Vanessa Redgrave
VANESSA REDGRAVE was nominated for the 2007 Tony Award for Best Actress in a Play for The Year of Magical Thinking. Ms. Redgrave appeared on Broadway in the landmark 2003 production of Long Day's Journey Into Night, for which she received the Tony Award for Best Actress in a Play. Her other Broadway appearances include the acclaimed revivals of Tennessee Williams' Orpheus Descending and Ibsen's The Lady From the Sea. Off-Broadway, Ms. Redgrave performed in the Public Theater production of Antony and Cleopatra, which she also directed, and Vita and Virginia, in addition to scores of major roles on the stage in her native England. In 1998, she and her brother Corin co-produced an early Tennessee Williams play, Not About Nightingales, which Ms. Redgrave discovered at the Royal National Theatre; directed by Sir Trevor Nunn, it then played at Circle in the Square. In 2005, Ms. Redgrave played Euripides' Hecuba for the RSC, directed by Tony Harrison, at the Kennedy Center and then at BAM. Ms. Redgrave's many films include, among others, Morgan: A Suitable Case for Treatment; A Man for All Seasons; Blow-Up; Camelot; Isadora; Mary, Queen of Scots; Julia; The Bostonians; Wetherby, written and directed by David Hare; Prick Up Your Ears; Howards End; A Month by the Lake; Mrs. Dalloway; Cradle Will Rock; The White Countess; most recently Venus; and the upcoming Atonement and Evening. Her American television work includes Arthur Miller's Playing for Time, Second Serve, If These Walls Could Talk 2, The Gathering Storm and the upcoming HBO film of Wallace Shawn's The Fever, directed by Carlo Nero. She has received an Academy Award, two Emmys, two Cannes Film Festival Awards, three Evening Standard Awards, the Olivier Award, the SAG Award, two Golden Globes, the New York Film Critics Circle Award and the National Society of Film Critics Award. Ms. Redgrave has been a Goodwill Ambassador for UNICEF, the United Nations Children's Fund, since 1995. Dissent Projects, the film company she co-founded with Carlo Nero, has just completed a documentary, Wake Up World, in tribute to UNICEF's 60th anniversary. Bio as of June, 2007. American Theatre Wing programs, interviews and/or credits include: Working in the Theatre (video) Performance - September, 1989 - Watch now. Downstage Center (audio) Vanessa Redgrave - July, 2007 - Listen Now. Internet Broadway Database Listing (IBDB.com)