Vanessa Redgrave
Profile info
Known forActing
GenderFemale
Birthday30 January 1937 (89 years old)
Place of birthGreenwich, London, England, UK
Known credits196
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 also received Tony nominations for The Year of Magical Thinking and Driving Miss Daisy. On screen she …
The Crystal Planet
2026 · The Matriarch (voice)
Cold Storage
2026 · Mary Rooney
The Estate
2025
The Estate
2025 · Executive Producer
Common Wealth
2025 · Self
Merchant Ivory
2024 · Self
On Our Way
2023
The Ghost of Richard Harris
2022 · Self
The Lost Girls
2022 · Great Nana
Alice, Through the Looking
2021 · Narrator
Alida Valli: In Her Own Words
2021 · Self
Finding You
2021 · Cathleen Sweeney
Katherine Jenkins Christmas Spectacular
2020 · Self
Entree Des Artists
2020 · Henry's Grandmother
Mrs Lowry & Son
2019 · Elizabeth Lowry
Georgetown
2019 · Elsa Brecht
The Aspern Papers
2019 · Juliana Bordereau
Nothing Like a Dame
2018 · Self (archive footage)
Film Stars Don't Die in Liverpool
2017 · Jeanne McDougall
Sea Sorrow
2017 · Self
Sea Sorrow
2017 · Director
Sea Sorrow
2017 · Screenplay
Joan Didion: The Center Will Not Hold
2017 · Self
Man in an Orange Shirt
2017 · Flora Berryman
The Secret Scripture
2017 · Old Roseanne McNulty
Electric Burma: The Concert for Aung San Suu Kyi - Words I Never Said
2016 · Self
Almeida Theatre Live: Richard III
2016 · Queen Margaret
The Go-Between
2015 · Older Marian
Foxcatcher
2014 · Jean du Pont
The Wound and the Gift
2014
Black Box
2014 · Dr. Hartramph
The Thirteenth Tale
2013 · Vida Winter
The Butler
2013 · Annabeth Westfall
The Last Will and Testament of Rosalind Leigh
2012 · Rosalind Leigh
Last Will. & Testament
2012
Song for Marion
2012 · Marion
Political Animals
2012 · Diane Nash
Shakespeare Uncovered
2012 · Herself
Playhouse Presents
2012 · Elderly Woman
Call the Midwife
2012 · Jennifer Worth (voice)
Anonymous
2011 · Queen Elizabeth I
Cars 2
2011 · The Queen / Mama Topolino (voice)
Coriolanus
2011 · Volumnia
Robinson in Ruins
2010 · Narrator
Miral
2010 · Bertha Spafford
The Whistleblower
2010 · Madeleine Rees
Letters to Juliet
2010 · Claire
The Day of the Triffids
2009 · Durrant
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