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  Vanessa Redgrave - MSN Encarta
Vanessa Redgrave, born in 1937, leading British stage and motion-picture actor, acclaimed for her sensitive and intelligent portrayals of strong-willed, independent women.
Redgrave was born in London to a family of distinguished British actors.
Early in her career, Redgrave was mostly associated with her father's prominent name, but she quickly established herself as a formidable actor with performances in The Tiger and the Horse (1960) and in As You Like It (1961), produced by the Royal Shakespeare Company.
encarta.msn.com /encyclopedia_761582188/Vanessa_Redgrave.html   (278 words)

  
 UNICEF - UNICEF People - Vanessa Redgrave
Vanessa Redgrave is widely considered one of the finest actors of her generation.
She is equally well known as a passionate activist in the cause of children and as an advocate of peace, tolerance and reconciliation.
Vanessa Redgrave was born in London, into a distinguished acting family.
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 Vanessa Redgrave - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
Vanessa Redgrave during the 2004 season of Nip/Tuck.
Vanessa Redgrave's daughters, Natasha Richardson and Joely Richardson (by her 1962-1967 marriage to film director Tony Richardson) have also built respected acting careers.
Vanessa Redgrave entered the Central School of Speech and Drama in 1954.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Vanessa_Redgrave   (2217 words)

  
 Amazon.com: Vanessa Redgrave:: An Autobiography: Books: Vanessa Redgrave   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
Vanessa Redgrave, a political rebel of the show-business world, has written a straightforward, chronological account of her life.
She is a member of the famous Redgrave theater clan (father Michael, mother Rachel, two acting siblings, Lynn and Corin, and her daughter, Natasha Richardson), was married to Tony Richardson, bore Franco Nero a son, pursued a successful acting career and espoused controversial causes.
Vanessa, on the other hand, always made headlines on both sides of the Atlantic with her outspoken political views, especially her vociferous support of the Palestinians.
www.amazon.com /Vanessa-Redgrave-Autobiography/dp/0679402160   (852 words)

  
 FrontPage magazine.com :: Tinseltown's Marxist Anti-Semite by Don Feder   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
In 1977, Redgrave did a "documentary" titled "The Palestinians" that showed her in a PLO training camp, dancing as she waved a rifle over her head.
In the same interview, Redgrave declared, "I am against the racism and violence of the Zionist state of Israel," then adding (almost as an after-thought), "but I also oppose anti-Semitism." On the other hand, she isn’t on record actually condemning a specific act of anti-Semitism in the Arab world, or anywhere else.
From this, Redgrave concocted a lurid lie of Israeli snipers peering through their scopes at rooms full of little girls in uniforms, trying to decide which of the kids they should kill for fun.
www.frontpagemag.com /Articles/ReadArticle.asp?ID=14208   (1250 words)

  
 Personality: Vannessa Redgrave: A Passion for Justice
Ironically, it was her role in "Julia" that led Redgrave to become aware of the plight of the Palestinians.
Redgrave noted that although more than 100,000 Lebanese people were injured or made homeless, and their farms and workplaces destroyed, no medicine or other aid was sent from the U.S. or Europe.
Because Russia's history was marked by virulent anti-Semitism and to Redgrave, "The struggle against anti-Semitism and for self-determination of the Palestinians are one and the same, and they form a single whole." In 1989 she helped the newly formed Moscow Jewish Theatre to survive by bringing it to London.
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Redgrave has also developed an off-screen reputation as a self-proclaimed "human rights activist," although her true ideological commitment is to an extremist Marxist-Leninist sect, a Trotskyist splinter group led by her late mentor Gerry Healy.
Redgrave was a co-founder of the Guantanamo Human Rights Commission, which partnered with the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU), the Center for Constitutional Rights (CCR), and the National Council of Churches USA (NCC) to pressure the U.S. government "to treat the Guantanamo Bay prisoners according to the standards of American and International law.
True to her principles, Redgrave has never been critical of a Communist butcher, and never encountered an act of Western self-defense that she was not prepared to denounce.
www.discoverthenetwork.org /individualProfile.asp?indid=1451   (891 words)

  
 Vanessa Redgrave Discusses Acting
Actress Vanessa Redgrave discussed Chekhov and the art of acting with Five College theatre arts students during her April 29 master class.
Redgrave urged actors to aim "for a feeling of complete spontaneity," but the evening revealed the painstaking textual analysis necessary for actors to achieve this spontaneous effect.
Redgrave also told the aspiring actors to study the time and place in which a play was created, and encouraged them to take as much time as necessary to be sure they understand the character they're playing.
www.mtholyoke.edu /offices/comm/csj/980508/1vanessa.html   (562 words)

  
 Celebrities
Vanessa Redgrave, the cornerstone of a British acting dynasty, has never rested comfortably on her pedigree.
Best known, loved, or hated for her radical activism, Redgrave has also never backed down from a political challenge -- even forming her own party in 1997 to "oppose the laws of a police state" in one British election.
Roger Ebert claimed Redgrave was at the "absolute peak of physical and mental perfection" in 1995's A Month by the Lake.
www.planetout.com /pno/entertainment/starstruck/2000/12/redgrave.html   (196 words)

  
 Vanessa Redgrave
Vanessa Redgrave trained for eight years at the Ballet Rambert School and subsequently graduated from the Central School of Speech and Drama in 1958.
Vanessa went on to recreate the role of Lady in ORPHEUS DESCENDING at the Neil Simon Theater on Broadway to great critical and audience acclaim, and this was recorded for television by Turner Television, again with Sir Peter Hall directing.
Vanessa filmed THE WHITE COUNTESS directed by James Ivory for Merchant Ivory with her sister Lynn Redgrave and daughter Natasha Richardson and Ralph Fiennes soon to be released.
www.gavinbarkerassociates.co.uk /html/vanessa_redgrave.htm   (1765 words)

  
 Vanessa Redgrave @ Filmbug
Vanessa Redgrave began her illustrious screen career in 1958 with Brian Desmond Hurst's Behind the Mask, alongside her father, Sir Michael Redgrave.
Redgrave was again Oscar-nominated for her performance as famed dancer Isadora Duncan in 1968's Isadora and for her work in Mary, Queen of Scots.
Redgrave charmed audiences as Guinevere in the 1967 film version of Camelot (alongside Richard Harris), but since then has become known for her choice of often difficult and sometimes controversial roles as strong, independent women characters.
www.filmbug.com /db/4381   (442 words)

  
 Vanessa Redgrave News
Vanessa Redgrave, Claire Danes, Meryl Streep, Glenn Close, Toni Collette and Natasha Richardson are in the City by the Sea to film the movie Evening, which has begun shooting at The Ledge estate.
Vanessa Redgrave will star in a one-woman stage adaptation of Joan Didion's bestseller The Year of Magical Thinking.
Veteran actress VANESSA REDGRAVE has rekindled her romance with film star FRANCO NERO, the father of her son, 36 years after they split.
www.topix.net /who/vanessa-redgrave   (743 words)

  
 Palestine Blogs » Blog Archive » Kanye Remember Redgrave?   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
As an effigy of her was burned outside Vanessa Redgrave accepted the award for Best Supporting Actress for Julia: “My dear colleagues, I thank you very very much for this tribute to my work.
Redgrave was harassed by Zionists before and after her Oscar remarks.
Redgrave sold two of her houses in London, and went to Lebanon, where she filmed “The Palestinian,” which premiered in London in 1977.
palestineblogs.com /archives/2005/09/05/kanye-remember-redgrave   (1108 words)

  
 Biography for Vanessa Redgrave   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
Born into a distinguished acting family, Vanessa Redgrave knew a lot about acting technique when she started making films in the 1960s.
Daughter of Michael Redgrave & Rachel Kempson, sister of Lynn Redgrave & Corin Redgrave, mother of Natasha Richardson &; Joely Richardson.
Vanessa was nominated for Morgan: A Suitable Case for Treatment (1966), and Lynn was nominated for Georgy Girl (1966).
www.imdb.com /name/nm0000603/bio   (1438 words)

  
 For Vanessa Redgrave, acting is a family tradition   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
The Redgraves are the English dynasty of actors.
Vanessa's daughters by director Tony Richardson, Natasha and Joely, have followed the family profession.
Redgrave: There may have been; I wasn't at all aware of it.
www.jsonline.com /letsgo/movies/0221vanessaredgrave.stm   (379 words)

  
 BBC NEWS | Politics | Redgraves launch political party
Campaigning British actors Vanessa Redgrave and her brother Corin have launched a political party to focus on the sole issue of human rights.
Ms Redgrave said she was unsure how many general election candidates would be fielded but stressed that they would fight solely on a human rights platform.
She was among a delegation that lobbied outside the US Supreme Court in Washington DC last March, denouncing treatment of inmates at Guantanamo Bay in Cuba.
news.bbc.co.uk /1/hi/uk_politics/4048943.stm   (286 words)

  
 Vanessa Redgrave
Redgrave was nominated for an Oscar four times before finally taking home a statue for Best Support Actress for her role in Julia.
She says, "I can only tell you that I'm perfectly happy to be where I am, aged as I am.
Redgrave was briefly married to director Tony Richardson from 1962 to 1967.
www.tribute.ca /bio.asp?id=1598   (150 words)

  
 Astrocartography of Vanessa Redgrave's Least-aspected Saturn, Uranus
In all the time I knew her, Vanessa’s car was functional, and her clothes functional as well.
Vanessa Redgrave was born in London, just east of her Secondary Uranus, which runs vertically along the western coast of England in a Transcendental Midheaven position.
All text © Copyright 2005 Robert Couteau and cannot be used without the written and expressed consent of the author.
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 Playbill News: Report: Vanessa Redgrave Hecuba to Head to New York in 2005
Redgrave will star in the title role of Hecuba in the tragedy set during the Trojan wars.
She is the daughter of knighted actor Michael Redgrave and actress Rachel Kempson.
She is the sister of Lynn Redgrave and Corin Redgrave and mother of Natasha and Joely Richardson.
www.playbill.com /news/article/87386.html   (446 words)

  
 Indiana Jones: Biography | Vanessa Redgrave   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
Born into a distinguished family of actors (father is actor Sir Michael Redgrave and sister is actress Lynn Redgrave) veteran actress Vanessa Redgrave has a long history of choosing profound and memorable acting roles.
In 1977, Redgrave won the Academy Award for her performance in the film Julia.
Currently, Redgrave will be starring in The Riding of Laddie with Christopher Lee and The Keeper: The Legend of Omar Khayyam with C. Thomas Howell.
www.indianajones.com /bio/cast/vanessaredgrave.html   (189 words)

  
 BBC NEWS | Programmes | Breakfast with Frost | Redgrave Zakayev
In a moment I'll be talking to him and to the actress and human rights campaigner, Vanessa Redgrave, who's here and who's taken up his cause.
Russia, as you rightly said, is very, very keen to portray the conflict in Chechnya as part of the wider war against terror, and it has to be said that a lot of the rebels now, within Chechnya now fighting, they are becoming more Islamist.
And now we turn, first of all to Vanessa, Vanessa Redgrave, and Akhmed Zakayev.
news.bbc.co.uk /1/hi/programmes/breakfast_with_frost/2629171.stm   (1057 words)

  
 Vanessa Redgrave
South Hadley, MA--While in Western Massachusetts from April 29 through May 3, Vanessa Redgrave and her mother, Lady Rachel Kempson Redgrave, will step on stage in two different venues to pursue their interests in Chekhov and women.
Redgrave, who won an Oscar for her role in Juliain 1977, has appeared in seventy films; she broke new ground in acting for women through such seminal characters as Leonie Delt in Morgan!
Rachel Redgrave has appeared in twenty films and made her stage debut at the Shakespeare Memorial Theatre at Stratford-on-Avon.
www.mtholyoke.edu /offices/comm/press/releases/redgrave.shtml   (497 words)

  
 Vanessa Redgrave — Infoplease.com
(Vanessa and Corin Redgrave produce Shakespeare in Houston, Texas, with their repertory company, the Moving......
Vanessa Redgrave is circling David Richenthal's production of "Long Day's Journey Into Night".
WILDE AT HEART.(Lynn Redgrave in The Importance of Being Earnest)
www.infoplease.com /ipea/A0154895.html   (225 words)

  
 Vanessa Redgrave -- Queer Lesbian Gay Arts & Entertainment: Celebrities -- Gay.com
Gay.com > Arts & Entertainment: Celebrities > Vanessa Redgrave -- Vanessa Redgrave, the cornerstone of a British acting dynasty, has never rested comfortably on her pedigree.
Theatre, Redgrave has lent dignity, depth, and originality to her roles
Roger Ebert claimed Redgrave was at the "absolute peak of
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 Canadian mine company swipes at Vanessa Redgrave
Vanessa Redgrave used a film festival award ceremony to criticize plans for a huge gold mine in Romania.
Redgrave dedicated a lifetime achievement award presented to her at the International Transylvanian Film Festival to a local group called Alburnus Maior, which has been campaigning against the mine.
Gabriel Resources responded this week by paying for a full-page ad with an open letter to Redgrave, accompanied by 77 signatures of mine supporters from the village.
www.cbc.ca /world/story/2006/06/23/redgrave-mine.html   (1300 words)

  
 NPR : A Conversation with Lynn and Vanessa Redgrave
NPR : A Conversation with Lynn and Vanessa Redgrave
From left to right, Lynn Redgrave, Vanessa Redgrave and Natasha Richardson (Vanessa's real-life daughter) in White Countess.
All Things Considered, December 20, 2005 ·; Sisters Lynn and Vanessa Redgrave have a new film The White Countess -- the first feature film they've ever appeared in together.
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 Vanessa Redgrave
When the scene occurs, it's ambiguous whether we're seeing her murder as it happens, or seeing
However, we later learn that Vanessa was indeed killed in the way we saw.
The movie intercuts between a scene of Vanessa preparing for her suicide and a scene of Elijah Wood and Leelee Sobieski's wedding; Vanessa's body is shown sitting in a chair at the end of this cross-cutting sequence.
www.cinemorgue.com /vanessaredgrave.html   (145 words)

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