The Redgrave family are one of cinema's acting dynasties that have bee gracing our screen since the silent era of movies.
And Vanessa Redgrave is back on the big screen this week with her latest movie Letters to Juliet, which sees her star alongside Amanda Seyfried.
The daughter of Sir Michael Redgrave, Vanessa was to carry on the Redgrave's acting reputation, she is also the most successful scooping an Academy Awards, Golden Globe, Emmy, Tony and Olivier Awards.
The actress, who's birth was announced at the Old Vic by actor Laurence Olivier made her West End debut in 1958 before landing her first starring role two years later in The Tiger and the Horse.
While she is known for her movie work she had enjoyed huge success and critical acclaim treading the boards in both the West End and Broadway.
She has won Best Actress Evening Standard Awards in four decades and also picked up the Laurence Olivier Award for Actress of the Year in 1984 for her performance in The Aspern Papers.
A Tony award came her way in 2003 for Long Day's Journey Into Night, a revival of the Eugene O'Neill play and she was nominated again in 2007 for her role in The Year of Magical Thinking.
As well as a enviable theatre CV she has also found success on the big screen as she made her big screen debut in Behind the Mask, which also starred her father, in 1958.
And it wasn't long before he was catching the attention of audiences, critics and peers as she landed her first Oscar nomination in 1966 for her role in Morgan: A Suitable Case For Treatment, losing out to Elizabeth Taylor.
She did however win the Best Actress Award at the Cannes Film Festival for her performance
And the Oscar nominations came thick and fast as she picked up nods for Isadora in 1968 and Queen of Scots in 1971, also missing out on the Golden Globe on both occasions.
She finally got her hand on the Oscar in 1977 when she won for Julia. She has picked up two other nominations in her career for The Bostonians in 1984 and Howards End in 1992.
In more recent years the actress has continued to mix theatre role with movies but she branched out even further in TV, appearing in the likes of Nip/Tuck and BBC two part series The Day of the Triffids.
Her most prominent screen role of recent years came in 2007 when she played the older Briony Tallis in Joe Wright's adaptation of Ian McEwan's Atonement.
The movie, which also starred Keira Knightley and James McAvoy, was a huge critical success when it was released and went on to be nominated for Best Picture at the Oscars.
Letters To Juliet is her first movie since How About You back in 2008. The movie follows a young American who travels to the city of Verona, home of the star-crossed lover Juliet Capulet of Romeo and Juliet fame, she joins a group of volunteers who respond to letters to Juliet seeking advice about love.
After answering one letter dated 1951, she inspires its author to travel to Italy in search of her long-lost love and sets off a chain of events that will bring a love into both their lives unlike anything they ever imagined.
And there is plenty in the pipeline for the actress with The Whistleblower, which also stars Rachel Weisz, and Coriolanus, the directorial debut of Ralph Fiennes, on the horizon.
Letters To Juliet is released 9th June
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