Vanessa Redgrave

Acting

Born Jan 30, 1937 (age 89) · 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.

Adds the top 10 unseen, by popularity

Mission: Impossible1996
as ⁨Max⁩
Cars 22011
as ⁨The Queen / Mama Topolino (voice)⁩
Atonement2007
as ⁨Briony Tallis (Age 77)⁩
Girl, Interrupted1999
as ⁨Dr. Wick⁩
Deep Impact1998
as ⁨Robin Lerner⁩
The Butler2013
as ⁨Annabeth Westfall⁩
Letters to Juliet2010
as ⁨Claire⁩
Foxcatcher2014
as ⁨Jean du Pont⁩
as ⁨Mary Debenham⁩
as ⁨Jane⁩
as ⁨Annalise Hansen⁩
as ⁨Mary Rooney⁩
as ⁨Queen Elizabeth I⁩
as ⁨Nivea del Valle⁩
as ⁨Madeleine Rees⁩
as ⁨Ruth Wilcox⁩
as ⁨Anne Boleyn⁩
as ⁨Volumnia⁩
as ⁨Sister Jeanne des Anges⁩
as ⁨Old Roseanne McNulty⁩
as ⁨Lady Speranza Wilde⁩
as ⁨Elsa Lübing⁩
as ⁨Irina Shapira⁩
as ⁨Cathleen Sweeney⁩
as ⁨Elsa Brecht⁩
as ⁨Sister Antonia⁩
as ⁨Ann Lord⁩
as ⁨Jeanne McDougall⁩
as ⁨Julia⁩
as ⁨Marion⁩
as ⁨Valerie⁩
as ⁨The Greater Dane (voice)⁩
as ⁨Sky News Reader #2⁩
as ⁨Rosalind Leigh⁩
as ⁨Edith Tree⁩
as ⁨Lola Deveraux⁩
as ⁨Peggy Ramsay⁩
as ⁨Countess Constance La Grave⁩
as ⁨Flavia⁩
as ⁨Princess Vera Belinskya⁩
as ⁨Guenevere⁩
as ⁨Lydia⁩
as ⁨Clemmie Churchill⁩
as ⁨Mrs Clarissa Morris⁩
as ⁨Mrs. Clarissa Dalloway⁩
as ⁨Bertha Spafford⁩
as ⁨Vida Winter⁩
as ⁨Agatha Christie⁩
as ⁨Heddi Lindquist⁩
as ⁨Helen⁩
as ⁨Mary, Queen of Scots⁩
as ⁨Fania Fenelon⁩
as ⁨la Regina⁩
as ⁨Sylvia Pankhurst⁩
as ⁨Catherine Moore⁩
as ⁨Olive Chancellor⁩

Adds the top 10 unseen, by popularity

Mission: Impossible1996
as ⁨Max⁩
Cars 22011
as ⁨The Queen / Mama Topolino (voice)⁩
Atonement2007
as ⁨Briony Tallis (Age 77)⁩
Girl, Interrupted1999
as ⁨Dr. Wick⁩
Deep Impact1998
as ⁨Robin Lerner⁩
The Butler2013
as ⁨Annabeth Westfall⁩
Letters to Juliet2010
as ⁨Claire⁩
Foxcatcher2014
as ⁨Jean du Pont⁩
as ⁨Mary Debenham⁩
as ⁨Jane⁩
as ⁨Annalise Hansen⁩
as ⁨Mary Rooney⁩
as ⁨Queen Elizabeth I⁩
as ⁨Nivea del Valle⁩
as ⁨Madeleine Rees⁩
as ⁨Ruth Wilcox⁩
as ⁨Anne Boleyn⁩
as ⁨Volumnia⁩
as ⁨Sister Jeanne des Anges⁩
as ⁨Old Roseanne McNulty⁩
as ⁨Lady Speranza Wilde⁩
as ⁨Elsa Lübing⁩
as ⁨Irina Shapira⁩
as ⁨Cathleen Sweeney⁩
as ⁨Elsa Brecht⁩
as ⁨Sister Antonia⁩
as ⁨Ann Lord⁩
as ⁨Jeanne McDougall⁩
as ⁨Julia⁩
as ⁨Marion⁩
as ⁨Valerie⁩
as ⁨The Greater Dane (voice)⁩
as ⁨Sky News Reader #2⁩
as ⁨Rosalind Leigh⁩
as ⁨Edith Tree⁩
as ⁨Lola Deveraux⁩
as ⁨Peggy Ramsay⁩
as ⁨Countess Constance La Grave⁩
as ⁨Flavia⁩
as ⁨Princess Vera Belinskya⁩
as ⁨Guenevere⁩
as ⁨Lydia⁩
as ⁨Clemmie Churchill⁩
as ⁨Mrs Clarissa Morris⁩
as ⁨Mrs. Clarissa Dalloway⁩
as ⁨Bertha Spafford⁩
as ⁨Vida Winter⁩
as ⁨Agatha Christie⁩
as ⁨Heddi Lindquist⁩
as ⁨Helen⁩
as ⁨Mary, Queen of Scots⁩
as ⁨Fania Fenelon⁩
as ⁨la Regina⁩
as ⁨Sylvia Pankhurst⁩
as ⁨Catherine Moore⁩
as ⁨Olive Chancellor⁩