# List of Vanessa Redgrave performances

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Vanessa Redgrave is an English actress whose career has spanned over six decades. She began her career in theater before making her feature film debut in Behind the Mask (1958), before starring in the Italian thriller Blowup (1966), and the comedy Morgan – A Suitable Case for Treatment (also 1966), the latter of which earned her her first Academy Award nomination (in the category of Best Actress), as well as a BAFTA nomination. Redgrave subsequently starred in the musical Camelot (1967), before portraying American dancer Isadora Duncan in the biopic Isadora (1968), which earned her a second Academy Award nomination. Her portrayal of the title character in 1971's Mary, Queen of Scots earned Redgrave a third Academy Award nomination. The same year, she appeared in Ken Russell's controversial historical drama-horror film The Devils.
Redgrave garnered widespread praise for her leading role in the drama Julia (1977), opposite Jane Fonda, for which she won her first Academy Award, in the category of Best Supporting Actress, as well as a Golden Globe award. She followed this with the title character of Agatha (1979), a biopic of writer Agatha Christie, before starring in The Bostonians (1984), a James Ivory-directed adaptation of the 1886 novel of the same name by American writer Henry James; this role earned Redgrave her fifth Academy Award nomination. She subsequently starred as the transgender tennis player Renée Richards in the television film Second Serve (1986), which earned her her seventh Golden Globe nomination.
In 1990, Redgrave starred in a film version of Tennessee Williams's Orpheus Descending, reprising the role she had played on Broadway, both under the direction of Peter Hall. She followed this with a lead role opposite her sister, Lynn, in a television film version of What Ever Happened to Baby Jane...?, and also appeared in a leading role in the independent drama The Ballad of the Sad Café (both 1991). She received a sixth Academy Award nomination for her role in Howards End (1992), an adaptation of the 1910 E. M. Forster novel of the same name. Through the 1990s, Redgrave appeared in a number of mainstream American films, including the thriller Mother's Boys (1993), Brian De Palma's action spy film Mission: Impossible (1996), Deep Impact (1998), and the period drama Girl, Interrupted (1999). She subsequently earned further acclaim for her role in the lesbian-themed anthology film If These Walls Could Talk 2 (2000), for which she won a Golden Globe for Best Supporting Actress in a Television Film.
Redgrave continued to appear in supporting parts, including the Sean Penn-directed thriller The Pledge (2001), the television Lord Byron biopic Byron (2003), and the dramas Evening (2007) and Atonement (2007). From 2004 to 2009, Redgrave had a recurring guest role on the television series Nip/Tuck, portraying Dr. Erica Noughton. In the 2010s, she appeared in supporting roles in several critically acclaimed studio films, such as Lee Daniels's The Butler (2013), Foxcatcher (2014), and Film Stars Don't Die in Liverpool (2017).

## Film

| Year | Title | Role | Director(s) | Notes | Ref. |
| 1958 | Behind the Mask | Pamela Gray | Brian Desmond Hurst | | |
| 1966 | Blow-Up | Jane | Michelangelo Antonioni | | |
| 1966 | A Man For All Seasons | Anne Boleyn | Fred Zinnemann | | |
| 1966 | Morgan – A Suitable Case for Treatment | Leonie Delt | Karel Reisz | Academy Award for Best Actress nomination | |
| 1967 | Camelot | Guinevere | Joshua Logan | | |
| 1967 | Red, White and Zero | Jacky | Tony Richardson | Segment: Red and Blue (unreleased) | |
| 1967 | The Sailor from Gibraltar | Sheila | Tony Richardson | | |
| 1968 | The Charge of the Light Brigade | Mrs. Clarissa Morris | Tony Richardson | | |
| 1968 | Isadora | Isadora Duncan | Karel Reisz | Academy Award for Best Actress nomination | |
| 1968 | A Quiet Place in the Country | Flavia | Elio Petri | Italian: Un tranquillo posto di campagna | |
| 1968 | The Sea Gull | Nina | Sidney Lumet | | |
| 1969 | Oh! What a Lovely War | Sylvia Pankhurst | Richard Attenborough | | |
| 1970 | Dropout | Mary | Tinto Brass | | |
| 1971 | The Devils | Sister Jeanne des Anges | Ken Russell | | |
| 1971 | Mary, Queen of Scots | Mary, Queen of Scots | Charles Jarrott | Academy Award for Best Actress nomination | |
| 1971 | The Trojan Women | Andromache | Michael Cacoyannis | | |
| 1971 | Vacation | Immacolata Meneghelli | Tinto Brass | Italian: La vacanza | |
| 1974 | Murder on the Orient Express | Mary Debenham | Sidney Lumet | | |
| 1975 | Out of Season | Ann | Alan Bridges | | |
| 1976 | The Seven-Per-Cent Solution | Lola Deveraux | Herbert Ross | | |
| 1977 | Julia | Julia | Fred Zinnemann | Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress winner | |
| 1979 | Agatha | Agatha Christie | Michael Apted | | |
| 1979 | Bear Island | Heddi Lindguist | Don Sharp | | |
| 1979 | Yanks | Helen | John Schlesinger | | |
| 1983 | Sing Sing | Queen | Sergio Corbucci | | |
| 1984 | The Bostonians | Olive Chancellor | James Ivory | Academy Award for Best Actress nomination | |
| 1985 | Steaming | Nancy | Joseph Losey | | |
| 1985 | Wetherby | Jean Travers | David Hare | | |
| 1986 | Comrades | Mrs. Carlyle | Bill Douglas | | |
| 1987 | Prick Up Your Ears | Peggy Ramsay | Stephen Frears | | |
| 1988 | Consuming Passions | Mrs. Garza | Giles Foster | | |
| 1990 | Romeo.Juliet | Mother Capulet | Armando Acosta | | |
| 1990 | Breath of Life | Sister Crucifix | Beppe Cino | Italian: Diceria dell'untore | |
| 1990 | Stalin's Funeral | English journalist | Yevgeny Yevtushenko | | |
| 1991 | The Ballad of the Sad Café | Miss Amelia | Simon Callow | | |
| 1992 | Howards End | Ruth Wilcox | James Ivory | Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress nomination | |
| 1993 | A Wall of Silence | Kate Benson | Lita Stantic | Spanish: Un Muro de Silencio | |
| 1993 | The House of the Spirits | Nivea del Valle | Bille August | | |
| 1993 | Sparrow | Sister Agata | Franco Zeffirelli | Italian: Storia di una capinera | |
| 1993 | Great Moments in Aviation | Dr. Angela Bead | Beeban Kidron | | |
| 1993 | They | Florence Latimer | John Korty | | |
| 1994 | Mother's Boys | Lydia Madigan | Yves Simoneau | | |
| 1994 | Little Odessa | Irina Shapira | James Gray | | |
| 1995 | A Month by the Lake | Miss Bentley | John Irvin | | |
| 1996 | Mission: Impossible | Max | Brian De Palma | | |
| 1997 | Smilla's Sense of Snow | Elsa Lubing | Bille August | | |
| 1997 | Wilde | Lady Speranza Wilde | Brian Gilbert | | |
| 1997 | Mrs. Dalloway | Clarissa Dalloway | Marleen Gorris | | |
| 1997 | Déjà Vu | Skelly | Henry Jaglom | | |
| 1998 | Deep Impact | Robin Lerner | Mimi Leder | | |
| 1998 | Lulu on the Bridge | Catherine Moore | Paul Auster | | |
| 1999 | Cradle Will Rock | Countess Constance LaGrange | Tim Robbins | | |
| 1999 | Uninvited | Mrs. Ruttenburn | Carlo Gabriel Nero | | |
| 1999 | Girl, Interrupted | Dr. Sonia Wick | James Mangold | | |
| 2000 | Mirka | Kalsan | Rachid Benhadj | | |
| 2000 | A Rumor of Angels | Maddy Bennett | Peter O'Fallon | | |
| 2001 | The Pledge | Annalise Hansen | Sean Penn | | |
| 2002 | Crime and Punishment | Rodian's Mother | Menahem Golan | | |
| 2002 | Searching for Debra Winger | Herself | Rosanna Arquette | Documentary film | |
| 2003 | Good Boy! | The Greater Dane | John Robert Hoffman | Voice role | |
| 2004 | The Fever | Woman | Carl Gabriel Nero | Also executive producer | |
| 2005 | The Keeper: The Legend of Omar Khayyam | The Heiress | Kayvan Mashayekh | | |
| 2005 | Short Order | Marianne | Anthony Byrne | | |
| 2005 | The White Countess | Vera Belinskya | James Ivory | | |
| 2006 | The Thief Lord | Sister Antonia | Richard Claus | | |
| 2006 | Venus | Valerie | Roger Michell | | |
| 2007 | The Riddle | Roberta Elliot | Brendan Foley | | |
| 2007 | How About You | Georgia Platts | Anthony Byrne | | |
| 2007 | Evening | Ann Lord | Lajos Koltai | | |
| 2007 | Atonement | Older Briony Tallis | Joe Wright | | |
| 2008 | Restraint | Sky News Reader | David Deneen | | |
| 2008 | God, Smell and Her | | Karin Westerlund | | |
| 2010 | Eva | Eva | Adrian Popovici | | |
| 2010 | Letters to Juliet | Claire Smith-Wyman | Gary Winick | | |
| 2010 | The Whistleblower | Madeleine Rees | Larysa Kondracki | | |
| 2010 | Miral | Bertha Spafford | Julian Schnabel | | |
| 2010 | Animals United | Winnie | Reinhard KloossHolger Tappe | Voice only (English dub) | |
| 2011 | Anonymous | Queen Elizabeth I | Roland Emmerich | | |
| 2011 | Cars 2 | Mama Topolino / Queen | John Lasseter | Voice role | |
| 2011 | Coriolanus | Volumnia | Ralph Fiennes | | |
| 2012 | Song for Marion | Marion | Paul Andrew Williams | | |
| 2012 | The Last Will and Testament of Rosalind Leigh | Rosalind Leigh | Rodrigo Gudiño | | |
| 2013 | The Butler | Annabeth Westfall | Lee Daniels | | |
| 2014 | Foxcatcher | Jean du Pont | Bennett Miller | | |
| 2016 | The Secret Scripture | Old Roseanne McNulty | Jim Sheridan | | |
| 2017 | Sea Sorrow | — | Vanessa Redgrave | Director | |
| 2017 | Film Stars Don't Die in Liverpool | Jeanne McDougall | Paul McGuigan | | |
| 2017 | Joan Didion: The Center Will Not Hold | Herself | Griffin Dunne | Documentary film | |
| 2018 | The Aspern Papers | Juliana Bordereau | Julien Landais | | |
| 2019 | Georgetown | Elsa Brecht | Christoph Waltz | | |
| 2019 | Mrs Lowry & Son | Elizabeth Lowry | Adrian Noble | | |
| 2021 | Finding You | Cathleen Sweeney | Brian Baugh | | |
| 2022 | The Lost Girls | Great Nana | Livia De Paolis | | |
| TBC | Alice, Through the Looking | The Narrator | Adam Donen | Voice role | [68] [69] |
| TBC | Cold Storage | Ma Rooney | Jonny Campbell | | |

## Television

| Year | Title | Role | Notes |
| 1966 | A Farewell to Arms | Nurse Catherine Barkley | Miniseries |
| 1973 | A Picture of Katherine Mansfield | Katherine Mansfield | Television film |
| 1980 | Playing for Time | Fania Fénelon | Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actress in a Limited Series or Special winner Television film |
| 1982 | My Body, My Child | Leenie Cabrezi | Television film |
| 1983 | Wagner | Cosima Wagner | Miniseries |
| 1984 | Faerie Tale Theatre | The Evil Queen | Episode: Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs |
| 1985 | American Playhouse | Sarah Cloyce | Three-part series: Three Sovereigns for Sarah |
| 1986 | Peter the Great | Tsarevna Sophia of Russia | Miniseries |
| 1986 | Second Serve | Renée Richards | Television film |
| 1988 | A Man for All Seasons | Lady Alice More | Television film |
| 1990 | Orpheus Descending | Lady Torrance | Television film |
| 1991 | What Ever Happened to... | Blanche Hudson | Television film |
| 1991 | Young Catherine | Empress Elizabeth of Russia | Television film |
| 1992 | The Young Indiana Jones Chronicles | Mrs. Prentiss | Episode: "London, May 1916" |
| 1995 | Down Came a Blackbird | Anna Lenke | Television film |
| 1995 | The Wind in the Willows | Grandmother (live-action) / Narrator (animated) | Television film |
| 1996 | Two Mothers for Zachary | Nancy Shaffell | Television film |
| 1997 | Bella Mafia | Graziella Luciano | Television film |
| 2000 | If These Walls Could Talk 2 | Edith Tress | Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Miniseries or Movie winner Television film; Segment: 1961 |
| 2001 | Jack and the Beanstalk: The Real Story | Countess Wilhelmina | Miniseries; also narrator |
| 2002 | The Gathering Storm | Clementine Churchill | Television film |
| 2002 | The Locket | Esther Huish | Television film |
| 2003 | Byron | The Viscountess Melbourne | Television film |
| 2004–2009 | Nip/Tuck | Dr. Erica Noughton | 10 episodes |
| 2006 | The Shell Seekers | Penelope Keeling | Miniseries |
| 2008 | Ein Job | Hannah Silbergrau | Television film |
| 2009 | The Day of the Triffids | Durrant | Miniseries; part two |
| 2012 | Political Animals | Justice Diane Nash | Miniseries; 1 episode: "The Woman Problem" |
| 2012–present | Call the Midwife | Mature Jennifer Worth (narrator) | Drama series |
| 2013 | The Thirteenth Tale | Vida Winter | Television film |
| 2014 | Black Box | Dr. Helen Hartramph | Drama series; 1 season |
| 2015 | The Go-Between | Older Marian | Television film |
| 2017 | Man in an Orange Shirt | Flora | Miniseries |
| 2020 | Worzel Gummidge | Peg | Episode: "Saucy Nancy" |

## Stage

| Year | Title | Role | Venue |
| 1958 | A Touch of Sun | Caroline Lester | Saville Theatre |
| 1958 | Major Barbara | Sarah Undershaft | Royal Court Theatre |
| 1959 | A Midsummer Night's Dream | Helena | Shakespeare Memorial Theatre, Stratford-upon-Avon |
| 1959 | Coriolanus | Valeria | Shakespeare Memorial Theatre, Stratford-upon-Avon |
| 1960 | Look on Tempests | Rose Sinclair | Comedy Theatre |
| 1960 | The Tiger and the Horse | Stella | Queen's Theatre |
| 1961 | The Lady from the Sea | Boletta | Queen's Theatre |
| 1961-62 | As You Like It | Rosalind | Royal Shakespeare Company Royal Shakespeare Theatre, Stratford-upon-Avon Aldwych Theatre |
| 1961-62 | The Taming of the Shrew | Katharina | Royal Shakespeare Company Aldwych Theatre Royal Shakespeare Theatre, Stratford-upon-Avon |
| 1962 | Cymbeline | Imogen | Royal Shakespeare Company Royal Shakespeare Theatre, Stratford-upon-Avon |
| 1964 | The Seagull | Nina | Queen's Theatre |
| 1966 | The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie | Jean Brodie | Wyndham's Theatre |
| 1969 | Daniel Deronda | Gwendolen Harleth | University Theatre, Manchester |
| 1971 | Cato Street | Susan Thistlewood | The Young Vic |
| 1972 | The Threepenny Opera | Polly Peachum | Prince of Wales Theatre |
| 1972 | Twelfth Night | Viola | Shaw Theatre |
| 1973 | Antony and Cleopatra | Cleopatra | Bankside Globe Theatre |
| 1973 | Design for Living | Gilda | Phoenix Theatre |
| 1974-75 | Macbeth | Lady Macbeth | Ahmanson Theatre, Los Angeles |
| 1976-79 | The Lady from the Sea | Ellida | Circle in the Square Theatre, New York City Royal Exchange Theatre, Manchester Roundhouse |
| 1984 | The Aspern Papers | Miss Tina | Theatre Royal Haymarket |
| 1985 | The Seagull | Arkadina | Queen's Theatre |
| 1986 | Ghosts | Mrs. Alving | The Young Vic Wyndham's Theatre |
| 1986 | Antony and Cleopatra | Cleopatra | Theatre Royal Haymarket |
| 1986 | The Taming of the Shrew | Katharina | Theatre Royal Haymarket |
| 1988 | A Touch of the Poet | Nora | The Young Vic Comedy Theatre |
| 1988-89 | Orpheus Descending | Lady Torrance | Theatre Royal Haymarket Neil Simon Theatre, New York City |
| 1989 | A Madhouse in Goa | | Lyric Theatre, Hammersmith Apollo Theatre |
| 1990 | Three Sisters | Olga | Queen's Theatre |
| 1991 | When She Danced | Isadora Duncan | Globe Theatre |
| 1992 | Heartbreak House | Hesione Hushabye | Theatre Royal Haymarket |
| 1994 | Vita & Virginia | Vita Sackville-West | Union Square Theatre, New York City |
| 1994 | Brecht in Exile | | Bridge Lane Theatre, Battersea |
| 1996 | John Gabriel Borkman | Ella Rentheim | Royal National Theatre Lyttelton Theatre |
| 1997 | Antony and Cleopatra | Cleopatra | The Public Theater, New York City |
| 1999 | A Song at Twilight | Carlotta | Gielgud Theatre |
| 2000 | The Tempest | Prospero | Shakespeare’s Globe |
| 2000-01 | The Cherry Orchard | Madame Ranevskaya | Royal National Theatre Cottesloe Theatre |
| 2002 | Lady Windermere's Fan | Mrs. Erlynne | Theatre Royal Haymarket |
| 2003 | Long Day's Journey Into Night | Mary Cavan Tyrone | Plymouth Theatre, New York City |
| 2005 | Hecuba | Hecuba | Royal Shakespeare Company Albery Theatre |
| 2007-08 | The Year of Magical Thinking | Joan Didion | Booth Theatre, New York City Royal National Theatre Lyttelton Theatre |
| 2010–11 | Driving Miss Daisy | Daisy Werthan | John Golden Theatre, New York City Wyndham's Theatre |
| 2013 | The Revisionist | Maria | Cherry Lane Theatre, New York City |
| 2013 | Much Ado About Nothing | Beatrice | The Old Vic |
| 2016 | Richard III | Queen Margaret | Almeida Theatre |
| 2018–19 | The Inheritance | Margaret | The Young Vic Noël Coward Theatre |
| 2022 | My Fair Lady | Mrs. Higgins | London Coliseum |