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Vanessa Redgrave
Vanessa Redgrave CBE (born 30 January 1937) is an English actress and political activist.
Born January 30, 1937 Greenwich, London, England, UK1 movie on MoviHero
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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). …
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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.
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- 2026The Crystal PlanetThe Matriarch (voice)
- 2026Cold StorageMary Rooney
- 2025The EstateActor · Producer
- 2025Common WealthSelf
- 2024Merchant IvorySelf
- 2023On Our WayActor
- 2022The Ghost of Richard HarrisSelf
- 2022The Lost GirlsGreat Nana
- 2021Alice, Through the LookingNarrator
- 2021Alida Valli: In Her Own WordsSelf
- 2021Finding YouCathleen Sweeney
- 2020Katherine Jenkins Christmas SpectacularSelf
- 2020Entree Des ArtistsHenry's Grandmother
- 2019Mrs Lowry & SonElizabeth Lowry
- 2019GeorgetownElsa Brecht
- 2019The Aspern PapersJuliana Bordereau
- 2018Nothing Like a DameSelf (archive footage)
- 2017Film Stars Don't Die in LiverpoolJeanne McDougall
- 2017Sea SorrowDirector · Writer · Self
- 2017Joan Didion: The Center Will Not HoldSelf
- 2017The Secret ScriptureOld Roseanne McNulty
- 2016Electric Burma: The Concert for Aung San Suu Kyi - Words I Never SaidSelf
- 2016Almeida Theatre Live: Richard IIIQueen Margaret
- 2015The Go-BetweenOlder Marian
- 2014FoxcatcherJean du Pont
- 2014The Wound and the GiftActor
- 2014Once Upon a Time... Little OdessaSelf
- 2013The Thirteenth TaleVida Winter
- 2013The ButlerAnnabeth Westfall
- 2012The Last Will and Testament of Rosalind LeighRosalind Leigh
- 2012Last Will. & TestamentActor
- 2012Song for MarionMarion
- 2011AnonymousQueen Elizabeth I
- 2011Cars 2The Queen / Mama Topolino (voice)
- 2011CoriolanusVolumnia
- 2010Robinson in RuinsNarrator
- 2010MiralBertha Spafford
- 2010The WhistleblowerMadeleine Rees
- 2010Letters to JulietClaire
- 2009God, Smell and HerActor
- 2008Ein JobHannah Silbergrau
- 2008RestraintSky News Reader #2
- 2007How About You...Georgia Platts
- 2007The Shell SeekersPenelope Keeling
- 2007The RiddleRoberta Elliot
- 2007EveningAnn Lord
- 2007AtonementBriony Tallis (Age 77)
- 2007Dealing and Wheeling in Small ArmsNarrator
- 2006VenusValerie
- 2006Eugene O’Neill: A Documentary FilmSelf
- 2006The Thief LordSister Antonia
- 2005The White CountessPrincess Vera Belinskya
- 2005Elio Petri: Notes About a FilmmakerSelf
- 2005The Keeper: The Legend of Omar KhayyamMiss Sangorski
- 2005Short OrderMarianne
- 2004The FeverProducer · The woman
- 2003Thank You, Doctor Reyherself
- 2003Good Boy!The Greater Dane (voice)
- 2003ByronLady Melbourne
- 2002The LocketEsther Huish
- 2002Hell on Earth: The Desecration & Resurrection of The DevilsSelf
- 2002Searching for Debra WingerSelf
- 2002Crime and PunishmentRodion's mother
- 2002The Gathering StormClemmie Churchill
- 2001Escape to Life: The Erika and Klaus Mann Story(voice)
- 2001The PledgeAnnalise Hansen
- 2000A Rumor of AngelsMaddy Bennett
- 2000The Adventures of Young Indiana Jones: Love's Sweet SongVicky's Mother
- 2000UninvitedMrs. Rutterburn
- 2000MirkaKalsan
- 20001961Edith Tree
- 2000If These Walls Could Talk 2Edith Tree
- 2000Exile in BuyukadaNarrator
- 1999Girl, InterruptedDr. Wick
- 1999Cradle Will RockCountess Constance La Grave
- 1998Lulu on the BridgeCatherine Moore
- 1998Deep ImpactRobin Lerner
- 1998Déjà VuSkelly
- 1997Bella MafiaGraziella Luciano
- 1997Behind the Mask : The IRA and Sinn FeinSelf
- 1997Mrs. DallowayMrs. Clarissa Dalloway
- 1997WildeLady Speranza Wilde
- 1997Michael Redgrave: My FatherSelf
- 1997Smilla's Sense of SnowElsa Lübing
- 1996The Willows in WinterGrandmother / Narrator
- 1996Looking for RichardSelf - Interviewee
- 1996Two Mothers for ZacharyNancy Shaffell
- 1995The Wind in the WillowsGrandmother / Narrator (voice)
- 1995Down Came a BlackbirdAnna Lenke
- 1995A Month by the LakeMiss Bentley
- 1994Little OdessaIrina Shapira
- 1994Great Moments in AviationDr. Angela Bead
- 1994SparrowSuor Agata
- 1993TheyFlorence Latimer
- 1993The House of the SpiritsNivea del Valle
- 1993Mother's BoysLydia
- 1993A Wall of SilenceKate Benson
- 1992Howards EndRuth Wilcox
- 1991The Ballad of the Sad CafeMiss Amelia
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