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Vanessa Redgrave Biography (1937-)

Born January 30, 1937, in London, England; daughter of Sir Michael Scudemore(an actor) and Rachel (an actress; maiden name, Kempson) Redgrave; sister ofLynn Redgrave (an actress) and Corin Redgrave (an actor); married Tony Richardson (a director), April 29, 1962 (divorced, 1967); children: (with Richardson) Natasha Jane (an actress), Joely Kim (an actress); (with Franco Nero) Carlo Gabriel. Addresses: Manager: Marina Martin Management, Ltd., 8 Windmill St., London W1P 1HF, England.; Agent: Agency for the Performing Arts, 9000 Sunset Blvd., Suite 1200, Los Angeles, CA 90069; International Creative Management, 8942 Wilshire Blvd, Beverly Hills, CA 90211.; Publicist: Robert Garlock, PMK/HBH, New York, 650 Fifth Ave., 33rd Floor, New York, NY 10019.

Nationality

British

Gender

Female

Occupation

Actress, director, producer, writer, music performer

Birth Details

January 30, 1937

London, United Kingdom

Famous Works

• CREDITS
• Film Appearances
• (Film debut) Pamela Gray, Behind the Mask, GW, 1958
• Anne-Marie, La Musica, 1965
• Jane, Blow-Up, 1966
• Anne Boleyn, A Man for All Seasons, Columbia, 1966
• Leonie Delt, Morgan! (also known as Morgan: A Suitable Case forTreatment andA Suitable Case for Treatment), Cinema V, 1966
• Guinevere, Camelot, Warner Bros./Seven Arts, 1967
• Jacky, Red and Blue, 1967
• (In archive footage) The Story of Camelot, 1967
• Sheila, The Sailor from Gibraltar, Lopert, 1967
• Guest, Let's All Make Love in London (also known as Tonite Let's All Make Love in London and The London Scene), 1967
• Clarissa Morris, The Charge of the Light Brigade, United Artists,1968
• Isadora Duncan (title role), Isadora (also known as The Loves of Isadora), Universal, 1968
• Nina, The Sea Gull, Warner Bros., 1968
• Sylvia Pankhurst, Oh! What a Lovely War, Paramount, 1969
• Daniel Deronda, 1969
• Mary, Dropout, 1969
• Flavia, A Quiet Place in the Country (also known as Un tranquillo posto di campagna and Un coin tranquille a la campagne), Lopert, 1970
• Narrator, The Body, Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, 1970
• En mor med tvaa barn vaentandes sitt tredje (also known as A Mother with Two Children Expecting Her Third and Tvaabarnsmor, vaentandehennes tredje), 1970
• Title role, Mary, Queen of Scots, Universal, 1971
• Andromache, The Trojan Women, Cinerama, 1971
• Immacolata, La vacanza (also known as The Vacation and Vacation Dropout), Lion, 1971
• Sister Jeanne, The Devils (also known as The Devils of London), Warner Bros., 1971
• The Holiday, 1971
• Mary Debenham, Murder on the Orient Express, Paramount, 1974
• Ann, Out of Season (also known as Winter Rates), Athenaeum/EMI, 1975
• Title role, Julia, Twentieth Century-Fox, 1977
• Lola Deveraux, The Seven Percent Solution, Universal, 1977
• Narrator, The Palestinian, Battersby, 1977
• Agatha Christie (title role), Agatha, Warner Bros., 1979
• Helen, Yanks (also known as Yanks--Gestern waren wir noch Fremde), Universal, 1979
• Heddi Lindquist, Bear Island (also known as Alistair MacLean'sBear Island), Columbia, 1980
• Queen, Sing Sing, 1983
• Olive Chancellor, The Bostonians, Almi, 1984
• Nancy, Steaming, Columbia, 1985
• Jean Travers, Wetherby, Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer/United Artists Classics, 1985
• Mrs. Carlyle, Comrades, Curzon, 1987
• Peggy Ramsay, Prick Up Your Ears, Samuel Goldwyn, 1987
• Mrs. Garza, Consuming Passions, Samuel Goldwyn, 1988
• Voice of Mother Capulet, Romeo-Juliet, 1990
• (As Vanessa Redgreiv) English journalist, Pokhorony Stalina (alsoknown as Stalin's Funeral), 1990
• Sister Crocifissa, A Breath of Life (also known as The Plague Sowers and Diceria dell'untore), 1990
• Miss Amelia, The Ballad of the Sad Cafe, Angelika, 1991
• Ruth Wilcox, Howards End, Sony Pictures Classics, 1992
• (In archive footage) Oscar's Greatest Moments, 1992
• Sister Agata, Sparrow (also known as Nisou no koi/Maria no namida and Storia di una capinera), 1993
• Kate Benson, A Wall of Silence (also known as Black Flowersand Un muro de silencio), 1993
• Irina Shapira, Little Odessa, Fine Line, 1994
• Lydia Madigan, Mother's Boys, Dimension Films, 1994
• Nivea del Valle, The House of the Spirits (also known as Aandernes hus, A casa dos espiritos, and Das Geisterhaus), Miramax, 1994
• Miss Bentley, A Month by the Lake, Miramax, 1995
• Max, Mission: Impossible, Paramount, 1996
• Herself, Looking for Richard, Fox Searchlight, 1996
• Lady Speranza Wilde, Wilde (also known as Oscar Wilde), Sony Pictures Classics, 1997
• Skelly (London), Deja Vu, Rainbow Releasing, 1997
• Elsa Lubing, Smilla's Sense of Snow (also known as Smilla's Feeling for Snow, Fraeulein Smillas Gespuer fuer Schnee, Froeken Smillas kaensla foer snoe, and Froken Smillas fornemmelse for sne),Fox Searchlight, 1997
• Clarissa Dalloway, Mrs. Dalloway (also known as Virginia Woolf's Mrs. Dalloway), First Look Pictures, 1997
• Robin Lerner, Deep Impact, Paramount, 1998
• Celebrity, Miramax, 1998
• Catherine Moore, Lulu on the Bridge, Trimark Pictures, 1998
• Mrs. Ruttenburn, Uninvited (also known as L'escluso), 1999
• Countess LaGrange, Cradle Will Rock, 1999
• Dr. Sonia Wick, Girl, Interrupted (also known as Durchgeknallt and Durchgeknallt--Girl, interrupted), Sony Pictures Releasing, 1999
• Kalsan, Mirka, 2000
• Maddy Bennett, A Rumor of Angels, 2000
• Voice, Children's Story, Chechnia, 2000
• Narrator, Die Erika and Klaus Mann Story (also known as Escapeto Life), The Cinema Guild, 2000
• Priestess, The 3 Kings, Wandering Star, 2000
• Annalise Hansen, The Pledge, Warner Bros., 2001
• Mrs. Raskolnikov, Crime and Punishment, New Cannon, 2002
• Searching for Debra Winger, 2002
• Voice of the Greater Dane, Good Boy!, Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, 2003
• Herself, Merci Docteur Rey (also known as Dr. Rey! and Merci ... Dr. Rey!), 2004
• The heiress, The Keeper: The Legend of Omar Khayyam, Guide Company, 2004
• The White Countess, Sony Pictures Classics, 2004
• Magus's wife, May Day, British Lion, 2004
• Film Producer
• The Palestinians, Battersby, 1977
• Film Executive Producer
• Children's Story, Chechnia, 2000
• Stage Appearances
• (Stage debut) Clarissa, The Reluctant Debutante, Frinton Summer Theatre, Frinton, England, 1957
• Mrs. Spottsworth, Come On, Jeeves, Arts Theatre, Cambridge, England, 1957
• (London debut) Caroline Lester, A Touch of the Sun, Saville Theatre, 1958
• Sarah Undershaft, Major Barbara, Royal Court Theatre, London, 1958
• Principal boy, Mother Goose, Leatherhead Theatre, Surrey, U.K., 1958
• Helena, A Midsummer Night's Dream, Shakespearean Memorial TheatreCompany, Shakespeare Memorial Theatre, Stratford-on-Avon, England, 1959
• Valeria, Coriolanus, Shakespearean Memorial Theatre Company, Shakespeare Memorial Theatre, 1959
• Rose Sinclair, Look on Tempests, Comedy Theatre, London, 1960
• Stella Dean, The Tiger and the Horse, Queen's Theatre, London, 1960
• Boletta, The Lady from the Sea, Queen's Theatre, 1961
• Rosalind, As You Like It, Royal Shakespeare Company, Royal Shakespeare Theatre, Stratford-on-Avon, 1961, then Aldwych Theatre, London, 1962
• Katharina, The Taming of the Shrew, Royal Shakespeare Company, Aldwych Theatre, 1961, then Royal Shakespeare Theatre, 1962
• Imogen, Cymbeline, Royal Shakespeare Company, Royal Shakespeare Theatre, 1962
• Nina, The Seagull, Queen's Theatre, 1964
• Title role, The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie, Wyndham's Theatre, London, 1966
• Gwendolen Harleth, Daniel Deronda, University Theatre, Manchester,England, 1969
• Susan Thistlewood, Cato Street, Young Vic Theatre, London, 1971
• Polly Peachum, The Threepenny Opera, Prince of Wales Theatre, London, 1972
• Viola, Twelfth Night, Shaw Theatre, London, 1972
• Cleopatra, Antony and Cleopatra, Bankside Globe Theatre, London, 1973
• Gilda, Design for Living, Phoenix Theatre, London, 1973
• Macbeth, Los Angeles, 1974, then1975
• Ellida, The Lady from the Sea, Circle in the Square, New York City, 1976, then Royal Exchange Theatre, Manchester, 1978, later Round House Theatre, London, 1979
• The Aspern Papers, Royal Haymarket Theatre, London, 1984
• The Seagull, Queen's Theatre, 1985
• Chekhov's Women, Lyric Theatre, New York City, 1985
• The Seagull, 1985
• Ghosts, Young Vic Theatre, then Wyndham's Theatre, both 1986
• Antony and Cleopatra, Royal Haymarket Theatre, 1986
• The Taming of the Shrew, Royal Haymarket Theatre, 1986
• Nora, A Touch of the Poet, Young Vic Theatre, then Royal HaymarketTheatre, 1988
• Lady Torrance, Orpheus Descending, Royal Haymarket Theatre, 1988,then Neil Simon Theatre, New York City, 1989
• A Madhouse in Goa, Lyric Hammersmith Theatre, London, 1989
• Beside Herself, Circle Repertory Theatre, New York City, 1989
• Three Sisters, Queen's Theatre, 1990
• Collateral Damage: The Private Life of the New World Order, La Mama Experimental Theatre Club, New York City, 1991
• When She Danced, Globe Theatre, 1991
• Heartbreak House, Royal Haymarket Theatre, 1992
• Maybe, 1993
• Vita and Virginia, Union Square Theatre, New York City, 1994
• Brecht in Exile, Bridge Lane Theatre, Battersea, England, 1994
• New Statesman, Royal National Theatre, London, 1996
• John Gabriel Borkman, Royal National Theatre, 1997
• Cleopatra, Antony and Cleopatra, Joseph Papp Public Theater, New York City, 1997
• Sarah Bernhardt Comes to Town, Recital Theatre, Springfield, MA, 1998
• Not about Nightingales, Alley Theater Company, Houston, TX, 1998
• Prospero, The Tempest, Shakespeare's Globe Theatre, 2000
• Ranevskaya, The Cherry Orchard, Royal National Theatre, 2000
• Mrs. Erlynne, Lady Windermere's Fan, Theater Royal Haymarket, London, 2002
• Mary Cavan Tyrone, Long Day's Journey into Night, Plymouth Theater, New York City, 2003
• Stage Director
• Antony and Cleopatra, Joseph Papp Public Theater, New York City, 1997
• Television Appearances
• Series
• Title role, A Picture of Katherine Mansfield, BBC, 1973
• Miniseries
• Catherine Barkley, A Farewell to Arms, 1966
• Cosima von Bulow, Wagner, 1983
• Sophia, Peter the Great, NBC, 1986
• Empress Elizabeth, Young Catherine, TNT, 1991
• Graziella Luciano, Bella Mafia, 1997
• Countess Wilhelmina, Jack and the Beanstalk: The Real Story (alsoknown as Jim Henson's "Jack and the Beanstalk: The Real Story"), CBS,2001
• Lady Melbourne, Byron, BBC, 2003
• Movies
• Rosalind, As You Like It, 1963
• Fania Fenelon, Playing for Time, CBS, 1980
• Leenie Cabrezi, My Body, My Child, ABC, 1982
• Richard Radley/Renee Richards, Second Serve (also known as I Change My Life), CBS, 1986
• Lady Alice More, A Man for All Seasons, TNT, 1988
• Lady Torrance, Orpheus Descending (also known as Tennessee Williams's "Orpheus Descending"), TNT, 1990
• Blanche Hudson, Whatever Happened to Baby Jane? (also known as What Ever Happened to ... ?), ABC, 1991
• Florence Latimer, They (also known as They Watch, The Lost Souls, and Children of the Mist), Showtime, 1993
• Dr. Angela Bead, Great Moments in Aviation (also known as Shades of Fear), 1993
• Anna Lenke, Down Came a Blackbird (also known as Ramirez),Showtime, 1995
• Nancy Shaffell, Two Mothers for Zachary, ABC, 1996
• Narrator, The Willows in Winter, 1996
• Edith Tree, "1961," If These Walls Could Talk 2, HBO, 2000
• Clemmie Churchill, The Gathering Storm (also known as The Lonely War), HBO, 2002
• Esther Huish, The Locket, CBS, 2002
• The Fever, HBO, 2004
• Episodic
• "Christmas Special," Morecambe & Wise, 1973
• Wicked queen, "Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs," Faerie Tale Theatre, Showtime, 1984
• "Wetten, dass..? aus Berlin," Wetten, dass..?, 1991
• Vicky's mother, "London, May," The Young Indiana Jones Chronicles,1992
• Que apostamos?, 1995
• Inside the Acgtors Studio, Bravo, 2002
• Question Time, 2003
• The Late Late Show, 2003
• BBC World News, BBC, 2003
• Dr. Erica Noughton, "Erica Noughton," Nip/Tuck, F/X, 2004
• Dr. Erica Noughton, "Christian Troy," Nip/Tuck, F/X, 2004
• Dr. Erica Noughton, "Manya Mabika," Nip/Tuck, F/X, 2004
• Dr. Erica Noughton, "Natasha Charles," Nip/Tuck, F/X, 2004
• Also appeared as interviewee, Changing Stages, PBS.
• Specials
• Helena, A Midsummer Night's Dream, 1962
• Maggie, Sally, 1964
• Sarah Cloyce, "Three Sovereigns for Sarah," American Playhouse, PBS, 1985
• Bring Me Sunshine: The Heart and Soul of Eric Morecambe, 1998
• Voice of Anna Larina, Widow of the Revolution: The Anna Larina Story (documentary), PBS, 2000
• Stars fur UNICEF, 2002
• Ronnie Barker: A BAFTA Tribute, BBC, 2004
• Also appeared in A Farewell to Arms.
• Awards Presentations
• Presenter, The 23rd Annual Tony Awards, 1969
• The 50th Annual Academy Awards, 1978
• The 11th Annual ACE Awards, 1990
• The 70th Annual Academy Awards, 1998
• The Orange British Academy Film Awards, E! Entertainment Television, 2002
• The 54th Annual Primetime Emmy Awards, NBC, 2002
• The 57th Annual Tony Awards, CBS, 2003
• The Evening Standard Theatre Awards 2003, 2003
• RECORDINGS
• Albums
• Mary, Queen of Scots (original soundtrack), Decca, 1971
• Taped Readings
• Stravinsky: A Soldier's Tale, 1988
• WRITINGS
• Books
• Vanessa Redgrave: An Autobiography, Hutchinson, 1991, Random House, 1994
• Editor of Pussies and Tigers (writings by children), 1964.

Further Reference

OTHER SOURCES

Periodicals

• Interview, February, 1991, p. 120; April, 1997, p. 118
• New York Times, September 17, 1989
• New York Times Magazine, February 16, 1997
• Theater Week, July 31, 1989, p. 14