Vanessa Redgrave CBE (Londres, 30 de gener de 1937) és una actriu anglesa, guanyadora dels premis Oscar i Globus d'Or. Pertany a la família d'actors Redgrave. D'ells, igual que el seu germà Corin Redgrave i la seva germana Lynn Redgrave, va heretar cert gust pel món de la interpretació així com una afinitat a les idees progressistes. És la mare de Joely i Natasha Richardson. Té també un fill Carlo Nero, escriptor i realitzador.

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 also received Tony nominations for The Year of Magical Thinking and Driving Miss Daisy.

On screen she has starred in scores of films and is a six-time Oscar nominee, winning the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress for the title role in the film Julia (1977). Her other nominations were for Morgan: A Suitable Case for Treatment (1966), 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), Prick Up Your Ears (1987), Mission: Impossible (1996), Atonement (2007), Coriolanus (2011), and The Butler (2013). Redgrave was proclaimed by Arthur Miller and Tennessee Williams as "the greatest living actress of our times", and has won the Oscar, Emmy, Tony, BAFTA, Olivier, Cannes, Golden Globe, and the Screen Actors Guild awards.

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Vanessa Mariah Redgrave, (Greenwich, 30 de janeiro de 1937) é uma atriz britânica. Ela é uma das 23 pessoas que alcançaram a Tríplice Coroa da Atuação, e em 2003 entrou para o Hall of Fame do American Theatre. Em 2010, Redgrave recebeu um Prêmio BAFTA Fellowship em reconhecimento à sua contribuição ao cinema. No cinema, Redgrave fez sua estreia com o drama médico Behind the Mask (1958), e ganhou destaque com a comédia Deliciosas Loucuras de Amor (1966), que lhe rendeu a primeira de suas seis indicações ao Oscar, vencendo o prêmio de melhor atriz coadjuvante pelo filme Julia (1977).