Name: Vanessa Redgrave

Birth Name: Vanessa Redgrave

Birthdate: Jan. 30, 1937

Birthplace: London

Born into one of the remaining theatrical family dynasties, she first appeared in the West End theatre in 1958 playing opposite her father, Sir Michael Redgrave. Her extensive stage career led to the silver screen, and she landed her first starring role in Morgan: A Suitable Case for Treatment (1966) for which she earned an Oscar nomination. Eleven years and many notable film performances later, Redgrave won a Best Supporting Actress award for her role in Julia (1977). Diverse and notable roles for her include suffragette Olive Chancellor in The Bostonians (1984), crime boss Max in Mission: Impossible (1996), Oscar Wilde's mother in Wilde (1997) and Clarissa Dalloway in Mrs. Dalloway (1997). She can most recently be seen in Venus (2006), Evening (2007) and Atonement (2007).


1. Her siblings, Lynn and Corin Redgrave, are also acclaimed actors as are her two daughters, Natasha and Joely Richardson.
2. Both she and her sister, Lynn, were nominated for the 1967 Best Actress Academy Award, but they both lost to Elizabeth Taylor who won for Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?
3. In 1962, she became one of the first celebrities to visit communist Cuba.
4. By virtue of her Academy Award for Julia (1977), she is the only person in the Academy Award's history to win a Best Supporting Actress Award for playing the title role in a movie.
5. Since the 1960s, she has been a vocal and often controversial supporter for a range of human rights causes, including opposition to the Vietnam War and the Iraq "War on Terror," nuclear disarmament, freedom for Soviet Jews, and aid for Bosnian Muslims and other victims of war.


"It's a kinky part of my nature — to meddle."


Husband: Franco Nero, married December 31, 2006
Boyfriend: Timothy Dalton, actor, 1980-1994
Husband: Tony Richardson, married April 29, 1962, divorced 1967
Son: (with Nero) Carlo Nero
Daughter: (with Richardson) Joely Richardson, born January 9, 1965
Daughter: (with Richardson) Natasha Richardson, born May 11, 1963

2003: Golden Globe nomination: Best Performance by an Actress in a Mini-Series or a Motion Picture Made for Television, The Gathering Storm

2001: Golden Globe: Best Performance by an Actress in a Supporting Role in a Series, Mini-Series or Motion Picture Made for TV, If These Walls Could Talk 2

1998: Golden Globe nomination: Best Performance by an Actress in a Mini-Series or Motion Picture Made for TV, Bella Mafia

1996: Golden Globe nomination: Best Performance by an Actress in a Motion Picture (Comedy/Musical), A Month by the Lake

1993: Academy Award nomination: Best Actress in a Supporting Role, Howards End

1989: Golden Globe nomination: Best Performance by an Actress in a Mini-Series or Motion Picture Made for TV, A Man for All Seasons

1988: Golden Globe nomination: Best Performance by an Actress in a Supporting Role in a Motion Picture, Prick Up Your Ears

1987: Golden Globe nomination: Best Performance by an Actress in a Mini-Series or Motion Picture Made for TV, Second Serve

1985: Academy Award nomination: Best Actress in a Leading Role, The Bostonians; Golden Globe nomination: Best Performance by an Actress in a Motion Picture (Drama), The Bostonians

1978: Academy Award: Best Actress in a Supporting Role, Julia; Golden Globe: Best Motion Picture Actress in a Supporting Role, Julia

1972: Academy Award nomination: Best Actress in a Leading Role, Mary, Queen of Scots; Golden Globe nomination: Best Motion Picture Actress (Drama), Mary, Queen of Scots

1969: Academy Award nomination: Best Actress in a Leading Role, Isadora; Golden Globe nomination: Best Motion Picture Actress (Drama), Isadora

1968: Golden Globe nomination: Best Motion Picture Actress (Musical/Comedy), Camelot

1967: Academy Award nomination: Best Actress in a Leading Role, Morgan: A Suitable Case for Treatment; Golden Globe nomination: Best Motion Picture Actress (Musical/Comedy), Morgan: A Suitable Case for Treatment

 

FILMS

Evening - (2007) - Actor
Atonement - (2007) - Actor
Venus - (2006) - Actor
The White Countess - (2005) - Actor
Good Boy! - (2003) - Voice
A Rumor of Angels - (2002) - Actor
The Gathering Storm - (2002) - Actor
Merci Docteur Rey - (2002) - Actor
Jack and the Beanstalk - (2001) - Actor
The Pledge - (2001) - Actor
If These Walls Could Talk 2 - (2000) - Actor
Cradle Will Rock - (1999) - Actor
Hollywood Musicals of the 60's - (1999) - Featured
Girl, Interrupted - (1999) - Actor
Deep Impact - (1998) - Actor
Lulu on the Bridge - (1998) - Actor
Smilla's Sense of Snow - (1997) - Actor
Bella Mafia - (1997) - Actor
Mrs. Dalloway - (1997) - Actor
Wilde - (1997) - Actor
Deja Vu - (1997) - Actor
The Willows In Winter - (1997) - Actor
Mission: Impossible - (1996) - Actor
Looking for Richard - (1996) - Featured
Down Came a Blackbird - (1995) - Actor
A Month by the Lake - (1995) - Actor
Mother's Boys - (1994) - Actor
Little Odessa - (1994) - Actor
Shades of Fear - (1993) - Actor
They Watch - (1993) - Actor
Howards End - (1992) - Actor
The Ballad of the Sad Cafe - (1991) - Actor
What Ever Happened To...? - (1991) - Actor
Young Catherine - (1990) - Actor
Orpheus Descending - (1990) - Actor
Consuming Passions - (1988) - Actor
A Man for All Seasons - (1988) - Actor
Prick Up Your Ears - (1987) - Actor
Steaming - (1986) - Actor
Peter the Great - (1986) - Actor
Three Sovereigns for Sarah - (1985) - Actor
Wetherby - (1985) - Actor
The Bostonians - (1984) - Actor
Faerie Tale Theatre - Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs - (1983) - Actor
Wagner: The Complete Epic - (1983) - Actor
Bear Island - (1980) - Actor
Playing for Time - (1980) - Actor
Agatha - (1979) - Actor
Yanks - (1979) - Actor
Julia - (1977) - Actor
The Seven-Per-Cent Solution - (1976) - Actor
Out of Season - (1975) - Actor
Murder on the Orient Express - (1974) - Actor
The Devils - (1971) - Actor
The Trojan Women - (1971) - Actor
Mary, Queen of Scots - (1971) - Actor
The Charge of the Light Brigade - (1969) - Actor
Isadora - (1968) - Actor
Camelot - (1967) - Actor
Blow-up - (1966) - Actor
Morgan! - (1966) - Actor