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Vanessa Redgrave's acting brilliance was never in any doubt - Sir Laurence Olivier himself proclaimed her imminent greatness the very day she was born, in 1937, onstage with her father, the esteemed Michael Redgrave. She has most definitely lived up to that prediction, earning plaudits for her theatre, television and film work including more Golden Globes and Emmys than you can shake a stick at, and no less than six Oscar nominations for films such as Isadora, Mary, Queen Of Scots, Julia (winning the award) and Howard's End (1993).
A passionate supporter of various political causes, Redgrave presides over the International Artists Against Racism and has managed to get arrested for her part in an anti-nuclear protest in Trafalgar Square. Continuing the Redgrave acting legacy are Redgrave's daughters Joely and Natasha Richardson, but their mother is showing no signs of slowing down yet, having appeared in recent films Mission: Impossible, Girl, Interrupted and Sean Penn's The Pledge.
