Vanessa Redgrave Biography (2)

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During her long and remarkable career as an actress in theater and film, Vanessa Redgrave has left an indelible impression on audiences all over the world. Like her character in Lulu on the Bridge, she began her career in a production of The Reluctant Debutante. Since then, she has starred in dozens of films and won many awards. Among her memorable roles are those in Antonioni's Blow Up, Fred Zinneman's A Man For All Seasons and Camelot, in which she starred opposite Richard Harris.

At the 1966 Cannes Film Festival, Redgrave won Best Actress for her performance in Morgan. In 1968, she won Best Actress again at Cannes for Ken Russell's Isadora. In 1977, she received a Golden Globe as well as an Academy Award as Best Actress for Julia, and in 1993, she was nominated for an Academy Award as Best Supporting Actress for her performance in Howard's End. Her work in Stephen Frear's Prick Up Your Ears was honored with an award for Best Supporting Actress by the New York Film Critics Circle.

Her most recent work includes roles in two films by Billie August: The House of the Spirits and Smilla's Sense of Snow, a turn in the blockbuster Hollywood film Mission Impossible, as well as her critically celebrated performance as Mrs. Dalloway in the screen adaptation of the Virginia Woolf novel. Most recently, she appears in Brian Gilbert's Wilde, which has just been released in the US.

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