Vanessa Redgrave biography
Vanessa Redgrave is a British actress and activist (born 1937), born on 30 January 1937 in Blackheath.
Vanessa Redgrave's screen career began in 1958 with Behind the Mask, playing Pamela Gray.
Vanessa Redgrave has appeared in 103 films and 35 television or streaming titles.
The most recent films are Cold Storage (2026), The Crystal Planet [hr; cz] (2026), The Estate (2025).
Honours include Commander of the Order of the British Empire, Donostia Award and Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress.
Coming up next: The Turning Door.
- Also known as
- Dame Vanessa Redgrave
- Born
- 30 January 1937 (age 89)
- Birthplace
- Blackheath
- Work
- Screenwriter, Stage actor, Film actor, Film director, Actor
- Film industries
- Hollywood and beyond
- Years active
- 1957 to present
- Awards
- Commander of the Order of the British Empire
- Donostia Award
- Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress
- Tony Award for Best Actress in a Play
- Commandeur des Arts et des Lettres
- Golden Globe Award for Best Supporting Actress , Motion Picture
Vanessa Redgrave filmography
104 films and 35 television or streaming titles, newest first.
Films
| Year | Title | Role | Where | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| The Turning Door | TBA | Upcoming | ||
| 2026 | Cold Storage | Mary Rooney | ||
| 2026 | The Crystal Planet [hr; cz] | The Matriarch | Voice only (English dub) | |
| 2025 | The Estate | |||
| 2022 | The Lost Girls | Great Nana | ||
| 2021 | Alice, Through the Looking | The Narrator | Voice role | |
| 2021 | Finding You | Cathleen Sweeney | ||
| 2019 | Mrs Lowry & Son | Elizabeth Lowry | ||
| 2019 | Georgetown | Elsa Brecht | ||
| 2018 | The Aspern Papers | Juliana Bordereau | ||
| 2017 | Film Stars Don't Die in Liverpool | Jeanne McDougall | ||
| 2017 | Sea Sorrow | , N/a | Director | |
| 2016 | The Secret Scripture | Old Roseanne McNulty | ||
| 2014 | Foxcatcher | Jean du Pont | ||
| 2013 | The Butler | Annabeth Westfall | ||
| 2012 | Song for Marion | Marion | ||
| 2012 | The Last Will and Testament of Rosalind Leigh | Rosalind Leigh | ||
| 2011 | Anonymous | Queen Elizabeth I | ||
| 2011 | Coriolanus | Volumnia | ||
| 2011 | Cars 2 | Mama Topolino / Queen | Voice role | |
| 2010 | The Whistleblower | Madeleine Rees | ||
| 2010 | Letters to Juliet | Claire Smith-Wyman | ||
| 2010 | Robinson in Ruins | English | ||
| 2010 | Miral | Bertha Spafford | ||
| 2010 | Eva | Eva |
Show all 104 films
| Year | Title | Role | Where | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2010 | Animals United | Winnie | Voice only (English dub) | |
| 2008 | Restraint | Sky News Reader | ||
| 2008 | God, Smell and Her | |||
| 2007 | Atonement | Older Briony Tallis | ||
| 2007 | The Riddle | Roberta Elliot | ||
| 2007 | How About You | Georgia Platts | ||
| 2007 | Evening | Ann Lord | ||
| 2006 | Venus | Valerie | ||
| 2006 | The Thief Lord | Sister Antonia | ||
| 2005 | The White Countess | Vera Belinskya | ||
| 2005 | The Keeper: The Legend of Omar Khayyam | The Heiress | ||
| 2005 | Short Order | Marianne | ||
| 2004 | The Fever | Woman | Also executive producer | |
| 2003 | Good Boy! | The Greater Dane | Voice role | |
| 2002 | Searching for Debra Winger | English | ||
| 2002 | Merci Docteur Rey | English | ||
| 2002 | Crime and Punishment | Rodian's Mother | ||
| 2001 | The Pledge | Annalise Hansen | ||
| 2000 | A Rumor of Angels | Maddy Bennett | ||
| 2000 | Mirka | Kalsan | ||
| 1999 | Girl, Interrupted | Dr. Sonia Wick | ||
| 1999 | Uninvited | Mrs. Ruttenburn | ||
| 1999 | Cradle Will Rock | Countess Constance LaGrange | ||
| 1998 | Deep Impact | Robin Lerner | ||
| 1998 | Lulu on the Bridge | Catherine Moore | ||
| 1997 | Smilla's Sense of Snow | Elsa Lubing | ||
| 1997 | Wilde | Lady Speranza Wilde | ||
| 1997 | Mrs. Dalloway | Clarissa Dalloway | ||
| 1997 | Déjà Vu | Skelly | ||
| 1996 | Looking for Richard | English | ||
| 1996 | Mission: Impossible | Max | ||
| 1995 | A Month by the Lake | Miss Bentley | ||
| 1994 | Little Odessa | Irina Shapira | ||
| 1994 | Mother's Boys | Lydia Madigan | ||
| 1993 | The House of the Spirits | Nivea del Valle | ||
| 1993 | Sparrow | Sister Agata | Italian: Storia di una capinera | |
| 1993 | Great Moments in Aviation | Dr. Angela Bead | ||
| 1993 | A Wall of Silence | Kate Benson | Spanish: Un Muro de Silencio | |
| 1993 | They | Florence Latimer | ||
| 1992 | Howards End | Ruth Wilcox | Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress nomination | |
| 1991 | What Ever Happened to Baby Jane? | English | ||
| 1991 | The Ballad of the Sad Café | Miss Amelia | ||
| 1990 | Romeo.Juliet | Mother Capulet | ||
| 1990 | Pokhorony Stalina | Russian | ||
| 1990 | Breath of Life | Sister Crucifix | Italian: Diceria dell'untore | |
| 1990 | Stalin's Funeral | English journalist | ||
| 1988 | Consuming Passions | Mrs. Garza | ||
| 1987 | Prick Up Your Ears | Peggy Ramsay | ||
| 1986 | Comrades | Mrs. Carlyle | ||
| 1985 | Steaming | Nancy | ||
| 1985 | Wetherby | Jean Travers | ||
| 1984 | The Bostonians | Olive Chancellor | Academy Award for Best Actress nomination | |
| 1983 | Sing Sing | Queen | ||
| 1979 | Bear Island | Heddi Lindguist | ||
| 1979 | Yanks | Helen | ||
| 1979 | Agatha | Agatha Christie | ||
| 1977 | Julia | Julia | Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress winner | |
| 1976 | The Seven-Per-Cent Solution | Lola Deveraux | ||
| 1975 | Out of Season | Ann | ||
| 1974 | Murder on the Orient Express | Mary Debenham | ||
| 1971 | Mary, Queen of Scots | Mary, Queen of Scots | Academy Award for Best Actress nomination | |
| 1971 | The Trojan Women | Andromache | ||
| 1971 | The Devils | Sister Jeanne des Anges | ||
| 1971 | La vacanza | Italian | ||
| 1971 | Vacation | Immacolata Meneghelli | Italian: La vacanza | |
| 1970 | Dropout | Mary | ||
| 1969 | Oh! What a Lovely War | Sylvia Pankhurst | ||
| 1968 | The Sea Gull | Nina | ||
| 1968 | The Charge of the Light Brigade | Mrs. Clarissa Morris | ||
| 1968 | Isadora | Isadora Duncan | Academy Award for Best Actress nomination | |
| 1968 | A Quiet Place in the Country | Flavia | Italian: Un tranquillo posto di campagna | |
| 1967 | Tonite Let's All Make Love in London | English | ||
| 1967 | The Sailor from Gibraltar | Sheila | ||
| 1967 | Camelot | Guinevere | ||
| 1967 | Red, White and Zero | Jacky | Segment: Red and Blue (unreleased) | |
| 1966 | Blow-Up | Jane | ||
| 1966 | Morgan , A Suitable Case for Treatment | Leonie Delt | Academy Award for Best Actress nomination | |
| 1966 | A Man for All Seasons | Anne Boleyn | ||
| 1958 | Behind the Mask | Pamela Gray |
Television and streaming
| Year | Title | Role | Where | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2020 | Worzel Gummidge | Peg | Episode: "Saucy Nancy" | |
| 2017 | Man in an Orange Shirt | Flora | Miniseries | |
| 2015 | The Go-Between | Older Marian | Television film | |
| 2014 | Black Box | Dr. Helen Hartramph | Drama series; 1 season | |
| 2013 | The Thirteenth Tale | Vida Winter | Television film | |
| 2012 | Political Animals | Justice Diane Nash | Miniseries; 1 episode: "The Woman Problem" | |
| 2012 | Call the Midwife | Mature Jennifer Worth (narrator) | Drama series | |
| 2009 | The Day of the Triffids | Durrant | Miniseries; part two | |
| 2008 | Ein Job | Hannah Silbergrau | Television film | |
| 2006 | The Shell Seekers | Penelope Keeling | Miniseries | |
| 2004 | Nip/Tuck | Dr. Erica Noughton | 10 episodes | |
| 2003 | Byron | The Viscountess Melbourne | Television film | |
| 2002 | The Gathering Storm | Clementine Churchill | Television film | |
| 2002 | The Locket | Esther Huish | Television film | |
| 2001 | Jack and the Beanstalk: The Real Story | Countess Wilhelmina | Miniseries; also narrator | |
| 2000 | If These Walls Could Talk 2 | Edith Tress | ||
| 1997 | Bella Mafia | Graziella Luciano | Television film | |
| 1996 | Two Mothers for Zachary | Nancy Shaffell | Television film | |
| 1996 | The Willows in Winter | Grandmother (live-action) / Narrator (animated) | Television film | |
| 1995 | The Wind in the Willows | Grandmother (live-action) / Narrator (animated) | Television film | |
| 1995 | Down Came a Blackbird | Anna Lenke | Television film | |
| 1992 | The Young Indiana Jones Chronicles | Mrs. Prentiss | Episode: "London, May 1916" | |
| 1991 | Young Catherine | Empress Elizabeth of Russia | Television film | |
| 1991 | What Ever Happened to | Blanche Hudson | Television film | |
| 1990 | Orpheus Descending | Lady Torrance | Television film |
Show all 35 titles
| Year | Title | Role | Where | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1988 | A Man for All Seasons | Lady Alice More | Television film | |
| 1986 | Second Serve | Renée Richards | Television film | |
| 1986 | Peter the Great | Tsarevna Sophia of Russia | Miniseries | |
| 1985 | American Playhouse | Sarah Cloyce | Three-part series: Three Sovereigns for Sarah | |
| 1984 | Faerie Tale Theatre | The Evil Queen | Episode: Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs | |
| 1983 | Wagner | Cosima Wagner | Miniseries | |
| 1982 | My Body, My Child | Leenie Cabrezi | Television film | |
| 1980 | Playing for Time | Fania Fénelon | ||
| 1973 | A Picture of Katherine Mansfield | Katherine Mansfield | Television film | |
| 1966 | A Farewell to Arms | Nurse Catherine Barkley | Miniseries |