Acting · Greenwich, London, England, UK · Born January 30, 1937
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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2002
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2000
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1999
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1999
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1998
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1998
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1998
as Skelly
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1998
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1997
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1997
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1997
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1997
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1997
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1997
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1996
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1996
as Self - Interviewee
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1996
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1996
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1995
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1995
as Anna Lenke
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1995
as Miss Bentley
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1994
as Irina Shapira
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1994
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as Dr. Angela Bead
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1993
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1993
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1992
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1991
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1991
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1990
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1990
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1990
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1987
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1987
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1986
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1986
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1985
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1985
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1985
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1985
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1985
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1984
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1984
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1983
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1982
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1982
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1981
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1980
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1980
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1979
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1979
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1979
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1979
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1977
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1977
as Self
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1976
as Lola Deveraux
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1975
as Ann
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1974
as Mary Debenham
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1973
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1972
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1971
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1971
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1971
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1971
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1971
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1970
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1970
as Narrator
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1970
as Herself
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1969
as Narrator
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1969
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1968
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1968
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1968
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1968
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1968
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1968
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1967
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1967
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1967
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1967
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1967
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1966
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1966
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1966
as Leonie Delt
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1964
as Maggie
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1963
as Rosalind
MovieA Sunday in September
1961
as Self
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1961
as Narrator
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1960
as Monica Claverton-Ferry
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1958
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1957
as Caroline Lester
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1956
as Sally
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1956
as Self - Presenter
TVThe Oscars
1953
as Self
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1952
as Self
TVHallmark Hall of Fame
1951
as Esther Huish
TVGolden Globe Awards
1944
as Self - Nominee
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