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Vanessa Redgrave (UK. 1937)



Vanessa Redgrave, UNICEF Goodwill Ambassador I believe that children everywhere have the right to grow to adulthood in peace, health and dignity.

BBC article: Redgrave: Actress and Campaigner * BBC Interview The people I admire most are those who struggle for everyone ... to have their democratic rights (to say what they think)

From our Rachel Corrie Webpage...
In her March 8 2006 radio program, Amy Goodman (journalist from Democracy Now! ) interviews Vanessa Redgrave (actress, political activist) about the cancellation of a play on Rachel Corrie. The play was shown in London in 2005, and finally got to New York in october 2006. Watch the Vanessa Regrave Interview! (35') Read the transcript Here are all the formats (audio, audiovisual, written text).

2006 interview, Peace & Progress (The Observer)

Movies:
1996 Ms. Dalloway (based on a novel by Virginia Woolf)
Vanessa Redgrave's Mrs. Dalloway: Revolutionary or recluse?
1992 Howards End (based on a novel by E.M. Forster)
1991 The Ballad of the Sad Café (based on a story by Carson McCullers, play by Edward Albee)
1977 Julia (based on the play Pentimento by Lillian Hellman)
1974 Murder on the Orient Express (based on a novel by Agatha Christie)

Mission: Possible - An Interview with Vanessa Redgrave
Watch a trailer of the film Mission:Impossible, with Tom Cruise


Oscar-Winning Actress, Activist Vanessa Redgrave Calls For Justice, Legal and Human Rights For Guantanamo Prisoners (Read & listen)