Vanessa Redgrave

Vanessa Redgrave

1937-01-30 Greenwich, London, England, UK 157 Credits

Biography

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 als...

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Merchant Ivory

Merchant Ivory

2024

as Self

7.7
Acting

The first definitive feature documentary to lend new and compelling perspectives on the partnership, both professional and personal, of director James...

On Our Way

On Our Way

2023

3.5
Acting

Up-and-coming Henry struggles to write a debut feature “On Our Way”. Confronted by memories from early childhood and boyhood, he revisits a painful pa...

The Ghost of Richard Harris

The Ghost of Richard Harris

2022

as Self

7.5
Acting

A candid and revealing insight into the private life and public career of Richard Harris. One of the most remarkable actors of his generation, the doc...

The Lost Girls

The Lost Girls

2022

as Great Nana

4.9
Acting

Inspired by the classic tale of Peter Pan, The Lost Girls chronicles four generations of Darling women as they struggle in the aftermath of their adve...

Alice, Through the Looking

Alice, Through the Looking

2021

as Narrator

Acting

What happens when after the Wonderland, Alice finds herself in the post-Brexit United Kingdom? Philosophy student Alice’s world is turned upside down ...

Alida Valli: In Her Own Words

Alida Valli: In Her Own Words

2021

as Self

9.2
Acting

A complete and never-before-seen portrait of the life of a young girl from Pula (Istria) who quickly became one of the most famous and beloved actress...

Finding You

Finding You

2021

as Cathleen Sweeney

6.9
Acting

Finley, a talented aspiring violinist, meets Beckett, a famous young movie star, on the way to her college semester abroad program in a small coastal ...

Katherine Jenkins Christmas Spectacular

Katherine Jenkins Christmas Spectacular

2020

as Self

8.5
Acting

Classical music superstar Katherine Jenkins OBE returns to the iconic Royal Albert Hall, her all-time favourite venue, crafting a unique and unforgett...

Entree Des Artists

2020

as Henry's Grandmother

Acting

A tragic, yet inspiring love story between a young actress and young filmmaker, whose relationship blurs the line between what transpires within the m...

Mrs Lowry & Son

Mrs Lowry & Son

2019

as Elizabeth Lowry

6.5
Acting

An intimate portrayal of the relationship between one of greatest artists of the 20th century, L.S. Lowry and his unhappy and controlling mother, Eliz...

Georgetown

Georgetown

2019

as Elsa Brecht

5.9
Acting

Ulrich Mott is an eccentric and versatile social climber with grandiose plans to affect United States foreign policy. Encouraged in his attempts by ...

The Aspern Papers

The Aspern Papers

2019

as Juliana Bordereau

4.4
Acting

A young writer tries to obtain romance letters a poet sent to his mistress.

Nothing Like a Dame

Nothing Like a Dame

2018

as Self (archive footage)

6.8
Acting

BBC Arena's documentary on the Dames of British Theatre and film featuring Maggie Smith, Eileen Atkins, Judi Dench and Joan Plowright on screen togeth...

Film Stars Don't Die in Liverpool

Film Stars Don't Die in Liverpool

2017

as Jeanne McDougall

6.4
Acting

Liverpool, 1978: What starts as a vibrant affair between a legendary femme-fatale, the eccentric Academy Award-winning actress Gloria Grahame, and her...

Sea Sorrow

Sea Sorrow

2017

as Self

5.3
Acting

A very personal and dynamic meditation on the current global refugee crisis through the eyes and voices of campaigners, specially children, where past...

Sea Sorrow

Sea Sorrow

2017

Director, Screenplay

5.3
Directing Writing

A very personal and dynamic meditation on the current global refugee crisis through the eyes and voices of campaigners, specially children, where past...

Joan Didion: The Center Will Not Hold

Joan Didion: The Center Will Not Hold

2017

as Self

7.3
Acting

Griffin Dunne’s years-in-the-making documentary portrait of his aunt Joan Didion moves with the spirit of her uncannily lucid writing: the film simult...

The Secret Scripture

The Secret Scripture

2017

as Old Roseanne McNulty

7.3
Acting

The hidden memoir of an elderly woman confined to a mental hospital reveals the history of her passionate yet tortured life, and of the religious and ...

Electric Burma: The Concert for Aung San Suu Kyi - Words I Never Said

Electric Burma: The Concert for Aung San Suu Kyi - Words I Never Said

2016

as Self

Acting

Bono and others in a major Dublin, city wide event in honor of revered human rights activist Aung San Suu Kyi.

Almeida Theatre Live: Richard III

Almeida Theatre Live: Richard III

2016

as Queen Margaret

7.7
Acting

The Almeida Theatre makes its live screening debut with an explosive new adaptation of Richard III, directed by Almeida Artistic Director Rupert Goold...

The Go-Between

The Go-Between

2015

as Older Marian

7.0
Acting

An elderly man pieces together his childhood memories after finding his diary from 1900, which he wrote when he was 13 years old.

Foxcatcher

Foxcatcher

2014

as Jean du Pont

6.7
Acting

The greatest Olympic Wrestling Champion brother team joins Team Foxcatcher led by multimillionaire sponsor John E. du Pont as they train for the 1988 ...

The Wound and the Gift

The Wound and the Gift

2014

Acting

The Gift is a feature-length film exploring a major transformation in peoples' relationships with animals.

And the Oscar Goes To...

And the Oscar Goes To...

2014

as Self (archive footage)

7.0
Acting

The story of the gold-plated statuette that became the film industry's most coveted prize, AND THE OSCAR GOES TO... traces the history of the Academy ...

The Thirteenth Tale

The Thirteenth Tale

2013

as Vida Winter

6.5
Acting

Biographer Margaret Lea travels to the isolated rural mansion of the famous writer Vida Winter, who asks her to write her biography. Although initiall...

The Butler

The Butler

2013

as Annabeth Westfall

7.3
Acting

A look at the life of Cecil Gaines, who served eight presidents as the White House's head butler from 1952 to 1986, and had a unique front-row seat as...

The Last Will and Testament of Rosalind Leigh

The Last Will and Testament of Rosalind Leigh

2012

as Rosalind Leigh

5.0
Acting

The story of Leon, an antiques collector who inherits a house from his estranged mother only to discover that she had been living in a shrine devoted ...

Last Will. & Testament

Last Will. & Testament

2012

7.0
Acting

It's the greatest mystery of all time; who wrote the works of Shakespeare? DEREK JACOBI leads an impressive cast on a quest to uncover the truth behin...

Song for Marion

Song for Marion

2012

as Marion

6.8
Acting

Arthur is a grumpy pensioner who can't understand why his wife Marion would want to embarrass herself singing silly songs with her unconventional loca...

Anonymous

Anonymous

2011

as Queen Elizabeth I

6.4
Acting

Set against the backdrop of the succession of Queen Elizabeth I, and the Essex Rebellion against her, the story advances the theory that it was in fac...

Cars 2

Cars 2

2011

as The Queen / Mama Topolino (voice)

6.2
Acting

Star race car Lightning McQueen and his pal Mater head overseas to compete in the World Grand Prix race. But the road to the championship becomes rock...

Coriolanus

Coriolanus

2011

as Volumnia

5.8
Acting

Caius Martius, aka Coriolanus, is an arrogant and fearsome general who has built a career on protecting Rome from its enemies. Pushed by his ambitious...

Robinson in Ruins

Robinson in Ruins

2010

as Narrator

6.8
Acting

The eagerly awaited sequel to Patrick Keiller's London and Robinson in Space is a beautifully photographed cinematic essay on our current environmenta...

Miral

Miral

2010

as Bertha Spafford

5.7
Acting

A drama centered on an orphaned Palestinian girl growing up in the wake of the first Arab-Israeli war who finds herself drawn into the conflict.

The Whistleblower

The Whistleblower

2010

as Madeleine Rees

6.7
Acting

Nebraska cop Kathryn Bolkovac discovers a deadly sex trafficking ring while serving as a U.N. peacekeeper in post-war Bosnia. Risking her own life to ...

Letters to Juliet

Letters to Juliet

2010

as Claire

7.0
Acting

An American girl on vacation in Italy finds an unanswered "letter to Juliet" -- one of thousands of missives left at the fictional lover's Verona cour...

God, Smell and Her

God, Smell and Her

2009

Acting

A stream of consciousness, a journey, a wonder of human beings, life and the world, of the corporeal and what can not be seen, but there is. A woman t...

Ein Job

Ein Job

2008

as Hannah Silbergrau

Acting

Victorija comes to Hamburg from the Ukraine to carry out a triple murder. But the "killer cat" learns from a 75-year-old anarchist and a charming "ill...

Restraint

Restraint

2008

as Sky News Reader #2

5.9
Acting

Two fugitives land in hot water when they take a hostage who poses a threat to their well-being.

How About You...

How About You...

2007

as Georgia Platts

6.2
Acting

A young woman, struggling with the direction of her life, spends Christmas watching over a retirement home filled with demanding residents.

The Shell Seekers

The Shell Seekers

2007

as Penelope Keeling

6.9
Acting

Penelope Keeling, a sixty-four-year-old daughter of a famous artist, reflects on her life, and the fate and choices that defined it, when she arrives ...

The Riddle

The Riddle

2007

as Roberta Elliot

4.8
Acting

A journalist investigates a series of murders that follows the discovery of an unpublished novel by Charles Dickens in the cellar of an old Thames pub...

Evening

Evening

2007

as Ann Lord

5.8
Acting

As Constance (Natasha Richardson) and Nina (Toni Collette) gather at the deathbed of their mother, Ann (Vanessa Redgrave), they learn for the first ti...

Atonement

Atonement

2007

as Briony Tallis (Age 77)

7.6
Acting

As a 13-year-old, fledgling writer Briony Tallis irrevocably changes the course of several lives when she accuses her older sister's lover of a crime ...

Dealing and Wheeling in Small Arms

Dealing and Wheeling in Small Arms

2007

as Narrator

Acting

DEALING AND WHEELING IN SMALL ARMS is a political documentary on the uncontrolled widespread of small arms, which rule and ruin the lives of a growing...

Venus

Venus

2006

as Valerie

6.6
Acting

Maurice is an aging veteran actor who becomes taken with Jessie, the grandniece of his closest friend. When Maurice tries to soften the petulant and p...

Eugene O’Neill: A Documentary Film

Eugene O’Neill: A Documentary Film

2006

as Self

Acting

Eugene O'Neill tells the haunting story of the life and work of America's greatest and only Nobel Prize-winning playwright -- set within the context o...

The Thief Lord

The Thief Lord

2006

as Sister Antonia

5.9
Acting

A tale about two young boys, Prosper and Bo, who flee to Venice after being orphaned and dumped in the care of a cruel auntie. Hiding in the canals an...

The White Countess

The White Countess

2005

as Princess Vera Belinskya

6.2
Acting

In 1930s Shanghai, 'The White Countess' is both Sofia, a fallen member of the exiled Russian aristocracy, and a nightclub created by a blind American ...

Elio Petri: Notes About a Filmmaker

Elio Petri: Notes About a Filmmaker

2005

as Self

6.7
Acting

A documentary on the director’s career, featuring interviews with friends, collaborators, and filmmakers.

The Keeper: The Legend of Omar Khayyam

The Keeper: The Legend of Omar Khayyam

2005

as Miss Sangorski

5.0
Acting

Kamran is a 12 year old boy in the present day who discovers that his ancestor is the 11th Century Mathematician, Astronomer, Poet of Persia, Omar Kha...

Short Order

Short Order

2005

4.4
Acting

SHORT ORDER tells a story so vibrantly sumptuous each still could be served as its own meal. Amidst the quaint Parisian street night, Fifi Koko runs a...

The Fever

The Fever

2004

as The woman

5.3
Acting

Tells the story of a woman who gets involved in politics with no previous contact with world events.

The Fever

The Fever

2004

Executive Producer

5.3
Producing

Tells the story of a woman who gets involved in politics with no previous contact with world events.

Thank You, Doctor Rey

Thank You, Doctor Rey

2004

as herself

5.7
Acting

A gay young man is recruited into an illicit love triangle to watch a much older man’s sexual liaison, but ends up witnessing what turns out to be his...

Good Boy!

Good Boy!

2003

as The Greater Dane (voice)

5.5
Acting

An intergalactic dog pilot from Sirius (the dog star), visits Earth to verify the rumors that dogs have failed to take over the planet.

Byron

Byron

2003

as Lady Melbourne

4.6
Acting

Life and adventures of lord George Gordon Byron. BBC dramatization of the poet's final thirteen years

The Locket

The Locket

2002

as Esther Huish

5.2
Acting

A bereaved man takes a job at a health care center, where he befriends an elderly and embittered woman - and as time passes, he becomes obsessed with ...

Hell on Earth: The Desecration & Resurrection of The Devils

Hell on Earth: The Desecration & Resurrection of The Devils

2002

as Self

6.9
Acting

Hell on Earth is a documentary about Ken Russell's 1971 film, The Devils. Film critic Mark Kermode chats to Russell as well as two of the film’s stars...

Searching for Debra Winger

Searching for Debra Winger

2002

as Self

6.3
Acting

Rosanna Arquette talks to various actresses about the pressures they face as women working in the entertainment industry.

Crime and Punishment

Crime and Punishment

2002

as Rodion's mother

5.0
Acting

A modern day adaptation of Dostoyevsky's classic novel about a young student who is forever haunted by the murder he has committed.

The Gathering Storm

The Gathering Storm

2002

as Clemmie Churchill

6.6
Acting

A love story offering an intimate look inside the marriage of Winston and Clementine Churchill during a particularly troubled, though little-known, mo...

Escape to Life: The Erika and Klaus Mann Story

Escape to Life: The Erika and Klaus Mann Story

2001

as (voice)

5.0
Acting

This documentary contains dramatized episodes about the lives of Erika and Klaus Mann, the brilliant children of German writer Thomas Mann.

The Pledge

The Pledge

2001

as Annalise Hansen

6.6
Acting

A police chief about to retire pledges to help a woman find her daughter's killer.

A Rumor of Angels

A Rumor of Angels

2000

as Maddy Bennett

6.6
Acting

An old woman helps a young boy resolve his feelings over the death of his mother.

The Adventures of Young Indiana Jones: Love's Sweet Song

The Adventures of Young Indiana Jones: Love's Sweet Song

2000

as Vicky's Mother

5.0
Acting

Ireland's bloody 1916 Easter Uprising, the suffragette movement in England, a Zeppelin raid, and a meeting with a rising young British cabinet member ...

Uninvited

Uninvited

2000

as Mrs. Rutterburn

3.5
Acting

A man is accused of murdering his childhood love and her entire family.

Mirka

Mirka

2000

as Kalsan

Acting

The isolated lives of people on a farm at the top of the mountains are changed by a ten-year-old child named Mirka.

1961

1961

2000

as Edith Tree

Acting

An elderly lesbian couple, Edith (Vanessa Redgrave) and Abby (Marian Seldes), find out their long-term relationship has no bearing in the eyes of the ...

If These Walls Could Talk 2

If These Walls Could Talk 2

2000

as Edith Tree

6.5
Acting

The stories of three lesbian couples -- who live in the same house at different periods of time -- who are at a crossroads in their lives. In 1961, Ed...

Exile in Buyukada

Exile in Buyukada

2000

as Narrator

Acting

Documentary - This film focuses on Trotsky's exile in Buyukada, Istanbul, one of the first places the revolutionary theorist settled to live and write...

Girl, Interrupted

Girl, Interrupted

1999

as Dr. Wick

7.6
Acting

Set in the changing world of the late 1960s, Susanna Kaysen's prescribed "short rest" from a psychiatrist she had met only once becomes a strange, unk...

Cradle Will Rock

Cradle Will Rock

1999

as Countess Constance La Grave

6.5
Acting

A true story of politics and art in the 1930s USA, centered around a leftist musical drama and attempts to stop its production.

Lulu on the Bridge

Lulu on the Bridge

1998

as Catherine Moore

5.8
Acting

This film is about a famous jazz saxophonist, Izzy, whose life is forever changed after he is accidentally shot.

Deep Impact

Deep Impact

1998

as Robin Lerner

6.2
Acting

A seven-mile-wide space rock is hurtling toward Earth, threatening to obliterate the planet. Now, it's up to the president of the United States to sav...

Déjà Vu

Déjà Vu

1998

as Skelly

5.5
Acting

L.A. shop owner Dana and Englishman Sean meet and fall in love at first sight, but Sean is married and Dana is to marry her business partner Alex.

Bella Mafia

Bella Mafia

1997

as Graziella Luciano

6.6
Acting

Following the brutal murder of her husband and male kin, Sophia unites with her mother-in-law and sisters-in-law, in a fierce quest for vengeance agai...

Wilde

Wilde

1997

as Lady Speranza Wilde

6.6
Acting

The story of Oscar Wilde, genius, poet, playwright and the First Modern Man. The self-realisation of his homosexuality caused Wilde enormous torment a...

Mrs. Dalloway

Mrs. Dalloway

1997

as Mrs. Clarissa Dalloway

5.6
Acting

Clarissa Dalloway looks back on her youth as she readies for a gathering at her house. The wife of a legislator and a doyenne of London's upper-crust ...

Michael Redgrave: My Father

Michael Redgrave: My Father

1997

as Self

Acting

Corin Redgrave presents a portrait of his father, Michael Redgrave, exploring his personality, nature and what he was like as a father. He uses family...

Smilla's Sense of Snow

Smilla's Sense of Snow

1997

as Elsa Lübing

6.3
Acting

Smilla Jaspersen attempts to understand the death of a small boy who falls from the roof of her apartment building. Suspecting wrongdoing, Smilla unco...

The Willows in Winter

The Willows in Winter

1996

as Grandmother / Narrator

7.0
Acting

Hailed as the "rightful heir" to "The Wind in the Willows", William Horwood's critically acclaimed sequel comes to magical life in this beautifully an...

Looking for Richard

Looking for Richard

1996

as Self - Interviewee

6.8
Acting

Al Pacino's deeply-felt rumination on Shakespeare's significance and relevance to the modern world through interviews and an in-depth analysis of "Ric...

Two Mothers for Zachary

Two Mothers for Zachary

1996

as Nancy Shaffell

6.4
Acting

A grandmother sues her daughter for custody of her grandson, because she believes that her daughter's homosexuality renders her unfit for motherhood.

Mission: Impossible

Mission: Impossible

1996

as Max

7.0
Acting

When Ethan Hunt, the leader of a crack espionage team whose perilous operation has gone awry with no explanation, discovers that a mole has penetrated...

The Wind in the Willows

The Wind in the Willows

1995

as Grandmother / Narrator

7.0
Acting

Jailed for his reckless driving, rambunctious Mr. Toad has to escape from prison when his beloved Toad Hall comes under threat from the wily weasels, ...

Down Came a Blackbird

Down Came a Blackbird

1995

as Anna Lenke

8.2
Acting

A woman struggles with the death of her lover. He was killed by South-American fascists.

A Month by the Lake

A Month by the Lake

1995

as Miss Bentley

5.8
Acting

For 16 years Miss Bentley has been spending April at an elegant hillside villa on Lake Como. This year, 1937, her London society artist father has rec...

Little Odessa

Little Odessa

1994

as Irina Shapira

6.4
Acting

Long separated from his family, hitman Joshua returns to Brighton Beach for a contract killing for the Russian Mafia. His abusive father, Arkady, bann...

Great Moments in Aviation

Great Moments in Aviation

1994

as Dr. Angela Bead

5.3
Acting

The film follows Gabriel Angel (Rakie Ayola), a young Caribbean aviator who falls in love with the forger Duncan Stewart (Jonathan Pryce) on her journ...

Sparrow

Sparrow

1994

as Suor Agata

7.4
Acting

Catania, Sicilia 1854. A serious epidemic of cholera is hitting the region. Maria a 16 years old novice leaves her convent and returns her home to avo...

They

They

1993

as Florence Latimer

7.4
Acting

A father experiences strange apparitions after his daughter is killed in a car accident.

The House of the Spirits

The House of the Spirits

1993

as Nivea del Valle

6.9
Acting

A rancher, his clairvoyant wife and their family face turbulent years in South America.

Mother's Boys

Mother's Boys

1993

as Lydia

5.3
Acting

Sexy but unstable wife and mother Jude walked out on her family three years ago. Now, just as suddenly, she is back. But her husband, Robert, has fall...

A Wall of Silence

A Wall of Silence

1993

as Kate Benson

5.4
Acting

A woman would rather forget her husband's forced disappearance at the hands of the government.

Howards End

Howards End

1992

as Ruth Wilcox

7.0
Acting

A saga of class relations and changing times in an Edwardian England on the brink of modernity, the film centers on liberal Margaret Schlegel, who, al...

The Ballad of the Sad Cafe

The Ballad of the Sad Cafe

1991

as Miss Amelia

5.7
Acting

A small-town eccentric opens a café in her decaying home.

What Ever Happened to Baby Jane?

What Ever Happened to Baby Jane?

1991

as Blanche Hudson

4.5
Acting

An elderly, bedridden former movie star is "cared for" by her sister, who hates her and keeps her a virtual prisoner in the family mansion.

Breath of Life

Breath of Life

1990

as Suor Crocifissa

Acting

Set in Italy in 1946 just after World War 2, the film explores the lives and emotions of a group of patients who are terminally ill and confined to an...

Orpheus Descending

Orpheus Descending

1990

as Lady Torrance

4.0
Acting

Val Xavier is a drifter in 1940's Mississippi who brings new life to an Italian immigrant woman trapped in a loveless marriage.

Stalin's Funeral

Stalin's Funeral

1990

as English journalist

2.8
Acting

1953 year. Moscow says goodbye to the leader. In the funeral crowd, Eugene met with Elya. During the long hours spent in the funeral procession, they ...

Romeo.Juliet

Romeo.Juliet

1990

as Mother Capulet (voice)

5.0
Acting

The tale centers on an eccentric bag lady who rescues the stray cats of Venice and puts them on a boat to set sail for the new world. It has not been ...

A Man for All Seasons

A Man for All Seasons

1988

as Lady Alice More

6.8
Acting

Story of Sir Thomas More, who refused to accept the spiritual leadership of Henry VIII, and faces death as he struggles to remain loyal to his integri...

Consuming Passions

Consuming Passions

1988

as Mrs. Garza

8.0
Acting

Adapted from a play written by two Monty Python vets, this toothy satire launches with a tragic accident at Chumley's chocolate factory when hapless m...

Comrades

Comrades

1987

as Mrs. Carlyle

6.8
Acting

The story of "The Tolpuddle Martyrs". A group of 19th century English farm labourers who formed one of the first trade unions and started a campaign t...

Prick Up Your Ears

Prick Up Your Ears

1987

as Peggy Ramsay

6.7
Acting

When the young, attractive Joe Orton meets the older, more introverted Kenneth Halliwell at drama school, he befriends the kindred spirit and they sta...

Second Serve

Second Serve

1986

as Renee Richards

5.4
Acting

Fact-based story about tennis pro Renee Richards, whose player status was challenged in 1976 when it was revealed that she was a trans woman. Flashbac...

Wetherby

Wetherby

1985

as Jean Travers

6.0
Acting

The mysterious death of an enigmatic young man newly arrived in the suburb of Wetherby releases the long-repressed, dark passions of some of its resid...

Steaming

Steaming

1985

as Nancy

5.4
Acting

Englishwomen band together when they learn that the public bathhouse they frequent for relaxation will be closed down.

Three Sovereigns for Sarah

Three Sovereigns for Sarah

1985

as Sarah Cloyce

Acting

Nineteen people were hanged and one man pressed to death, while hundreds went to jail during the "witch hysteria" of 1692. THREE SOVEREIGNS FOR SARAH ...

Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs

Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs

1984

as The Evil Queen

6.0
Acting

Snow White must flee from her evil stepmother. She's taken in by the lovable seven dwarves. Will the wicked queen be able to get rid of her rival?

The Bostonians

The Bostonians

1984

as Olive Chancellor

5.5
Acting

A bored lawyer and a suffragette vie for the attention of a faith healer's charismatic daughter.

Sing Sing

Sing Sing

1983

as la Regina

5.3
Acting

Eduardo accidentally discovers that he is adopted. His real father is dying, but before his death he said that his mother was the "Queen of England", ...

My Body, My Child

My Body, My Child

1982

as Leenie Cabrezi

9.0
Acting

A woman must choose between having an abortion or giving birth to a deformed child.

Playing for Time

Playing for Time

1980

as Fania Fenelon

6.9
Acting

When a Jewish songstress is plucked from the stage and sent to Auschwitz, she and other musicians find themselves assigned to a terrible task—using th...

The Fifth War

The Fifth War

1980

Acting

A war documentary that stands as an example of both the possibilities of international solidarity and also its dangers. Co-directed by an Iraqi and Ge...

Red, White, and Zero

Red, White, and Zero

1979

as Jacky

5.0
Acting

Composed of three shorts – Ride of the Valkyrie, The White Bus, and Red and Blue – from three of Britain’s most-celebrated directors - Lindsay Anderso...

Bear Island

Bear Island

1979

as Heddi Lindquist

5.9
Acting

A group of people converge on a barren Arctic island. They have their reasons for being there but when a series of mysterious accidents and murders ta...

Yanks

Yanks

1979

as Helen

5.9
Acting

During WWII, the United States set up army bases in Great Britain as part of the war effort. Against their proper sensibilities, many of the Brits don...

Agatha

Agatha

1979

as Agatha Christie

6.2
Acting

England, 1926. An American journalist looks for mystery writer Agatha Christie when she suddenly disappears without explanation, leaving no trace.

Julia

Julia

1977

as Julia

6.5
Acting

At the behest of an old and dear friend, playwright Lillian Hellman undertakes a dangerous mission to smuggle funds into Nazi Germany.

The Palestinian

The Palestinian

1977

as Self

10.0
Acting

A powerful Palestinian documentary starring Vanessa Redgrave about the PLO (Palestine Liberation Organization) and its role in Lebanon, as well as the...

The Palestinian

The Palestinian

1977

Producer

10.0
Producing

A powerful Palestinian documentary starring Vanessa Redgrave about the PLO (Palestine Liberation Organization) and its role in Lebanon, as well as the...

The Seven-Per-Cent Solution

The Seven-Per-Cent Solution

1976

as Lola Deveraux

6.2
Acting

Concerned about his friend's cocaine use, Dr. Watson tricks Sherlock Holmes into travelling to Vienna, where Holmes enters the care of Sigmund Freud. ...

Out of Season

Out of Season

1975

as Ann

5.3
Acting

Middle-aged Ann and her teenage daughter Joanna manage a failing hotel on an island off the British coast. One day, the hotel receives an unexpected g...

Murder on the Orient Express

Murder on the Orient Express

1974

as Mary Debenham

7.1
Acting

In 1935, when his train is stopped by deep snow, detective Hercule Poirot is called on to solve a murder that occurred in his car the night before.

Right to Work March

Right to Work March

1972

Acting

They're young, unemployed and on the march - from Glasgow, Liverpool and Swansea to London.

Mary, Queen of Scots

Mary, Queen of Scots

1971

as Mary, Queen of Scots

6.7
Acting

Mary Stuart, who was named Queen of Scotland when she was only six days old, is the last Roman Catholic ruler of Scotland. She is imprisoned at the ag...

Vacation

Vacation

1971

as Immacolata Meneghelli

4.8
Acting

An allegedly insane woman is allowed to finally leave the madhouse to see if she is capable of functioning normally…

The Devils

The Devils

1971

as Sister Jeanne des Anges

7.5
Acting

In 17th-century France, Father Urbain Grandier seeks to protect the city of Loudun from the corrupt establishment of Cardinal Richelieu. Hysteria occu...

The Trojan Women

The Trojan Women

1971

as Andromache

6.2
Acting

In the aftermath of the Trojan Wars, Queen Hecuba takes stock of the defeated kingdom. Her son has been killed, and his widow, Andromache, is left to ...

Dropout

Dropout

1970

as Mary

4.8
Acting

Italian immigrant kidnaps a wealthy British woman, and they fall in love.

The Body

The Body

1970

as Narrator

4.4
Acting

A psychedelic documentary of the body electric, with music by Pink Floyd. The film was directed and produced by Roy Battersby. The film's narrators, ...

A Mother with Two Children Expecting Her Third

A Mother with Two Children Expecting Her Third

1970

as Herself

4.0
Acting

Bo Widerberg talks with actress Vanessa Redgrave about giving birth without painkillers and the Vietnam War.

No Arks

No Arks

1969

as Narrator

Acting

Animated retelling of the story of Noah's Ark by political cartoonist Abu.

Oh! What a Lovely War

Oh! What a Lovely War

1969

as Sylvia Pankhurst

6.8
Acting

The working-class Smiths change their initially sunny views on World War I after the three boys of the family witness the harsh reality of trench warf...

The Sea Gull

The Sea Gull

1968

as Nina

6.2
Acting

Film adaptation of Anton Chekhov's story of life in rural Russia during the latter part of the 19th century.

A Quiet Place in the Country

A Quiet Place in the Country

1968

as Flavia

6.3
Acting

A painter facing a creative block arranges to spend the weekend in the country at his mistress's villa. While staying there, his sanity begins to disi...

Isadora

Isadora

1968

as Isadora Duncan

6.1
Acting

A biography of the dancer Isadora Duncan, the 1920s dancer who forever changed people's ideas of ballet. Her nude, semi-nude, and pro-Soviet dance pro...

Red and Blue

Red and Blue

1968

as Jacky

6.0
Acting

Musical short, filmed for the abandoned portmanteau film Red, White and Zero (1967).

The Charge of the Light Brigade

The Charge of the Light Brigade

1968

as Mrs Clarissa Morris

6.1
Acting

During the Crimean War between Britain and Russia in the 1850s, a British cavalry division, led by the overbearing Lord Cardigan, engages in an infamo...

Camelot

Camelot

1967

as Guenevere

6.2
Acting

The plot of his illegitimate son Mordred to gain the throne, and Guinevere's growing attachment to Sir Lancelot, threatens to topple King Arthur and d...

Tonite Let's All Make Love in London

Tonite Let's All Make Love in London

1967

as Self

2.8
Acting

Peter Whitehead’s disjointed Swinging London documentary, subtitled “A Pop Concerto,” comprises a number of different “movements,” each depicting a di...

The Sailor from Gibraltar

The Sailor from Gibraltar

1967

as Sheila

5.7
Acting

Alan, after quarreling with his girlfriend Sheila, becomes intrigued by Anna, a mysterious widow who's searching for a sailor she had known many years...

Blow-Up

Blow-Up

1966

as Jane

7.3
Acting

A successful mod photographer in London whose world is bounded by fashion, pop music, marijuana, and easy sex, feels his life is boring and despairing...

A Man for All Seasons

A Man for All Seasons

1966

as Anne Boleyn

7.3
Acting

A depiction of the conflict between King Henry VIII of England and his Lord Chancellor, Sir Thomas More, who refuses to swear the Oath of Supremacy de...

Morgan: A Suitable Case for Treatment

Morgan: A Suitable Case for Treatment

1966

as Leonie Delt

6.2
Acting

Morgan, an aggressive and self-admitted dreamer, a fantasist who uses his flights of fancy as refuge from external reality, where his unconventional b...

Maggie

1964

as Maggie

Acting

East-End housewife Maggie Proud (Vanessa Redgrave) has two demanding children, a selfish mother-in-law, and an amiable but uncomprehending husband in ...

As You Like It

1963

as Rosalind

Acting

One of the earliest hits for the newly established RSC, Michael Elliott’s sparkling version of Shakespeare's comedy is still remembered with joy by a ...

A Sunday in September

A Sunday in September

1961

as Self

Acting

Documentary about the anti-nuclear demonstration staged in Trafalgar Square on 17 September 1961.

Circus at Clopton Hall

Circus at Clopton Hall

1961

as Narrator

Acting

On a summer's day, a group of children improvise a circus at an abandoned farm in Suffolk.

Behind the Mask

Behind the Mask

1958

as Pamela Benson-Gray

6.0
Acting

A newly qualified surgeon takes the blame for his drug addict colleague after the death their patient through neglect.

The Boy at the Back of the Class

N/A

as Queen

Acting

Based on the best selling novel by Onjali Q.Rauf. The Boy At The Back Of The Class is an adventure-filled drama about friendship, family, and the refu...

All That I Am

N/A

Acting

A heroic true story about four German-Jewish literati-turned-anti-Nazi activists who are forced to flee to London following the rise of Adolf Hitler’s...

The Estate

N/A

Acting

The story of the Wellsleys, an aristocratic family unable to save their ancestral estate because of debts. As they struggle to find a solution, a seri...

The Crystal Planet

N/A

as The Matriarch (voice)

Acting

11-year-old Rea has recently moved to a distant planet in an outer-space colony where she discovers a mysterious animal cub while her father works in ...

The Estate

N/A

Executive Producer

Producing

The story of the Wellsleys, an aristocratic family unable to save their ancestral estate because of debts. As they struggle to find a solution, a seri...