Vanessa Redgrave
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.
Filmography (36)
Cold Storage
On Our Way
Finding You
Georgetown
The Secret Scripture
Foxcatcher
The Butler
The Last Will and Testament of Rosalind Leigh
Cars 2
Coriolanus
Anonymous
Letters to Juliet
The Whistleblower
Restraint
Atonement
The Thief Lord
The White Countess
The Gathering Storm
The Pledge
If These Walls Could Talk 2
Girl, Interrupted
Cradle Will Rock
Deep Impact
Wilde
Smilla's Sense of Snow
Mission: Impossible
Little Odessa
The House of the Spirits
Mother's Boys
Howards End
Steaming
Julia
Murder on the Orient Express
The Devils
Blow-Up
