Vanessa Redgrave

Acting

Born 1937-01-30 Greenwich, London, England, UK 195 credits Academy Awards 1 Primetime Emmy Awards 2 Golden Globe Awards 3 BAFTA Awards 1 Screen Actors Guild Awards 1 Tony Awards 1 Cannes Film Festival Award for Best Actress 2 Evening Standard Theatre Award for Best Actress 1 Commandeur des Arts et des Lettres 1 Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Actress in a Play 1

Awards

Won 1 Academy Award

Academy Awards 1 won · 5 nominated

1993 Best Supporting Actress Nominated Howards End
1985 Best Actress Nominated The Bostonians
1978 Best Supporting Actress Won Julia
1972 Best Actress Nominated Mary, Queen of Scots
1969 Best Actress Nominated Isadora
1967 Best Actress Nominated Morgan - A Suitable Case for Treatment

Primetime Emmy Awards 2 won

2000 Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Miniseries or a Movie Won If These Walls Could Talk 2
1981 Outstanding Lead Actress in a Miniseries or a Movie Won Playing for Time

Golden Globe Awards 3 won

2001 Best Supporting Actress – Series, Miniseries or Television Film Won If These Walls Could Talk 2
1978 Best Supporting Actress – Motion Picture Won Julia
1977 Best Supporting Actress – Motion Picture Won Julia

BAFTA Awards 1 won

2010 BAFTA Fellowship Won

Screen Actors Guild Awards 1 won

— Outstanding Performance by a Female Actor in a Miniseries or Television Movie Won

Tony Awards 1 won · 2 nominated

2011 Best Actress in a Play Nominated
2007 Best Actress in a Play Nominated
2003 Best Actress in a Play Won Long Day's Journey into Night

Cannes Film Festival Award for Best Actress 2 won

1969 Best Actress Won Isadora
1966 Best Actress Won Morgan - A Suitable Case for Treatment

Evening Standard Theatre Award for Best Actress 1 won

— Best Actress Won

Commandeur des Arts et des Lettres 1 won

— Commandeur des Arts et des Lettres Won

Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Actress in a Play 1 won

— Outstanding Actress in a Play Won

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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.