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| 1 | She suffered a heart attack in April 2015 and gave up smoking after being diagnosed with emphysema. |
| 2 | She has three roles in common with her daughter Joely Richardson: (1) they both played Jean Travers in Wetherby (1985), (2) they both the unnamed protagonist in The Fever (2004) and (3) they both played Queen Elizabeth in Anonymous (2011). |
| 3 | She played the daughter of her mother Rachel Kempson in both The Charge of the Light Brigade (1968) and Déjà Vu (1997). |
| 4 | She worked with her mother Rachel Kempson in The Charge of the Light Brigade (1968) and Déjà Vu (1997) and her father Michael Redgrave in Oh! What a Lovely War (1969). |
| 5 | She played Anne Boleyn in A Man for All Seasons (1966) and her daughter Queen Elizabeth I in Anonymous (2011). Her real life daughter Joely Richardson also played the younger Queen Elizabeth in the latter film. |
| 6 | She, her mother Rachel Kempson and her two younger siblings Corin Redgrave and Lynn Redgrave all appeared in films that won the Academy Award for Best Picture: Rachel appeared in Tom Jones (1963) and Out of Africa (1985), Lynn also appeared in Tom Jones (1963) and Vanessa and Corin both appeared in A Man for All Seasons (1966). |
| 7 | Is one of 9 actresses who have received an Academy Award nomination for portraying a real-life queen. The others in chronological order are Norma Shearer for Marie Antoinette (1938), Katharine Hepburn for The Lion in Winter (1968), Geneviève Bujold for Anne of the Thousand Days (1969), Janet Suzman for Nicholas and Alexandra (1971), Helen Mirren for The Madness of King George (1994) and The Queen (2006), Judi Dench for Mrs Brown (1997) and Shakespeare in Love (1998), Cate Blanchett for Elizabeth (1998) and Elizabeth: The Golden Age (2007), and Helena Bonham Carter for The King's Speech (2010). |
| 8 | She was considered for the role of Tsarina Alexandra in Nicholas and Alexandra (1971) before Janet Suzman was cast. Her father Michael Redgrave played Sergey Sazonov in the film. |
| 9 | She and her daughter Joely Richardson played Queen Elizabeth I in Anonymous (2011). |
| 10 | Was the 80th actress to receive an Academy Award; she won the Best Supporting Actress Oscar for Julia (1977) at The 50th Annual Academy Awards (1978) on April 3, 1978. |
| 11 | Fighting to stop an open air gold mine in Romania. She has been met with protest, but ignores it all. [June 2006] |
| 12 | Just started own political party in the UK to be focused on human rights violations. It is called Peace and Progress Party, it will field candidates in the next British general election. [November 2004] |
| 13 | Appearing on Broadway in "Long Day's Journey Into Night". [May 2003] |
| 14 | She dropped out of the film The Magdalene Sisters (2002) due to her mother Rachel Kempson's ill health and was replaced by Geraldine McEwan. |
| 15 | Her appearance with husband-to-be Franco Nero in Uninvited (1999), marked the only time the couple were directed by their only son Carlo Gabriel Nero. |
| 16 | She speaks Italian and French fluently. |
| 17 | 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. |
| 18 | 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. |
| 19 | 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. |
| 20 | Is one of 14 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, Ellen Burstyn, Helen Mirren and Frances McDormand. |
| 21 | 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). |
| 22 | (March 2009 - May 2010) 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. |
| 23 | 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). |
| 24 | 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. |
| 25 | Was offered the role of Margaret More in A Man for All Seasons (1966) but she turned it down due her commitments to the theatre and opted for the cameo role of Anne Boleyn instead. Susannah York was cast as Margaret More instead. |
| 26 | Refused to accept any money for her role as Anne Boleyn in A Man for All Seasons (1966). |
| 27 | Nominated for the 2007 Tony Award (New York City) for Actress in a Drama for "The Year of Magical Thinking". |
| 28 | Lost her daughter, Natasha Richardson, on March 18, 2009 as the result of a skiing accident at Mont Tremblant, Quebec. |
| 29 | Named Jeanne Moreau as co-respondent in her 1967 divorce from Tony Richardson on grounds of adultery. |
| 30 | 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). |
| 31 | She was made a Fellow of the British Film Institute in recognition of her outstanding contribution to film culture. |
| 32 | Former mother-in-law of Working Title films co-producer Tim Bevan. |
| 33 | Won the Drama Desk award in 2007 for Best Actor in a Solo performance for "The Year of Magical Thinking". She also received her second Tony award nomination for Best Actress for the same play. |
| 34 | 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. |
| 35 | Along with Claude Rains ( for Mr. Skeffington (1944)), Kate Winslet (for Iris (2001)), Mare Winningham (for Georgia (1995)) and Philip Seymour Hoffman (for The Master (2012)), she is one of the few performers to be nominated for an Supporting Oscar (for Julia (1977)) for playing the title role in a movie. As of 2013, Redgrave is the only one to win. |
| 36 | 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. |
| 37 | 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. |
| 38 | 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.". |
| 39 | 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. |
| 40 | When director David Hare and producers of "The Year of Magical Thinking" were thinking of an actress to cast in their one-woman show, they could only think of one name, and that was Redgrave. They said that only she could tackle the range of emotion created by the character. |
| 41 | Is mentioned, along with Joe Piscopo and Eddie Murphy, in the song "Jammin' Me" by Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers. |
| 42 | Voted by Entertainment Weekly as one of the 25 greatest Actresses |
| 43 | Voted by People magazine (May 8th 2006) as one of the 100 most beautiful people. |
| 44 | Spoke at the Scottish Parliment in the summer of 2005. |
| 45 | Plays mother to real-lifer daughter Joely Richardson in a few episodes of Nip/Tuck (2003). |
| 46 | 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. |
| 47 | 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. |
| 48 | 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. |
| 49 | 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) |
| 50 | Was set to star in Dario Argento's Opera (1987), but dropped out shortly before production was scheduled to commence. |
| 51 | 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) & Best Supporting Actress-Miniseries/Movie, If These Walls Could Talk 2 (2000). |
| 52 | 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). |
| 53 | A longtime member of Britain's Workers Revolutionary Party |
| 54 | In 1962, she became one of the first celebrities to visit communist Cuba. |
| 55 | 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. |
| 56 | She was awarded the 1985 London Evening Standard Theatre Award for Best Actor for her performance in The Seagull. |
| 57 | She was awarded the 1991 London Evening Standard Theatre Award for Best Actress for her performance in When She Danced. |
| 58 | She was awarded the 1985 London Critics Circle Theatre Award (Drama Theatre Award) for Best Actor in The Seagull. |
| 59 | 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". |
| 60 | She was awarded the Laurence Olivier Theatre Award in 1985 (1984 season) for Best Actress in a Revival for "The Aspern Papers". |
| 61 | She allegedly refused the British honour of Dame of the order of the British Empire in 1999. |
| 62 | Son, Carlo Gabriel Nero, with Franco Nero. The two met while working together in Camelot (1967). |
| 63 | Won Broadway's 2003 Tony Award as Best Actress (Play) for a revival of Eugene O'Neill's "Long Day's Journey Into Night." |
| 64 | 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). |
| 65 | (1971-1986) Was in a long relationship with former James Bond actor Timothy Dalton. |
| 66 | Mother-in-law of actor Liam Neeson. |
| 67 | Granddaughter of Roy Redgrave. |
| 68 | She was awarded the CBE (Commander of the Order of the British Empire) in the 1967 Queen's Birthday Honours List for her services to drama. |
| 69 | Aunt of Jemma Redgrave, Luke Redgrave, Kelly Clark and Annabel Clark. |
| 70 | Daughter of Michael Redgrave & Rachel Kempson, older sister of Lynn Redgrave & Corin Redgrave, mother of Natasha Richardson & Joely Richardson. |
| 71 | Claims to be on hit-list of neo-Nazi group Combat 18. [February 1997] |
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