Vanessa Redgrave CBE (Londres, 30 de gener de 1937) és una actriu anglesa, guanyadora dels premis Oscar i Globus d'Or. Pertany a la família d'actors Redgrave. D'ells, igual que el seu germà Corin Redgrave i la seva germana Lynn Redgrave, va heretar cert gust pel món de la interpretació així com una afinitat a les idees progressistes. És la mare de Joely i Natasha Richardson. Té també un fill Carlo Nero, escriptor i realitzador.

凡妮莎·雷德格雷夫（Vanessa Redgrave，CBE，1937年1月30日-），英国女演员、政治活动家。雷德格雷夫于 1961 年与皇家莎士比亚剧团合作在莎士比亚喜剧《如你所愿》中扮演罗莎琳德而声名鹊起，此后在伦敦西区和百老汇出演了超过 35 部作品，赢得了 1984 年奥利维尔奖最佳女主角奖《阿斯佩恩文件》的复兴，以及 2003 年托尼奖最佳戏剧女主角奖的复兴《漫长的一天》的复兴之夜。她还获得了托尼奖提名，分别是《魔法思维之年》和《黛西小姐》。

在银幕上，她出演了数十部电影，并六次获得奥斯卡提名，并因在电影《朱莉娅》（1977）中的主角而获得奥斯卡最佳女配角奖。她的其他提名包括《摩根：适合治疗的案例》（1966 年）、《伊莎多拉》（1968 年）、《玛丽，苏格兰女王》（1971 年）、《波士顿人》（1984 年）和《霍华德恩德》（1992 年）。她的其他电影包括《四季男人》（1966 年）、《爆炸》（1966 年）、《卡米洛特》（1967 年）、《魔鬼》（1971 年）、《东方快车谋杀案》（1974 年）、《竖起你的耳朵》（1987 年）、《碟中不可能》（1996 年）、《赎罪》（2007 年）、《科里奥兰纳斯》（2011 年）和《管家》（2013 年）。雷德格雷夫被阿瑟·米勒和田纳西·威廉姆斯誉为“我们这个时代最伟大的在世女演员”，并获得了奥斯卡奖、艾美奖、托尼奖、英国电影学院奖、奥利维尔奖、戛纳奖、金球奖和演员工会奖。

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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Vanessa Mariah Redgrave, (Greenwich, 30 de janeiro de 1937) é uma atriz britânica. Ela é uma das 23 pessoas que alcançaram a Tríplice Coroa da Atuação, e em 2003 entrou para o Hall of Fame do American Theatre. Em 2010, Redgrave recebeu um Prêmio BAFTA Fellowship em reconhecimento à sua contribuição ao cinema. No cinema, Redgrave fez sua estreia com o drama médico Behind the Mask (1958), e ganhou destaque com a comédia Deliciosas Loucuras de Amor (1966), que lhe rendeu a primeira de suas seis indicações ao Oscar, vencendo o prêmio de melhor atriz coadjuvante pelo filme Julia (1977).