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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: 61/100

Highest rated: Howards End
83/100

What stands out

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

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

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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

as Queen

The Turning Door

as (voice)

2020s

7 titles · average score 51

Cold Storage

66

as Mary Rooney

The Crystal Planet

as The Matriarch (voice)

The Estate

Executive Producer

The Lost Girls

30

as Great Nana

Alice, Through the Looking

as Narrator

Finding You

57

as Cathleen Sweeney

Entree Des Artists

as Henry's Grandmother

2010s

25 titles · average score 62

Georgetown

57

as Elsa Brecht

Mrs Lowry & Son

62

as Elizabeth Lowry

Man in an Orange Shirt

79

TV show · as Flora Berryman

The Secret Scripture

52

as Old Roseanne McNulty

Foxcatcher

76

as Jean du Pont

The Thirteenth Tale

64

as Vida Winter

Call the Midwife

82

TV show · as Jennifer Worth (voice)

Song for Marion

64

as Marion

The Last Will and Testament of Rosalind Leigh

46

as Rosalind Leigh

Coriolanus

73

as Volumnia

The Whistleblower

68

as Madeleine Rees

Letters to Juliet

55

as Claire

2000s

32 titles · average score 56

The Day of the Triffids

38

TV show · as Durrant

Evening

47

as Ann Lord

Atonement

81

as Briony Tallis (Age 77)

How About You...

51

as Georgia Platts

The Fever

59

as The woman

Byron

59

as Lady Melbourne

The Gathering Storm

70

as Clemmie Churchill

Crime and Punishment

46

as Rodion's mother

The Locket

62

as Esther Huish

Jack and the Beanstalk: The Real Story

67

TV show · as Countess Wilhelmina

If These Walls Could Talk 2

65

as Edith Tree

A Rumor of Angels

42

as Maddy Bennett

1990s

30 titles · average score 62

Deep Impact

50

as Robin Lerner

Wilde

69

as Lady Speranza Wilde

Mrs. Dalloway

65

as Mrs. Clarissa Dalloway

Bella Mafia

67

as Graziella Luciano

A Month by the Lake

61

as Miss Bentley

They

64

as Florence Latimer

Howards End

83

as Ruth Wilcox

Young Catherine

66

TV show · as Empress Elizabeth

What Ever Happened to Baby Jane?

53

as Blanche Hudson

The Ballad of the Sad Cafe

54

as Miss Amelia

Orpheus Descending

56

as Lady Torrance

Stalin's Funeral

49

as English journalist

1980s

20 titles · average score 67

Consuming Passions

54

as Mrs. Garza

A Man for All Seasons

70

as Lady Alice More

Prick Up Your Ears

68

as Peggy Ramsay

Peter the Great

78

TV show · as Sophia

Wetherby

61

as Jean Travers

Three Sovereigns for Sarah

72

TV show · as Sarah Cloyce

Steaming

44

as Nancy

The Bostonians

61

as Olive Chancellor

Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs

71

as The Evil Queen

Wagner

71

TV show · as Cosima von Bulow

My Body, My Child

76

as Leenie Cabrezi

Playing for Time

72

as Fania Fenelon

1970s

17 titles · average score 63

Yanks

52

as Helen

Bear Island

50

as Heddi Lindquist

Agatha

62

as Agatha Christie

Julia

67

as Julia

The Seven-Per-Cent Solution

72

as Lola Deveraux

A Picture of Katherine Mansfield

TV show · as Katherine Mansfield

The Devils

67

as Sister Jeanne des Anges

Mary, Queen of Scots

54

as Mary, Queen of Scots

The Trojan Women

61

as Andromache

Vacation

50

as Immacolata Meneghelli

The Body

as Narrator

Dropout

58

as Mary

1960s

18 titles · average score 68

Oh! What a Lovely War

72

as Sylvia Pankhurst

The Charge of the Light Brigade

65

as Mrs Clarissa Morris

A Quiet Place in the Country

79

as Flavia

Isadora

72

as Isadora Duncan

The Sea Gull

54

as Nina

Red and Blue

as Jacky

Camelot

57

as Guenevere

The Sailor from Gibraltar

59

as Sheila

Blow-Up

80

as Jane

Morgan: A Suitable Case for Treatment

64

as Leonie Delt

as Maggie

as Rosalind

1950s

4 titles · average score 72

Behind the Mask

63

as Pamela Benson-Gray

Theatre Night

TV show · as Caroline Lester

Armchair Theatre

68

TV show · as Sally

Hallmark Hall of Fame

84

TV show · as Esther Huish