Vanessa Redgrave

Acting

January 30, 1937 (89 years old)

Greenwich, London, England, UK

Female

161 Movies

41 TV Shows

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.

Blow-Up

1966 7.3

as Jane

Age 29 (now 89)

Atonement

2007 7.6

as Briony Tallis (Age 77)

Age 70 (now 89)

The Devils

1971 7.4

as Sister Jeanne des Anges

Age 34 (now 89)

Letters to Juliet

2010 7.0

as Claire

Age 73 (now 89)

Deep Impact

1998 6.2

as Robin Lerner

Age 61 (now 89)

The Whistleblower

2010 6.7

as Madeleine Rees

Age 73 (now 89)

Call the Midwife

2012 7.5

as Jennifer Worth (voice)

Age 74 (now 89) 117 eps

117 eps

Foxcatcher

2014 6.7

as Jean du Pont

Age 77 (now 89)

Mission: Impossible

1996 7.0

as Max

Age 59 (now 89)

Girl, Interrupted

1999 7.6

as Dr. Wick

Age 62 (now 89)

The Secret Scripture

2017 7.2

as Old Roseanne McNulty

Age 80 (now 89)

Cold Storage

2026 6.8

as Mary Rooney

Age 88 (now 89)

Wilde

1997 6.6

as Lady Speranza Wilde

Age 60 (now 89)

Anonymous

2011 6.4

as Queen Elizabeth I

Age 74 (now 89)

If These Walls Could Talk 2

2000 6.5

as Edith Tree

Age 63 (now 89)

Song for Marion

2012 6.8

as Marion

Age 75 (now 89)

The Crystal Planet

2026

as The Matriarch (voice)

Age 89

Cold Storage

2026 6.8

as Mary Rooney

Age 88 (now 89)

The Estate

2025

Age 88 (now 89)

The Estate

2025

Executive Producer

Age 88 (now 89)

Common Wealth

2025

as Self

Age 88 (now 89)

Merchant Ivory

2024 7.7

as Self

Age 87 (now 89)

On Our Way

2023 3.5

Age 86 (now 89)

The Ghost of Richard Harris

2022 7.5

as Self

Age 85 (now 89)

The Lost Girls

2022 5.0

as Great Nana

Age 85 (now 89)

Alice, Through the Looking

2021

as Narrator

Age 84 (now 89)

Alida Valli: In Her Own Words

2021 9.2

as Self

Age 84 (now 89)

Finding You

2021 6.9

as Cathleen Sweeney

Age 84 (now 89)

Katherine Jenkins Christmas Spectacular

2020 8.3

as Self

Age 83 (now 89)

Entree Des Artists

2020

as Henry's Grandmother

Age 83 (now 89)

Mrs Lowry & Son

2019 6.4

as Elizabeth Lowry

Age 82 (now 89)

Georgetown

2019 5.9

as Elsa Brecht

Age 82 (now 89)

The Aspern Papers

2019 4.5

as Juliana Bordereau

Age 81 (now 89)

Nothing Like a Dame

2018 6.8

as Self (archive footage)

Age 81 (now 89)

Film Stars Don't Die in Liverpool

2017 6.4

as Jeanne McDougall

Age 80 (now 89)

Sea Sorrow

2017 5.3

Screenplay

Age 80 (now 89)

Sea Sorrow

2017 5.3

Director

Age 80 (now 89)

Sea Sorrow

2017 5.3

as Self

Age 80 (now 89)

Joan Didion: The Center Will Not Hold

2017 7.3

as Self

Age 80 (now 89)

The Secret Scripture

2017 7.2

as Old Roseanne McNulty

Age 80 (now 89)

Electric Burma: The Concert for Aung San Suu Kyi - Words I Never Said

2016

as Self

Age 79 (now 89)

Almeida Theatre Live: Richard III

2016 7.7

as Queen Margaret

Age 79 (now 89)

The Go-Between

2015 6.8

as Older Marian

Age 78 (now 89)

Foxcatcher

2014 6.7

as Jean du Pont

Age 77 (now 89)

The Wound and the Gift

2014

Age 77 (now 89)

The Thirteenth Tale

2013 6.6

as Vida Winter

Age 76 (now 89)

The Butler

2013 7.3

as Annabeth Westfall

Age 76 (now 89)

The Last Will and Testament of Rosalind Leigh

2012 5.0

as Rosalind Leigh

Age 75 (now 89)

Last Will. & Testament

2012 5.3

Age 75 (now 89)

Song for Marion

2012 6.8

as Marion

Age 75 (now 89)

Anonymous

2011 6.4

as Queen Elizabeth I

Age 74 (now 89)

Cars 2

2011 6.2

as The Queen / Mama Topolino (voice)

Age 74 (now 89)

Coriolanus

2011 5.9

as Volumnia

Age 74 (now 89)

Robinson in Ruins

2010 6.8

as Narrator

Age 73 (now 89)

Miral

2010 5.7

as Bertha Spafford

Age 73 (now 89)

The Whistleblower

2010 6.7

as Madeleine Rees

Age 73 (now 89)

Letters to Juliet

2010 7.0

as Claire

Age 73 (now 89)

God, Smell and Her

2009

Age 71 (now 89)

Ein Job

2008

as Hannah Silbergrau

Age 71 (now 89)

Restraint

2008 5.9

as Sky News Reader #2

Age 71 (now 89)

How About You...

2007 6.3

as Georgia Platts

Age 70 (now 89)

The Shell Seekers

2007 6.9

as Penelope Keeling

Age 70 (now 89)

The Riddle

2007 4.8

as Roberta Elliot

Age 70 (now 89)

The Fever

2007 5.4

Executive Producer

Age 70 (now 89)

The Fever

2007 5.4

as The woman

Age 70 (now 89)

Evening

2007 5.8

as Ann Lord

Age 70 (now 89)

Atonement

2007 7.6

as Briony Tallis (Age 77)

Age 70 (now 89)

Dealing and Wheeling in Small Arms

2007

as Narrator

Age 69 (now 89)

Venus

2006 6.6

as Valerie

Age 69 (now 89)

Eugene O’Neill: A Documentary Film

2006

as Self

Age 69 (now 89)

The Thief Lord

2006 6.0

as Sister Antonia

Age 68 (now 89)

The White Countess

2005 6.2

as Princess Vera Belinskya

Age 68 (now 89)

Elio Petri: Notes About a Filmmaker

2005 6.7

as Self

Age 68 (now 89)

The Keeper: The Legend of Omar Khayyam

2005 5.4

as Miss Sangorski

Age 68 (now 89)

Short Order

2005 5.1

as Marianne

Age 67 (now 89)

Thank You, Doctor Rey

2003 5.5

as herself

Age 66 (now 89)

Good Boy!

2003 5.6

as The Greater Dane (voice)

Age 66 (now 89)

Byron

2003 4.8

as Lady Melbourne

Age 66 (now 89)

The Locket

2002 5.2

as Esther Huish

Age 65 (now 89)

Hell on Earth: The Desecration & Resurrection of The Devils

2002 6.4

as Self

Age 65 (now 89)

Searching for Debra Winger

2002 6.4

as Self

Age 65 (now 89)

Crime and Punishment

2002 5.2

as Rodion's mother

Age 65 (now 89)

The Gathering Storm

2002 6.7

as Clemmie Churchill

Age 65 (now 89)

Escape to Life: The Erika and Klaus Mann Story

2001 4.8

as (voice)

Age 64 (now 89)

The Pledge

2001 6.6

as Annalise Hansen

Age 63 (now 89)

A Rumor of Angels

2000 6.7

as Maddy Bennett

Age 63 (now 89)

The Adventures of Young Indiana Jones: Love's Sweet Song

2000 5.2

as Vicky's Mother

Age 63 (now 89)

Uninvited

2000 5.3

as Mrs. Rutterburn

Age 63 (now 89)

Mirka

2000 9.0

as Kalsan

Age 63 (now 89)

If These Walls Could Talk 2

2000 6.5

as Edith Tree

Age 63 (now 89)

1961

2000

as Edith Tree

Age 63 (now 89)

Exile in Buyukada

2000 10.0

as Narrator

Age 62 (now 89)

Girl, Interrupted

1999 7.6

as Dr. Wick

Age 62 (now 89)

Cradle Will Rock

1999 6.5

as Countess Constance La Grave

Age 62 (now 89)

Lulu on the Bridge

1998 5.9

as Catherine Moore

Age 61 (now 89)

Deep Impact

1998 6.2

as Robin Lerner

Age 61 (now 89)

Déjà Vu

1998 5.5

as Skelly

Age 61 (now 89)

Bella Mafia

1997 6.6

as Graziella Luciano

Age 60 (now 89)

Behind the Mask : The IRA and Sinn Fein

1997 10.0

as Self

Age 60 (now 89)

Wilde

1997 6.6

as Lady Speranza Wilde

Age 60 (now 89)

Mrs. Dalloway

1997 5.6

as Mrs. Clarissa Dalloway

Age 60 (now 89)

Michael Redgrave: My Father

1997

as Self

Age 60 (now 89)

Smilla's Sense of Snow

1997 6.3

as Elsa Lübing

Age 60 (now 89)

The Willows in Winter

1996 6.7

as Grandmother / Narrator

Age 59 (now 89)

Looking for Richard

1996 6.8

as Self - Interviewee

Age 59 (now 89)

Two Mothers for Zachary

1996 6.0

as Nancy Shaffell

Age 59 (now 89)

Mission: Impossible

1996 7.0

as Max

Age 59 (now 89)

The Wind in the Willows

1995 7.1

as Grandmother / Narrator

Age 58 (now 89)

Down Came a Blackbird

1995 8.1

as Anna Lenke

Age 58 (now 89)

A Month by the Lake

1995 5.7

as Miss Bentley

Age 58 (now 89)

Little Odessa

1994 6.5

as Irina Shapira

Age 57 (now 89)

Great Moments in Aviation

1994 4.9

as Dr. Angela Bead

Age 57 (now 89)

Sparrow

1994 7.4

as Suor Agata

Age 57 (now 89)

They

1993 7.4

as Florence Latimer

Age 56 (now 89)

The House of the Spirits

1993 6.9

as Nivea del Valle

Age 56 (now 89)

Mother's Boys

1993 5.4

as Lydia

Age 56 (now 89)

A Wall of Silence

1993 5.7

as Kate Benson

Age 56 (now 89)

Howards End

1992 7.0

as Ruth Wilcox

Age 55 (now 89)

The Ballad of the Sad Cafe

1991 5.8

as Miss Amelia

Age 54 (now 89)

What Ever Happened to Baby Jane?

1991 4.9

as Blanche Hudson

Age 54 (now 89)

Breath of Life

1990 10.0

as Suor Crocifissa

Age 53 (now 89)

Orpheus Descending

1990 4.6

as Lady Torrance

Age 53 (now 89)

Stalin's Funeral

1990 3.7

as English journalist

Age 53 (now 89)

Romeo.Juliet

1990 7.5

as Mother Capulet (voice)

Age 52 (now 89)

A Man for All Seasons

1988 7.0

as Lady Alice More

Age 51 (now 89)

Consuming Passions

1988 8.3

as Mrs. Garza

Age 51 (now 89)

Comrades

1987 6.9

as Mrs. Carlyle

Age 50 (now 89)

Prick Up Your Ears

1987 6.7

as Peggy Ramsay

Age 50 (now 89)

Second Serve

1986 5.3

as Renee Richards

Age 48 (now 89)

Wetherby

1985 6.0

as Jean Travers

Age 48 (now 89)

Steaming

1985 5.3

as Nancy

Age 48 (now 89)

Three Sovereigns for Sarah

1985

as Sarah Cloyce

Age 48 (now 89)

Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs

1984 6.4

as The Evil Queen

Age 47 (now 89)

The Bostonians

1984 5.6

as Olive Chancellor

Age 47 (now 89)

Sing Sing

1983 5.3

as la Regina

Age 46 (now 89)

My Body, My Child

1982 9.0

as Leenie Cabrezi

Age 45 (now 89)

Occupied Palestine

1981 5.0

Producer

Age 43 (now 89)

Playing for Time

1980 6.9

as Fania Fenelon

Age 43 (now 89)

The Fifth War

1980

Age 42 (now 89)

Bear Island

1979 6.1

as Heddi Lindquist

Age 42 (now 89)

Yanks

1979 5.9

as Helen

Age 42 (now 89)

Agatha

1979 6.1

as Agatha Christie

Age 42 (now 89)

Julia

1977 6.5

as Julia

Age 40 (now 89)

The Palestinian

1977 9.0

Producer

Age 40 (now 89)

The Palestinian

1977 9.0

as Self

Age 40 (now 89)

The Seven-Per-Cent Solution

1976 6.2

as Lola Deveraux

Age 39 (now 89)

Out of Season

1975 5.5

as Ann

Age 38 (now 89)

Murder on the Orient Express

1974 7.1

as Mary Debenham

Age 37 (now 89)

Right to Work March

1972

Age 35 (now 89)

Mary, Queen of Scots

1971 6.7

as Mary, Queen of Scots

Age 34 (now 89)

Vacation

1971 4.8

as Immacolata Meneghelli

Age 34 (now 89)

The Devils

1971 7.4

as Sister Jeanne des Anges

Age 34 (now 89)

The Trojan Women

1971 6.2

as Andromache

Age 34 (now 89)

Dropout

1970 5.6

as Mary

Age 33 (now 89)

The Body

1970 4.6

as Narrator

Age 33 (now 89)

A Mother with Two Children Expecting Her Third

1970 5.0

as Herself

Age 33 (now 89)

No Arks

1969

as Narrator

Age 32 (now 89)

Oh! What a Lovely War

1969 6.7

as Sylvia Pankhurst

Age 32 (now 89)

The Sea Gull

1968 6.3

as Nina

Age 31 (now 89)

A Quiet Place in the Country

1968 6.2

as Flavia

Age 31 (now 89)

Isadora

1968 6.2

as Isadora Duncan

Age 31 (now 89)

Red and Blue

1968 7.5

as Jacky

Age 31 (now 89)

The Charge of the Light Brigade

1968 6.2

as Mrs Clarissa Morris

Age 31 (now 89)

Red, White, and Zero

1968 5.0

as Jacky

Age 30 (now 89)

Camelot

1967 6.2

as Guenevere

Age 30 (now 89)

Tonite Let's All Make Love in London

1967 4.5

as Self

Age 30 (now 89)

The Sailor from Gibraltar

1967 5.8

as Sheila

Age 29 (now 89)

Blow-Up

1966 7.3

as Jane

Age 29 (now 89)

A Man for All Seasons

1966 7.3

as Anne Boleyn

Age 29 (now 89)

Morgan: A Suitable Case for Treatment

1966 6.3

as Leonie Delt

Age 29 (now 89)

Maggie

1964

as Maggie

Age 26 (now 89)

As You Like It

1963 7.0

as Rosalind

Age 26 (now 89)

A Sunday in September

1961

as Self

Age 24 (now 89)

Circus at Clopton Hall

1961

as Narrator

Age 23 (now 89)

Behind the Mask

1958 6.4

as Pamela Benson-Gray

Age 21 (now 89)

The Boy at the Back of the Class

as Queen