FrameThrower · Actors · Vanessa Redgrave
Vanessa Redgrave
9 films · 626 frames · top-billed in 4 · 1966–2014
Born 30 January 1937 · Greenwich, London, England, UK
Vanessa Redgrave CBE is an English actress and political activist. Redgrave rose to prominence in 1961 playing Rosalind in the Shakespeare comedy As You Like It with the Royal Shakespeare Company and has since starred in more than 35 productions in London's West End and on Broadway, winning the 1984 Olivier Award for Best Actress in a Revival for The Aspern Papers, and the 2003 Tony Award for Best Actress in a Play for the revival of Long Day's Journey into Night.…
Awards
On FrameThrower we have: 9 films · 626 frames · top-billed in 4 · 1966–2014
- Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress1978
- Golden Globe Award for Best Supporting Actress – Series, Miniseries or Television Film2001
- Golden Globe Award for Best Supporting Actress – Motion Picture1978
- BAFTA Fellowship2010
- Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by a Female Actor in a Miniseries or Television Movie
- Cannes Film Festival Award for Best Actress1969
- Cannes Film Festival Award for Best Actress1966
- Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Miniseries or a Movie2000
- Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actress in a Miniseries or a Movie1981
- Tony Award for Best Actress in a Play2003
- Dame Commander of the Order of the British Empire2022
- Commander of the Order of the British Empire1967
How their films are shot
Measured across 626 frames from the 9 films we hold. This is the look of the work Vanessa takes, not a claim about any single frame — we index the cast of a film, never the people in a shot.
Across the 9 films we hold, 53% of their frames are day, 48% natural — the look of the work Vanessa takes.
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Films in the library
Every poster opens that film — stills, cinematography notes and colour palette.
The Gathering Storm
2002 · Clemmie Churchill
The Devils
1971 · Sister Jeanne des Anges
A Quiet Place In The Country
1968 · Flavia
Blow-Up
1966 · Jane
Foxcatcher
2014 · Jean du Pont
Anonymous
2011 · Queen Elizabeth I
Atonement
2007 · Briony Tallis (Age 77)
The Pledge
2001 · Annalise Hansen
Mission: Impossible
1996 · Max
A reference database for filmmakers
FrameThrower is a fully machine-searchable film database and visual reference library — all 626 frames from Vanessa Redgrave's 9 films, and 5,000+ films besides, indexed frame by frame and readable by AI. Search it in plain language, from a reference image, or by colour; call it from an API, an MCP server or an SDK. It's the reference layer for making the next movie.