Acting credits
187
Prolific
Very extensive acting filmography.
Actor
Vanessa Redgrave
Acting
Career Snapshot
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TMDB popularity
2.5
Moderate attention
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Movies: 152Series: 36Crew 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: 6.44
Wikidata: Q347879
Also known as
Vanessa Redgreiv • Dame Vanessa Redgrave
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.
The Crystal Planet
as The Matriarch (voice)
2026 Movie
Cold Storage
as Mary Rooney
2026 Movie
The Estate
2025 Movie
Common Wealth
as Self
2025 Movie
Merchant Ivory
as Self
2024 Movie
On Our Way
2023 Movie
The Ghost of Richard Harris
as Self
2022 Movie
The Lost Girls
as Great Nana
2022 Movie
Alice, Through the Looking
as Narrator
2021 Movie
Alida Valli: In Her Own Words
as Self
2021 Movie
Finding You
as Cathleen Sweeney
2021 Movie
Katherine Jenkins Christmas Spectacular
as Self
2020 Movie
Mrs Lowry & Son
as Elizabeth Lowry
2019 Movie
Georgetown
as Elsa Brecht
2019 Movie
The Aspern Papers
as Juliana Bordereau
2019 Movie
Nothing Like a Dame
as Self (archive footage)
2018 Movie
Film Stars Don't Die in Liverpool
as Jeanne McDougall
2017 Movie
Sea Sorrow
as Self
2017 Movie
Joan Didion: The Center Will Not Hold
as Self
2017 Movie
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
Almeida Theatre Live: Richard III
as Queen Margaret
2016 Movie
The Go-Between
as Older Marian
2015 Movie
Foxcatcher
as Jean du Pont
2014 Movie
Series
Series credits linked with Vanessa Redgrave.
Man in an Orange Shirt
as Flora Berryman • 2 eps
2017 Series
Black Box
as Dr. Hartramph • 13 eps
2014 Series
Political Animals
as Diane Nash • 1 eps
2012 Series
Shakespeare Uncovered
as Herself • 1 eps
2012 Series
Playhouse Presents
as Elderly Woman • 1 eps
2012 Series
Call the Midwife
as Jennifer Worth (voice) • 117 eps
2012 Series
The Day of the Triffids
as Durrant • 2 eps
2009 Series
Nip/Tuck
as Dr.Erica Noughton • 7 eps
2003 Series
Byron
as Lady Melbourne • 2 eps
2003 Series
Jack and the Beanstalk: The Real Story
as Countess Wilhelmina • 2 eps
2001 Series
The Early Show
as Self • 1 eps
1999 Series
The View
as Self • 1 eps
1997 Series
Inside the Actors Studio
as Self • 1 eps
1994 Series
Intimate Portrait
as Self • 1 eps
1993 Series
Hollywood U.K.: British Cinema in the Sixties
as Self • 2 eps
1993 Series
Young Catherine
as Empress Elizabeth • 2 eps
1991 Series
Peter the Great
as Sophia • 4 eps
1986 Series
Screen Two
as Dr. Angela Bead • 1 eps
1985 Series
Three Sovereigns for Sarah
as Sarah Cloyce • 3 eps
1985 Series
Wagner
as Cosima von Bulow • 10 eps
1983 Series
Faerie Tale Theatre
as The Evil Queen • 1 eps
1982 Series
American Playhouse
as Sarah Cloyce • 3 eps
1982 Series
Wetten, dass..?
as Self • 1 eps
1981 Series
NDR Talk Show
as Self • 1 eps
1979 Series