Vanessa Redgrave
Born January 30, 1937 (Age: 89)
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Greenwich, London, England, UK
Biography
Vanessa Redgrave CBE (born 30 January 1937) 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. She also received Tony nominations for The Year of Magical Thinking and Driving Miss Daisy. On screen she has starred in scores of films and is a six-time Oscar nominee, winning the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress for the title role in the film Julia (1977). Her other nominations were for Morgan: A Suitable Case for Treatment (1966), Isadora (1968), Mary, Queen of Scots (1971), The Bostonians (1984), and Howards End (1992). Among her other films are A Man for All Seasons (1966), Blowup (1966), Camelot (1967), The Devils (1971), Murder on the Orient Express (1974), Prick Up Your Ears (1987), Mission: Impossible (1996), Atonement (2007), Coriolanus (2011), and The Butler (2013). Redgrave was proclaimed by Arthur Miller and Tennessee Williams as "the greatest living actress of our times", and has won the Oscar, Emmy, Tony, BAFTA, Olivier, Cannes, Golden Globe, and the Screen Actors Guild awards.
Vanessa Redgrave CBE (born 30 January 1937) 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. She also received Tony nominations for The Year of Magical Thinking and Driving Miss Daisy.
On screen she has starred in scores of films and is a six-time Oscar nominee, winning the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress for the title role in the film Julia (1977). Her other nominations were for Morgan: A Suitable Case for Treatment (1966), Isadora (1968), Mary, Queen of Scots (1971), The Bostonians (1984), and Howards End (1992). Among her other films are A Man for All Seasons (1966), Blowup (1966), Camelot (1967), The Devils (1971), Murder on the Orient Express (1974), Prick Up Your Ears (1987), Mission: Impossible (1996), Atonement (2007), Coriolanus (2011), and The Butler (2013). Redgrave was proclaimed by Arthur Miller and Tennessee Williams as "the greatest living actress of our times", and has won the Oscar, Emmy, Tony, BAFTA, Olivier, Cannes, Golden Globe, and the Screen Actors Guild awards.
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Filmography
Cold Storage
2026
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as Ma Rooney
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Age: 88
The Ghost of Richard Harris
2022
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as Self
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Age: 85
Finding You
2021
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as Cathleen Sweeney
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Age: 84
No Image
Entree Des Artists
2020
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as Henry's Grandmother
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Age: 83
Film Stars Don't Die in Liverpool
2017
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as Jeanne McDougall
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Age: 80
The Secret Scripture
2017
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as Old Roseanne McNulty
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Age: 80
Electric Burma: The Concert for Aung San Suu Kyi - Words I Never Said
2016
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as Self
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Age: 79
Foxcatcher
2014
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as Jean du Pont
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Age: 77
The Butler
2013
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as Annabeth Westfall
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Age: 76
Song for Marion
2012
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as Marion
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Age: 75
Anonymous
2011
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as Queen Elizabeth I
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Age: 74
Cars 2
2011
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as The Queen / Mama Topolino (voice)
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Age: 74
Coriolanus
2011
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as Volumnia
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Age: 74
Miral
2010
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as Bertha Spafford
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Age: 73
The Whistleblower
2010
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as Madeleine Rees
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Age: 73
Letters to Juliet
2010
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as Claire
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Age: 73
God, Smell and Her
2009
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as
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Age: 71
How About You...
2007
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as Georgia Platts
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Age: 70
The Riddle
2007
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as Roberta Elliot
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Age: 70
Evening
2007
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as Ann Lord
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Age: 70
Atonement
2007
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as Briony Tallis (Age 77)
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Age: 70
Eugene O’Neill: A Documentary Film
2006
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as Self
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Age: 69
The Thief Lord
2006
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as Sister Antonia
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Age: 68
The White Countess
2005
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as Princess Vera Belinskya
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Age: 68
Elio Petri: Notes About a Filmmaker
2005
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as Self
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Age: 68
The Keeper: The Legend of Omar Khayyam
2005
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as Miss Sangorski
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Age: 68
The Locket
2002
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as Esther Huish
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Age: 65
Hell on Earth: The Desecration & Resurrection of The Devils
2002
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as Self
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Age: 65
Searching for Debra Winger
2002
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as Self
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Age: 65
Crime and Punishment
2002
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as Rodion's mother
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Age: 65
The Gathering Storm
2002
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as Clemmie Churchill
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Age: 65
The Pledge
2001
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as Annalise Hansen
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Age: 63
A Rumor of Angels
2000
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as Maddy Bennett
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Age: 63
Uninvited
2000
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as Mrs. Rutterburn
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Age: 63
Mirka
2000
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as Kalsan
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Age: 63
1961
2000
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as Edith Tree
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Age: 63
If These Walls Could Talk 2
2000
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as Edith Tree
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Age: 63
Exile in Buyukada
2000
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as Narrator
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Age: 62
Girl, Interrupted
1999
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as Dr. Wick
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Age: 62
Cradle Will Rock
1999
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as Countess Constance La Grave
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Age: 62
Lulu on the Bridge
1998
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as Catherine Moore
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Age: 61
Deep Impact
1998
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as Robin Lerner
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Age: 61
Déjà Vu
1998
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as Skelly
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Age: 61
Bella Mafia
1997
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as Graziella Luciano
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Age: 60
No Image
Behind the Mask : The IRA and Sinn Fein
1997
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as Self
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Age: 60
Wilde
1997
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as Lady Speranza Wilde
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Age: 60
Mrs. Dalloway
1997
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as Mrs. Clarissa Dalloway
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Age: 60
Michael Redgrave: My Father
1997
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as Self
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Age: 60
Smilla's Sense of Snow
1997
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as Elsa Lübing
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Age: 60
The Willows in Winter
1996
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as Grandmother / Narrator
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Age: 59
Looking for Richard
1996
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as Self - Interviewee
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Age: 59
Two Mothers for Zachary
1996
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as Nancy Shaffell
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Age: 59
Mission: Impossible
1996
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as Max
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Age: 59
A Month by the Lake
1995
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as Miss Bentley
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Age: 58
They
1993
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as Florence Latimer
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Age: 56
The House of the Spirits
1993
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as Nivea del Valle
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Age: 56
Mother's Boys
1993
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as Lydia
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Age: 56
A Wall of Silence
1993
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as Kate Benson
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Age: 56
Howards End
1992
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as Ruth Wilcox
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Age: 55
The Ballad of the Sad Cafe
1991
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as Miss Amelia
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Age: 54
What Ever Happened to Baby Jane?
1991
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as Blanche Hudson
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Age: 54
Breath of Life
1990
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as Suor Crocifissa
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Age: 53
Orpheus Descending
1990
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as Lady Torrance
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Age: 53
Stalin's Funeral
1990
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as English journalist
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Age: 53
Romeo.Juliet
1990
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as Mother Capulet (voice)
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Age: 52
A Man for All Seasons
1988
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as Lady Alice More
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Age: 51
Consuming Passions
1988
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as Mrs. Garza
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Age: 51
Comrades
1987
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as Mrs. Carlyle
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Age: 50
Prick Up Your Ears
1987
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as Peggy Ramsay
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Age: 50
Wetherby
1985
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as Jean Travers
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Age: 48
Steaming
1985
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as Nancy
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Age: 48
Three Sovereigns for Sarah
1985
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as Sarah Cloyce
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Age: 48
Playing for Time
1980
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as Fania Fenelon
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Age: 43
The Fifth War
1980
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as
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Age: 42
Agatha
1979
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as Agatha Christie
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Age: 42
Julia
1977
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as Julia
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Age: 40
The Palestinian
1977
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as Self
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Age: 40
Murder on the Orient Express
1974
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as Mary Debenham
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Age: 37
Right to Work March
1972
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as
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Age: 35
The Devils
1971
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as Sister Jeanne des Anges
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Age: 34
No Arks
1969
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as Narrator
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Age: 32
Oh! What a Lovely War
1969
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as Sylvia Pankhurst
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Age: 32
Red, White, and Zero
1968
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as Jacky
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Age: 31
A Man for All Seasons
1966
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as Anne Boleyn
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Age: 29
No Image
Maggie
1964
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as Maggie
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Age: 26
No Image
As You Like It
1963
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as Rosalind
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Age: 26
A Sunday in September
1961
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as Self
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Age: 24
Circus at Clopton Hall
1961
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as Narrator
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Age: 23
Behind the Mask
1958
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as Pamela Benson-Gray
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Age: 21