Vanessa Redgrave
Acting
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.
Born: January 30, 1937
Place of Birth: Greenwich, London, England, UK
Known For
The Palestinian
A powerful Palestinian documentary starring Vanessa Redgrave about the PLO (Palestine Liberation Organization) and its role in Lebanon, as well as the daily struggles and resistance of the Palestinian people under Israeli occupation. Filmed right after the Tel al-Zaatar massacre, the film highlights the Palestinian fight for identity, dignity, and homeland.
Alida Valli: In Her Own Words
A complete and never-before-seen portrait of the life of a young girl from Pula (Istria) who quickly became one of the most famous and beloved actresses of Italian and international cinema, told through the words of her unpublished letters and diaries, photographs, homemade films in 8 mm, and new interviews with her relatives, friends, and collaborators.
My Body, My Child
A woman must choose between having an abortion or giving birth to a deformed child.
Hallmark Hall of Fame
Long-running anthology program sponsored by Hallmark Cards. Beginning in 1951 and continuing into 2019, the series received 80 Emmy Awards, 24 Christopher Awards, 11 Peabody Awards, 9 Golden Globes, and 4 Humanitas Prizes. Early seasons were a weekly live drama, eventually transitioning to videotaped and then filmed productions broadcast as occasional specials.
Katherine Jenkins Christmas Spectacular
Classical music superstar Katherine Jenkins OBE returns to the iconic Royal Albert Hall, her all-time favourite venue, crafting a unique and unforgettable Christmas musical to play in cinemas worldwide from 1 December. Katherine Jenkins: Christmas Spectacular sees the Welsh sensation perform seasonal favourites and carols with full nostalgic Hollywood musical glamour and wonder. The production was given unprecedented and exclusive access to the historic venue which also marked the 50th time that Katherine has performed there. Katherine and friends, including beloved actors Vanessa Redgrave and Bill Nighy, Operatic icon Sir Bryn Terfyl, Italian Tenor Alberto Urso, American Broadway star Marisha Wallace, English National Ballet Lead Principal Erina Takahashi, the Royal Air Force Regiment Band and many more will bring joy and festive celebrations to audiences around the world this Christmas.
Down Came a Blackbird
A woman struggles with the death of her lover. He was killed by South-American fascists.
Faerie Tale Theatre
A live-action children's television anthology series retelling popular fairy tales.
Consuming Passions
Adapted from a play written by two Monty Python vets, this toothy satire launches with a tragic accident at Chumley's chocolate factory when hapless manager Ian Littleton (Tyler Butterworth) accidentally knocks several employees into a huge chocolate vat. The tragic mishap at the chocolate factory results in candy lovers getting an unexpected 'extra' in their sweets.
Peter the Great
Peter the Great is a 1986 NBC television mini-series starring Maximilian Schell as Russian emperor Peter the Great, and based on the biography by Robert K. Massie. It won three Primetime Emmy Awards, including the award for Outstanding Miniseries.
Merchant Ivory
The first definitive feature documentary to lend new and compelling perspectives on the partnership, both professional and personal, of director James Ivory, producer Ismail Merchant, and their primary associates, writer Ruth Prawer Jhabvala and composer Richard Robbins. Footage from more than fifty interviews, clips, and archival material gives voice to the family of actors and technicians who helped define Merchant Ivory’s Academy Award-winning work of consummate quality and intelligence. With six Oscar winners among the notable artists participating, these close and often long-term collaborators intimately detail the transformational cinematic creativity and personal and professional drama of the wandering company that left an indelible impact on film culture.
Filmography
as Ma Rooney
as Self
as Self
as Self
as Great Nana
as Narrator
as Cathleen Sweeney
as Elizabeth Lowry
as Elsa Brecht
as Juliana Bordereau
as Self (archive footage)
as Jeanne McDougall
as Self
as Flora Berryman
as Old Roseanne McNulty
as Queen Margaret
as Older Marian
as Jean du Pont
as Dr. Hartramph
as Vida Winter
as Annabeth Westfall
as Rosalind Leigh
as Marion
as Diane Nash
as Herself
as Jennifer Worth (voice)
as Queen Elizabeth I
as The Queen / Mama Topolino (voice)
as Volumnia
as Narrator
as Bertha Spafford
as Madeleine Rees
as Claire
as Durrant
as Hannah Silbergrau
as Sky News Reader #2
as Georgia Platts
as Penelope Keeling
as Roberta Elliot
as The woman
as Ann Lord
as Briony Tallis (Age 77)
as Narrator
as Valerie
as Sister Antonia
as Princess Vera Belinskya
as Miss Sangorski
as herself
as The Greater Dane (voice)
as Lady Melbourne
as Dr.Erica Noughton
as Dr. Erica Noughton
as Lady Melbourne
as Esther Huish
as Self
as Rodion's mother
as Clemmie Churchill
as Countess Wilhelmina
as Annalise Hansen
as Maddy Bennett
as Vicky's Mother
as Mrs. Rutterburn
as Kalsan
as Edith Tree
as Edith Tree
as Narrator
as Dr. Wick
as Countess Constance La Grave
as Self
as Catherine Moore
as Robin Lerner
as Skelly
as Graziella Luciano
as Lady Speranza Wilde
as Mrs. Clarissa Dalloway
as Self
as Self
as Elsa Lübing
as Grandmother / Narrator
as Self - Interviewee
as Nancy Shaffell
as Max
as Grandmother / Narrator
as Anna Lenke
as Miss Bentley
as Irina Shapira
as Self
as Dr. Angela Bead
as Suor Agata
as Florence Latimer
as Self
as Nivea del Valle
as Lydia
as Kate Benson
as Ruth Wilcox
as Miss Amelia
as Empress Elizabeth
as Blanche Hudson
as Suor Crocifissa
as Lady Torrance
as English journalist
as Mother Capulet (voice)
as Lady Alice More
as Mrs. Garza
as Mrs. Carlyle
as Peggy Ramsay
as Sophia
as Renee Richards
as Jean Travers
as Nancy
as Sarah Cloyce
as Sarah Cloyce
as The Evil Queen
as Olive Chancellor
as la Regina
as Cosima von Bulow
as The Evil Queen
as Leenie Cabrezi
as Self
as Fania Fenelon
as Heddi Lindquist
as Helen
as Self
as Agatha Christie
as Julia
as Self
as Lola Deveraux
as Ann
as Mary Debenham
as Katherine Mansfield
as Mary, Queen of Scots
as Immacolata Meneghelli
as Sister Jeanne des Anges
as Andromache
as Mary
as Narrator
as Narrator
as Sylvia Pankhurst
as Nina
as Flavia
as Isadora Duncan
as Jacky
as Mrs Clarissa Morris
as Jacky
as Guenevere
as Self
as Sheila
as Jane
as Anne Boleyn
as Leonie Delt
as Self
as Narrator
as Pamela Benson-Gray
as Caroline Lester
as Self - Winner
as Self - Presenter
as Self - Nominee
as Self
as Self
as Esther Huish
as Self - Nominee
as The Matriarch (voice)