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Born January 30, 1937 in London, England, Vanessa Redgrave has been one of America’s most celebrated film stars for several decades. Her acting career began in 1958 when she played the role of Pamela Gray in the movie Behind the Mask. Since then, she has played roles in nearly 90 films, including As You Like It (1963), A Man for All Seasons (1966), Camelot (1967), Julia (1977), and Mission: Impossible (1996). Over the years, Ms. Redgrave has ... developed an off-screen reputation as a self-proclaimed "human rights activist," although her true ideological commitment is to an extremist Marxist-Leninist sect, a Trotskyist splinter group led by her late mentor Gerry Healy. Redgrave was a co-founder of the Guantanamo Human Rights Commission, which partnered with the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU), the Center for Constitutional Rights (CCR), and the National Council of Churches USA (NCC) to pressure the U.S. government "to treat the Guantanamo Bay prisoners according to the standards of American and International law." In June 2004, Redgrave charged that President Bush was operating a "concentration camp" in Guantanamo, where prisoners are routinely subjected to "torture."
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Vanessa Redgrave is an Academy Award winning actress. She first appeared in the West End theatre, playing opposite her father, in 1958. Redgrave continues to work regularly in the theater. In 2003 she won a Tony Award for "Best Actress in a Play" for her performance in the Broadway revival of Eugene O'Neill's "Long Day's Journey Into Night." In January 2006, Redgrave was presented the Ibsen Centennial Award. Redgrave's most recent stage appearance is as Joan Didion in the stage adaptation of her book, "The Year of Magical Thinking."
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Vanessa Redgrave began her illustrious screen career in 1958 with Brian Desmond Hurst's Behind the Mask, alongside her father, Sir Michael Redgrave. She won her first international notices for her role in Michelangelo Antonioni's landmark Blowup (1966). The same year, she played Anne Boleyn in A Man for All Seasons and was nominated for her first Best Actress Oscar for her work in Morgan! Redgrave was again Oscar-nominated for her performance as famed dancer Isadora Duncan in 1968's Isadora and for her work in Mary, Queen of Scots. In 1978 she won an Academy Award for her performance in the title role of Julia. The tall, graceful actress trained at London's Central School of Speech and Drama and subsequently joined the Stratford-upon-Avon Theatre Company, where she worked with many of the finest actors in Britain, including her future husband, Tony Richardson.
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From All Movie Guide: Dignified, passionate Vanessa Redgrave is widely regarded as one of Great Britain's finest modern dramatic actresses. She is perhaps the most internationally famous of the Redgrave dynasty of actors that includes her father Sir Michael Redgrave, mother Rachel Kempson and siblings Corin and Lynn Redgrave. Born January 30, 1937 in London, Redgrave studied drama at London's Central School of Music and Dance. She made her theatrical debut in 1957 and her film debut the following year in the dreadful Behind the Mask, which starred her father. Redgrave would not venture into films again for another eight years, and during the early '60s established herself as a key member of the distinguished Stratford-Upon-Avon Theater Company. During her time with the repertory, she gave life to Shakespeare's works with some of her country's finest performers and met her future husband, the director Tony Richardson.
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Born in London on January 30, 1937, Vanessa Redgrave was educated there, attending Queensgate School and later, 1955 to 1957, the Central School of Speech and Drama. (She joined the board of governors of the latter in 1963). Her first love was the dance. She initially trained for a career in ballet, but her height (she is nearly six feet tall) caused her to choose the stage instead. After some roles in stock she made her London theatrical debut in 1958 as the daughter of a schoolmaster, played by her father. Redgrave was married from 1962 to 1967 to the director Tony Richardson; they had two daughters, Joely and Natasha, both of whom became actresses.
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Vanessa Redgrave was born in London on January 30, 1937. Initially trained in ballet, she made her theatrical debut in London in 1958. Throughout the 1960s and 1970s, she played a variety of stage roles, including leads in a number of Shakespeare plays.
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