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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.
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Saturday, January 30, 1937, Greenwich, London, England, UK
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1966
A Man for All SeasonsAnne Boleyn
1974
Murder on the Orient ExpressMary Debenham
1992
Howards EndRuth Wilcox
1993
The House of the SpiritsNivea del Valle
1996
Mission: ImpossibleMax Mitsopolis
1998
Deep ImpactRobin Lerner
1999
Girl, InterruptedDr. Wick
2007
AtonementBriony Tallis (Age 77)
2010
Letters to JulietClaire
2011
Cars 2The Queen / Mama Topolino (voice)
2013
Lee Daniels' The ButlerAnnabeth Westfall
2014
FoxcatcherJean du Pont
2017
The Secret ScriptureOld Roseanne McNulty
2021
Finding YouCathleen Sweeney
2022
The Lost GirlsGreat Nana
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