Vanessa Redgrave: movies and TV shows
Vanessa Redgrave has 203 credits in the archive: 161 films and 42 TV series, from 1944 to 2026. Highest rated: Sabine Christiansen (10.0/10).
Career timeline
1944 – 2026 · busiest year: 1997 (7 credits)
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Full filmography
| Year | Title | Role | Type | Rating | Age then |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | Cold Storage | Mary Rooney | Film | 6.7 | 89 |
| 2026 | The Crystal Planet | The Matriarch (voice) | Film | — | 89 |
| 2025 | The Estate | Film | 5.0 | 88 | |
| 2025 | The Estate | Film | 5.0 | 88 | |
| 2025 | Common Wealth | Self | Film | — | 88 |
| 2024 | Merchant Ivory | Self | Film | 7.7 | 87 |
| 2023 | On Our Way | Film | 3.5 | 86 | |
| 2022 | The Lost Girls | Great Nana | Film | 4.9 | 85 |
| 2022 | The Ghost of Richard Harris | Self | Film | 7.5 | 85 |
| 2021 | Finding You | Cathleen Sweeney | Film | 6.9 | 84 |
| 2021 | Alice, Through the Looking | Narrator | Film | — | 84 |
| 2021 | Alida Valli: In Her Own Words | Self | Film | 9.2 | 84 |
| 2020 | Entree Des Artists | Henry's Grandmother | Film | — | 83 |
| 2020 | Katherine Jenkins Christmas Spectacular | Self | Film | 8.3 | 83 |
| 2019 | Georgetown | Elsa Brecht | Film | 5.9 | 82 |
| 2019 | The Aspern Papers | Juliana Bordereau | Film | 4.5 | 82 |
| 2019 | Mrs Lowry & Son | Elizabeth Lowry | Film | 6.4 | 82 |
| 2018 | Nothing Like a Dame | Self (archive footage) | Film | 6.8 | 81 |
| 2017 | Man in an Orange Shirt | Flora Berryman | TV | 7.5 | 80 |
| 2017 | The Secret Scripture | Old Roseanne McNulty | Film | 7.2 | 80 |
| 2017 | Film Stars Don't Die in Liverpool | Jeanne McDougall | Film | 6.4 | 80 |
| 2017 | Sea Sorrow | Self | Film | 5.3 | 80 |
| 2017 | Sea Sorrow | Film | 5.3 | 80 | |
| 2017 | Sea Sorrow | Film | 5.3 | 80 | |
| 2017 | Joan Didion: The Center Will Not Hold | Self | Film | 7.3 | 80 |
| 2016 | Almeida Theatre Live: Richard III | Queen Margaret | Film | 7.7 | 79 |
| 2016 | Electric Burma: The Concert for Aung San Suu Kyi - Words I Never Said | Self | Film | — | 79 |
| 2015 | The Go-Between | Older Marian | Film | 6.8 | 78 |
| 2014 | Black Box | Dr. Hartramph | TV | 6.4 | 77 |
| 2014 | Foxcatcher | Jean du Pont | Film | 6.7 | 77 |
| 2014 | The Wound and the Gift | Film | — | 77 | |
| 2013 | The Butler | Annabeth Westfall | Film | 7.3 | 76 |
| 2013 | The Thirteenth Tale | Vida Winter | Film | 6.6 | 76 |
| 2012 | Call the Midwife | Jennifer Worth (voice) | TV | 7.5 | 75 |
| 2012 | Playhouse Presents | Elderly Woman | TV | 6.0 | 75 |
| 2012 | Political Animals | Diane Nash | TV | 7.1 | 75 |
| 2012 | Song for Marion | Marion | Film | 6.8 | 75 |
| 2012 | Last Will. & Testament | Film | 5.3 | 75 | |
| 2012 | Shakespeare Uncovered | Herself | TV | 7.3 | 75 |
| 2012 | The Last Will and Testament of Rosalind Leigh | Rosalind Leigh | Film | 5.0 | 75 |
| 2011 | Cars 2 | The Queen / Mama Topolino (voice) | Film | 6.2 | 74 |
| 2011 | Coriolanus | Volumnia | Film | 5.8 | 74 |
| 2011 | Anonymous | Queen Elizabeth I | Film | 6.4 | 74 |
| 2010 | Letters to Juliet | Claire | Film | 7.0 | 73 |
| 2010 | The Whistleblower | Madeleine Rees | Film | 6.7 | 73 |
| 2010 | Miral | Bertha Spafford | Film | 5.8 | 73 |
| 2010 | Robinson in Ruins | Narrator | Film | 6.8 | 73 |
| 2009 | The Day of the Triffids | Durrant | TV | 5.9 | 72 |
| 2009 | God, Smell and Her | Film | — | 72 | |
| 2008 | Restraint | Sky News Reader #2 | Film | 5.9 | 71 |
| 2008 | Ein Job | Hannah Silbergrau | Film | — | 71 |
| 2007 | Atonement | Briony Tallis (Age 77) | Film | 7.6 | 70 |
| 2007 | Evening | Ann Lord | Film | 5.8 | 70 |
| 2007 | The Shell Seekers | Penelope Keeling | Film | 6.9 | 70 |
| 2007 | How About You... | Georgia Platts | Film | 6.3 | 70 |
| 2007 | The Riddle | Roberta Elliot | Film | 4.8 | 70 |
| 2007 | Dealing and Wheeling in Small Arms | Narrator | Film | — | 70 |
| 2006 | The Thief Lord | Sister Antonia | Film | 6.0 | 69 |
| 2006 | Venus | Valerie | Film | 6.6 | 69 |
| 2006 | Eugene O’Neill: A Documentary Film | Self | Film | — | 69 |
| 2005 | Short Order | Marianne | Film | 5.1 | 68 |
| 2005 | The White Countess | Princess Vera Belinskya | Film | 6.2 | 68 |
| 2005 | Elio Petri: Notes About a Filmmaker | Self | Film | 6.7 | 68 |
| 2005 | The Keeper: The Legend of Omar Khayyam | Miss Sangorski | Film | 5.4 | 68 |
| 2004 | The Fever | The woman | Film | 5.4 | 67 |
| 2004 | The Fever | Film | 5.4 | 67 | |
| 2003 | Nip/Tuck | Dr.Erica Noughton | TV | 7.2 | 66 |
| 2003 | Nip/Tuck | Dr. Erica Noughton | TV | 7.2 | 66 |
| 2003 | Good Boy! | The Greater Dane (voice) | Film | 5.6 | 66 |
| 2003 | Byron | Lady Melbourne | TV | 5.0 | 66 |
| 2003 | Thank You, Doctor Rey | herself | Film | 5.5 | 66 |
| 2003 | Byron | Lady Melbourne | Film | 4.8 | 66 |
| 2002 | Crime and Punishment | Rodion's mother | Film | 5.2 | 65 |
| 2002 | The Gathering Storm | Clemmie Churchill | Film | 6.7 | 65 |
| 2002 | Searching for Debra Winger | Self | Film | 6.4 | 65 |
| 2002 | The Locket | Esther Huish | Film | 5.2 | 65 |
| 2002 | Hell on Earth: The Desecration & Resurrection of The Devils | Self | Film | 6.4 | 65 |
| 2001 | Jack and the Beanstalk: The Real Story | Countess Wilhelmina | TV | 6.8 | 64 |
| 2001 | The Pledge | Annalise Hansen | Film | 6.6 | 64 |
| 2001 | Escape to Life: The Erika and Klaus Mann Story | (voice) | Film | 4.8 | 64 |
| 2000 | A Rumor of Angels | Maddy Bennett | Film | 6.7 | 63 |
| 2000 | If These Walls Could Talk 2 | Edith Tree | Film | 6.5 | 63 |
| 2000 | The Adventures of Young Indiana Jones: Love's Sweet Song | Vicky's Mother | Film | 5.2 | 63 |
| 2000 | 1961 | Edith Tree | Film | — | 63 |
| 2000 | Uninvited | Mrs. Rutterburn | Film | 5.3 | 63 |
| 2000 | Mirka | Kalsan | Film | 9.0 | 63 |
| 2000 | Exile in Buyukada | Narrator | Film | 10.0 | 63 |
| 1999 | Girl, Interrupted | Dr. Wick | Film | 7.6 | 62 |
| 1999 | The Early Show | Self | TV | 6.3 | 62 |
| 1999 | Cradle Will Rock | Countess Constance La Grave | Film | 6.5 | 62 |
| 1998 | Sabine Christiansen | Self | TV | 10.0 | 61 |
| 1998 | Deep Impact | Robin Lerner | Film | 6.2 | 61 |
| 1998 | Lulu on the Bridge | Catherine Moore | Film | 5.9 | 61 |
| 1998 | Déjà Vu | Skelly | Film | 5.5 | 61 |
| 1997 | The View | Self | TV | 4.3 | 60 |
| 1997 | Wilde | Lady Speranza Wilde | Film | 6.6 | 60 |
| 1997 | Smilla's Sense of Snow | Elsa Lübing | Film | 6.3 | 60 |
| 1997 | Mrs. Dalloway | Mrs. Clarissa Dalloway | Film | 5.7 | 60 |
| 1997 | Bella Mafia | Graziella Luciano | Film | 6.6 | 60 |
| 1997 | Michael Redgrave: My Father | Self | Film | — | 60 |
| 1997 | Behind the Mask : The IRA and Sinn Fein | Self | Film | 10.0 | 60 |
| 1996 | Mission: Impossible | Max | Film | 7.0 | 59 |
| 1996 | Looking for Richard | Self - Interviewee | Film | 6.8 | 59 |
| 1996 | Two Mothers for Zachary | Nancy Shaffell | Film | 6.0 | 59 |
| 1996 | The Willows in Winter | Grandmother / Narrator | Film | 6.7 | 59 |
| 1995 | Down Came a Blackbird | Anna Lenke | Film | 8.1 | 58 |
| 1995 | The Wind in the Willows | Grandmother / Narrator | Film | 7.1 | 58 |
| 1995 | A Month by the Lake | Miss Bentley | Film | 5.7 | 58 |
| 1994 | Little Odessa | Irina Shapira | Film | 6.5 | 57 |
| 1994 | Sparrow | Suor Agata | Film | 7.4 | 57 |
| 1994 | Inside the Actors Studio | Self | TV | 7.6 | 57 |
| 1994 | Great Moments in Aviation | Dr. Angela Bead | Film | 4.9 | 57 |
| 1993 | Intimate Portrait | Self | TV | 4.5 | 56 |
| 1993 | The House of the Spirits | Nivea del Valle | Film | 6.9 | 56 |
| 1993 | Hollywood U.K.: British Cinema in the Sixties | Self | TV | 7.0 | 56 |
| 1993 | Mother's Boys | Lydia | Film | 5.4 | 56 |
| 1993 | They | Florence Latimer | Film | 7.4 | 56 |
| 1993 | A Wall of Silence | Kate Benson | Film | 5.7 | 56 |
| 1992 | Howards End | Ruth Wilcox | Film | 7.0 | 55 |
| 1991 | Young Catherine | Empress Elizabeth | TV | 5.9 | 54 |
| 1991 | The Ballad of the Sad Cafe | Miss Amelia | Film | 5.8 | 54 |
| 1991 | What Ever Happened to Baby Jane? | Blanche Hudson | Film | 4.9 | 54 |
| 1990 | Stalin's Funeral | English journalist | Film | 3.7 | 53 |
| 1990 | Orpheus Descending | Lady Torrance | Film | 4.6 | 53 |
| 1990 | Romeo.Juliet | Mother Capulet (voice) | Film | 7.5 | 53 |
| 1990 | Breath of Life | Suor Crocifissa | Film | 10.0 | 53 |
| 1988 | Consuming Passions | Mrs. Garza | Film | 8.3 | 51 |
| 1988 | A Man for All Seasons | Lady Alice More | Film | 7.0 | 51 |
| 1987 | Seitenblicke | self | TV | 8.0 | 50 |
| 1987 | Prick Up Your Ears | Peggy Ramsay | Film | 6.7 | 50 |
| 1987 | Comrades | Mrs. Carlyle | Film | 6.9 | 50 |
| 1986 | Peter the Great | Sophia | TV | 7.9 | 49 |
| 1986 | Second Serve | Renee Richards | Film | 5.3 | 49 |
| 1985 | Screen Two | Dr. Angela Bead | TV | 7.1 | 48 |
| 1985 | Wetherby | Jean Travers | Film | 6.0 | 48 |
| 1985 | Steaming | Nancy | Film | 5.3 | 48 |
| 1985 | Three Sovereigns for Sarah | Sarah Cloyce | TV | 7.0 | 48 |
| 1985 | Three Sovereigns for Sarah | Sarah Cloyce | Film | — | 48 |
| 1984 | Goldene Kamera | Self | TV | 5.7 | 47 |
| 1984 | The Bostonians | Olive Chancellor | Film | 5.6 | 47 |
| 1984 | Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs | The Evil Queen | Film | 6.4 | 47 |
| 1983 | Sing Sing | la Regina | Film | 5.3 | 46 |
| 1983 | Wagner | Cosima von Bulow | TV | 6.8 | 46 |
| 1982 | American Playhouse | Sarah Cloyce | TV | 6.6 | 45 |
| 1982 | Faerie Tale Theatre | The Evil Queen | TV | 8.1 | 45 |
| 1982 | My Body, My Child | Leenie Cabrezi | Film | 9.0 | 45 |
| 1981 | Wetten, dass..? | Self | TV | 5.4 | 44 |
| 1981 | Occupied Palestine | Film | 5.0 | 44 | |
| 1980 | Playing for Time | Fania Fenelon | Film | 6.9 | 43 |
| 1980 | The Fifth War | Film | — | 43 | |
| 1979 | NDR Talk Show | Self | TV | 6.6 | 42 |
| 1979 | Yanks | Helen | Film | 5.9 | 42 |
| 1979 | Bear Island | Heddi Lindquist | Film | 6.1 | 42 |
| 1979 | Agatha | Agatha Christie | Film | 6.1 | 42 |
| 1977 | The Palestinian | Self | Film | 9.0 | 40 |
| 1977 | The Palestinian | Film | 9.0 | 40 | |
| 1977 | Julia | Julia | Film | 6.5 | 40 |
| 1976 | The Seven-Per-Cent Solution | Lola Deveraux | Film | 6.2 | 39 |
| 1975 | Out of Season | Ann | Film | 5.5 | 38 |
| 1974 | Murder on the Orient Express | Mary Debenham | Film | 7.1 | 37 |
| 1973 | A Picture of Katherine Mansfield | Katherine Mansfield | TV | 6.0 | 36 |
| 1972 | Right to Work March | Film | — | 35 | |
| 1971 | Film '72 | Self | TV | 4.7 | 34 |
| 1971 | The Devils | Sister Jeanne des Anges | Film | 7.4 | 34 |
| 1971 | The Trojan Women | Andromache | Film | 6.2 | 34 |
| 1971 | Mary, Queen of Scots | Mary, Queen of Scots | Film | 6.7 | 34 |
| 1971 | Vacation | Immacolata Meneghelli | Film | 4.8 | 34 |
| 1970 | Dropout | Mary | Film | 5.6 | 33 |
| 1970 | The Body | Narrator | Film | 4.6 | 33 |
| 1970 | A Mother with Two Children Expecting Her Third | Herself | Film | 5.0 | 33 |
| 1969 | Oh! What a Lovely War | Sylvia Pankhurst | Film | 6.6 | 32 |
| 1969 | No Arks | Narrator | Film | — | 32 |
| 1968 | The Charge of the Light Brigade | Mrs Clarissa Morris | Film | 6.2 | 31 |
| 1968 | Isadora | Isadora Duncan | Film | 6.2 | 31 |
| 1968 | Red and Blue | Jacky | Film | 7.5 | 31 |
| 1968 | A Quiet Place in the Country | Flavia | Film | 6.3 | 31 |
| 1968 | Red, White, and Zero | Jacky | Film | 5.0 | 31 |
| 1968 | The Sea Gull | Nina | Film | 6.3 | 31 |
| 1967 | Omnibus | Self | TV | 7.2 | 30 |
| 1967 | One Pair of Eyes | TV | 7.0 | 30 | |
| 1967 | Camelot | Guenevere | Film | 6.3 | 30 |
| 1967 | Tonite Let's All Make Love in London | Self | Film | 4.5 | 30 |
| 1967 | The Sailor from Gibraltar | Sheila | Film | 5.8 | 30 |
| 1966 | Blow-Up | Jane | Film | 7.3 | 29 |
| 1966 | A Man for All Seasons | Anne Boleyn | Film | 7.3 | 29 |
| 1966 | Morgan: A Suitable Case for Treatment | Leonie Delt | Film | 6.3 | 29 |
| 1964 | Maggie | Maggie | Film | — | 27 |
| 1963 | As You Like It | Rosalind | Film | 7.0 | 26 |
| 1961 | A Sunday in September | Self | Film | — | 24 |
| 1961 | Circus at Clopton Hall | Narrator | Film | — | 24 |
| 1960 | Sunday-Night Play | Monica Claverton-Ferry | TV | — | 23 |
| 1958 | Behind the Mask | Pamela Benson-Gray | Film | 6.4 | 21 |
| 1957 | Theatre Night | Caroline Lester | TV | — | 20 |
| 1956 | Tony Awards | Self - Presenter | TV | — | 19 |
| 1956 | Tony Awards | Self - Winner | TV | — | 19 |
| 1956 | Tony Awards | Self - Nominee | TV | — | 19 |
| 1956 | Armchair Theatre | Sally | TV | 6.0 | 19 |
| 1953 | The Oscars | Self | TV | 7.0 | 16 |
| 1952 | Today | Self | TV | 5.6 | 15 |
| 1951 | Hallmark Hall of Fame | Esther Huish | TV | 8.8 | 14 |
| 1944 | Golden Globe Awards | Self - Nominee | TV | 7.1 | 7 |
| All That I Am | Film | — | — | ||
| The Boy at the Back of the Class | Queen | Film | — | — |