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Vanessa Redgrave
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 Li…
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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.
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2026
The Crystal Planet
Movie The Matriarch (voice)
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2026
Cold Storage
Movie Mary Rooney
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2025
The Estate
Movie
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2025
Common Wealth
Movie Self
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2024
Merchant Ivory
Movie Self
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2023
On Our Way
Movie
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2022
The Ghost of Richard Harris
Movie Self
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2022
The Lost Girls
Movie Great Nana
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2021
Alice, Through the Looking
Movie Narrator
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2021
Alida Valli: In Her Own Words
Movie Self
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2021
Finding You
Movie Cathleen Sweeney
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2020
Katherine Jenkins Christmas Spectacular
Movie Self
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2020
Entree Des Artists
Movie Henry's Grandmother
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2019
Mrs Lowry & Son
Movie Elizabeth Lowry
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2019
Georgetown
Movie Elsa Brecht
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2019
The Aspern Papers
Movie Juliana Bordereau
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2018
Nothing Like a Dame
Movie Self (archive footage)
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2017
Film Stars Don't Die in Liverpool
Movie Jeanne McDougall
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2017
Sea Sorrow
Movie Self
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2017
Joan Didion: The Center Will Not Hold
Movie Self
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2017
Man in an Orange Shirt
TV show Flora Berryman
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2017
The Secret Scripture
Movie Old Roseanne McNulty
- 2016
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2016
Almeida Theatre Live: Richard III
Movie Queen Margaret
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2015
The Go-Between
Movie Older Marian
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2014
Foxcatcher
Movie Jean du Pont
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2014
The Wound and the Gift
Movie
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2014
Black Box
TV show Dr. Hartramph
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2013
The Thirteenth Tale
Movie Vida Winter
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2013
The Butler
Movie Annabeth Westfall
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2012
The Last Will and Testament of Rosalind Leigh
Movie Rosalind Leigh
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2012
Last Will. & Testament
Movie
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2012
Song for Marion
Movie Marion
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2012
Political Animals
TV show Diane Nash
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2012
Shakespeare Uncovered
TV show Herself
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2012
Playhouse Presents
TV show Elderly Woman
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2012
Call the Midwife
TV show Jennifer Worth (voice)
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2011
Anonymous
Movie Queen Elizabeth I
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2011
Cars 2
Movie The Queen / Mama Topolino (voice)
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2011
Coriolanus
Movie Volumnia
