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.
152 movies · 39 shows
Cold Storage
2026·6.8
The Estate
2025·5.0
Common Wealth
2025·0.0
Merchant Ivory
2024·7.7
On Our Way
2023·3.5
The Ghost of Richard Harris
2022·7.5
The Lost Girls
2022·4.9
Alice, Through the Looking
2021·0.0
Alida Valli: In Her Own Words
2021·9.2
Finding You
2021·6.9
Katherine Jenkins Christmas Spectacular
2020·8.3
Entree Des Artists
2020·0.0
Mrs Lowry & Son
2019·6.4
Georgetown
2019·5.9
The Aspern Papers
2019·4.5
Nothing Like a Dame
2018·6.8
Film Stars Don't Die in Liverpool
2017·6.4
Sea Sorrow
2017·5.3
Joan Didion: The Center Will Not Hold
2017·7.3
The Secret Scripture
2017·7.2
Electric Burma: The Concert for Aung San Suu Kyi - Words I Never Said
2016·0.0
Almeida Theatre Live: Richard III
2016·7.7
The Go-Between
2015·6.8
Foxcatcher
2014·6.7
The Wound and the Gift
2014·0.0
The Thirteenth Tale
2013·6.6
The Butler
2013·7.3
The Last Will and Testament of Rosalind Leigh
2012·5.0
Last Will. & Testament
2012·5.3
Song for Marion
2012·6.8
Anonymous
2011·6.4
Cars 2
2011·6.2
Coriolanus
2011·5.8
Robinson in Ruins
2010·6.8
Miral
2010·5.8
The Whistleblower
2010·6.7
Letters to Juliet
2010·7.0
God, Smell and Her
2009·0.0
Ein Job
2008·0.0
Restraint
2008·5.9
How About You...
2007·6.3
The Shell Seekers
2007·6.9
The Riddle
2007·4.8
Evening
2007·5.8
Atonement
2007·7.6
Dealing and Wheeling in Small Arms
2007·0.0
Venus
2006·6.6
Eugene O’Neill: A Documentary Film
2006·0.0
The Thief Lord
2006·6.0
The White Countess
2005·6.2
Elio Petri: Notes About a Filmmaker
2005·6.7
The Keeper: The Legend of Omar Khayyam
2005·5.4
Short Order
2005·5.1
The Fever
2004·5.4
Thank You, Doctor Rey
2003·5.5
Good Boy!
2003·5.6
Byron
2003·4.8
The Locket
2002·5.2
Hell on Earth: The Desecration & Resurrection of The Devils
2002·6.4
Searching for Debra Winger
2002·6.4
Crime and Punishment
2002·5.2
The Gathering Storm
2002·6.7
Escape to Life: The Erika and Klaus Mann Story
2001·4.8
The Pledge
2001·6.6
A Rumor of Angels
2000·6.7
The Adventures of Young Indiana Jones: Love's Sweet Song
2000·5.2
Uninvited
2000·5.3
Mirka
2000·9.0
1961
2000·0.0
If These Walls Could Talk 2
2000·6.5
Exile in Buyukada
2000·10.0
Girl, Interrupted
1999·7.6
Cradle Will Rock
1999·6.5
Lulu on the Bridge
1998·5.9
Deep Impact
1998·6.2
Déjà Vu
1998·5.5
Bella Mafia
1997·6.6
Behind the Mask : The IRA and Sinn Fein
1997·10.0
Wilde
1997·6.6
Mrs. Dalloway
1997·5.7
Michael Redgrave: My Father
1997·0.0
Smilla's Sense of Snow
1997·6.3
The Willows in Winter
1996·6.7
Looking for Richard
1996·6.8
Two Mothers for Zachary
1996·6.0
Mission: Impossible
1996·7.0
The Wind in the Willows
1995·7.1
Down Came a Blackbird
1995·8.1
A Month by the Lake
1995·5.7
Little Odessa
1994·6.5
Great Moments in Aviation
1994·4.9
Sparrow
1994·7.4
They
1993·7.4
The House of the Spirits
1993·6.9
Mother's Boys
1993·5.4
A Wall of Silence
1993·5.7
Howards End
1992·7.0
The Ballad of the Sad Cafe
1991·5.8
What Ever Happened to Baby Jane?
1991·4.9
Breath of Life
1990·10.0
Orpheus Descending
1990·4.6
Stalin's Funeral
1990·3.7
Romeo.Juliet
1990·7.5
A Man for All Seasons
1988·7.0
Consuming Passions
1988·8.3
Comrades
1987·6.9
Prick Up Your Ears
1987·6.7
Second Serve
1986·5.3
Wetherby
1985·6.0
Steaming
1985·5.3
Three Sovereigns for Sarah
1985·0.0
Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs
1984·6.4
The Bostonians
1984·5.6
Sing Sing
1983·5.3
My Body, My Child
1982·9.0
Playing for Time
1980·6.9
The Fifth War
1980·0.0
Bear Island
1979·6.1
Yanks
1979·5.9
Agatha
1979·6.1
Julia
1977·6.5
The Palestinian
1977·9.0
The Seven-Per-Cent Solution
1976·6.2
Out of Season
1975·5.5
Murder on the Orient Express
1974·7.1
Right to Work March
1972·0.0
Mary, Queen of Scots
1971·6.7
Vacation
1971·4.8
The Devils
1971·7.4
The Trojan Women
1971·6.3
Dropout
1970·5.6
The Body
1970·4.6
A Mother with Two Children Expecting Her Third
1970·5.0
No Arks
1969·0.0
Oh! What a Lovely War
1969·6.6
The Sea Gull
1968·6.3
A Quiet Place in the Country
1968·6.2
Isadora
1968·6.2
Red and Blue
1968·7.5
The Charge of the Light Brigade
1968·6.2
Red, White, and Zero
1968·5.0
Camelot
1967·6.2
Tonite Let's All Make Love in London
1967·4.5
The Sailor from Gibraltar
1967·5.8
Blow-Up
1966·7.3
A Man for All Seasons
1966·7.3
Morgan: A Suitable Case for Treatment
1966·6.3
Maggie
1964·0.0
As You Like It
1963·7.0
A Sunday in September
1961·0.0
Circus at Clopton Hall
1961·0.0
Behind the Mask
1958·6.4