Portrait of Vanessa Redgrave

Acting

Vanessa Redgrave

Career

Active from 1958 to 2026, busiest in 2000 and 2007 with 6 main titles each.

Leading roles
90
top three billing
Average score
GoodWatch score61/100
Highest rated
Poster for Howards End
Howards End
GoodWatch score83/100

What stands out

Compared with the average well-known movie, over 106 of their titles. Select a trait to filter titles.

Energy: 3.9 versus catalog average 4.6EnergyHeart: 4.9 versus catalog average 4.2HeartHumor: 2.2 versus catalog average 2.6HumorWorld: 6.1 versus catalog average 5.6WorldCraft: 5.9 versus catalog average 5.3CraftStyle: 6.1 versus catalog average 5.9Style
Vanessa Redgrave Catalog average

Rarely in their work

  • Contemporary Realism
    4.0, average 5.4
  • Adrenaline
    3.5, average 4.8
  • Situational Comedy
    1.6, average 2.7
  • Physical Comedy
    1.3, average 2.4

Main genres

Select a genre to see those titles.

Recurring tags

  • Character Study 14
  • Character-Driven 13
  • Psychological Drama 13
  • Historical Drama 10
  • Social Commentary 9
  • Political Intrigue 8
  • Biographical Drama 6
  • Thought-Provoking 6
  • Literary Adaptation 6
  • Melancholy 5
  • Mystery 4
  • Contemporary Realism 4

Works often with

People in at least two of their main titles.

Movies and TV shows

155
Type
Role
Score
Decade
Genre
Group by

Upcoming

2 titles
The Boy at the Back of the Class
The Boy at the Back of the Class

as Queen

The Turning Door
The Turning Door

as (voice)

2020s

7 titles · average score 51
Cold Storage
Cold Storage (2026)
GoodWatch score 66

as Mary Rooney

The Crystal Planet
The Crystal Planet (2026)

as The Matriarch (voice)

The Estate
The Estate (2025)

Executive Producer

The Lost Girls
The Lost Girls (2022)
GoodWatch score 30

as Great Nana

Alice, Through the Looking
Alice, Through the Looking (2021)

as Narrator

Finding You
Finding You (2021)
GoodWatch score 57

as Cathleen Sweeney

Entree Des Artists
Entree Des Artists (2020)

as Henry's Grandmother

2010s

25 titles · average score 62
Georgetown
Georgetown (2019)
GoodWatch score 57

as Elsa Brecht

Mrs Lowry & Son
Mrs Lowry & Son (2019)
GoodWatch score 62

as Elizabeth Lowry

Man in an Orange Shirt
Man in an Orange Shirt (2017)
GoodWatch score 79

TV show · as Flora Berryman

The Secret Scripture
The Secret Scripture (2017)
GoodWatch score 52

as Old Roseanne McNulty

Foxcatcher
Foxcatcher (2014)
GoodWatch score 76

as Jean du Pont

The Thirteenth Tale
The Thirteenth Tale (2013)
GoodWatch score 64

as Vida Winter

Call the Midwife
Call the Midwife (2012)
GoodWatch score 82

TV show · as Jennifer Worth (voice)

Song for Marion
Song for Marion (2012)
GoodWatch score 64

as Marion

The Last Will and Testament of Rosalind Leigh
The Last Will and Testament of Rosalind Leigh (2012)
GoodWatch score 46

as Rosalind Leigh

Coriolanus
Coriolanus (2011)
GoodWatch score 73

as Volumnia

The Whistleblower
The Whistleblower (2010)
GoodWatch score 68

as Madeleine Rees

Letters to Juliet
Letters to Juliet (2010)
GoodWatch score 55

as Claire

2000s

32 titles · average score 56
The Day of the Triffids
The Day of the Triffids (2009)
GoodWatch score 38

TV show · as Durrant

Evening
Evening (2007)
GoodWatch score 47

as Ann Lord

Atonement
Atonement (2007)
GoodWatch score 81

as Briony Tallis (Age 77)

How About You...
How About You... (2007)
GoodWatch score 51

as Georgia Platts

The Fever
The Fever (2004)
GoodWatch score 59

as The woman

Byron
Byron (2003)
GoodWatch score 59

as Lady Melbourne

The Gathering Storm
The Gathering Storm (2002)
GoodWatch score 70

as Clemmie Churchill

Crime and Punishment
Crime and Punishment (2002)
GoodWatch score 46

as Rodion's mother

The Locket
The Locket (2002)
GoodWatch score 62

as Esther Huish

Jack and the Beanstalk: The Real Story
Jack and the Beanstalk: The Real Story (2001)
GoodWatch score 67

TV show · as Countess Wilhelmina

If These Walls Could Talk 2
If These Walls Could Talk 2 (2000)
GoodWatch score 65

as Edith Tree

A Rumor of Angels
A Rumor of Angels (2000)
GoodWatch score 42

as Maddy Bennett

1990s

30 titles · average score 62
Deep Impact
Deep Impact (1998)
GoodWatch score 50

as Robin Lerner

Wilde
Wilde (1997)
GoodWatch score 69

as Lady Speranza Wilde

Mrs. Dalloway
Mrs. Dalloway (1997)
GoodWatch score 65

as Mrs. Clarissa Dalloway

Bella Mafia
Bella Mafia (1997)
GoodWatch score 67

as Graziella Luciano

A Month by the Lake
A Month by the Lake (1995)
GoodWatch score 61

as Miss Bentley

They
They (1993)
GoodWatch score 64

as Florence Latimer

Howards End
Howards End (1992)
GoodWatch score 83

as Ruth Wilcox

Young Catherine
Young Catherine (1991)
GoodWatch score 66

TV show · as Empress Elizabeth

What Ever Happened to Baby Jane?
What Ever Happened to Baby Jane? (1991)
GoodWatch score 53

as Blanche Hudson

The Ballad of the Sad Cafe
The Ballad of the Sad Cafe (1991)
GoodWatch score 54

as Miss Amelia

Orpheus Descending
Orpheus Descending (1990)
GoodWatch score 56

as Lady Torrance

Stalin's Funeral
Stalin's Funeral (1990)
GoodWatch score 49

as English journalist

1980s

20 titles · average score 67
Consuming Passions
Consuming Passions (1988)
GoodWatch score 54

as Mrs. Garza

A Man for All Seasons
A Man for All Seasons (1988)
GoodWatch score 70

as Lady Alice More

Prick Up Your Ears
Prick Up Your Ears (1987)
GoodWatch score 68

as Peggy Ramsay

Peter the Great
Peter the Great (1986)
GoodWatch score 78

TV show · as Sophia

Wetherby
Wetherby (1985)
GoodWatch score 61

as Jean Travers

Three Sovereigns for Sarah
Three Sovereigns for Sarah (1985)
GoodWatch score 72

TV show · as Sarah Cloyce

Steaming
Steaming (1985)
GoodWatch score 44

as Nancy

The Bostonians
The Bostonians (1984)
GoodWatch score 61

as Olive Chancellor

Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs
Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs (1984)
GoodWatch score 71

as The Evil Queen

Wagner
Wagner (1983)
GoodWatch score 71

TV show · as Cosima von Bulow

My Body, My Child
My Body, My Child (1982)
GoodWatch score 76

as Leenie Cabrezi

Playing for Time
Playing for Time (1980)
GoodWatch score 72

as Fania Fenelon

1970s

17 titles · average score 63
Yanks
Yanks (1979)
GoodWatch score 52

as Helen

Bear Island
Bear Island (1979)
GoodWatch score 50

as Heddi Lindquist

Agatha
Agatha (1979)
GoodWatch score 62

as Agatha Christie

Julia
Julia (1977)
GoodWatch score 67

as Julia

The Seven-Per-Cent Solution
The Seven-Per-Cent Solution (1976)
GoodWatch score 72

as Lola Deveraux

A Picture of Katherine Mansfield
A Picture of Katherine Mansfield (1973)

TV show · as Katherine Mansfield

The Devils
The Devils (1971)
GoodWatch score 67

as Sister Jeanne des Anges

Mary, Queen of Scots
Mary, Queen of Scots (1971)
GoodWatch score 54

as Mary, Queen of Scots

The Trojan Women
The Trojan Women (1971)
GoodWatch score 61

as Andromache

Vacation
Vacation (1971)
GoodWatch score 50

as Immacolata Meneghelli

The Body
The Body (1970)

as Narrator

Dropout
Dropout (1970)
GoodWatch score 58

as Mary

1960s

18 titles · average score 68
Oh! What a Lovely War
Oh! What a Lovely War (1969)
GoodWatch score 72

as Sylvia Pankhurst

The Charge of the Light Brigade
The Charge of the Light Brigade (1968)
GoodWatch score 65

as Mrs Clarissa Morris

A Quiet Place in the Country
A Quiet Place in the Country (1968)
GoodWatch score 79

as Flavia

Isadora
Isadora (1968)
GoodWatch score 72

as Isadora Duncan

The Sea Gull
The Sea Gull (1968)
GoodWatch score 54

as Nina

Red and Blue
Red and Blue (1968)

as Jacky

Camelot
Camelot (1967)
GoodWatch score 57

as Guenevere

The Sailor from Gibraltar
The Sailor from Gibraltar (1967)
GoodWatch score 59

as Sheila

Blow-Up
Blow-Up (1966)
GoodWatch score 80

as Jane

Morgan: A Suitable Case for Treatment
Morgan: A Suitable Case for Treatment (1966)
GoodWatch score 64

as Leonie Delt

Maggie
Maggie (1964)

as Maggie

As You Like It
As You Like It (1963)

as Rosalind

1950s

4 titles · average score 72
Behind the Mask
Behind the Mask (1958)
GoodWatch score 63

as Pamela Benson-Gray

Theatre Night
Theatre Night (1957)

TV show · as Caroline Lester

Armchair Theatre
Armchair Theatre (1956)
GoodWatch score 68

TV show · as Sally

Hallmark Hall of Fame
Hallmark Hall of Fame (1951)
GoodWatch score 84

TV show · as Esther Huish