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Vanessa Redgrave is an English actress of stage, screen, and television, and a political activist. She is a 2003 American Theatre Hall of Fame inductee, and received the 2010 BAFTA Fellowship.
Born
Saturday, 30 January 1937
Actress Filmography
| Title | Character | Year |
|---|
| The Medusa | Madame Scob | 4593 |
| The Lost Girls | Great Nana | 2022 |
| Alice, Through the Looking | Narrator | 2021 |
| Broadway: Beyond the Golden Age | Self | 2021 |
| Alida | Self / Sé stessa | 2021 |
| Katherine Jenkins Christmas Spectacular | Self | 2020 |
| Finding You | Cathleen Sweeney | 2020 |
| Georgetown | Elsa Brecht / Elsa Breht | 2020 |
| Capital in the Twenty-First Century | Self - protester | 2019 |
| Mrs Lowry & Son | Elizabeth Lowry | 2019 |
Actress Filmography
| Title | Character | Year |
|---|
| The Medusa | Madame Scob | 4593 |
| The Lost Girls | Great Nana | 2022 |
| Alice, Through the Looking | Narrator | 2021 |
| Broadway: Beyond the Golden Age | Self | 2021 |
| Alida | Self / Sé stessa | 2021 |
| Katherine Jenkins Christmas Spectacular | Self | 2020 |
| Finding You | Cathleen Sweeney | 2020 |
| Georgetown | Elsa Brecht / Elsa Breht | 2020 |
| Capital in the Twenty-First Century | Self - protester | 2019 |
| Mrs Lowry & Son | Elizabeth Lowry | 2019 |
| The Aspern Papers | Juliana Bordereau | 2019 |
| Tea With the Dames | Self / Self (archive footage) | 2018 |
| Film Stars Don't Die in Liverpool | Jean / Jeanne McDougall | 2017 |
| Joan Didion: The Center Will Not Hold | Self | 2017 |
| Sea Sorrow | Self / Herself | 2017 |
| Front Row | Self | 2017 |
| Man in an Orange Shirt | Flora Berryman | 2017 |
| The Secret Scripture | Old Roseanne McNulty / Lady Rose | 2017 |
| Off Frame Aka Revolution Until Victory | Self | 2016 |
| Becoming Mike Nichols | Self | 2016 |
| The Go-Between | Old Marian / Older Marian | 2015 |
| Darcey Bussell's Looking for Audrey | Self | 2014 |
| Foxcatcher | Jean du Pont | 2014 |
| The Wound and the Gift | (voice) | 2014 |
| Black Box | Dr. Hartramph | 2014 |
| Discovering Film | Self | 2014 |
| And the Oscar Goes to... | Self | 2014 |
| The Thirteenth Tale | Vida Winter | 2013 |
| Lee Daniels' The Butler | Annabeth Westfall | 2013 |
| The Last Will and Testament of Rosalind Leigh | Rosalind Leigh | 2012 |
| Unfinished Song | Marion | 2012 |
| Political Animals | Diane Nash | 2012 |
| Last Will & Testament | Self | 2012 |
| Playhouse Presents | Elderly Woman | 2012 |
| Shakespeare Uncovered | Self | 2012 |
| Call the Midwife | Mature Jennifer Worth, Mature Jenny | 2012 |
| Anonymous | Queen Elizabeth I | 2011 |
| Cars 2 | Mama Topolino (voice) / The Queen / Mama Topolino | 2011 |
| Coriolanus | Volumnia | 2011 |
| Robinson in Ruins | Narrator | 2010 |
| Conference of Animals | Winifred | 2010 |
| The Whistleblower | Madeleine Rees | 2010 |
| Miral | Bertha Spafford | 2010 |
| Letters to Juliet | Claire | 2010 |
| The Day of the Triffids | Durrant | 2009 |
| Skavlan | Self - Guest | 2009 |
| Restraint | Sky News reader #2 | 2008 |
| How About You | Georgia Platts | 2007 |
| The Riddle | Roberta Elliot | 2007 |
| Atonement | Older Briony / Briony Tallis (Age 77) | 2007 |
| Evening | Ann Lord | 2007 |
| The 61st Annual Tony Awards | Self - Nominee | 2007 |
| Dealing and Wheeling in Small Arms | Narrator | 2007 |
| Venus | Valerie | 2006 |
| The Thief Lord | Sister Antonia | 2006 |
| The White Countess | Princess Vera Belinskya | 2005 |
| Made in Hollywood | Self | 2005 |
| The Keeper: The Legend of Omar Khayyam | Miss Sangorski | 2005 |
| Short Order | Marianne | 2005 |
| The Fever | Woman | 2004 |
| Twentieth Century Fox: The Blockbuster Years | Julia | 2003 |
| Good Boy | The Greater Dane (voice) / The Greater Dane | 2003 |
| Byron | Lady Melbourne | 2003 |
| Crime and Punishment | Rodion's Mother | 2003 |
| Nip/Tuck | Dr. Erica Noughton | 2003 |
| The Locket | Esther Huish | 2002 |
| Hell on Earth: The Desecration and Resurrection of 'The Devils' | Self | 2002 |
| Searching for Debra Winger | Self | 2002 |
| The Gathering Storm | Clemmie Churchill | 2002 |
| Merci Docteur Rey | herself / Self | 2002 |
| Michael Jackson: 30th Anniversary Celebration | Self | 2001 |
| Jack and the Beanstalk: The Real Story | Countess Wilhelmina - Matriarch / Narrator / Countess Wilhelmina | 2001 |
| Escape to Life: The Erika and Klaus Mann Story | Narrator / (voice) | 2001 |
| The Pledge | Annalise Hansen | 2001 |
| A Rumor of Angels | Maddy Bennett | 2000 |
| The Adventures of Young Indiana Jones: Love's Sweet Song | Vicky's Mother | 2000 |
| Uninvited | Mrs. Rutterburn | 2000 |
| Mirka | Kalsan | 2000 |
| If These Walls Could Talk 2 | Edith Tree (segment "1961") / Edith Tree | 2000 |
| Exile in Buyukada | Narrator | 2000 |
| Cradle Will Rock | Countess Constance La Grange / Countess Constance La Grave | 1999 |
| Girl, Interrupted | Dr. Wick | 1999 |
| Lulu on the Bridge | Catherine Moore | 1998 |
| Deep Impact | Robin Lerner | 1998 |
| Déjà Vu | Skelly | 1998 |
| The 70th Annual Academy Awards | Self - Past Winner | 1998 |
| Sabine Christiansen | Self | 1998 |
| Bella Mafia | Graziella Luciano | 1997 |
| Wilde | Lady 'Speranza' Wilde / Lady Speranza Wilde | 1997 |
| Mrs Dalloway | Mrs. Clarissa Dalloway | 1997 |
| The View | Herself - Guest | 1997 |
| Smilla's Sense of Snow | Elsa Lübing | 1997 |
| The Willows in Winter | Grandmother / Narrator | 1996 |
| Ein Abend mit Peter Ustinov | Self | 1996 |
| Two Mothers for Zachary | Nancy Shaffell | 1996 |
| Looking for Richard | Self (Interview) / Herself/Interview | 1996 |
| Mission: Impossible | Max / Max Mitsopolis | 1996 |
| The Wind in the Willows | Grandmother / Narrator / Grandmother (live action) | 1995 |
| Down Came a Blackbird | Anna Lenke | 1995 |
| A Month by the Lake | Miss Bentley | 1995 |
| Empire of the Censors | Self | 1995 |
| Little Odessa | Irina Shapira | 1994 |
| Inside the Actors Studio | Self - Guest | 1994 |
| Great Moments in Aviation | Dr. Angela Bead | 1994 |
| Mother's Boys | Lydia | 1994 |
| Children of the Mist | Florence Latimer | 1993 |
| The House of the Spirits | Nivea / Nivea del Valle | 1993 |
| Late Night with Conan O'Brien | Herself - Guest | 1993 |
| The 65th Annual Academy Awards | Self | 1993 |
| Howards End | Ruth Wilcox | 1992 |
| The Young Indiana Jones Chronicles | Vicky's Mother | 1992 |
| Oscar's Greatest Moments | Self | 1992 |
| The Ballad of the Sad Cafe | Miss Amelia | 1991 |
| Young Catherine | Empress Elizabeth | 1991 |
| What Ever Happened to Baby Jane? | Blanche Hudson | 1991 |
| Orpheus Descending | Lady Torrance | 1990 |
| A Man for All Seasons | Lady Alice More | 1988 |
| American Experience | Mary Tyrone / Self | 1988 |
| Consuming Passions | Mrs. Garza | 1988 |
| Comrades | Mrs. Carlyle | 1987 |
| Prick Up Your Ears | Peggy Ramsay | 1987 |
| Biography | Self | 1987 |
| Peter the Great | Sophia | 1986 |
| Second Serve | Richard Radley / Renee Richards | 1986 |
| Wetherby | Jean Travers | 1985 |
| Steaming | Nancy | 1985 |
| The Bostonians | Olive Chancellor | 1984 |
| The Wandering Company | Olive Chancellor | 1984 |
| Sing Sing | The Queen (first story) / la Regina | 1983 |
| Wagner | Cosima von Bulow | 1983 |
| Faerie Tale Theatre | Evil Queen | 1982 |
| My Body, My Child | Leenie Cabrezi | 1982 |
| American Playhouse | Sarah Cloyce | 1982 |
| Playing for Time | Fania Fenelon | 1980 |
| Bear Island | Heddi Lindquist | 1979 |
| Yanks | Helen | 1979 |
| Agatha | Agatha Christie | 1979 |
| The 50th Annual Academy Awards | Self - Winner | 1978 |
| Julia | Julia | 1977 |
| The Seven-Per-Cent Solution | Lola Deveraux | 1976 |
| The 30th Annual Tony Awards | Self - Presenter | 1976 |
| Arena | Herself, Self | 1975 |
| Out of Season | Ann / mother | 1975 |
| Murder on the Orient Express | Mary Debenham | 1974 |
| La vacanza | Immacolata Meneghelli | 1972 |
| Mary, Queen of Scots | Mary, Queen of Scots | 1971 |
| The Trojan Women | Andromache | 1971 |
| The Devils | Sister Jeanne | 1971 |
| The Body | Narrator | 1970 |
| Oh! What a Lovely War | Sylvia Pankhurst | 1969 |
| The Sea Gull | Nina | 1968 |
| A Quiet Place in the Country | Flavia | 1968 |
| Isadora | Isadora Duncan / Isadora | 1968 |
| The Charge of the Light Brigade | Clarissa Morris / Mrs Clarissa Morris | 1968 |
| Tonite Let's All Make Love in London | Self (segment "Protest") | 1967 |
| Liebesgeschichten | Anne-Marie Roche | 1967 |
| The Sailor from Gibraltar | Sheila | 1967 |
| Camelot | Guenevere | 1967 |
| Blow-Up | Jane | 1966 |
| A Man for All Seasons | Anne Boleyn | 1966 |
| Morgan! | Leonie Delt / Leonie | 1966 |
| The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson | Herself - Guest | 1962 |
| Behind the Mask | Pamela Benson Gray | 1958 |
| Armchair Theatre | Sally | 1956 |
| This Is Your Life | Self | 1955 |
Director Filmography
| Title | Year |
|---|
| Sea Sorrow | 2017 |
Producer Filmography
| Title | Year |
|---|
| The Fever | 2004 |
| Year | Type | Category | Won |
|---|
| 2003 | Golden Globe | Best Performance by an Actress in a Miniseries or a Motion Picture Made for Television | Nominated |
| 2002 | Emmy | Outstanding Lead Actress in a Miniseries or a Movie | Nominated |
| 2001 | Golden Globe | Best Performance by an Actress in a Supporting Role in a Series, Miniseries or Motion Picture Made for Television | Won |
| 2000 | Emmy | Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Miniseries or a Movie | Won |
| 1998 | Golden Globe | Best Performance by an Actress in a Miniseries or Motion Picture Made for Television | Nominated |
| 1996 | Golden Globe | Best Performance by an Actress in a Motion Picture - Comedy or Musical | Nominated |
| 1993 | Oscar | Best Actress in a Supporting Role | Nominated |
| 1991 | Emmy | Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Miniseries or a Special | Nominated |
| 1989 | Golden Globe | Best Performance by an Actress in a Miniseries or Motion Picture Made for Television | Nominated |
| 1988 | Golden Globe | Best Performance by an Actress in a Supporting Role in a Motion Picture | Nominated |
| 1987 | Golden Globe | Best Performance by an Actress in a Miniseries or Motion Picture Made for Television | Nominated |
| 1986 | Emmy | Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Miniseries or a Special | Nominated |
| 1986 | Emmy | Outstanding Lead Actress in a Miniseries or a Special | Nominated |
| 1985 | Oscar | Best Actress in a Leading Role | Nominated |
| 1985 | Golden Globe | Best Performance by an Actress in a Motion Picture - Drama | Nominated |
| 1981 | Emmy | Outstanding Lead Actress in a Limited Series or a Special | Won |
| 1978 | Oscar | Best Actress in a Supporting Role | Won |
| 1978 | Golden Globe | Best Actress in a Supporting Role - Motion Picture | Won |
| 1972 | Oscar | Best Actress in a Leading Role | Nominated |
| 1972 | Golden Globe | Best Actress in a Motion Picture - Drama | Nominated |
