Vanessa Redgrave
Acting

Vanessa Redgrave

January 30, 1937 (88 years old) Greenwich, London, England, UK

Also known as: Vanessa Redgreiv, 바네사 레드그레이브, Ванесса Редгрейв

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 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.

Known For

Call the Midwife

Call the Midwife

2012 • TV

Golden Globe Awards

Golden Globe Awards

1944 • TV

Tony Awards

Tony Awards

1956 • TV

Tony Awards

Tony Awards

1956 • TV

Cars 2

Cars 2

2011 • Movie

Mission: Impossible

Mission: Impossible

1996 • Movie

Movie Credits (55)

Acting

2011

Cars 2

as The Queen / Mama Topolino (voice)

1996

Mission: Impossible

as Max

2007

Atonement

as Briony Tallis (Age 77)

1993

The House of the Spirits

as Nivea del Valle

1968

Isadora

as Isadora Duncan

1997

Wilde

as Lady Speranza Wilde

1999

Girl, Interrupted

as Dr. Wick

1998

Deep Impact

as Robin Lerner

1997

Mrs. Dalloway

as Mrs. Clarissa Dalloway

1984

The Bostonians

as Olive Chancellor

1979

Agatha

as Agatha Christie

2010

The Whistleblower

as Madeleine Rees

2002

The Gathering Storm

as Clemmie Churchill

1977

Julia

as Julia

1974

Murder on the Orient Express

as Mary Debenham

1994

Little Odessa

as Irina Shapira

1979

Bear Island

as Heddi Lindquist

1992

Howards End

as Ruth Wilcox

1987

Prick Up Your Ears

as Peggy Ramsay

2001

The Pledge

as Annalise Hansen

Crew

1977

The Palestinian

Producer

2007

The Fever

Executive Producer

2017

Sea Sorrow

Director

2025

The Estate

Executive Producer

1981

Occupied Palestine

Producer

TV Credits (38)

Acting

2012

Call the Midwife

as Jennifer Worth (voice)

113 episodes

1944

Golden Globe Awards

as Self - Nominee

3 episodes

1956

Tony Awards

as Self - Winner

1 episodes

1956

Tony Awards

as Self - Presenter

3 episodes

1956

Tony Awards

as Self - Nominee

1 episodes

1997

The View

as Self

1 episodes

2003

Nip/Tuck

as Dr.Erica Noughton

7 episodes

2003

Nip/Tuck

as Dr. Erica Noughton

3 episodes

1967

Omnibus

as Self

1 episodes

1979

NDR Talk Show

as Self

1 episodes

1981

Wetten, dass..?

as Self

1 episodes

1953

The Oscars

as Self

4 episodes

1993

Intimate Portrait

as Self

1 episodes

1982

Faerie Tale Theatre

as The Evil Queen

1 episodes

1984

Goldene Kamera

as Self

2 episodes

1998

Sabine Christiansen

as Self

1 episodes

1960

Sunday-Night Play

as Monica Claverton-Ferry

1 episodes

1987

Seitenblicke

as self

1 episodes

2014

Black Box

as Dr. Hartramph

13 episodes

2012

Playhouse Presents

1 episodes

Personal Info

Known For
Acting
Gender
Female
Birthday
January 30, 1937 (88 years old)
Place of Birth
Greenwich, London, England, UK
Popularity
1.8

Career Stats

55
Movies
38
TV Shows