In her career spanning over six decades, she has garnered numerous accolades , including an Academy Award , a Tony Award , two Primetime Emmy Awards and an Olivier Award , making her one of the few performers to achieve the Triple Crown of Acting.
Redgrave made her acting debut on stage with the production of A Touch of Sun in Redgrave made her film debut co-starring her father in the medical drama Behind the Mask. She rose to prominence as a film actor with the satire Morgan: A Suitable Case for Treatment , which garnered her first of her six Academy Award nominations, winning Best Supporting Actress for Julia Accounts say Olivier announced, "A great actress has been born this night.
In her autobiography, Redgrave recalls the East End and Coventry Blitzes among her earliest memories. Her siblings Lynn Redgrave and Corin Redgrave were also actors. She first appeared in the West End, playing opposite her brother, in In , Redgrave had her first starring role in Robert Bolt 's The Tiger and the Horse , in which she co-starred with her father. Redgrave had her first credited film role, in which she co-starred with her father, in Brian Desmond Hurst 's Behind the Mask Following this, she portrayed a mysterious woman in Blowup In the same period came other portrayals of historical or semi-mythical figures — ranging from Andromache in The Trojan Women to the lead in Mary, Queen of Scots , the latter earning her a third Oscar nomination.
What a Lovely War In the film Julia , she starred in the title role as a woman murdered by the Nazi German regime in the years prior to World War II for her anti-Fascist activism. Her co-star in the film was Jane Fonda playing writer Lillian Hellman. In her autobiography, Fonda wrote that:. Her voice seems to come from some deep place that knows all suffering and all secrets.
Watching her work is like seeing through layers of glass, each layer painted in mythic watercolour images, layer after layer, until it becomes dark, but even then you know you haven't come to the bottom of it The only other time I had experienced this with an actor was with Marlon Brando Like Vanessa, he always seemed to be in another reality, working off some secret, magnetic, inner rhythm.
