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16 unusual facts about Vanessa Redgrave


Akhmed Zakayev

On 7 December 2002, Zakayev returned to the UK but the British authorities arrested him briefly at London Heathrow Airport; he was released on 50,000 GBP bail, which was paid by British actress Vanessa Redgrave, his friend who had travelled with him from Denmark.

Down Came a Blackbird

Tomás Ramírez (Raúl Juliá) is a professor who joins a clinic run by Anna Lenke (Vanessa Redgrave), a Holocaust survivor, psychologist and the clinic's proprietor, whose patients are also recovering Holocaust and torture victims.

Good Boy!

Hubble, who is really named Canid 3942, has been sent by the powerful Greater Dane (voice of Vanessa Redgrave) on a mission from the Dog Star Sirius 7 to make sure dogs have fulfilled this destiny.

Independent Nuclear Disarmament Election Committee

It was founded in April 1962 by CND members including Pat Arrowsmith and Vanessa Redgrave.

Marvin J. Chomsky

In 1982 he directed Vanessa Redgrave in the TV movie, My Body, My Child and in 1989 the miniseries Brotherhood of the Rose with Robert Mitchum, Peter Strauss and David Morse.

Marxist Party

It was formed as a split from Sheila Torrance's Workers' Revolutionary Party in 1987 by Gerry Healy and supporters including Vanessa and Corin Redgrave.

Moth Wranglers

The moth wranglers' song “Dear Santa (Don’t Come to My House)” — featuring Kendall Jane Meade — was used in the 2008 Irish feature film How About You, directed by Anthony Byrne and starring Vanessa Redgrave, Joss Akland and Hayley Atwell.

Orpheus Descending

Orpheus Descending, a more faithful version – a film adaptation of the Peter Hall stage production – was released in 1990, starring Vanessa Redgrave.

Pattie Brooks

In 1979 Pattie branched out from disco by singing "Close Enough For Love", the title song to the Vanessa Redgrave movie Agatha.

Rebecca Nurse

The PBS film Three Sovereigns For Sarah features Vanessa Redgrave as one of Rebecca Nurse's sisters, Sarah Cloyce, who, although accused, escaped execution.

Ridolfi plot

The Ridolfi Plot was covered in Mary Queen of Scots (1971), starring Vanessa Redgrave as Mary and Glenda Jackson as Elizabeth.

Terese Capucilli

Capucilli was invited by Vanessa Redgrave to perform in UNICEF’s The Return festival in art-starved Pristina, Kosovo, in 1999.

The Last Will and Testament of Rosalind Leigh

The film follows Leon (Aaron Poole), a young man who returns home after learning of the death of his estranged mother, Rosalind Leigh (Vanessa Redgrave).

UNICEF UK

Current UNICEF UK Ambassadors and high profile supporters include David Beckham, Martin Bell OBE, Orlando Bloom, Charley Boorman, Sir Alex Ferguson, Ralph Fiennes, Ryan Giggs, Ewan McGregor, Jemima Khan, Sir Roger Moore, James Nesbitt, Vanessa Redgrave and Robbie Williams.

Vanessa Bauche

Bauche was born Alma Vanessa Bauche Chavira, named after actress Vanessa Redgrave.

Women's Orchestra of Auschwitz

Playing for Time, Linda Yellen 1980, TV-movie based on Arthur Miller's stage adaptation; the source of much controversy for its choice of Vanessa Redgrave, a PLO sympathizer, to play Fania Fénelon; Fénelon opposed the not-very-Jewish-looking Redgrave on the grounds that she was miscast as well as being anti-Israeli.


Cato Street

The play was first produced in London in November 1971, at the Young Vic, and the cast included Vanessa Redgrave, James Hazeldine, Bob Hoskins, George Innes,and Malcolm Tierney.

Dalia Friedland

After completing two years of military service she pursuer her theatrical studies at the Central School of Speech and Drama in London along with Judi Dench, Vanessa Redgrave and Anna Cropper.

Isadora Duncan, the Biggest Dancer in the World

Two years after the first broadcast of the TV film, Vanessa Redgrave played the role of Isadora Duncan in the big-screen biopic Isadora.

Jean Gordon, Countess of Bothwell

Irish actress Maria Aitken played the part of Jean Gordon, Countess of Bothwell in Mary, Queen of Scots, the 1971 film which starred Vanessa Redgrave in the title role.

John Ames

His works include co-authorship with Renée Richards of two biographies: Second Serve: The Renée Richards Story, which was adapted for television as Second Serve starring Vanessa Redgrave; and No Way Renée: The Second Half of My Notorious Life.

Julie White

She won the Tony Award for Best Performance by a Leading Actress in a Play for her performance, over fellow nominees Angela Lansbury, Vanessa Redgrave, Swoosie Kurtz and Eve Best.

Letters to Juliet

Letters to Juliet is a 2010 American romantic drama film starring Amanda Seyfried, Christopher Egan, Vanessa Redgrave, Gael García Bernal, and Franco Nero.

Lisa Katselas Paré

She later produced Mrs Dalloway in 1997, a film adaptation of the 1925 Virginia Woolf novel Mrs Dalloway, starring Vanessa Redgrave.

Maryon Park

Although it was not identified by name, the park was the filming location of key scenes in Blowup (1966), a drama mystery-thriller film directed by Michelangelo Antonioni and starring David Hemmings, Sarah Miles and Vanessa Redgrave; the park is little-changed since the making of that film.

Nicholas Georgiadis

He also had a passion for cinema and worked on a number of film projects, the most famous of which is The Trojan Women (1971), starring Katharine Hepburn, Vanessa Redgrave and Irene Papas.

Robert Falls

His Broadway production of Eugene O’Neill's Long Day's Journey into Night, starring Brian Dennehy, Vanessa Redgrave, Philip Seymour Hoffman and Robert Sean Leonard, received three 2003 Tony Awards, including Best Revival of a Play, and three 2003 Drama Desk Awards, including Outstanding Director of a Play.