
Vanessa Redgrave
1 FOLLOWER • 44 CREDITS • JAN 30, 1937 • 88
Biography
Vanessa Redgrave CBE 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

Hallmark Hall of Fame

Tony Awards

Today

Golden Globe Awards

The Early Show

Faerie Tale Theatre

Nip/Tuck

Omnibus

Shakespeare Uncovered

Cars 2

A Man for All Seasons

The Oscars

The Butler

Nothing Like a Dame

Joan Didion: The Center Will Not Hold

On Our Way

The Adventures of Young Indiana Jones: Love's Sweet Song

Murder on the Orient Express

Girl, Interrupted

Mission: Impossible

Coriolanus

Cold Storage

The Day of the Triffids

Howards End

Atonement

Foxcatcher

Finding You

The Go-Between

Deep Impact

Letters to Juliet

Mother's Boys

Wilde

Blow-Up

Peter the Great

The Charge of the Light Brigade

Oh! What a Lovely War

Jack and the Beanstalk: The Real Story

They

The Lost Girls

The Thirteenth Tale

Call the Midwife

Playing for Time

Great Moments in Aviation

As You Like It
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