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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| 1 | Cold Storage (2026) | Mary Rooney | 7 | |
| 2 | The Ghost of Richard Harris (2022) | Self | - | - |
| 3 | Finding You (2021) | Cathleen Sweeney | 7.8 | |
| 4 | The Aspern Papers (2019) | Juliana Bordereau | - | - |
| 5 | Nothing Like a Dame (2018) | Self (archive footage) | 7.7 | |
| 6 | Film Stars Don't Die in Liverpool (2017) | Jeanne McDougall | 5.7 | |
| 7 | The Secret Scripture (2017) | Old Roseanne McNulty | 5.3 | |
| 8 | Joan Didion: The Center Will Not Hold (2017) | Self | 3 | |
| 9 | The Go-Between (2015) | Older Marian | - | - |
| 10 | Foxcatcher (2014) Oscars 2015 | Jean du Pont | 6.8 | |
| 11 | The Thirteenth Tale (2013) | Vida Winter | 7 | |
| 12 | The Butler (2013) | Annabeth Westfall | 7 | |
| 13 | Song for Marion (2012) | Marion | 6.5 | |
| 14 | The Last Will and Testament of Rosalind Leigh (2012) | Rosalind Leigh | 5.7 | |
| 15 | Cars 2 (2011) | The Queen / Mama Topolino (voice) | 6.2 | |
| 16 | Anonymous (2011) Oscars 2012 | Queen Elizabeth I | 6.4 | |
| 17 | Coriolanus (2011) | Volumnia | 5.8 | |
| 18 | The Whistleblower (2010) | Madeleine Rees | 7.3 | |
| 19 | Letters to Juliet (2010) | Claire | 6.9 | |
| 20 | Miral (2010) | Bertha Spafford | 8 | |
| 21 | Restraint (2008) | Sky News Reader #2 | 4.5 | |
| 22 | How About You... (2007) | Georgia Platts | - | - |
| 23 | The Riddle (2007) | Roberta Elliot | - | - |
| 24 | Evening (2007) | Ann Lord | 6 | |
| 25 | Atonement (2007) Oscars 2008 | Briony Tallis (Age 77) | 7.4 | |
| 26 | Venus (2006) | Valerie | 5 | |
| 27 | The Thief Lord (2006) | Sister Antonia | 4 | |
| 28 | Short Order (2005) | Marianne | 6 | |
| 29 | The White Countess (2005) | Princess Vera Belinskya | - | - |
| 30 | The Fever (2004) | The woman | - | - |
| 31 | Good Boy! (2003) | The Greater Dane (voice) | 6.5 | |
| 32 | The Gathering Storm (2002) | Clemmie Churchill | 10 | |
| 33 | Crime and Punishment (2002) | Rodion's mother | - | - |
| 34 | The Pledge (2001) | Annalise Hansen | 6.6 | |
| 35 | Uninvited (2000) | Mrs. Rutterburn | - | - |
| 36 | The Adventures of Young Indiana Jones: Love's Sweet Song (2000) | Vicky's Mother | - | - |
| 37 | If These Walls Could Talk 2 (2000) | Edith Tree | 7 | |
| 38 | Girl, Interrupted (1999) Oscars 2000 | Dr. Wick | 7.6 | |
| 39 | Lulu on the Bridge (1998) | Catherine Moore | - | - |
| 40 | Deep Impact (1998) | Robin Lerner | 6.4 | |
| 41 | Bella Mafia (1997) | Graziella Luciano | - | - |
| 42 | Mrs. Dalloway (1997) | Mrs. Clarissa Dalloway | 4 | |
| 43 | Smilla's Sense of Snow (1997) | Elsa Lübing | 6.3 | |
| 44 | Wilde (1997) | Lady Speranza Wilde | 5.5 | |
| 45 | Looking for Richard (1996) | Self - Interviewee | 7.3 | |
| 46 | Two Mothers for Zachary (1996) | Nancy Shaffell | 6 | |
| 47 | Mission: Impossible (1996) | Max | 7.3 | |
| 48 | A Month by the Lake (1995) | Miss Bentley | - | - |
| 49 | Little Odessa (1994) | Irina Shapira | 6 | |
| 50 | Sparrow (1994) | Suor Agata | 5 | |
| 51 | A Wall of Silence (1993) | Kate Benson | 4 | |
| 52 | Mother's Boys (1993) | Lydia | 6 | |
| 53 | The House of the Spirits (1993) | Nivea del Valle | 7.5 | |
| 54 | Howards End (1992) | Ruth Wilcox | 7 | |
| 55 | What Ever Happened to Baby Jane? (1991) | Blanche Hudson | - | - |
| 56 | A Man for All Seasons (1988) | Lady Alice More | - | - |
| 57 | Comrades (1987) | Mrs. Carlyle | 3 | |
| 58 | Prick Up Your Ears (1987) | Peggy Ramsay | 5 | |
| 59 | Wetherby (1985) | Jean Travers | 3 | |
| 60 | Steaming (1985) | Nancy | - | - |
| 61 | Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs (1984) | The Evil Queen | - | - |
| 62 | The Bostonians (1984) | Olive Chancellor | - | - |
| 63 | Agatha (1979) | Agatha Christie | - | - |
| 64 | Yanks (1979) | Helen | - | - |
| 65 | Bear Island (1979) | Heddi Lindquist | - | - |
| 66 | Julia (1977) | Julia | - | - |
| 67 | The Seven-Per-Cent Solution (1976) | Lola Deveraux | 7 | |
| 68 | Murder on the Orient Express (1974) | Mary Debenham | 7.1 | |
| 69 | The Devils (1971) | Sister Jeanne des Anges | 6.2 | |
| 70 | Mary, Queen of Scots (1971) | Mary, Queen of Scots | - | - |
| 71 | The Trojan Women (1971) | Andromache | 5.5 | |
| 72 | Oh! What a Lovely War (1969) | Sylvia Pankhurst | 6.5 | |
| 73 | A Quiet Place in the Country (1968) | Flavia | 6 | |
| 74 | The Charge of the Light Brigade (1968) | Mrs Clarissa Morris | 8 | |
| 75 | Camelot (1967) | Guenevere | 7 | |
| 76 | Morgan: A Suitable Case for Treatment (1966) | Leonie Delt | 6 | |
| 77 | Blow-Up (1966) | Jane | 6.5 | |
| 78 | A Man for All Seasons (1966) | Anne Boleyn | 5 |
