Vanessa Redgrave

Acting

Born: 1937-01-30
From: Greenwich, London, England, UK
Gender: Female
Popularity: 1.7

Also Known As

Vanessa Redgreiv바네사 레드그레이브Ванесса Редгрейв

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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Awards & Nominations18 won · 8 nominated

🏆 Won

European Film Academy Lifetime Achievement Award

2023
🏆 Won

Dame Commander of the Order of the British Empire

2022
Nominated

Tony Award for Best Actress in a Play

2011
🏆 Won

BAFTA Fellowship

2010
Nominated

Tony Award for Best Actress in a Play

2007
🏆 Won

Tony Award for Best Actress in a Play

Long Day's Journey into Night

2003
🏆 Won

Golden Globe Award for Best Supporting Actress – Series, Miniseries or Television Film

If These Walls Could Talk 2

2001
🏆 Won

Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Miniseries or a Movie

If These Walls Could Talk 2

2000
🏆 Won

Donostia Award

1999
Nominated

Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress

Howards End

1993
Nominated

Academy Award for Best Actress

The Bostonians

1985
🏆 Won

Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actress in a Miniseries or a Movie

Playing for Time

1981
🏆 Won

Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress

Julia

1978
🏆 Won

Golden Globe Award for Best Supporting Actress – Motion Picture

Julia

1978
Nominated

Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress

Julia

1978
Nominated

Academy Award for Best Actress

Mary, Queen of Scots

1972
🏆 Won

Cannes Film Festival Award for Best Actress

Isadora

1969
Nominated

Academy Award for Best Actress

Isadora

1969
Nominated

Academy Award for Best Actress

Morgan - A Suitable Case for Treatment

1967
🏆 Won

Cannes Film Festival Award for Best Actress

Morgan - A Suitable Case for Treatment

1966
🏆 Won

Evening Standard Theatre Award for Best Actress

🏆 Won

Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Actress in a Play

🏆 Won

Dame Commander of the Order of the British Empire

🏆 Won

Commander of the Order of the British Empire

🏆 Won

Commandeur des Arts et des Lettres

🏆 Won

Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by a Female Actor in a Miniseries or Television Movie

Acting182 titles

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Production4 titles