The daughter of Sir Michael Redgrave and the older sister of Lynn, Vanessa Redgrave was born Jan. 30, 1937, in London. Acting since childhood, she first appeared on screen with her father in Behind the Mask (1958) and excelled with the Royal Shakespeare Company in the early '60s.Redgrave returned to the screen in 1966 with two "mod" classics, Blow-Up and Morgan (for which she earned her first Oscar nomination). More nominations soon followed for Isadora (as Isadora Duncan), Mary, Queen of Scots and Julia (which resulted in a Best Supporting Actress Oscar).
The politically outspoken Redgrave continued to make films in many countries, earning two more Oscar nods for The Bostonians (1984) and Howards End (1992). Mission Impossible, Mrs. Dalloway, Deep Impact and Girl, Interrupted are among her later movies.
Howards EndRuth Wilcox's deathbed wish forever changes relations between her well-heeled family and bourgeois Schlegel sisters Margaret (Oscar winner Emma Thompson) and Helen (Helena Bonham Carter) when Ruth bequeaths her manor -- Howards End -- to Margaret. Ruth's husband, Henry (Anthony Hopkins), acting in... Read More
Blow UpLegendary director Michelangelo Antonioni scores again with this tense mystery (his first English-speaking film) set in London among the city's hipster crowd, the story of a popular fashion photographer (David Hemmings) who inadvertently shoots evidence of a murder. As he processes the negative in... Read More
The LocketIn this Hallmark Hall of Fame presentation, two love stories are connected by the mystery of one simple locket. Vanessa Redgrave stars as Esther, a woman who befriends Michael (Chad Willett), a young man who's had a tough life caring for his mother. But with his mother gone and his impending... Read More
Mary, Queen of ScotsIn an Oscar-nominated performance, Vanessa Redgrave shines as Mary Stuart, queen of Scotland. Returning from France to assume the throne, Mary finds her ascension challenged by her brother, her husband and her cousin Queen Elizabeth I (Glenda Jackson). Timothy Dalton, Patrick McGoohan and Ian Holm... Read More
Playing for TimeWhen Jewish songstress Fania Fénelon (Vanessa Redgrave) is plucked from the stage and sent to Auschwitz, she and other musicians find themselves assigned to a terrible task: using their talents to soothe fellow prisoners who are sentenced to die in the gas chambers. Daniel Mann directs this... Read More
