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Vanessa Redgrave Facts
| Sign | Aquarius |
| Born |
Jan 30, 1937 Greenwich, London |
| Age | 89 |
| Total Facts | 55 |
A longtime member of Britain's Workers Revolutionary Party
After filming Mary, Queen of Scots (1971), The Devils (1971) and The Trojan Women (1971), 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 (1971), Katharine Hepburn favored Vanessa Redgrave over all actresses and later remarked that she was, "A thrill to look at and to listen to.".
After the death of her daughter, she subsequently dropped out of Ridley Scott's Robin Hood (2010) in which she had a supporting role. Eileen Atkins replaced her.
Along with Claude Rains ( for Mr. Skeffington (1944)), Kate Winslet (for Iris (2001/I)) and Mare Winningham (for Georgia (1995)), she is the only performer to be nominated for an Supporting Oscar (for Julia (1977)) for playing the title role in a movie. Redgrave is the only one to win.
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! (1966) and Georgy Girl (1966).
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).
Aunt of Jemma Redgrave, Luke Redgrave, Kelly Clark and Annabel Clark.
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 (1971) while her daughter played Marie Antoinette in The Affair of the Necklace (2001).
Both she and sister Lynn Redgrave were nominated for the 1967 Best Actress Academy Award. Vanessa was nominated for Morgan! (1966) and Lynn for Georgy Girl (1966). They both lost to Elizabeth Taylor, who won for Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? (1966).
Claims to be on hit-list of neo-Nazi group Combat 18. [February 1997]
Daughter of Michael Redgrave & Rachel Kempson, older sister of Lynn Redgrave & Corin Redgrave, mother of Natasha Richardson & Joely Richardson.
Didn't attend the Academy Awards ceremony, the year her performance in The Bostonians (1984) 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 (1971) in 1970. Their relationship reportedly blossomed after a heated 6 hour argument regarding the true meaning of Hamlet's "To be or not to be" speech.
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)
Former mother-in-law of Working Title films co-producer Tim Bevan.
Granddaughter of Roy Redgrave.
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.
In 1962, she became one of the first celebrities to visit communist Cuba.
In 2003, she became the sixteenth performer to win the Triple Crown of acting. Oscar: Best Supporting Actress, Julia (1977), Tony: Best Actress-Play, "Long Day's Journey into Night" (2003), and Emmys: Best Actress-Limited Series/Special, Playing for Time (1980) (TV) & Best Supporting Actress-Miniseries/Movie, If These Walls Could Talk 2 (2000) (TV).
Is mentioned, along with Joe Piscopo and Eddie Murphy, in the song "Jammin' Me" by Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers.
Is one of twelve 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 and Ellen Burstyn.
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. [March 2009 - May 2010]
Lost her daughter, Natasha Richardson, on March 18, 2009 as the result of a skiing accident at Mont Tremblant, Quebec.
Mother-in-law of actor Liam Neeson.
Named Jeanne Moreau as co-respondent in her 1967 divorce from Tony Richardson on grounds of adultery.
Nominated for the 2007 Tony Award (New York City) for Actress in a Drama for "The Year of Magical Thinking".
On a June 2005 appearance on "Larry King Live" (1985), she expressed her fondness for the movie Meet the Fockers (2004) and said that the film should have won an Academy Award.
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.
Plays mother to real-lifer daughter Joely Richardson in a few episodes of "Nip/Tuck" (2003).
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.
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.
Refused to accept any money for her role as Anne Boleyn in A Man for All Seasons (1966).
She allegedly refused the British honour of Dame of the order of the British Empire in 1999.
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 (1967) while Corin played "Lord Cornwall" in John Boorman's Excalibur (1981).
She was awarded the Laurence Olivier Theatre Award in 1985 (1984 season) for Best Actress in a Revival for "The Aspern Papers".
She was awarded the 1985 London Critics Circle Theatre Award (Drama Theatre Award) for Best Actor in The Seagull.
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.
She was awarded the 1991 London Evening Standard Theatre Award for Best Actress for her performance in When She Danced.
She was awarded the C.B.E. (Commander of the Order of the British Empire) in 1967 for her services to drama.
She was made a Fellow of the British Film Institute in recognition of her outstanding contribution to film culture.
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 the first of the only four actresses to win the Best Actress award twice at Cannes Film Festival. She won for Morgan! (1966) in 1966 and Isadora (1968) in 1968. The others are: Isabelle Huppert for Violette (1978) in 1978 and The Piano Teacher (2001) in 2001; Helen Mirren for Cal (1984) in 1984 and The Madness of King George (1994) in 1995; Barbara Hershey for Shy People (1987) in 1987 and A World Apart (1988) in 1988.
Son, Carlo Gabriel Nero, with Franco Nero. The two met while working together in Camelot (1967).
Spoke at the Scottish Parliment in the summer of 2005.
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.
Voted by Entertainment Weekly as one of the 25 greatest Actresses
Voted by People magazine (May 8th 2006) as one of the 100 most beautiful people.
Was in a long relationship with former James Bond actor Timothy Dalton [1980-1994]