Vanessa Redgrave
British actress and activist (born 1937) · United Kingdom · Actors
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Something wrong?She's won an Oscar, a Tony, two Emmys, and an Olivier - one of the vanishingly few to claim the Triple Crown of Acting. Vanessa Redgrave built that over six decades, crossing stage and screen with a force that's never softened.
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Cold StorageFilm, Mary Rooney2023European Film Academy Lifetime Achievement AwardAward2022Dame Commander of the Order of the British EmpireAward2019
GeorgetownFilm, Elsa Brecht2014
FoxcatcherFilm, Jean du Pont2012
Call the MidwifeSeries, Jennifer Worth (voice)2011
AnonymousFilm, Queen Elizabeth I2010BAFTA FellowshipAward2008
RestraintFilm, Sky News Reader #22006
The Thief LordFilm, Sister Antonia2003Tony Award for Best Actress in a PlayAward
Nip/TuckSeries, 2003Dr.Erica Noughton2002“As a mother you have got to have a view for now and a view for the future.”In their words6 December 2002Redgrave: Actress and campaigner, (6 December 2002), BBC News. accessed 17 December 2006.
The Gathering StormFilm, 2002Clemmie Churchill2001Golden Globe Award for Best Supporting Actress - Series, Miniseries or Television FilmAward2000Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Miniseries or a MovieAward1999Donostia AwardAward
Cradle Will RockFilm, 1999Countess Constance La Grave1998Sabine ChristiansenSeries1997“I've been to Sarajevo a few times and have got to know a lot of people there who put on plays during the siege. I wanted to share in that because I knew it was important to them .”In their wordsApril 1997From an interview with Wallace Shawn, as cited in "Mission: possible - interview with actress Vanessa Redgrave”, Interview (April 1997)
Smilla's Sense of SnowFilm, 1997Elsa Lübing1994
Little OdessaFilm, Irina Shapira1992
Howards EndFilm, Ruth Wilcox1985
Screen TwoSeries, Dr. Angela Bead1982
American PlayhouseSeries, Sarah Cloyce1981Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actress in a Miniseries or a MovieAward1979
NDR Talk ShowSeries1978Academy Award for Best Supporting ActressAwardGolden Globe Award for Best Supporting Actress - Motion PictureAward1976
The Seven-Per-Cent SolutionFilm, Lola Deveraux1975
ArenaSeries1971
The DevilsFilm, Sister Jeanne des Anges1969Cannes Film Festival Award for Best ActressAward1966Cannes Film Festival Award for Best ActressAward
A Man for All SeasonsFilm, 1966Anne Boleyn1960Sunday-Night PlaySeries, Monica Claverton-Ferry1953
The OscarsSeries1944
Golden Globe AwardsSeries1937Born30 January 1937Also in Deutsch
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, As a mother you have got to have a view for now and a view for the future.
I've been to Sarajevo a few times and have got to know a lot of people there who put on plays during the siege. I wanted to share in that because I knew it was important to them .
I've come to see through the course of my life that people understand what I've tried to do, however inadequately I do it.
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CSCold Storage
FYFinding YouGEGeorgetown
TSThe Secret Scripture
FLFilm Stars Don't Die in LiverpoolFOFoxcatcher
TBThe Butler
SMSong for Marion
CACars 2ANAnonymous
COCoriolanus
LJLetters to Juliet
TWThe WhistleblowerRERestraint
ATAtonement
EVEveningTLThe Thief Lord
VEVenus
GBGood Boy!TSThe Gathering Storm
TPThe Pledge
ITIf These Walls Could Talk 2
GIGirl, InterruptedCRCradle Will Rock
DIDeep Impact
WIWildeSSSmilla's Sense of Snow
MIMission: Impossible
LRLooking for RichardLOLittle Odessa
TSThe House of the SpiritsHEHowards End
PEPrick Up Your Ears
JUJuliaTSThe Seven-Per-Cent Solution
MEMurder on the Orient ExpressTDThe Devils
TBThe Charge of the Light BrigadeASA Man for All Seasons
BUBlow-Up207 credits on file
Television 24
CMCall the Midwife
PPPlayhouse Presents
PAPolitical Animals
TTThe Day of the TriffidsNTNip/Tuck
JSJack and the Beanstalk: The Real Story
TVThe View
IPIntimate PortraitSTScreen TwoAPAmerican Playhouse
FTFaerie Tale Theatre
WDWetten, dass..?NSNDR Talk Show
TSThe South Bank ShowARArena
OMOmnibus
TATony AwardsTOThe Oscars
TOTodayGAGolden Globe AwardsAwards
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Born 30 January 1937, daughter of Sir Michael Redgrave and Rachel Kempson, she debuted on stage in A Touch of Sun in 1958 and hit film the same year in Behind the Mask alongside her father. Prominence came in 1961 playing Rosalind in As You Like It with the Royal Shakespeare Company. Film breakthrough arrived with Morgan: A Suitable Case for Treatment in 1966 - the first of six Academy Award nominations - then Blowup, Camelot, The Devils, Murder on the Orient Express. She won Best Supporting Actress for Julia in 1977. Broadway gave her a Tony for Long Day's Journey into Night in 2003; the West End, an Olivier for The Aspern Papers. She married Italian actor Franco Nero, raised actresses Joely and Natasha Richardson, and kept working: Atonement, Coriolanus, Foxcatcher. The accolades stacked - BAFTA Fellowship, Golden Lion, American Theatre Hall of Fame - but the through-line was always the same: she showed up, did the work, and left rooms quieter.
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