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

• 2026Cold Storage — Mary Rooney
• 2026The Crystal Planet — The Matriarch (voice)
• 2025The Estate — Executive Producer
• 2023On Our Way
• 2022The Lost Girls — Great Nana
• 2021Alice, Through the Looking — Narrator
• 2021Finding You — Cathleen Sweeney
• 2020Entree Des Artists — Henry's Grandmother
• 2019Georgetown — Elsa Brecht
• 2019Mrs Lowry & Son — Elizabeth Lowry
• 2019The Aspern Papers — Juliana Bordereau
• 2017Film Stars Don't Die in Liverpool — Jeanne McDougall
• Man in an Orange Shirt — Flora Berryman
• 2017Sea Sorrow — Self, Director, Screenplay
• 2017The Secret Scripture — Old Roseanne McNulty
• 2016Almeida Theatre Live: Richard III — Queen Margaret
• 2015The Go-Between — Older Marian
• Black Box — Dr. Hartramph
• 2014Foxcatcher — Jean du Pont
• 2014The Wound and the Gift
• 2013The Butler — Annabeth Westfall
• 2013The Thirteenth Tale — Vida Winter
• Call the Midwife — Jennifer Worth (voice)
• 2012Last Will. & Testament
• Playhouse Presents — Elderly Woman
• Political Animals — Diane Nash
• 2012Song for Marion — Marion
• 2012The Last Will and Testament of Rosalind Leigh — Rosalind Leigh
• 2011Anonymous — Queen Elizabeth I
• 2011Cars 2 — The Queen / Mama Topolino (voice)
• 2011Coriolanus — Volumnia
• 2010Letters to Juliet — Claire
• 2010Miral — Bertha Spafford
• 2010Robinson in Ruins — Narrator
• 2010The Whistleblower — Madeleine Rees
• 2009God, Smell and Her
• The Day of the Triffids — Durrant
• 2008Ein Job — Hannah Silbergrau
• 2008Restraint — Sky News Reader #2
• 2007Atonement — Briony Tallis (Age 77)
• 2007Dealing and Wheeling in Small Arms — Narrator
• 2007Evening — Ann Lord
• 2007How About You... — Georgia Platts
• 2007The Riddle — Roberta Elliot
• 2007The Shell Seekers — Penelope Keeling
• 2006The Thief Lord — Sister Antonia
• 2006Venus — Valerie
• 2005Short Order — Marianne
• 2005The Keeper: The Legend of Omar Khayyam — Miss Sangorski
• 2005The White Countess — Princess Vera Belinskya
• 2004The Fever — The woman, Executive Producer
• 2003Byron — Lady Melbourne
• Byron — Lady Melbourne
• 2003Good Boy! — The Greater Dane (voice)
• Nip/Tuck — Dr.Erica Noughton, Dr. Erica Noughton
• 2002Crime and Punishment — Rodion's mother
• 2002The Gathering Storm — Clemmie Churchill
• 2002The Locket — Esther Huish
• 2001Escape to Life: The Erika and Klaus Mann Story — (voice)
• Jack and the Beanstalk: The Real Story — Countess Wilhelmina
• 2001The Pledge — Annalise Hansen
• 20001961 — Edith Tree
• 2000A Rumor of Angels — Maddy Bennett
• 2000Exile in Buyukada — Narrator
• 2000If These Walls Could Talk 2 — Edith Tree
• 2000Mirka — Kalsan
• 2000The Adventures of Young Indiana Jones: Love's Sweet Song — Vicky's Mother
• 2000Uninvited — Mrs. Rutterburn
• 1999Cradle Will Rock — Countess Constance La Grave
• 1999Girl, Interrupted — Dr. Wick
• 1998Deep Impact — Robin Lerner
• 1998Déjà Vu — Skelly
• 1998Lulu on the Bridge — Catherine Moore
• 1997Bella Mafia — Graziella Luciano
• 1997Mrs. Dalloway — Mrs. Clarissa Dalloway
• 1997Smilla's Sense of Snow — Elsa Lübing
• 1997Wilde — Lady Speranza Wilde
• 1996Mission: Impossible — Max
• 1996The Willows in Winter — Grandmother / Narrator
• 1996Two Mothers for Zachary — Nancy Shaffell
• 1995A Month by the Lake — Miss Bentley
• 1995Down Came a Blackbird — Anna Lenke
• 1995The Wind in the Willows — Grandmother / Narrator (voice)
• 1994Great Moments in Aviation — Dr. Angela Bead
• 1994Little Odessa — Irina Shapira
• 1994Sparrow — Suor Agata
• 1993A Wall of Silence — Kate Benson
• 1993Mother's Boys — Lydia
• 1993The House of the Spirits — Nivea del Valle
• 1993They — Florence Latimer
• 1992Howards End — Ruth Wilcox
• 1991The Ballad of the Sad Cafe — Miss Amelia
• 1991What Ever Happened to Baby Jane? — Blanche Hudson
• Young Catherine — Empress Elizabeth
• 1990Breath of Life — Suor Crocifissa
• 1990Orpheus Descending — Lady Torrance
• 1990Romeo.Juliet — Mother Capulet (voice)
• 1990Stalin's Funeral — English journalist
• 1988A Man for All Seasons — Lady Alice More
• 1988Consuming Passions — Mrs. Garza
• 1987Comrades — Mrs. Carlyle
• 1987Prick Up Your Ears — Peggy Ramsay
• Peter the Great — Sophia
• 1986Second Serve — Renee Richards
• Screen Two — Dr. Angela Bead
• 1985Steaming — Nancy
• 1985Three Sovereigns for Sarah — Sarah Cloyce
• Three Sovereigns for Sarah — Sarah Cloyce
• 1985Wetherby — Jean Travers
• 1984Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs — The Evil Queen
• 1984The Bostonians — Olive Chancellor
• 1983Sing Sing — la Regina
• Wagner — Cosima von Bulow
• American Playhouse — Sarah Cloyce
• Faerie Tale Theatre — The Evil Queen
• 1982My Body, My Child — Leenie Cabrezi
• 1981Occupied Palestine — Producer
• 1980Playing for Time — Fania Fenelon
• 1980The Fifth War
• 1979Agatha — Agatha Christie
• 1979Bear Island — Heddi Lindquist
• 1979Yanks — Helen
• 1978The Palestinian — Self, Producer
• The South Bank Show
• 1977Julia — Julia
• 1976The Seven-Per-Cent Solution — Lola Deveraux
• Arena
• 1975Out of Season — Ann
• 1974Murder on the Orient Express — Mary Debenham
• A Picture of Katherine Mansfield — Katherine Mansfield
• 1972Right to Work March
• 1971Mary, Queen of Scots — Mary, Queen of Scots
• 1971The Devils — Sister Jeanne des Anges
• 1971The Trojan Women — Andromache
• 1971Vacation — Immacolata Meneghelli
• 1970Dropout — Mary
• 1970The Body — Narrator
• 1969No Arks — Narrator
• 1969Oh! What a Lovely War — Sylvia Pankhurst
• 1968A Quiet Place in the Country — Flavia
• 1968Isadora — Isadora Duncan
• 1968Red and Blue — Jacky
• 1968Red, White, and Zero — Jacky
• 1968The Charge of the Light Brigade — Mrs Clarissa Morris
• 1968The Sea Gull — Nina
• 1967Camelot — Guenevere
• One Pair of Eyes
• 1967The Sailor from Gibraltar — Sheila
• 1966A Man for All Seasons — Anne Boleyn
• 1966Blow-Up — Jane
• 1966Morgan: A Suitable Case for Treatment — Leonie Delt
• 1964Maggie — Maggie
• 1963As You Like It — Rosalind
• 1961Circus at Clopton Hall — Narrator
• Sunday-Night Play — Monica Claverton-Ferry
• 1958Behind the Mask — Pamela Benson-Gray
• Theatre Night — Caroline Lester
• Armchair Theatre — Sally
• Hallmark Hall of Fame — Esther Huish
• All That I Am
• The Boy at the Back of the Class — Queen
• The Turning Door — (voice)

Appearances as themselves (37)

• 2025Common Wealth — Self
• 2024Merchant Ivory — Self
• 2022The Ghost of Richard Harris — Self
• 2021Alida Valli: In Her Own Words — Self
• 2020Katherine Jenkins Christmas Spectacular — Self
• 2018Nothing Like a Dame — Self (archive footage)
• 2017Joan Didion: The Center Will Not Hold — Self
• 2016Electric Burma: The Concert for Aung San Suu Kyi - Words I Never Said — Self
• 2014Once Upon a Time... Little Odessa — Self
• Shakespeare Uncovered — Herself
• 2006Eugene O’Neill: A Documentary Film — Self
• 2005Elio Petri: Notes About a Filmmaker — Self
• 2003Thank You, Doctor Rey — herself
• 2002Hell on Earth: The Desecration & Resurrection of The Devils — Self
• 2002Searching for Debra Winger — Self
• The Early Show — Self
• Sabine Christiansen — Self
• 1997Behind the Mask : The IRA and Sinn Fein — Self
• 1997Michael Redgrave: My Father — Self
• The View — Self
• 1996Looking for Richard — Self - Interviewee
• Inside the Actors Studio — Self
• Hollywood U.K.: British Cinema in the Sixties — Self
• Intimate Portrait — Self
• Seitenblicke — self
• Goldene Kamera — Self
• Wetten, dass..? — Self
• NDR Talk Show — Self
• Film '72 — Self
• 1970A Mother with Two Children Expecting Her Third — Herself
• Omnibus — Self
• 1967Tonite Let's All Make Love in London — Self
• 1961A Sunday in September — Self
• Tony Awards — Self - Presenter, Self - Winner, Self - Nominee
• The Oscars — Self
• Today — Self
• Golden Globe Awards — Self - Nominee