
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.
149
Films
30
TV Shows
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Crew Credits
Known For
179 Credits
The View
as Self
1997

Golden Globe Awards
as Self - Nominee
1944

Call the Midwife
as Jennifer Worth (voice)
2012

NDR Talk Show
as Self
1979

Nip/Tuck
as Dr.Erica Noughton
2003

Nip/Tuck
as Dr. Erica Noughton
2003

Intimate Portrait
as Self
1993

Wetten, dass..?
as Self
1981

Cold Storage
as Ma Rooney
2026

Omnibus
as Self
1967

The Oscars
as Self
1953

Cars 2
as The Queen / Mama Topolino (voice)
2011


