Vanessa Redgrave

Known for ActingBorn 1937-01-30 (age 89)Greenwich, London, England, UK

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.Read more

Movies & web series

Exile in Buyukada

Sabine Christiansen

Behind the Mask : The IRA and Sinn Fein

Breath of Life

Alida Valli: In Her Own Words

Mirka

My Body, My Child

The Palestinian

Katherine Jenkins Christmas Spectacular

Hallmark Hall of Fame

Consuming Passions

Down Came a Blackbird

Merchant Ivory

Faerie Tale Theatre

Seitenblicke

Almeida Theatre Live: Richard III

Peter the Great

The Ghost of Richard Harris

Atonement

Man in an Orange Shirt

Shakespeare Uncovered

Call the Midwife

Inside the Actors Studio

Girl, Interrupted

Joan Didion: The Center Will Not Hold

The Butler

The Secret Scripture

Romeo.Juliet

Sparrow

They

Political Animals

Nip/Tuck

Red and Blue

The Devils

Finding You

Letters to Juliet

The Wind in the Willows

Cold Storage

Nothing Like a Dame

Screen Two

Mission: Impossible

The Shell Seekers

A Man for All Seasons

Blow-Up

The Go-Between

Robinson in Ruins

Hollywood U.K.: British Cinema in the Sixties

Howards End