As soon as a thrilling Ralph Fiennes appears on ''Coriolanus'' it's clear why he chose this lesser-known Shakespeare tragedy for his directing debut. Dressed in camouflage fatigues Mr. Fiennes -- as the mythic Roman military hero first known as Caius Martius and later Coriolanus -- enters a raucous scene and commands it with just a glare. What...
In the lineage of real-life David-and-Goliath movies in which intrepid seekers of the truth investigate malfeasance in high places, ''The Whistleblower'' deserves an honorable mention. This earnest film may not be as dramatically coherent or as gripping as ''Serpico,''''All the President's Men,''''Erin Brockovich'' and ''Silkwood,'' to name four...
After more than 50 years of acting, Vanessa Redgrave understands the art of pausing and listening. At the heart of her latest Broadway play, ''Driving Miss Daisy,'' is a set of conversations between her snappish title character and James Earl Jones's Hoke, Daisy's chauffeur, whose decades-long friendship with Daisy forces her to face her own...
Vanessa Redgrave (født 30. januar 1937) er en britisk skuespillerinde.
Hun er udover sit filmarbejde kendt for sit engagement i det trotskistiske Worker's Revolutionary Party og for anti-israelske foredrag.
Hun er datter af Michael Redgrave og søster til Lynn Redgrave og Corin Redgrave. Hun har selv tre børn: Døtrene Natasha og Joely Richardson, der begge er skuespillere, og sønnen Carlo Nero.
Blandt de mange film hun har indspillet kan bl.a. nævnes den film, hun modtog en Oscar for i kategorien "bedste kvindelige birolle", nemlig Julia fra 1977. For sin rolle i Isadora, om Isadora Duncan, (1968) blev hun nomineret for bedste kvindelige hovedrolle.
Herudover har hun bl.a. medvirket i Sidney Lumets Mordet i Orient Ekspressen fra 1974, Yanks (1979), Howard's End (1992), Little Odessa (1994), Mission: Impossible (1996), Wilde (1997), Deep Impact (1998), Cradle Will Rock (1999), The Pledge (2001), Crime and Punishment (2002) og Letters to Juliet (2010). Fold ud