Vanessa Redgrave

Acting · Born 1937-01-30 in Greenwich, London, England, UK

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…

Filmography

• A Man for All Seasons as Anne Boleyn
• Mission: Impossible as Max
• Blow-Up as Jane
• The Palestinian as Self
• The House of the Spirits as Nivea del Valle
• Girl, Interrupted as Dr. Wick
• Murder on the Orient Express as Mary Debenham
• Atonement as Briony Tallis (Age 77)
• Oh! What a Lovely War as Sylvia Pankhurst
• Wilde as Lady Speranza Wilde