Vanessa Redgrave Net Worth

Vanessa Redgrave's Quotes

• [accepting her Oscar for Julia (1977)] My dear colleagues, I thank you very, very much for this tribute to my work. I think that Jane Fonda and I have done the best work of our lives, and I salute you and I pay tribute to you, and I think you should be very proud that in the last few weeks you have stood firm and you have refused to be intimidated by the threats of a small bunch of Zionist hoodlums [interrupted by boos] whose behavior is an insult to the stature of Jews all over the world and to their great and heroic record of struggle against fascism and oppression. And I pledge to you that I will continue to fight against anti-Semitism and fascism. Thank you.
• I choose all my roles very carefully so that when my career is finished I will have covered all our recent history of oppression.
• I've opened my mouth on a lot of subjects. And I thought the more prestige you get, I'd have the power to do what I like. It's not true.
• I don't think I ever felt beautiful until I was pregnant and when I gave birth to my children. I had terrible acne when I was a teenager and I was very tall, so tall I couldn't see myself in my mother's long mirror.
• I don't consider myself beautiful at all, I'm usually running around like a scruff.

Interesting Facts about Vanessa Redgrave

1. Claims to be on hit-list of neo-Nazi group Combat 18. [February 1997]
2. Daughter of Michael Redgrave & Rachel Kempson, older sister of Lynn Redgrave & Corin Redgrave, mother of Natasha Richardson & Joely Richardson. Granddaughter of Roy Redgrave.
3. Aunt of Jemma Redgrave, Luke Redgrave, Kelly Clark and Annabel Clark.
4. She was awarded the CBE (Commander of the Order of the British Empire) in the 1967 Queen's Birthday Honours List for her services to drama.
5. Grandmother of Raphael (b. 1995) and Lilli (b. 2004) Carlo's children, Daisy Bevan Joely's daughter, Michael Richard Antonio Neeson (born on June 22, 1995) and Daniel Jack Neeson (born on August 27, 1996) Natasha's sons.
6. Mother-in-law of actor Liam Neeson and Jennifer Wiltsie.
7. (1971-1986) Was in a long relationship with former James Bond actor Timothy Dalton.
8. Both she and sister Lynn Redgrave were nominated for the 1967 Best Actress Academy Award. Vanessa was nominated for Morgan: A Suitable Case for Treatment (1966) and Lynn for Georgy Girl (1966). They both lost to Elizabeth Taylor, who won for Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? (1966).
9. Won Broadway's 2003 Tony Award as Best Actress (Play) for a revival of Eugene O'Neill's "Long Day's Journey Into Night."
10. Son, Carlo Gabriel Nero, with Franco Nero, born in 1969. She met Franco in 1966 when they starred together in Camelot (1967); after being separated for a number of years the couple reunited and were married in 2006.
11. She allegedly refused the British honour of Dame of the order of the British Empire in 1999.
12. She was awarded the Laurence Olivier Theatre Award in 1985 (1984 season) for Best Actress in a Revival for "The Aspern Papers".
13. She was nominated for a 1997 Laurence Olivier Theatre Award for Best Actress in a Play of 1996 for her performance in "John Gabriel Borkman".
14. She was awarded the 1985 London Critics Circle Theatre Award (Drama Theatre Award) for Best Actor in The Seagull.
15. She was awarded the 1991 London Evening Standard Theatre Award for Best Actress for her performance in When She Danced.
16. She was awarded the 1985 London Evening Standard Theatre Award for Best Actor for her performance in The Seagull.
17. She was awarded the 1988 London Critics Circle Theatre Award (Drama Theatre Award) for Best Supporting Actress for her performance in A Touch of the Poet.
18. In 1962, she became one of the first celebrities to visit communist Cuba.
19. A longtime member of Britain's Workers Revolutionary Party
20. Appeared on "BBC News 24" Breakfast and stated that the massacre of Russian school children by Chechen guerrillas was not an act of terrorism. (4 September 2004).