The renowned English Actress Vanessa Redgrave is a winner of numerous honors and awards including an “Academy Award”, “Screen Actors Guild Award” and “Emmy Award”. She also won “Golden Globes” and “Cannes Best Actress award” two times each. Vanessa Redgrave is a member of Redgrave family, a fifth-generation enduring theatrical dynasty. She is an active member of human rights sorority. In the year 1967 Vanessa Redgrave got the honor to be the Commander of the British Empire. Since the year 1995 Vanessa Redgrave has also been a Goodwill Ambassador of UNICEF.

Vanessa Redgrave was born on 30th January 1937 in London, England to Sir Michael Redgrave and Rachel Kempson, a family engaged was engaged with theatrical and film arts. Redgrave had two siblings, Lynn Redgrave and Corin Redgrave, both followed the family tradition and took up acting as profession. Redgrave took education from “The Alice Ottley School” a co-education private day school in Worcestershire, United Kingdom. She married Tony Richardson, an English theatre and Academy Award-winning film director and producer in the year 1962 which lasted till 1967. They had two daughters named Natasha Richardson and Joely Richardson, their daughters also made their career in films as actors. Vanessa Redgrave met Italian film actor, director and writer Franco Nero in 1967, while acting in the movie “Camelot” and married him. They have a son named Carlo Nero, who is also a film director and writer. She also had an enduring companionship with actor Timothy Dalton from 1970 to 1980.

In the year 1954 Vanessa Redgrave joined the “London School of Speech and Drama” and made her appearance on stage in the year 1958, playing opposite her brother at “West End theatre”, a popular mainstream professional theatre of London. In the year 1960, she first portrayed as protagonist with her father in Robert Bolt's drama titled “The Tiger and the Horse”. In the year 1962 she portrayed the role of Imogen, daughter of Cymbeline in the play titled “Cymbeline” for the Royal Shakespeare Company. Vanessa Redgrave was garnered four times by “Evening Standard Awards”, presented annually for outstanding achievements in London Theatre in the category of best actress. Vanessa Redgrave in the year 1984 was honored by the “Laurence Olivier Award for Best Actress in a Revival” for her role played in the drama titled “The Aspern Papers”. In 2003 she won a “Tony Award” in the category of Best Actress for her exceptional acting in the drama named “Long Day's Journey Into Night”. In 2006 Redgrave got “Ibsen Centennial Award” for her outstanding performance.

Vanessa Redgrave initiated her film career playing as protagonist in the movie titled “Morgan”: “A Suitable Case for Treatment” directed by Karel Reisz. She got huge success in this movie and won the “Cannes award” in the category of best actress including nomination for “Oscar award”, “Golden Globe award” and “BAFTA Film Award”. In 1977 she acted in a movie titled “Julia”, which featured a woman murder. Redgrave achieved an “Academy Award” in the category of Best Supporting Actress for her outstanding performance in the movie. Redgrave continued on giving her performance in various movies and achieving success and honors accordingly.

Redgrave’s acting as a lesbian in the popular HBO series titled “If These Walls Could Talk 2” brought her a “Golden Globe Award” and an “Emmy Award” in the category of Best TV Series Supporting Actress in the year 2000. She also got an “Excellence in Media Award” for this performance. She recently performed in movie “Evening”, an American drama film directed by Lajos Koltai and in movie “Atonement” a film adaptation of Ian McEwan's critically acclaimed novel of the same name, directed by Joe Wright both released in 2007. For her acting in “Atonement”, Redgrave got nominated for a “Broadcast Film Critics Association award”.

Vanessa Redgrave since the year 1960 had been an ardent supporter of various human rights causes, including nuclear disarmament, opposition to the Vietnam War, freedom for Soviet Jews and aid for Bosnian Muslims and other victims of the conflicts.