Vanessa Redgrave

    Known For

    Acting

    Birthday

    January 30, 1937 (88 years old)

    Place of Birth

    Greenwich, London, England, UK

    Vanessa Redgrave

    Biography

    Vanessa Redgrave CBE 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.

    Known For

    • Mission: Impossible

      Mission: Impossible

      1996

    • Cars 2

      Cars 2

      2011

    • Atonement

      Atonement

      2007

    • Girl, Interrupted

      Girl, Interrupted

      1999

    • Deep Impact

      Deep Impact

      1998

    • The Butler

      The Butler

      2013

    • Letters to Juliet

      Letters to Juliet

      2010

    • Foxcatcher

      Foxcatcher

      2014

    • Murder on the Orient Express

      Murder on the Orient Express

      1974

    • Blow-Up

      Blow-Up

      1966

    • The Pledge

      The Pledge

      2001

    • Anonymous

      Anonymous

      2011

    • The House of the Spirits

      The House of the Spirits

      1993

    • The Whistleblower

      The Whistleblower

      2010

    • Howards End

      Howards End

      1992