Mike Leigh
English writer and director (born 1943)
Vanessa Redgrave is an acclaimed English actress who has won numerous prestigious awards, including an Oscar, Tony, and two Emmys. She has had a prolific acting career spanning over six decades, starring in numerous stage productions, films, and TV shows. Redgrave comes from a renowned family of actors and has received various honorary awards throughout her illustrious career.
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About the Vanessa Redgrave
Dame Vanessa Redgrave is an English actress. Throughout her career spanning over six decades, she has garnered numerous accolades, including an Academy Award, a Tony Award, two Primetime Emmy Awards and an Olivier Award, making her one of the few performers to achieve the Triple Crown of Acting. She has also received various honorary awards, including the BAFTA Fellowship Award, the Golden Lion Honorary Award, and an induction into the American Theatre Hall of Fame.
Redgrave made her acting debut on stage with the production of A Touch of Sun in 1958. She rose to prominence in 1961 playing Rosalind in the Shakespearean comedy As You Like It with the Royal Shakespeare Company and has since starred in numerous productions on West End and on Broadway. She won the Olivier Award for Best Actress in a Revival for The Aspern Papersand received Olivier nominations for A Touch of the Poetand Driving Miss Daisy (2011).
Redgrave made her film debut starring opposite her father in the medical drama Behind the Mask (1958), and rose to prominence with the satire Morgan: A Suitable Case for Treatment (1966), which garnered her first of her six Academy Award nominations, winning Best Supporting Actress for Julia (1977). Her other nominations were for 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), Agatha (1979), Prick Up Your Ears (1987), Mission: Impossible (1996), A Rumor of Angels (2000), Venus (2006), Atonement (2007), Coriolanus (2011), and Foxcatcher (2014).
A member of the Redgrave family of actors, she is the daughter of Sir Michael Redgrave and Lady Redgrave (Rachel Kempson), the sister of Lynn Redgrave and Corin Redgrave, the wife of Italian actor Franco Nero, the mother of actresses Joely Richardson and Natasha Richardson and of screenwriter and director Carlo Gabriel Nero, the aunt of British actress Jemma Redgrave, the mother-in-law of actor Liam Neeson and film producer Tim Bevan, and the grandmother of Daisy Bevan, Micheal Richardson and Daniel Neeson.
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Vanessa Redgrave has won numerous accolades, including an Academy Award, a Tony Award, two Primetime Emmy Awards, and an Olivier Award, making her one of the few performers to achieve the Triple Crown of Acting.
Vanessa Redgrave made her acting debut on stage with the production of A Touch of Sun in 1958.
Vanessa Redgrave rose to prominence in 1961 playing Rosalind in the Shakespearean comedy As You Like It with the Royal Shakespeare Company.
Vanessa Redgrave won the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress for her role in the film Julia (1977).
Vanessa Redgrave comes from a renowned family of actors, being the daughter of Sir Michael Redgrave and Lady Redgrave (Rachel Kempson), the sister of Lynn Redgrave and Corin Redgrave, and the mother of actresses Joely Richardson and Natasha Richardson.
Vanessa Redgrave has appeared in numerous acclaimed films, including A Man for All Seasons (1966), Blowup (1966), Camelot (1967), The Devils (1971), Murder on the Orient Express (1974), and Atonement (2007).
Vanessa Redgrave has received various honorary awards, including the BAFTA Fellowship Award, the Golden Lion Honorary Award, and an induction into the American Theatre Hall of Fame.
6 Quotes by Vanessa Redgrave
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A theater is being given over to market forces, which means that a whole generation that should be able to do theater as well as see it is being completely deprived.
Vanessa RedgraveBritish actress and activist (born 1937)
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Integrity is so perishable in the summer months of success.
Vanessa RedgraveBritish actress and activist (born 1937)
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Shakespeare lets us see real people undergoing real processes, with real feelings.
Vanessa RedgraveBritish actress and activist (born 1937)
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Ask the right questions if you’re to find the right answers.
Vanessa RedgraveBritish actress and activist (born 1937)
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The society Shakespeare knew was heading for tremendous change, and he seems to have recognized that and written about it in a coded way. I understand those codes, I think.
Vanessa RedgraveBritish actress and activist (born 1937)
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Theater and poetry were what helped people stay alive and want to go on living.
Vanessa RedgraveBritish actress and activist (born 1937)