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Vanessa Redgrave

Vanessa Redgrave trained at the Ballet Rambert school and with Litz Pisk; she trained her singing voice with Jani Strasser. She graduated from the Central School of Speech and Drama in 1958.

She performed Joan Didion’s The Year Of Magical Thinking, directed by David Hare, at the Booth Theatre on Broadway, for a limited run from 6 March to 25 August 2007; she was nominated for a Tony Award, and won the Drama Desk Award for outstanding solo performance.

In 2005, she played Hecuba in the play by Euripides for the RSC in London, and the RSC production was directed by the poet/playwright Tony Harrison for the Kennedy Center Washington DC, for BAM in New York, and in Delphi, Greece. Her previous plays at the National Theatre include John Gabriel Borkman in 1995 and The Cherry Orchard in 2000.

Her most recent film for TV, The Fever by Wallace Shawn, directed by Carlo Nero, was televised by HBO in 2007. She was nominated best actress for her role in The Fever by the Screen Actors’ Guild in 2008.
 
She has produced a number of documentary films; the latest, Wake Up World, a Dissent Projects film, also directed by Carlo Nero, is a tribute to UNICEF. Ms Redgrave has been a Goodwill Ambassador for UNICEF, the United Nations Children’s Fund since 1995. She is a member/supporter of Amnesty International, Liberty the UK human rights organisation, the Women’s Refugee Commission, USA, and honorary member of Memorial, and Za Prava Cheloveka, the two chief Russian human rights organisations.