Vanessa Redgrave Highlights

  • 2007: Portrayed a dying woman reflecting on her youth in the ensemble film, "Evening"
  • 2007: Cast in “The Fever” the HBO Films adaptation of writer/actor Wallace Shawn's stage play; earned a SAG nomination for Outstanding Female Actor in a Television Movie or Miniseries
  • 2007: Starred in a one-woman stage adaptation of Joan Didion's "The Year of Magical Thinking" earned a Tony nomination for Best Performance by a Leading Actress in a Play
  • 2006: Starred opposite Peter O'Toole in "Venus" a film directed by Roger Michell and written by Hanif Kureishi
  • 2005: Appeared alongside her daughter, Natasha Richardson and sister, Lynn Redgrave in James Ivory's "White Countess"
  • 2004: Guest-starred opposite daughter, Joely Richardson, on several episodes of "Nip/Tuck"; playing the mother of Richardson's character
  • 2003: Appeared on Broadway in her award winning performance in "Long Day's Journey Into Night"
  • 2002: Co-starred with Albert Finney in the award winning BBC/HBO co-produced, "The Gathering Storm"; earned Golden Globe and SAG nominations for Best Actress
  • 2002: Starred in the Hallmark made-for-television movie "The Locket"
  • 2002: Made first stage appearance with daughter Joely Richardson in a British staging of "Lady Windermere's Fan"; portrayed mother and daughter
  • 2001: Had featured role in Sean Penn's "The Pledge," co-starring Jack Nicholson and Robin Wright Penn
  • 2001: Appeared with brother Corin in a London stage prodction of "The Cherry Orchard"
  • 2000: Delivered a dignified, heartbreaking turn as an elderly lesbian coping with her deceased lover's clueless family in the moving "1961" segment of "If These Walls Could Talk 2" (HBO); received Emmy Award
  • 2000: Portrayed Prospero in staging of "The Tempest" at Shakespeare's Globe Theatre in London
  • 1999: Starred in the Italian opera "Eleanora" as the heroine and martyr of a 1799 Neapolitan uprising
  • 1999: Directed by son Carlo Nero in "Uninvited"
  • 1999: Had pivotal role as a psychiatrist in "Girl, Interrupted"
  • 1999: Played small part of a supporter of the arts married to an industrialist in "Cradle Will Rock"
  • 1999: Acted opposite her brother Corin and his wife Kika Markham in a London stage revival of Noel Coward's "Song at Twilight"
  • 1998: Adapted, designed, directed and co-starred with Rachel Kempson in "Sarah Bernhardt Comes to Town"
  • 1998: Reteamed with Maximillian Schell as his wife in "Deep Impact"
  • 1997: Offered a marvelous turn as the title character's mother in the biopic "Wilde"
  • 1997: Headlined the CBS miniseries "Bella Mafia" as the matriarch in a mobster family
  • 1997: Delivered a scene-stealing cameo as a deeply religious woman in "Smilla's Sense of Snow"
  • 1997: Teamed onscreen with her real-life mother Rachel Kempson in Henry Jaglom's "Deja Vu"
  • 1997: Offered a luminous turn as the title character in "Mrs. Dalloway," the screen adaptation of Virginia Woolf's novel adapted by Eileen Atkins
  • 1996: Starred alongside Paul Scofield and Eileen Atkins in a revival of Ibsen's "John Gabriel Borkman" in London
  • 1996: Delivered an astringent cameo in "Mission: Impossible"
  • 1996: Conceived the costume design, directed and starred in a staging of "Antony and Cleopatra"; first performed at the Alley Theater in Houston and in 1997 Off-Broadway at the Public Theatre
  • 1994: Played Vita Sackville-West opposite Eileen Atkins' Virginia Woolf in the Off-Broadway play "Vita and Virginia"
  • 1994: Was moving as the dying mother of a hit man in "Little Odessa"; Schell was cast as her husband
  • 1993: Tracked down a previously unproduced play by Tennessee Williams, "Not About Nightingales"; presented by the Moving Theater Company starring Corin Redgrave in London and NYC in 1998 and 1999 respectively
  • 1993: Co-founded Moving Theater with brother Corin
  • 1992: Had pivotal role as Ruth Wilcox in the Merchant Ivory version of E M Forster's "Howards End"; earned a Best Supporting Actress Oscar nomination
  • 1991: Portrayed the Empress Elizabeth in the TNT biopic "Young Catherine," about the Russian ruler Catherine the Great; Maximillian Schell played Frederick the Great
  • 1991: Co-starred as the victimized Blanche opposite sister Lynn Redgrave in the TV-movie remake of "Whatever Happened to Baby Jane?"
  • 1991: Was originally hired to tour the USA in "Lettice and Lovage"; dropped after protests due to her political stances
  • 1991: Again played Isadora Duncan in Martin Sherman's stage play "When She Danced"
  • 1991: Offered a fine performance as the mannish Amelia in "The Ballad of the Sad Cafe"
  • 1990: With sister Lynn and niece Jemma, acted in London production of Chekhov's "Three Sisters"
  • 1989: Starred in Martin Sherman's play "A Madhouse in Goa"
  • 1988: Acted opposite Charlton Heston in the TV remake of "A Man for All Seasons" (TNT)
  • 1988: Cast as Lady Torrance, the heroine of Tennessee Williams' "Orpheus Descending" in a London production helmed by Sir Peter Hall; recreated part on Broadway in 1989; filmed for TNT in 1990
  • 1987: Offered a scene-stealing performance as literary agent Peggy Ramsay in the Joe Orton biopic "Prick Up Your Ears"
  • 1986: Co-starred as the Czar's scheming half-sister Sophia in the NBC miniseries "Peter the Great"; acted opposite Maximillian Schell; received Emmy nomination in the supporting category
  • 1986: Portrayed transsexual Renee Richards, a former US Naval surgeon who competed as a woman in the US Tennis Association in "Second Serve" (CBS); received Emmy nomination
  • 1985: Starred with Jonathan Pryce in "The Seagull"; this time out played Arkadina
  • 1985: Starred in David Hare's intriguing "Wetherby"; daughter Joely Richardson played her character in flashback sequences
  • 1985: Cast as one of the women accused of witchcraft in the Salem trials in the three-part PBS miniseries "Three Sovereigns for Sarah"
  • 1984: Played Henry James' feminist heroine in the Merchant Ivory film version of "The Bostonians"; received fourth Best Actress Academy Award nomination
  • 1984: Appeared opposite Christopher Reeve in the London stage production of "The Aspern Papers," a play by Michael Redgrave
  • 1983: First film after four year absence from the big screen, "Wagner"
  • 1982: Engaged to narrate a performance of Stravinsky's "Oedipus Rex" at the Boston Symphony Orchestra; performance canceled after BSO received bomb threats; Redgrave later sued
  • 1982: Starred as a middle-aged woman who finds herself pregnant in "My Body, My Child" (ABC)
  • 1980: American TV-movie debut, "Playing for Time" (CBS); portrayed concentration camp survivor Fania Fenelon who during her internment participated in an all-female orchestra; received Emmy Award
  • 1979: Portrayed the mystery novelist Agatha Christie in "Agatha," which speculated about a period in the writer's life when she went missing
  • 1977: Delivered luminous, richly detailed performance as "Julia" in the film based on Lillian Hellman's questionable memoir; received the Best Supporting Actress Academy Award; first film with Maximillian Schell
  • 1977: Financed the documentary "The Palestinians"
  • 1976: Made Broadway debut in Ibsen's "The Lady from the Sea"
  • 1976: Offered a delightful turn as a cocaine addicted entertainer who meets Nicol Williamson's Sherlock Holmes in "The Seven Per-Cent Solution"
  • 1974: Was among the all-star cast of "Murder on the Orient Express"
  • 1974: Acted opposite Charlton Heston in "Macbeth" in Los Angeles
  • 1973: First played the Egyptian queen in Shakespeare's "Antony and Cleopatra" in London
  • 1971: Earned third Best Actress Oscar nomination in the title role of "Mary, Queen of Scots"; starred opposite Glenda Jackson who was cast as Elizabeth I
  • 1971: Co-starred in Michael Cacoyannis' "The Trojan Women"; played Andromacha
  • 1971: Cast as a hunchback nun in Ken Russell's outlandish "The Devils"
  • 1968: Garnered second Best Actress Academy Award nomination for playing famed free-spirited dancer Isadora Duncan in "Isadora"
  • 1968: Acted in "The Charge of the Light Brigade" directed by Tony Richardson
  • 1967: First American film, "Camelot" an adaptation of the Lerner and Loewe stage musical
  • 1967: Initial film with husband Tony Richardson, "The Sailor from Gibraltar"
  • 1966: First film lead, "Morgan!/Morgan - A Suitable Case for Treatment"; earned first Best Actress Oscar nomination; sister Lynn was among her competitors for the prize for her work in "Georgy Girl"
  • 1966: Had title role in "The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie" in London
  • 1966: Cast as Anne Boleyn in the award-winning film "A Man for All Seasons"
  • 1964: Won plaudits for her stage role of Nina in "The Seagull"; recreated on film in 1968
  • 1961: Delivered an acclaimed performance as Rosalind in "As You Like It" at the RSC; recreated for British television in 1962
  • 1958: London stage debut in "A Touch of the Sun" opposite her father Michael Redgrave
  • 1958: Film acting debut in "Behind the Mask" (played onscreen daughter of Michael Redgrave)
  • 1957: Stage debut in "The Reluctant Debutante" at the Frinton Summer Theatre, Essex
  • Was a member of Royal Shakespeare Company (RSC) during early 1960s

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