Vanessa Redgrave

RECENT CREDITS
Dealing and Wheeling in Small Arms (FILM)  Jan. 21, 2009
How About You (FILM)  Nov. 14, 2008
Short Order (FILM)  May. 16, 2008
Atonement (FILM)  Dec. 7, 2007
Evening (FILM)  Jun. 29, 2007
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HIGHLIGHTS
On the night of her birth, Laurence Olivier, who was appearing with her father Michael in a production of Hamlet, announced from the Old Vic Theatre stage, "Tonight, a great actress has be
Made both her film debut (in the 1958 British medical drama Behind the Mask) and London stage debut (in A Touch of the Sun) playing the daughter of her father's character.
Joined the Royal Shakespeare Company in 1960, acting alongside Diana Rigg and Judi Dench.
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All Credits

Film Name / TV Show Name (Episode Name)
Role
Category

Dealing and Wheeling in Small Arms  2009 -Narrator
Voice
Film


How About You  2008 -Georgia
Actor
Film


Atonement  2007 -Older Briony
Actor
Film


Evening  2007 -Ann Lord
Actor
Film


Venus  2006 -Valerie
Actor
Film


The White Countess  2005 -Aunt Sara
Actor
Film


The Keeper: The Legend of Omar Khayyam  2005 -The Countess
Actor
Film


Merci Docteur Rey!  2004 -Herself
Actor
Film


Good Boy!  2003 -The Greater Dane
Voice
Film


A Rumor of Angels  2002
Actor
Film


The Pledge  2001 -Annalise Hansen
Actor
Film


Girl, Interrupted  1999 -Dr. Wick
Actor
Film


Cradle Will Rock  1999 -Countess LaGrange
Actor
Film


Wilde  1998 -Wilde's Mother
Actor
Film


Mission: Impossible  1996 -Max
Actor
Film


Howards End  1992 -Ruth Wilcox
Actor
Film


Consuming Passions  1988 -Mrs. Garza
Actor
Film


Prick Up Your Ears  1987 -Peggy Ramsay
Actor
Film


Steaming  1986 -Nancy
Actor
Film


La Vacanza  1972 -Immacolata
Actor
Film


Dropout  1971
Actor
Film


A Man for All Seasons  
Actor
TV


Byron   -Lady Melbourne
Actor
TV


Down Came a Blackbird   -Anna Lenke
Actor
TV


If These Walls Could Talk 2   -Edith
Actor
TV


My Body, My Child  
Actor
TV


Nip/Tuck  2004-2005 -Erica Naughton, Erica Noughton
Actor, Actor
TV
Expand


Orpheus Descending  
Actor
TV


Playing for Time   -Fania Fenelon
Actor
TV


Second Serve  
Actor
TV


They Watch   -Florence
Actor
TV


Two Mothers for Zachary   -Nancy Shaffell
Actor
TV


What Ever Happened to Baby Jane?   -Blanche Hudson
Actor
TV


Short Order  2008
Actor
Film


Escape to Life: The Erika and Klaus Mann Story  2002 -Erika Mann
Voice
Film


Deep Impact  1998 -Robin Lerner
Actor
Film


Deja Vu  1998 -Skelly
Actor
Film


Mrs. Dalloway  1998 -Clarissa Dalloway
Actor
Film


Lulu On The Bridge  1998 -Catherine Moore
Actor
Film


Smilla's Sense of Snow  1997 -Elsa Lubing
Actor
Film


Looking for Richard  1996 -Interviewee
Actor
Film


James and the Giant Peach  1996
Actor
Film


A Month by the Lake  1995 -Miss Bentley
Actor
Film


Little Odessa  1995 -Irina Shapira
Actor
Film


The House of the Spirits  1994 -Nivea
Actor
Film


Un Muro de Silencio  1993 -Kate Benson
Actor
Film


The Ballad of the Sad Cafe  1991 -Miss Amelia
Actor
Film


Young Catherine  1991 -Empress Elizabeth
Actor
Film


Comrades  1989 -Mrs. Carlyle
Actor
Film


The Bostonians  1984 -Olive Chancellor
Actor
Film


Yanks  1979 -Helen
Actor
Film


Agatha  1979 -Agatha Christie
Actor
Film


Julia  1977 -Julia
Actor
Film


The Seven-Percent Solution  1976 -Lola Deveraux
Actor
Film


Out of Season  1975 -Ann
Actor
Film


Murder on the Orient Express  1974 -Mary Debenham
Actor
Film


Mary, Queen of Scots  1971 -Mary, Queen of Scots
Actor
Film


The Trojan Women  1971 -Andromache
Actor
Film


Un Tranquillo Posto di Campagna  1970 -Flavia
Actor
Film


Oh! What a Lovely War  1969 -Sylvia Pankhurst
Actor
Film


Isadora  1968 -Isadora Duncan
Actor
Film


The Sea Gull  1968 -Nina
Actor
Film


Smashing Time  1967
Actor
Film


The Sailor from Gibraltar  1967 -Sheila
Actor
Film


A Man for All Seasons  1966 -Anne Boleyn
Actor
Film


Blow-Up  1966 -Jane
Actor
Film


Morgan!  1966 -Leonie Delt
Actor
Film


The Charge of the Light Brigade  1936 -Clarissa
Actor
Film


The Devils   -Sister Jeanne
Actor
Film


The Fever   -Woman
Producer, Actor, Executive Producer
Film


The Gathering Storm  
Actor
Film


The Body   -Narrator
Actor
Film


Storia Di Una Capinera   -Sister Agata
Actor
Film


The Thief Lord  
Actor
Film


The Riddle  
Actor
Film


The Locket   -Esther Huish
Actor
Film


Uninvited   -Mrs. Ruttenburn
Actor
Film


The Wind in the Willows   -Narrator
Actor
Film


They   -Florence Latimer
Actor
Film


Three Sovereigns for Sarah   -Sarah Cloyce
Actor
Film


Two Mothers for Zachary   -Nancy Shaffell
Actor
Film


Wetherby   -Jean Travers
Actor
Film


What Ever Happened to Baby Jane?   -Blanche Hudson
Actor
Film


Mother's Boys   -Lydia
Actor
Film


Mirka  
Actor
Film


Jack and the Beanstalk: The Real Story   -Countess Wilhelmina
Actor
Film


If These Walls Could Talk 2   -Edith
Actor
Film


Red and Blue  
Actor
Film


Romeo - Juliet  
Voice
Film


Second Serve   -Richard/Renee
Actor
Film


Shades of Fear   -Dr. Angela Bead
Actor
Film


Orpheus Descending   -Lady Torrance
Actor
Film


My Body, My Child   -Leenie Cabrezi
Actor
Film


Peter the Great  
Actor
Film


Playing for Time   -Fania Fenelon
Actor
Film


Pokhorony Stalina  
Actor
Film


Breath of Life  
Actor
Film


Camelot   -Guenevere
Actor
Film


Di Ceria Dell 'Untore   -Sister Crucifix
Actor
Film


Down Came a Blackbird   -Anna Lenke
Actor
Film


Exile in Buyukada   -Narrator
Voice
Film


Dropout!  
Actor
Film


Crime and Punishment   -Mrs. Raskolnikov
Actor
Film


As You Like It   -Rosalind
Actor
Film


Bear Island   -Heidi Lindquist
Actor
Film


Behind the Mask  
Actor
Film


Behind the Mask   -Pamela Gray
Actor
Film


A Man for All Seasons   -Mistress More
Actor
Film


Letters To Juliet  2010
Actor
Film




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Highlights

On the night of her birth, Laurence Olivier, who was appearing with her father Michael in a production of Hamlet, announced from the Old Vic Theatre stage, "Tonight, a great actress has be
Made both her film debut (in the 1958 British medical drama Behind the Mask) and London stage debut (in A Touch of the Sun) playing the daughter of her father's character.
Joined the Royal Shakespeare Company in 1960, acting alongside Diana Rigg and Judi Dench.
Earned the first of several Oscar nominations for the 1966 dramedy Morgan: A Suitable Case for Treatment; her competition included her sister, Lynn, who was nominated for Georgy
Appeared with her mother, Rachel Kempson, brother Corin and daughters Natasha and Joely in her ex-husband Tony Richardson's 1968 remake of The Charge of the Light Brigade
Ran for the British Parliament as a member of the Workers Revolutionary Party in 1974 and '79 and, with Corin, launched Britain's Peace and Progress party in 2004.
Won her first Emmy Award for her U.S. TV debut, the 1980 CBS Holocaust drama Playing for Time.


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