Vanessa Redgrave - Wikipedia

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Vanessa Redgrave
Vanessa Redgrave CBE (born 30 January 1937) is an English
actress and activist. Proclaimed as the "Greatest Actress of our Vanessa Redgrave
Time" by Tennessee Williams,[1] Redgrave is the recipient of the CBE
Triple Crown of Acting, and was inducted to the American
Theatre Hall of Fame, and received the BAFTA Fellowship in
2010.[2][3]
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
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.
Redgrave made her film debut with the medical drama Behind
the Mask (1958), and rose to prominence with the satire
Morgan: A Suitable Case for Treatment (1966), which Redgrave in 2016
garnered her first of her six Academy Award nominations, Born 30 January 1937
winning Best Supporting Actress for the holocaust drama Julia Blackheath, London,
(1977). Her other nominations were for Isadora (1968), Mary, England
Queen of Scots (1971), The Bostonians (1984), and Howards
Occupation Actress · political
End (1992). Among her other films are A Man for All Seasons
(1966), Blowup (1966), Camelot (1967), The Devils (1971), activist
Murder on the Orient Express (1974), Prick Up Your Ears Years active 1958–present
(1987), Mission: Impossible (1996), Atonement (2007),
Notable work Filmography
Coriolanus (2011), and The Butler (2013).
Spouse(s) Tony Richardson
A member of the Redgrave family of actors, she is the daughter (m. 1962; div. 1967)
of Sir Michael Redgrave and Lady Redgrave (the actress Rachel
Franco Nero (m. 2006)
Kempson), the sister of Lynn Redgrave and Corin Redgrave, the
mother of actresses Joely Richardson and Natasha Richardson, Partner(s) Timothy Dalton (1971–
the aunt of British actress Jemma Redgrave, the mother-in-law 1986)
of actor Liam Neeson and film producer Tim Bevan, and the Children Natasha Richardson
grandmother of Daisy Bevan and Micheál and Daniel Neeson.
Joely Richardson
Carlo Gabriel Nero
Contents Parent(s) Michael Redgrave
Early life Rachel Kempson
Career Family Redgrave

Early stage and film career Awards Full list
The 1970s and political controversy
Later career
Film and television
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Theatre
Personal life
Political activism
Filmography
Awards and nominations
References
Sources
External links
Early life
Redgrave was born on 30 January 1937 in Blackheath, London,[4] the daughter of actors Sir Michael
Redgrave and Rachel Kempson.[5] Laurence Olivier announced her birth to the audience at a
performance of Hamlet at the Old Vic, when he said that Laertes (played by Sir Michael) had a
daughter.
In her autobiography, Redgrave recalls the East End and Coventry Blitzes among her earliest
memories.[6] Following the East End Blitz, Redgrave relocated with her family to Herefordshire
before returning to London in 1943.[7] She was educated at the Alice Ottley School, Worcester, and
Queen's Gate School, London, before "coming out" as a debutante. Her siblings, Lynn Redgrave and
Corin Redgrave, were also acclaimed actors.
Career
Early stage and film career
Vanessa Redgrave entered the Central School of Speech and Drama in 1954. She first appeared in the
West End, playing opposite her brother, in 1958.
In 1959, she appeared at the Shakespeare Memorial Theatre under the direction of Peter Hall as
Helena in A Midsummer Night's Dream opposite Charles Laughton as Bottom and Coriolanus
opposite Laurence Olivier (in the title role), Albert Finney and Edith Evans.[8]
In 1960, Redgrave had her first starring role in Robert Bolt's The Tiger and the Horse, in which she
co-starred with her father. In 1961, she played Rosalind in As You Like It for the Royal Shakespeare
Company. In 1962, she played Imogen in William Gaskill's production of Cymbeline for the RSC. In
1966, Redgrave created the role of Jean Brodie in the Donald Albery production of The Prime of Miss
Jean Brodie, adapted for the stage by Jay Presson Allen from the novel by Muriel Spark.
Redgrave had her first credited film role, in which she co-starred with her father, in Brian Desmond
Hurst's Behind the Mask (1958). Redgrave's first starring film role was in Morgan – A Suitable Case
for Treatment (1966), co-starring David Warner and directed by Karel Reisz, for which she received
an Oscar nomination, a Cannes award, a Golden Globe nomination and a BAFTA Film Award
nomination. Following this, she portrayed a cool London swinger in Blowup (1966). Co-starring
David Hemmings, it was the first English-language film of the Italian director Michelangelo
Antonioni. Reunited with Karel Reisz for the biographical film of dancer Isadora Duncan in Isadora
(1968), her portrayal of Duncan led her gaining a National Society of Film Critics' Award for Best
Actress, a second Prize for the Best Female Performance at the Cannes Film Festival, along with a
Golden Globe and an Oscar nomination. In the same period came other portrayals of historical (or
semi-mythical) figures – ranging from Andromache in The Trojan Women (1971) to the lead in Mary,
Queen of Scots (1971), the latter earning her a third Oscar nomination. She also played the role of
Guinevere in the film Camelot (1967) with Richard Harris and Franco Nero, and briefly as Sylvia
Pankhurst in Oh! What a Lovely War (1969). She portrayed the character of Mother Superior Jeanne
des Anges (Joan of the Angels) in The Devils (1971), the once controversial film directed by Ken
Russell.
The 1970s and political controversy
Redgrave funded and narrated a documentary film, The Palestinian (1977), about the situation of the
Palestinians and the activities of the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO). In the film Julia (also
1977), she starred in the title role as a woman murdered by the Nazi German regime in the years prior
to World War II for her anti-Fascist activism. Her co-star in the film was Jane Fonda (playing writer
Lillian Hellman), who, in her 2005 autobiography, noted that:
there is a quality about Vanessa that makes me feel as if she resides in a netherworld of
mystery that eludes the rest of us mortals. Her voice seems to come from some deep place
that knows all suffering and all secrets. Watching her work is like seeing through layers of
glass, each layer painted in mythic watercolor images, layer after layer, until it becomes
dark, but even then you know you haven't come to the bottom of it ... The only other time I
had experienced this with an actor was with Marlon Brando ... Like Vanessa, he always
seemed to be in another reality, working off some secret, magnetic, inner rhythm.[9]
When Redgrave was nominated for an Oscar in 1977 for her role in Julia, members of the Jewish
Defense League (JDL), led by Rabbi Meir Kahane, burned effigies of Redgrave and picketed the
Academy Awards ceremony to protest against what they saw as her support for the PLO.[10][11]
Redgrave's performance in Julia earned her an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress.
Accepting the award, Redgrave thanked Hollywood for having "refused to be intimidated by the
threats of a small bunch of Zionist hoodlums – whose behavior is an insult to the stature of Jews all
over the world and to their great and heroic record of struggle against fascism and oppression".[12]
Her remarks brought an outraged on-stage response from screenwriter and Academy Award
presenter Paddy Chayefsky, and sparked controversy. One Redgrave biography noted that, "The
scandal of her awards speech and the negative press it occasioned had a destructive effect on her
acting opportunities that would last for years to come."[13]
Later career
Film and television
Later film roles include those of suffragist Olive Chancellor in The Bostonians (1984, a fourth Best
Actress Academy Award nomination), transsexual tennis player Renée Richards in Second Serve
(1986), Blanche Hudson in the television remake of What Ever Happened to Baby Jane (1991), Mrs.
Wilcox in Howards End (1992, her sixth Academy Award nomination, this time in a supporting role);
crime boss Max in Mission: Impossible (1996, when discussing the role of Max, Brian DePalma and
Tom Cruise thought it would be fun to cast an actor like Redgrave; they then decided to go with the
real thing); Oscar Wilde's mother in Wilde (1997); Clarissa Dalloway in Mrs. Dalloway (1997); and
Dr. Sonia Wick in Girl, Interrupted (1999). Many of these roles and others garnered her widespread
accolades.
Her performance as a lesbian mourning the loss of her longtime

partner in the HBO series If These Walls Could Talk 2 (2000)
earned her a Golden Globe for Best TV Series Supporting Actress,
as well as earning an Emmy Award for Outstanding Supporting
Actress in a TV Film or Miniseries. This same performance also
led to an Excellence in Media Award from the Gay & Lesbian
Alliance Against Defamation (GLAAD). In 2004, Redgrave joined
the second-season cast of the FX series Nip/Tuck, portraying Dr.
Erica Noughton, the mother of Julia McNamara, who is played by
her real-life daughter Joely Richardson. She also made
appearances in the third and sixth seasons. In 2006, Redgrave
starred opposite Peter O'Toole in the film Venus. A year later,
Redgrave starred in Evening and Atonement, in which she
received a Broadcast Film Critics Association award nomination
for a performance that took up only seven minutes of screen time.
In 2008, Redgrave appeared as a narrator in an Arts Alliance

production, id – Identity of the Soul. In 2009, Redgrave starred
Redgrave in 1994. in the BBC remake of The Day of the Triffids, with her daughter
Joely. In the midst of losing her daughter, Natasha Richardson,
Redgrave signed on to play Eleanor of Aquitaine in Ridley Scott's
version of Robin Hood (2010), which began filming shortly after Natasha's death. Redgrave later
withdrew from the film for personal reasons. The part was given to her Evening co-star Eileen
Atkins.[14] She was next seen in Letters to Juliet opposite her husband Franco Nero.
She had small roles in Eva (2009), a Romanian drama film that premiered at the 2010 Cannes Film
Festival, as well as in Julian Schnabel's Palestinian drama Miral (2010), which was screened at the
67th Venice International Film Festival. She voiced the character of Winnie the Giant Tortoise in the
environmental animated film Animals United (also 2010), and played a supporting role in the Bosnia-
set political drama, The Whistleblower (2010), which premiered at the Toronto International Film
Festival. Redgrave also narrated Patrick Keiller's semi-fictional documentary, Robinson in Ruins
(2010). Since 2012, Redgrave has narrated the BBC series Call The Midwife.[15]
She also played leading roles in two historical films: Shakespeare's Coriolanus (which marked actor
Ralph Fiennes' directorial debut), in which she plays Volumnia; and Roland Emmerich's Anonymous
(both 2011), as Queen Elizabeth I.
Subsequently, she starred with Terence Stamp and Gemma Arterton in the British comedy-drama
Song for Marion (US: Unfinished Song, 2012) and with Forest Whitaker in The Butler (2013),
directed by Lee Daniels. She also appeared with Steve Carell and Channing Tatum in the drama
Foxcatcher (2014).
In 2017, at the age of 80, Redgrave made her directorial debut with the feature documentary Sea
Sorrow, which covers the plight of child migrants in the Calais refugee camps and the broader
European migrant crisis. It premiered at the 2017 Cannes Film Festival.[16] Critics praised the
documentary's message but criticized the structure for a "scattershot lack of focus" and the
"ungainliness of its production values."[17][18]
Theatre
Redgrave won four Evening Standard Awards for Best Actress in four decades. She was awarded the
Laurence Olivier Award for Actress of the Year in a Revival in 1984 for The Aspern Papers.
In 2000, her theatre work included Prospero in The Tempest at Shakespeare's Globe in London. In
2003, she won a Tony Award for Best Actress in a Play for her performance in the Broadway revival of
Eugene O'Neill's Long Day's Journey Into Night. In January 2006, Redgrave was presented the Ibsen
Centennial Award for her "outstanding work in interpreting many of Henrik Ibsen's works over the
last decades".[19] Previous recipients of the award include Liv Ullmann, Glenda Jackson and Claire
Bloom.
In 2007, Redgrave played Joan Didion in her Broadway stage adaptation of her 2005 book, The Year
of Magical Thinking, which played 144 regular performances in a 24-week limited engagement at the
Booth Theatre. For this, she won the Drama Desk Award for Outstanding One-Person Show and was
nominated for the Tony Award for Best Performance by a Leading Actress in a Play. She reprised the
role at the Lyttelton Theatre at the Royal National Theatre in London to mixed reviews. She also spent
a week performing the work at the Theatre Royal in Bath in September 2008. She once again
performed the role of Joan Didion for a special benefit at Cathedral of St. John the Divine in New
York on 26 October 2009. The performance was originally slated to debut on 27 April, but was pushed
due to the death of Redgrave's daughter Natasha. The proceeds for the benefit were donated to the
United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF) and the United Nations Relief and Works Agency
(UNRWA). Both charities work to provide help for the children of Gaza.
In October 2010, she starred in the Broadway premiere of Driving Miss Daisy starring in the title role
opposite James Earl Jones. The show premiered on 25 October 2010 at the John Golden Theatre in
New York City to rave reviews.[20] The production was originally scheduled to run to 29 January 2011
but due to a successful response and high box office sales, was extended to 9 April 2011.[21] In May
2011, she was nominated for a Tony Award for Best Performance by a Leading Actress in a Play for the
role of Daisy in Driving Miss Daisy.[22] The play transferred to the Wyndham's Theatre in London
from 26 September to 17 December 2011.[23]
In 2013, Redgrave starred alongside Jesse Eisenberg in Eisenberg's The Revisionist. The New York
production ran from 15 February to 27 April. Redgrave played a Polish holocaust survivor in the
play.[24][25] In September 2013, Redgrave once again starred opposite James Earl Jones in a
production of Much Ado About Nothing at The Old Vic, London, directed by Mark Rylance.[26]
In 2016, Redgrave played Queen Margaret in Richard III with Ralph Fiennes in the title role, at the
Almeida Theatre, London.[27]
In a poll of "industry experts" and readers conducted by The Stage in 2010, Redgrave was ranked as
the ninth greatest stage actor/actress of all time.[28]
Personal life
Redgrave was married to film and theatre director Tony Richardson from 1962 to 1967; the couple
had two daughters: actresses Natasha Richardson (1963–2009), and Joely Richardson (b. 1965). In
1967, the year Redgrave divorced Richardson, who left her for the French actress Jeanne Moreau, she
became romantically involved with Italian actor Franco Nero when they met on the set of Camelot. In
1969, they had a son, Carlo Gabriel Redgrave Sparanero (known professionally as Carlo Gabriel
Nero), a screenwriter and director. From 1971 to 1986, she had a long-term relationship with actor
Timothy Dalton, with whom she had appeared in the film Mary, Queen of Scots (1971).[29] Redgrave
later reunited with Franco Nero, and they married on 31 December 2006. Carlo Nero directed
Redgrave in The Fever (2004), a film adaptation of the Wallace Shawn play.[30]
Within 14 months in 2009 and 2010, Redgrave lost both a daughter and her two younger siblings. Her
daughter Natasha Richardson died on 18 March 2009 from a traumatic brain injury caused by a
skiing accident.[31] On 6 April 2010, her brother, Corin Redgrave, died, and on 2 May 2010, her sister,
Lynn Redgrave, died.
Redgrave had a near-fatal heart attack in April 2015.[32] In September 2015, she revealed that her
lungs are only working at 30 per cent capacity due to emphysema caused by years of smoking.[33]
Redgrave was made a Commander (CBE) of the Order of the British Empire in 1967. Reportedly, she
declined a damehood in 1999.[34][35]
Redgrave describes herself as a person of faith, and she attends a Catholic church.[36]
Political activism
In 1961, Vanessa Redgrave was an active member of the Committee of 100 and its working group.
Redgrave and her brother Corin joined the Workers Revolutionary Party in the 1970s.[37] She ran for
parliament several times as a party member but never received more than a few hundred votes.[38]
Redgrave made her American TV debut as concentration camp survivor Fania Fénelon in the Arthur
Miller-scripted TV movie Playing for Time (1980), a part for which she won an Emmy as Outstanding
Lead Actress in 1981. The decision to cast Redgrave as Fénelon was, however, a source of controversy.
In light of Redgrave's support for the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO),[39] Fénelon and the
Jewish groups the Simon Wiesenthal Center, the Anti-Defamation League, and the American Jewish
Congress objected to her casting. Rabbi Marvin Hier of the Simon Wiesenthal Center wrote in a
telegram that "Your selection shows utter callous disregard of the tens of thousands of survivors for
whom Miss Redgrave's portrayal would desecrate the memory of the martyred millions. Your decision
could only be compared to selecting J. Edgar Hoover to portray Martin Luther King Jr." Producer
David L. Wolper in a telephone interview compared it to letting the head of the Ku Klux Klan play a
sympathetic white man in Roots, a miniseries about the slave trade.[40]
In 1984, Redgrave sued the Boston Symphony Orchestra, claiming that the orchestra had fired her
from a performance because of her support of the PLO.[41] Lillian Hellman testified in court on
Redgrave's behalf.[42] Redgrave won on a count of breach of contract, but did not win on the claim
that the Boston orchestra had violated her civil rights by firing her.[42]
In 1995, Redgrave was elected to serve as a UNICEF Goodwill Ambassador. In December 2002,
Redgrave paid £50,000 bail for Chechen separatist Deputy Premier and special envoy Akhmed
Zakayev, who had sought political asylum in the United Kingdom and was accused by the Russian
government of aiding and abetting hostage-takings in the Moscow Hostage Crisis of 2002 and
guerrilla warfare against Russia.
At a press conference, Redgrave said she feared for Zakayev's safety if he were extradited to Russia on
terrorism charges. He would "die of a heart attack" or some other mysterious explanation offered by
Russia, she said.[43] On 13 November 2003, a London court rejected the Russian government's
request for Zakayev's extradition. Instead, the court accepted a plea by lawyers for Zakayev that he
would not get a fair trial, and could even face torture, in Russia. "It would be unjust and oppressive to
return Mr Zakayev to Russia," Judge Timothy Workman ruled.[44]
In 2004, Vanessa Redgrave and her brother Corin Redgrave launched the Peace and Progress Party,
which campaigned against the Iraq War and for human rights. However, in June 2005 Redgrave left
the party.
Redgrave has been an outspoken critic of the "war on terrorism".[45][46] During a June 2005 interview
on Larry King Live, Redgrave was challenged on this criticism and on her political views. In response
she questioned whether there can be true democracy if the political leadership of the United States
and Britain does not "uphold the values for which my father's generation fought the Nazis, [and]
millions of people gave their lives against the Soviet Union's regime. [Such sacrifice was made]
because of democracy and what democracy meant: no torture, no camps, no detention forever or
without trial.... [Such] techniques are not just alleged [against the governments of the U.S. and
Britain], they have actually been written about by the FBI. I don't think it's being 'far left'...to uphold
the rule of law."[47]
In March 2006, Redgrave remarked in an interview with US broadcast journalist Amy Goodman: "I
don't know of a single government that actually abides by international human rights law, not one,
including my own. In fact, [they] violate these laws in the most despicable and obscene way, I would
say." Goodman's interview with Redgrave took place in the actress's West London home on the
evening of 7 March, and covered a range of subjects, particularly the cancellation by the New York
Theatre Workshop of the Alan Rickman production My Name is Rachel Corrie. Such a development,
said Redgrave, was an "act of catastrophic cowardice" as "the essence of life and the essence of theatre
is to communicate about lives, either lives that have ended or lives that are still alive, [and about]
beliefs, and what is in those beliefs."[48]
In June 2006, she was awarded a lifetime achievement award from the Transilvania International
Film Festival, one of whose sponsors is a mining company named Gabriel Resources. She dedicated
the award to a community organisation from Roşia Montană, Romania, which is campaigning against
a gold mine that Gabriel Resources is seeking to build near the village. Gabriel Resources placed an
"open letter" in The Guardian on 23 June 2006, attacking Redgrave, arguing the case for the mine,
and exhibiting support for it among the inhabitants: the open letter is signed by 77 villagers.[49]
In December 2007, Redgrave was named as one of the possible suretors who paid the £50,000 bail
for Jamil al-Banna, one of three British residents arrested after landing back in the UK following four
years' captivity at Guantanamo Bay. Redgrave has declined to be specific about her financial
involvement but said she was "very happy" to be of "some small assistance for Jamil and his wife",
adding, "It is a profound honour and I am glad to be alive to be able to do this. Guantanamo Bay is a
concentration camp."[50]
In March 2014, Redgrave took part in a protest outside Pentonville Prison in North London after new
prison regulations were introduced which forbade sending books to prisoners.[51] She and fellow actor
Samuel West, playwright David Hare and Poet Laureate Carol Ann Duffy took turns reading poetry
and making speeches. Redgrave stated that the ban was "vicious and deplorable...Literature is
something that stirs us beyond our immediate problems, it can help us to learn better our own
problems, our own faults or to have a goal to live for, an aspiration."[52] The ban was overturned by
the Ministry of Justice the following December.[53]
In 2017, Redgrave made her directorial debut with the movie Sea Sorrow, a documentary about the
European migrant crisis and the plight of migrants encamped outside Calais, France, trying to reach
Britain.[16] She has heavily criticised the exclusionary policy of the British government towards
refugees, stating that the British Government "... has violated these principles (of the Declaration of
Human Rights), and it continues to do so, which I find deeply shameful. The UN signed the
Declaration of Human Rights, and now we have to employ lawyers to take the government to court to
force them to obey the law. Just thinking about that makes my mind go berserk."[16]
Filmography
Awards and nominations
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Billy Rose Theatre Division, The New York Public Library.
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