Vanessa Redgrave To Be Feted At European Film Awards Vanessa Redgrave will be honored with a Lifetime Achievement Award at the 36th European Film Awards this December.
Across six decades, the actress has ratcheted up more than 150 film and TV credits. Having first achieved fame as Rosalind in a 1961 a televized Royal Shakespeare Company performance of As You Like It, she broke out in cinema in Karel Reisz’s 1966 comedy Morgan: A Suitable Case For Treatment.
Redgrave won Best Actress in Cannes for the role and was also Bafta and Oscar nominated. Other key early credits include Michelangelo Antonioni’s Blow Up, Reisz’s Isadora, Charles Jarrott’s Mary, Queen Of Scots, for which she won a Special David at the Italian David di Donatello Awards; Fred Zinnemann’s Julia, for which she won an Oscar and James Ivory’s The Bostonians and Howards End and James Gray’s Little Odessa.
More recent credits include Joe Wright’s Atonement (2008). Redgrave has won a slew of Lifetime Achievement Awards across her career including from the Venice and San Sebastian film festivals and Bafta.
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