Vanessa Redgrave CBE born 30 January 1937 is an English actress and political activist Redgrave rose to prominence in 1961 playing Rosalind in the Shakespeare comedy As You Like It with the Royal Shakespeare Company and has since starred in more than 35 productions in Londons West End and on Broadway winning the 1984 Olivier Award for Best Actress in a Revival for The Aspern Papers and the 2003 Tony Award for Best Actress in a Play for the revival of Long Days Journey into Night She also received Tony nominations for The Year of Magical Thinking and Driving Miss Daisy On screen she has starred in scores of films and is a sixtime Oscar nominee winning the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress for the title role in the film Julia 1977 Her other nominations were for Morgan A Suitable Case for Treatment 1966 Isadora 1968 Mary Queen of Scots 1971 The Bostonians 1984 and Howards End 1992 Among her other films are A Man for All Seasons 1966 Blowup 1966 Camelot 1967 The Devils 1971 Murder on the Orient Express 1974 Prick Up Your Ears 1987 Mission Impossible 1996 Atonement 2007 Coriolanus 2011 and The Butler 2013 Redgrave was proclaimed by Arthur Miller and Tennessee Williams as the greatest living actress of our times and has won the Oscar Emmy Tony BAFTA Olivier Cannes Golden Globe and the Screen Actors Guild awards Description above from the Wikipedia article Vanessa Redgrave licensed under CCBYSA full list of contributors on Wikipedia
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