Date of Birth:January 30, 1937
Place of Birth:London, England
British actress of stage and screen and longtime political activist.
Called “the greatest actress of our time” by the playwright Tennessee Williams, Vanessa Redgrave came from a legendary theatrical family. Vanessa Redgrave father, Sir Michael Redgrave, was one of Britain's most popular and respected actors, and her mother, Rachel Kempson, was a noted stage actress. Vanessa Redgrave sister, Lynn, did both stage and film work—most notably in Georgy Girl (1966) and Shine (1996)—and her brother, Corin, was a successful stage director and actor. Redgrave is also the mother of actresses Natasha and Joely Richardson from her marriage in the 1960s to director Tony Richardson.
Redgrave made her professional debut in the play A Touch of the Sun (1957), in which she costarred with her father.Vanessa Redgrave appeared in her first film, Behind the Mask, in 1958 but concentrated mostly on stage work throughout the late '50s and early '60s and was a member of the Royal Shakespeare Theatre in Stratford-upon-Avon during the 1959–60 season.Vanessa Redgrave film career began in earnest in 1966; within the space of two years, she appeared in four films that established her reputation as an intelligent actress with a commanding presence. The first of her six Academy Award nominations was for Morgan! (1966), her first motion picture in eight years.Vanessa Redgrave then had a role in Michelangelo Antonioni's Blow-Up (1966), a psychological mystery that became a cult favourite.Redgrave's unbilled cameo as Anne Boleyn in A Man for All Seasons (1966) and her performance as Guinevere in Camelot (1967) further secured her status as one of the most popular and respected actresses of the era.
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