Vanessa Redgrave

Vanessa Redgrave, CBE, (born January 30, 1937) is an British actress, a member of the Redgrave acting dynasty. Her parents were Sir Michael Redgrave and Lady Rachel Kempson Redgrave. Her American citizen sister, Lynn Redgrave, from whom she was estranged for a while because of her militant political views, which are unpopular in the U.S. where Lynn resides, and her brother, the equally activist Corin Redgrave, who is currently battling cancer, are also well-known actors, as are her daughters, Natasha Richardson and Joely Richardson, by her 1962 to 1967 marriage to the homosexual but apparently family-starved husband, film director Tony Richardson, who died of AIDS in 1991. She subsequently had a long-term relationship with Timothy Dalton. She also has a son, Carlo Nero (né Carlo Sparanero), a writer and film director, by a relationship with Italian actor Franco Nero (né Francesco Sparanero), whom she met while filming Camelot.

Select filmography

• A Man for All Seasons (1966, again 1988)
• Morgan! (1966)
• Blowup (1966)
• Camelot (1967)
• Isadora (1968)
• Oh! What a Lovely War (1969)
• The Devils (1971)
• Mary Queen of Scots (1971)
• Murder on the Orient Express (1974)
• Julia (1977)
• Agatha (1979)
• The Bostonians (1984)
• Wetherby (1985)
• Prick Up Your Ears (1987)
• Howards End (1992)
• The House of the Spirits (1993)
• ' (1996)
• Wilde (1997)
• Mrs Dalloway (1997)
• Deep Impact (1998)
• Girl, Interrupted (1999)
• If These Walls Could Talk 2 (1999)
• The Pledge (2001)
• Running with Scissors