Age: 89
female
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
Dr. Delia Surridge
for Dr. Delia Surridge in V for Vendetta (1995)
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Set in a dystopian and post-apocalyptic future, the United Kingdom is a police state run by the oppressive and fascist Norsefire government. Soon, a mysterious, masked vigilante simply known as the letter "V" uses terrorist tactics to fight back against the oppressors of the world he now lives in. After saving the life of a young woman named Evey Hammond from the secret police, he discovers an ally in his fight against England's iron rulers, all the while a New Scotland Yard detective Eric Finch, who's trying to catch V, becomes an unlikely player in the end to England's oppression.
