Vanessa Redgrave's Main TV Roles Show Character(s) The Day of the Triffids (2009) Durrant The Gathering Storm Clemmie Chu… HARDtalk (UK) Vanessa Red…

Main Movie Roles 2010 - Miral 2010 - Letters to Juliet 2008 - Restraint 2007 - The Riddle 2007 - Evening 2007 - Atonement 2006 - The Thief Lord 2005 - The White Countess 2003 - Good Boy! 2001 - The Pledge 1999 - Girl, Interrupted 1998 - Deep Impact 1997 - Wilde 1997 - Smilla's Sense of Snow 1996 - Looking For Richard 1996 - Mission: Impossible 1995 - A Month by the Lake 1994 - Mother's Boys 1994 - Little Odessa 1993 - The House of the Spirits 1992 - Howards End 1987 - Prick Up Your Ears 1984 - The Bostonians 1979 - Yanks 1979 - Agatha 1977 - Julia 1976 - The Seven-Per-Cent Solution 1974 - Murder on the Orient Express 1971 - The Devils 1971 - Mary, Queen of Scots 1971 - The Trojan Women 1968 - Isadora 1968 - The Charge of the Light Brigade 1967 - Camelot 1966 - Blowup 1966 - A Man for All Seasons

BIOGRAPHY:

Born into a distinguished acting family, Vanessa Redgrave knew a lot about acting technique when she started making films in the 1960s. Three decades later she has shown that an actress can improve with age. In his review of A Month by the Lake (1995), Roger Ebert sees Redgrave "at the absolute peak of physical and mental perfection". No one had any idea of what kind of a woman was in the photographs in the park in Blowup (1966). Her rich auburn hair was long, her physique lean, her countenance inscrutable. Three decades later a Redgrave who takes the pictures has hair that is short, the auburn shade muted. The physique is still lean and it is strong from the work it has taken to keep it that way. And the countenance is a lot easier to read. Add expertise with body language and a superb sense of timing and here is a comedienne who should still be carrying films when she is in her 90s.


TRIVIA:

• Received rave reviews for originating the role of Jean Brodie in, 'The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie" winning the London Evening Standard award for her work.
• Plays mother to real-lifer daughter 'Joely Richardson' (qv) in a few episodes of _"Nip/Tuck" (2003)_ (qv).
• Voted by People magazine (May 8th 2006) as one of the 100 most beautiful people.
• A longtime member of Britain's Workers Revolutionary Party
• Both she and her daughter 'Joely Richardson' (qv) have played an historical queen who was executed by beheading. Redgrave played the title character in _Mary, Queen of Scots (1971)_ (qv) while her daughter played Marie Antoinette in _The Affair of the Necklace (2001)_ (qv).
• Former mother-in-law of Working Title films co-producer 'Tim Bevan (I)' (qv).
• Refused to accept any money for her role as Anne Boleyn in _A Man for All Seasons (1966)_ (qv).
• She was awarded the 1988 London Critics Circle Theatre Award (Drama Theatre Award) for Best Supporting Actress for her performance in A Touch of the Poet.