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Vanessa Redgrave made her professional debut in the play A Touch of the Sun In the late s and early '70s, Redgrave showed her mastery of both classical and commercial fare, winning an Oscar and getting nominated for two more, and more followed.

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Redgrave comes from a long line of actors. Her father, Sir Michael Redgrave, was on stage when he learned that she was born. Sir Laurence Olivier , his co-star in the production, remarked to the audience at the end of the show that "Tonight a great actress has been born," according to The New York Times. She also spent some time in New York City in the mids where she sat in on classes at the Actors Studio.

Redgrave made her stage debut in and her first film, Behind the Mask , with her father the following year. Theater, however, remained her focus for much of the s. She appeared in a number of the Royal Shakespeare Company productions during this time.

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In the late s, Redgrave took on a number of iconic roles. Moving on to more contemporary material, she starred in Isadora , a biopic of the famed modern dance pioneer Isadora Duncan. Redgrave lent a certain gravitas and regality to the title role of 's Mary Queen of Scots. But it was her performance in 's Julia that brought her Oscar gold.

In the film, she plays Julia, a woman living in Germany and working against the Nazi regime. Her friend, playwright Lillian Hellman Jane Fonda , becomes involved in Julia's resistance efforts by agreeing to smuggle money into Germany. A longtime political activist, Redgrave had supported and narrated a documentary called The Palestinian , which championed an independent Palestinian state, around this time as well.