Acting credits
181
Prolific
Very extensive acting filmography.
Actor
Vanessa Redgrave
Acting
Career Snapshot
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TMDB popularity
2.6
Moderate attention
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Movies: 150Series: 32Crew credits: 5
TMDB ID: 13333
IMDb ID: nm0000603
Known for: Acting
Born: January 30, 1937
Age: 89
Place of birth: Greenwich, London, England, UK
Gender: Female
Adult content flag: No
Career span: 1944 - 2026
Years active: 83
Average TMDB rating: 6.43
Wikidata: Q347879
Also known as
Vanessa Redgreiv • 바네사 레드그레이브 • Ванесса Редгрейв
Other jobs
Executive Producer (2)Producer (2)Director (1)
Biography
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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Movies
Movie credits linked with Vanessa Redgrave.
6.7
Cold Storage
as Ma Rooney
2026 Movie
The Estate
2025 Movie
Common Wealth
as Self
2025 Movie
7.7
Merchant Ivory
as Self
2024 Movie
3.5
On Our Way
2023 Movie
7.5
The Ghost of Richard Harris
as Self
2022 Movie
5.1
The Lost Girls
as Great Nana
2022 Movie
Alice, Through the Looking
as Narrator
2021 Movie
9.2
Alida Valli: In Her Own Words
as Self
2021 Movie
6.9
Finding You
as Cathleen Sweeney
2021 Movie
8.5
Katherine Jenkins Christmas Spectacular
as Self
2020 Movie
6.4
Mrs Lowry & Son
as Elizabeth Lowry
2019 Movie
5.9
Georgetown
as Elsa Brecht
2019 Movie
4.5
The Aspern Papers
as Juliana Bordereau
2019 Movie
6.8
Nothing Like a Dame
as Self (archive footage)
2018 Movie
6.4
Film Stars Don't Die in Liverpool
as Jeanne McDougall
2017 Movie
5.3
Sea Sorrow
as Self
2017 Movie
7.3
Joan Didion: The Center Will Not Hold
as Self
2017 Movie
7.3
The Secret Scripture
as Old Roseanne McNulty
2017 Movie
Electric Burma: The Concert for Aung San Suu Kyi - Words I Never Said
as Self
2016 Movie
7.7
Almeida Theatre Live: Richard III
as Queen Margaret
2016 Movie
6.8
The Go-Between
as Older Marian
2015 Movie
6.7
Foxcatcher
as Jean du Pont
2014 Movie
The Wound and the Gift
2014 Movie
Series
Series
Series credits linked with Vanessa Redgrave.
7.5
Man in an Orange Shirt
as Flora Berryman • 2 eps
2017 Series
6.4
Black Box
as Dr. Hartramph • 13 eps
2014 Series
7.1
Political Animals
as Diane Nash • 1 eps
2012 Series
7.5
Shakespeare Uncovered
as Herself • 1 eps
2012 Series
6.0
Playhouse Presents
as Elderly Woman • 1 eps
2012 Series
7.5
Call the Midwife
as Jennifer Worth (voice) • 117 eps
2012 Series
5.9
The Day of the Triffids
as Durrant • 2 eps
2009 Series
7.2
Nip/Tuck
as Dr.Erica Noughton • 7 eps
2003 Series
5.0
Byron
as Lady Melbourne • 2 eps
2003 Series
6.8
Jack and the Beanstalk: The Real Story
as Countess Wilhelmina • 2 eps
2001 Series
6.2
The Early Show
as Self • 1 eps
1999 Series
4.3
The View
as Self • 1 eps
1997 Series
7.6
Inside the Actors Studio
as Self • 1 eps
1994 Series
4.5
Intimate Portrait
as Self • 1 eps
1993 Series
Hollywood U.K.: British Cinema in the Sixties
as Self • 2 eps
1993 Series
5.7
Young Catherine
as Empress Elizabeth • 2 eps
1991 Series
7.9
Peter the Great
as Sophia • 4 eps
1986 Series
Three Sovereigns for Sarah
as Sarah Cloyce • 3 eps
1985 Series
6.3
Wagner
as Cosima von Bulow • 10 eps
1983 Series
8.1
Faerie Tale Theatre
as The Evil Queen • 1 eps
1982 Series
5.3
Wetten, dass..?
as Self • 1 eps
1981 Series
6.5
NDR Talk Show
as Self • 1 eps
1979 Series
5.5
A Picture of Katherine Mansfield
as Katherine Mansfield • 6 eps
1973 Series
7.2
Omnibus
as Self • 1 eps
1967 Series