Vanessa Redgrave

The New York Times called this one of the three collaborators' best films as well as one of the best adaptations of a major literary work ever to come onto the screen. This film...

She had decided while at school that she was going to be an actress. In Stratford both she and Clive Swift acted with the Royal Shakespeare Company under Peter Hall , who was setting out...

By the 1950s she was well-known, had branched out into the new medium of television, and was taking on roles of increased size and importance: for instance, on stage, the medium Madame Arcati in Noel Coward

Macmillan recognised the exceptional appeal of this novel with a print-run of 15,150, more than twice that of Spark's previous novel. Its appearance was followed by another massive row with the firm in the person...

SD was arrested (along with John Osborne and Vanessa Redgrave ) when she took part in an anti-nuclear demonstration at Trafalgar Square with the Committee of 100 .

The stage presented Vanessa Redgrave as US President's wife Laura Bushseated graciously at an Iraqi children's play group. Only the children were all dead. The visitor asked each child: And how did you die...

Set in the late 1950s, the story features five characters, whose lives connect for seven days as they journey by boat from the Caribbean to England. It is a mystery and a love story...