Vanessa Redgrave - biography

“I choose my roles carefully so that when my career is finished, I’ll have covered all our current history of oppression.”

“I give myself to my parts as a lover.  It’s the only way.”

“I’m as left-wing as it’s possible to be.”

“Shakespeare lets us see real people undergoing real processes, with real feelings.”

“The society Shakespeare knew was heading for tremendous change, and he seems to have recognized that and written about it in a coded way.  I understand those codes, I think.”

“A theatre is being given over to market forces, which means that a whole generation that should be able to do theatre as well as see it is being completely deprived.”

“Theatre and poetry were what helped people stay alive and want to go on living.”

“Ask the right questions if you’re to find the right answers.”

“Integrity is so perishable in the summer months of success.”

Vanessa Redgrave has appeared in the following films:
Men, Women and Clothes: Sense and Nonsense in Fashion (1956)
Behind the Mask (1958)
A Man for All Seasons (1966)
Blowup (1966)
Morgan: A Suitable Case for Treatment (1966)
Camelot (1967)
Red and Blue (1967)
The Sailor from Gibraltar (1967)
Isadora (1968)
The Charge of the Light Brigade (1968)
The Sea Gull (1968)
Un tranquillo posto di campagna (1968)
Oh! What a Lovely War (1969)
Drop-out (1970)
Mary, Queen of Scots (1971)
The Devils (1971)
The Trojan Women (1971)
La Vacanza (1971)
Murder on the Orient Express (1974)
Out of Season (1975)
The Seven-Per-Cent Solution (1976)
Julia (1977)
Agatha (1979)
Bear Island (1979)
Yanks (1979)
Sing Sing (1983)
The Bostonians (1984)
Steaming (1985)
Wetherby (1985)
Comrades (1986)
Prick Up Your Ears (1987)
Consuming Passions (1988)
Romeo-Juliet (1990)
Diceria dell’untore (1990)
Pokhorony Stalina (1990)
The Ballad of the Sad Cafe (1991)
Howards End (1992)
The House of the Spirits (1993)
A Wall of Silence (1993)
Sparrow (1993)
Little Odessa (1994)
Mother’s Boys (1994)
A Month by the Lake (1995)
Mission Impossible (1996)
Déjà Vu (1997)
Wilde (1997)
Smilla’s Feeling for Snow (1997)
Mrs Dalloway (1997)
Lulu on the Bridge (1998)
Deep Impact (1998)
Cradle Will Rock (1999)
Girl, Interrupted (1999)
Uninvited (1999)
Mirka (2000)
The 3 Kings (2000)
A Rumor of Angels (2000)
Escape to Life: The Erika and Klaus Mann Story (2000)
The Pledge (2001)
Crime and Punishment (2002)
The Fever (2004)
Short Order (2005)
The White Countess (2005)
The Keeper: The Legend of Omar Khayyam (2005)
Venus (2006)
Atonement (2007)
Evening (2007)
How About You... (2007)
The Riddle (2007)
Gud, lukt och henne (2008)
Restraint (2008)
Identity of the Soul (2009)
The Whistleblower (2010)
Eva (2010)
Letters to Juliet (2010)
Miral (2010)