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Tribute to Vanessa Redgrave

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    Tribute to Vanessa Redgrave

    It has long been known that actress Vanessa Redgrave is the epitome of badassery. Actor, mother, political and human rights activist - she's done it all and done it well. She has received all sorts of awards and honors for her work.

    She has appeared in hundreds of productions, the first few to garner attention being Morgan: A Suitable Case for Treatment (1966) and Michelangelo Antonioni's Blowup (1966). She then appeared in the musical Camelot (1968) as Guinevere and Isadora (1968), as the American expatriate communist dancer Isadora Duncan. She continued kicking ass into the seventies, like in Mary, Queen of Scots (1971). She received considerable attention and critical praise for her performance in Julia (1977), in which she portrayed an anti-fascist xxxish student in Vienna. At the same time, she narrated a documentary called The Palestinian, which angered many in the industry. Her performance in Julia won her the 1978 Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress. If she wasn't so extremely talented, her gutsy and controversial acceptance speech could have been a kiss of death for her career. Here is the text in full:

    Originally posted by Vanessa Redgrave
    "My dear colleagues, I thank you very much for this tribute to my work. I think that Jane Fonda and I have done the best work of our lives and I think this is in part due to our director, Fred Zinnemann. [Audience applauds.]

    And I also think it's in part because we believed and we believe in what we were expressing - two out of millions who gave their lives and were to prepared to sacrifice everything in the fight against fascist and racist Nazi Germany.

    And I salute you and I pay tribute to you and I think you should be very proud that in the last few weeks you've stood firm and you have refused to be intimidated by the threats of a small bunch of Zionist hoodlums [gasps from the audience followed by a smattering of boos and clapping] whose behavior is an insult to the stature of xxxs all over the world and their great and heroic record of struggle against fascism and oppression.

    And I salute that record and I salute all of you for having stood firm and dealt a final blow against that period when Nixon and McCarthy launched a worldwide witch-hunt against those who tried to express in their lives and their work the truth that they believe in [some boos and hissing]. I salute you and I thank you and I pledge to you that I will continue to fight against anti-Semitism and fascism."
    Despite this incident, she managed to kick ass even into the eighties. In 1980, she appeared on television as a female prisoner in a Nazi concentration camp in Playing for Time (1980), and the role won her the 1981 Emmy Award for Best Actress in a Miniseries or Special. Then she starred in the Merchant-Ivory film The Bostonians (1984). She played Sophia in a television miniseries about Peter the Great (1986) as well as a transsexual tennis player in the television film Second Serve (1986).

    She's still kicked lots of ass since turning fifty. She appeared in the critically revered Merchant-Ivory production Howard's End and Mrs. Dalloway, an adaptation of the Virginia Woolf novel. She was even in Girl, Interrupted for crying out loud. She's also involved in theatre. She won a 2003 Tony Award for Best Actress for her performance in a revival of Long Day's Journey Into Night. In the year 2000, she received acclaim and accolades for her performance in the television film If These Walls Could Talk 2, where she played an elderly lesbian. She has also appeared on television's Nip/Tuck, alongside her daughter, Joely Richardson. Her other daughter, by the way, is Natasha Richardson (who looks a lot like her) - you may know her best as the mother from The Parent Trap (1998). One of Redgrave's latest performances was in the British wartime romance film Atonement, in which she portrayed the older Briony. She didn't have much screentime, but still managed to kick ass somehow.

    Vanessa Redgrave's Mantle
    - Tommy Award Most Badass Actress (1937-)
    - Academy Award Best Supporting Actress for Julia (1977)
    - Cannes Film Festival Award Best Actress for Morgan: A Suitable Case for Treatment (1966)
    - Cannes Film Festival Award Best Actress for Isadora (1968)
    - Emmy Award Best Actress in a Miniseries or Special for Playing for Time (1980)
    - Emmy Award Best Supporting Actress in a Miniseries or Special for If These Walls Could Talk 2 (2000)
    - Golden Globe Award Best Supporting Actress for Julia (1977)
    - Golden Globe Award Best Supporting Actress in a Series/Miniseries/TV Movie for If These Walls Could Talk 2 (2000)
    - Screen Actors Guild Award Best Actress in a TV Miniseries or Movie for If These Walls Could Talk 2 (2000)
    - Tony Award Best Actress in a Play for Long Day's Journey Into Night (2003)
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      Re: Tribute to Vanessa Redgrave

      This is the most random thread of the year.

      THE WINNAR IS TOMSERVO!
      Achkerov kute.

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        Re: Tribute to Vanessa Redgrave

        Originally posted by Anonymouse View Post
        This is the most random thread of the year.

        THE WINNAR IS TOMSERVO!

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          Re: Tribute to Vanessa Redgrave

          Originally posted by TomServo View Post
          Michelangelo Antonioni's Blowup [/b]
          I love some arthouse films, but I admit that this one was too much of an arthouse experience for me. I just couldn't go past 15 minutes of the film.

          On the other hand Vanessa Redgrave is an excellent actress. I would place Helen Mirren in the same category.

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