Vanessa Redgrave

(February 1997) Claims to be on hit-list of neo-Nazi group Combat 18.

Daughter of Michael Redgrave & Rachel Kempson , older sister of Lynn Redgrave & Corin Redgrave , mother of Natasha Richardson & Joely Richardson.

Aunt of Jemma Redgrave , Luke Redgrave , Kelly Clark and Annabel Clark.

She was awarded the CBE in the 1967 Queens Birthday Honours List for her services to drama.

Granddaughter of Roy Redgrave.

Mother-in-law of actor Liam Neeson.

(1971-1986) Was in a long relationship with former James Bond actor Timothy Dalton.

Both she and sister Lynn Redgrave were nominated for the 1967 Best Actress Academy Award. Vanessa was nominated for Morgan: A Suitable Case for Treatment and Lynn for Georgy Girl . They both lost to Elizabeth Taylor , who won for Whos Afraid of Virginia Woolf? .

Won Broadways 2003 Tony Award as Best Actress (Play) for a revival of Eugene ONeill s "Long Days Journey Into Night."

Son, Carlo Gabriel Nero , with Franco Nero. The two met while working together in Camelot .

She allegedly refused the British honour of Dame of the order of the British Empire in 1999.

She was awarded the Laurence Olivier Theatre Award in 1985 (1984 season) for Best Actress in a Revival for "The Aspern Papers".

She was nominated for a 1997 Laurence Olivier Theatre Award for Best Actress in a Play of 1996 for her performance in "John Gabriel Borkman".

She was awarded the 1985 London Critics Circle Theatre Award (Drama Theatre Award) for Best Actor in The Seagull.

She was awarded the 1991 London Evening Standard Theatre Award for Best Actress for her performance in When She Danced.

She was awarded the 1985 London Evening Standard Theatre Award for Best Actor for her performance in The Seagull.

She was awarded the 1988 London Critics Circle Theatre Award (Drama Theatre Award) for Best Supporting Actress for her performance in A Touch of the Poet.

In 1962, she became one of the first celebrities to visit communist Cuba.

A longtime member of Britains Workers Revolutionary Party

Appeared on "BBC News 24" Breakfast and stated that the massacre of Russian school children by Chechen guerrillas was not an act of terrorism. (4 September 2004).

In 2003, she became the sixteenth performer to win the Triple Crown of acting. Oscar: Best Supporting Actress, Julia , Tony: Best Actress-Play, "Long Days Journey into Night" , and Emmys: Best Actress-Limited Series/Special, Playing for Time & Best Supporting Actress-Miniseries/Movie, If These Walls Could Talk 2 .

Was set to star in Dario Argento s Opera , but dropped out shortly before production was scheduled to commence.

First performer to win two individual Acting Awards at the Cannes Festival. (Dean Stockwell won twice at the festival before, but he had to share both of his awards with his co-stars)

On a June 2005 appearance on "Larry King Live" , she expressed her fondness for the movie Meet the Fockers and said that the film should have won an Academy Award.

Trained for the stage at the central school for Speech and Drama in London, and in 1959 became a member of the acclaimed Stratford-Upon-Avon Theatre Company.

Received The Helen Hayes award nomination for her work in Hecuba. This play was a major success. It was so well received that the BAM theater in New York scheduled it for two weeks and it went on to being performed in Delphi.

Plays mother to real-lifer daughter Joely Richardson in a few episodes of "Nip/Tuck" .

Spoke at the Scottish Parliment in the summer of 2005.

Voted by People magazine (May 8th 2006) as one of the 100 most beautiful people.

Voted by Entertainment Weekly as one of the 25 greatest Actresses

Is mentioned, along with Joe Piscopo and Eddie Murphy , in the song "Jammin Me" by Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers.

When director David Hare and producers of "The Year of Magical Thinking" were thinking of an actress to cast in their one-woman show, they could only think of one name, and that was Redgrave. They said that only she could tackle the range of emotion created by the character.

After filming Mary, Queen of Scots , The Devils and The Trojan Women , she suffered a miscarriage in 1971. It was a boy and would have been her and Franco Nero s second child.

After filming The Trojan Women , Katharine Hepburn favored Vanessa Redgrave over all actresses and later remarked that she was, "A thrill to look at and to listen to.".

Her three children are actresses Natasha Richardson and Joely Richardson from her marriage to Tony Richardson and Carlo Gabriel Nero with Italian actor Franco Nero.

Received rave reviews for originating the role of Jean Brodie in, The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie" winning the London Evening Standard award for her work.

Along with Claude Rains ( for Mr. Skeffington ), Kate Winslet (for Iris (2001/I) ), Mare Winningham (for Georgia ) and Philip Seymour Hoffman (for The Master ), she is one of the few performers to be nominated for an Supporting Oscar (for Julia ) for playing the title role in a movie. As of 2013, Redgrave is the only one to win.

She was the first of the only four actresses to win the Best Actress award twice at Cannes Film Festival. She won for Morgan: A Suitable Case for Treatment in 1966 and Isadora in 1968. The others are: Isabelle Huppert for Violette Nozire in 1978 and La pianiste in 2001; Helen Mirren for Cal in 1984 and The Madness of King George in 1995; Barbara Hershey for Shy People in 1987 and A World Apart in 1988.

Won the Drama Desk award in 2007 for Best Actor in a Solo performance for "The Year of Magical Thinking". She also received her second Tony award nomination for Best Actress for the same play.

Former mother-in-law of Working Title films co-producer Tim Bevan.

She was made a Fellow of the British Film Institute in recognition of her outstanding contribution to film culture.

Both she and her daughter Joely Richardson have played an historical queen who was executed by beheading. Redgrave played the title character in Mary, Queen of Scots while her daughter played Marie Antoinette in The Affair of the Necklace .

Named Jeanne Moreau as co-respondent in her 1967 divorce from Tony Richardson on grounds of adultery.

Lost her daughter, Natasha Richardson , on March 18, 2009 as the result of a skiing accident at Mont Tremblant, Quebec.

Nominated for the 2007 Tony Award (New York City) for Actress in a Drama for "The Year of Magical Thinking".

Refused to accept any money for her role as Anne Boleyn in A Man for All Seasons .

Was offered the role of Margaret More in A Man for All Seasons but she turned it down due her commitments to the theatre and opted for the cameo role of Anne Boleyn instead. Susannah York was cast as Margaret More instead.

After the death of her daughter, she subsequently dropped out of Ridley Scott s Robin Hood in which she had a supporting role. Eileen Atkins replaced her.

She and her brother, the late Corin Redgrave , both appeared in films based on the legend of "King Arthur". Vanessa played "Queen Guinevere" in Camelot while Corin played "Lord Cornwall" in John Boorman s Excalibur .

(March 2009 - May 2010) Lost her daughter Natasha Richardson , her younger brother and sister, Corin Redgrave and Lynn Redgrave , in the space of just 14 months. Corin and Lynn died within a month of one another.

Appeared as an illustration on the cover of Time magazine (March 17, 1967) with sister Lynn Redgrave. Both sisters had just been respectively Oscar-nominated for Morgan: A Suitable Case for Treatment and Georgy Girl .

Is one of 16 actresses to have won the Triple Crown of Acting (an Oscar, Emmy and Tony); the others in chronological order are Helen Hayes , Ingrid Bergman , Shirley Booth , Liza Minnelli , Rita Moreno , Maureen Stapleton , Jessica Tandy , Audrey Hepburn , Anne Bancroft , Maggie Smith , Ellen Burstyn , Helen Mirren , Frances McDormand , Jessica Lange and Viola Davis.

Picked by Disney to become a Live Reference Model for Alice in Alice in Wonderland. Before leaving London for shooting, Vanessa started to sleep walk. Due to this, her parents refused to send her. Kathryn Beaumont got the gig instead.

Didnt attend the Academy Awards ceremony, the year her performance in The Bostonians was nominated because her father had died a few days prior. She was in Los Angeles at the time of his death attending Academy functions and conferences and flew back to the UK.

First met long time partner Timothy Dalton on the set of Mary, Queen of Scots in 1970. Their relationship reportedly blossomed after a heated 6 hour argument regarding the true meaning of Hamlets "To be or not to be" speech.

She speaks Italian and French fluently.

Her appearance with husband-to-be Franco Nero in Uninvited , marked the only time the couple were directed by their only son Carlo Gabriel Nero.

She dropped out of the film The Magdalene Sisters due to her mother Rachel Kempson s ill health and was replaced by Geraldine McEwan.

(May 2003) Appearing on Broadway in "Long Days Journey Into Night".

(November 2004) Just started own political party in the UK to be focused on human rights violations. It is called Peace and Progress Party, it will field candidates in the next British general election.

(June 2006) Fighting to stop an open air gold mine in Romania. She has been met with protest, but ignores it all.

Was the 80th actress to receive an Academy Award; she won the Best Supporting Actress Oscar for Julia at The 50th Annual Academy Awards on April 3, 1978.

She and her daughter Joely Richardson played Queen Elizabeth I in Anonymous (2011/I) .

She was considered for the role of Tsarina Alexandra in Nicholas and Alexandra before Janet Suzman was cast. Her father Michael Redgrave played Sergey Sazonov in the film.

Is one of 9 actresses who have received an Academy Award nomination for portraying a real-life queen. The others in chronological order are Norma Shearer for Marie Antoinette , Katharine Hepburn for The Lion in Winter , Genevive Bujold for Anne of the Thousand Days , Janet Suzman for Nicholas and Alexandra , Helen Mirren for The Madness of King George and The Queen , Judi Dench for Mrs Brown and Shakespeare in Love , Cate Blanchett for Elizabeth and Elizabeth: The Golden Age , and Helena Bonham Carter for The Kings Speech .

She, her mother Rachel Kempson and her two younger siblings Corin Redgrave and Lynn Redgrave all appeared in films that won the Academy Award for Best Picture: Rachel appeared in Tom Jones and Out of Africa , Lynn also appeared in Tom Jones and Vanessa and Corin both appeared in A Man for All Seasons .

She played Anne Boleyn in A Man for All Seasons and her daughter Queen Elizabeth I in Anonymous (2011/I) . Her real life daughter Joely Richardson also played the younger Queen Elizabeth in the latter film.

She worked with her mother Rachel Kempson in The Charge of the Light Brigade and Dj Vu and her father Michael Redgrave in Oh! What a Lovely War .

She played the daughter of her mother Rachel Kempson in both The Charge of the Light Brigade and Dj Vu .

She has three roles in common with her daughter Joely Richardson : (1) they both played Jean Travers in Wetherby , they both the unnamed protagonist in The Fever and they both played Queen Elizabeth in Anonymous (2011/I) .

She suffered a near-fatal heart attack in April 2015 and gave up smoking after being diagnosed with emphysema. She revealed her lungs are only working at 30% capacity.

As of 2016 she is the 10th earliest surviving recipient of a Best Actress Oscar nomination, tied with Anouk Aime and behind only Olivia de Havilland , Leslie Caron , Carroll Baker , Joanne Woodward , Shirley MacLaine , Doris Day , a tied Piper Laurie and Sophia Loren , Julie Andrews , and a tied Julie Christie and Samantha Eggar.

She played the mother of her real life niece Jemma Redgrave in Howards End .

Has five grandchildren.

She, her father Michael Redgrave and her siblings Corin Redgrave and Lynn Redgrave all appeared in films directed by Sidney Lumet : Michael in The Hill , Corin in The Deadly Affair , Lynn in The Deadly Affair and The Last of the Mobile Hot Shots and Vanessa in The Sea Gull and Murder on the Orient Express .

Susan Sarandon s favorite actress.

Delivered her daughter Natasha Richardson via emergency Caesarean section and breastfed her until she was 9 months old.

Despite enduring long and difficult labours, was able to deliver her children Joely Richardson and Carlo Gabriel Nero naturally.

Is one of 16 actresses to have received a Best Actress Oscar nomination for a performance where they acted out a labor and/or birth; hers being for Isadora . The others in chronological order are Luise Rainer for The Good Earth , Jane Wyman for Johnny Belinda , Eleanor Parker for Caged , Elizabeth Taylor for Raintree County , Leslie Caron for The L-Shaped Room , Shirley MacLaine for Irma la Douce , Genevive Bujold for Anne of the Thousand Days , Marsha Mason for Cinderella Liberty , Ann-Margret for Tommy , Ellen Burstyn for Same Time, Next Year , Jessica Lange for Sweet Dreams , Meryl Streep for Evil Angels , Samantha Morton for In America , Ellen Page for Juno , and Gabourey Sidibe for Precious (2009/II) .

I choose all my roles very carefully so that when my career is finished,I will have covered all our recent history of oppression.

Of course, I am misrepresented very often, but so is everybody who has,got something to say.

In the end, I had four, but I lost one of them, the fourth one. I had a,miscarriage.

Anybody can lose their job and have nothing. And people mind having,nothing.

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

I have a tremendous use for passionate statement.

I give myself to my parts as to a lover.

America is gangsterism for the private profit of the few.

[Speaking of her parents (Michael & Rachel), sister Lynn, and brother,Corin] We are the sprigs of a great and beautiful tree.

One must never comment as an actor, never show that a character is,shallow or vindictive, but let that be conveyed. I mean, none of us,thinks of ourselves as being vindictive or shallow - perhaps we should.

I discovered a long time ago that the camera does lie, and thank God it,does.

Integrity is so perishable in the summer months of success.

Theater and poetry were what helped people stay alive and want to go on living. .