldene Kamera
1984
as Self
Sing Sing
1983
as la Regina
Wagner
1983
as Cosima von Bulow
My Body, My Child
1982
as Leenie Cabrezi
Faerie Tale Theatre
1982
as The Evil Queen
American Playhouse
1982
as Sarah Cloyce
Wetten, dass..?
1981
as Self
Playing for Time
1980
as Fania Fenelon
The Fifth War
1980
Yanks
1979
as Helen
Agatha
1979
as Agatha Christie
Bear Island
1979
as Heddi Lindquist
NDR Talk Show
1979
as Self
The Palestinian
1977
as Self
Julia
1977
as Julia
The Seven-Per-Cent Solution
1976
as Lola Deveraux
Out of Season
1975
as Ann
Murder on the Orient Express
1974
as Mary Debenham
A Picture of Katherine Mansfield
1973
as Katherine Mansfield
Right to Work March
1972
The Devils
1971
as Sister Jeanne des Anges
Mary, Queen of Scots
1971
as Mary, Queen of Scots
The Trojan Women
1971
as Andromache
Vacation
1971
as Immacolata Meneghelli
Film '72
1971
as Self
The Body
1970
as Narrator
Dropout
1970
as Mary
A Mother with Two Children Expecting Her Third
1970
as Herself
Oh! What a Lovely War
1969
as Sylvia Pankhurst
No Arks
1969
as Narrator
The Charge of the Light Brigade
1968
as Mrs Clarissa Morris
Isadora
1968
as Isadora Duncan
A Quiet Place in the Country
1968
as Flavia
The Sea Gull
1968
as Nina
Red and Blue
1968
as Jacky
Red, White, and Zero
1968
as Jacky
Tonite Let's All Make Love in London
1967
as Self
Camelot
1967
as Guenevere
The Sailor from Gibraltar
1967
as Sheila
Omnibus
1967
as Self
One Pair of Eyes
1967
A Man for All Seasons
1966
as Anne Boleyn
Blow-Up
1966
as Jane
Morgan: A Suitable Case for Treatment
1966
as Leonie Delt
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
Sunday-Night Play
1960
as Monica Claverton-Ferry
Behind the Mask
1958
as Pamela Benson-Gray
Theatre Night
1957
as Caroline Lester
Armchair Theatre
1956
as Sally
Tony Awards
1956
as Self - Presenter
Tony Awards
1956
as Self - Winner
Tony Awards
1956
as Self - Nominee
The Oscars
1953
as Self
Today
1952
as Self
Hallmark Hall of Fame
1951
as Esther Huish
Golden Globe Awards
1944
as Self - Nominee