01/30/1937
Greenwich, London, England, UK:
Vanessa Redgrave CBE (born 30 January 1937) is an English actress and political activist. Redgrave rose to prominence in 1961 playing Rosalind in the Shakespeare comedy As You Like It with the Royal Shakespeare Company and has since starred in more than 35 productions in London's West End and on Broadway, winning the 1984 Olivier Award for Best Actress in a Revival for The Aspern Papers, and the 2003 Tony Award for Best Actress in a Play for the revival of Long Day's Journey into Night. She also received Tony nominations for The Year of Magical Thinking and Driving Miss Daisy. On screen she has starred in scores of films and is a six-time Oscar nominee, winning the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress for the title role in the film Julia (1977). Her other nominations were for Morgan: A Suitable Case for Treatment (1966), Isadora (1968), Mary, Queen of Scots (1971), The Bostonians (1984), and Howards End (1992). Among her other films are A Man for All Seasons (1966), Blowup (1966), Camelot (1967), The Devils (1971), Murder on the Orient Express (1974), Prick Up Your Ears (1987), Mission: Impossible (1996), Atonement (2007), Coriolanus (2011), and The Butler (2013). Redgrave was proclaimed by Arthur Miller and Tennessee Williams as "the greatest living actress of our times", and has won the Oscar, Emmy, Tony, BAFTA, Olivier, Cannes, Golden Globe, and the Screen Actors Guild awards.
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Cold Storage (2026) as Ma Rooney |
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The Estate (2025) as |
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Common Wealth (2025) as Self |
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Merchant Ivory (2024) as Self |
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On Our Way (2023) as |
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The Ghost of Richard Harris (2022) as Self |
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The Lost Girls (2022) as Great Nana |
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Alice, Through the Looking (2021) as Narrator |
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Alida (2021) as Self |
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Finding You (2021) as Cathleen Sweeney |
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Katherine Jenkins Christmas Spectacular (2020) as Self |
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Entree Des Artists (2020) as Henry's Grandmother |
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Mrs Lowry & Son (2019) as Elizabeth Lowry |
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Georgetown (2019) as Elsa Brecht |
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The Aspern Papers (2019) as Juliana Bordereau |
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Nothing Like a Dame (2018) as Self (archive footage) |
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Film Stars Don't Die in Liverpool (2017) as Jeanne McDougall |
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Sea Sorrow (2017) as Self |
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Joan Didion: The Center Will Not Hold (2017) as Self |
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The Secret Scripture (2017) as Old Roseanne McNulty |
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Electric Burma: The Concert for Aung San Suu Kyi - Words I Never Said (2016) as Self |
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Almeida Theatre Live: Richard III (2016) as Queen Margaret |
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The Go-Between (2015) as Older Marian |
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Foxcatcher (2014) as Jean du Pont |
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The Wound and the Gift (2014) as |
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The Thirteenth Tale (2013) as Vida Winter |
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The Butler (2013) as Annabeth Westfall |
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The Last Will and Testament of Rosalind Leigh (2012) as Rosalind Leigh |
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Last Will. & Testament (2012) as |
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Song for Marion (2012) as Marion |
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Anonymous (2011) as Queen Elizabeth I |
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Cars 2 (2011) as The Queen / Mama Topolino (voice) |
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Coriolanus (2011) as Volumnia |
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Robinson in Ruins (2010) as Narrator |
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Miral (2010) as Bertha Spafford |
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The Whistleblower (2010) as Madeleine Rees |
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Letters to Juliet (2010) as Claire |
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Gud, lukt och henne (2009) as |
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Ein Job (2008) as Hannah Silbergrau |
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Restraint (2008) as Sky News Reader #2 |
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How About You... (2007) as Georgia Platts |
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The Shell Seekers (2007) as Penelope Keeling |
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The Riddle (2007) as Roberta Elliot |
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The Fever (2007) as The woman |
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Evening (2007) as Ann Lord |
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Atonement (2007) as Briony Tallis (Age 77) |
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Dealing and Wheeling in Small Arms (2007) as Narrator |
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Venus (2006) as Valerie |
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Eugene O’Neill: A Documentary Film (2006) as Self |
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The Thief Lord (2006) as Sister Antonia |
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The White Countess (2005) as Princess Vera Belinskya |
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Elio Petri... appunti su un autore (2005) as Self |
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The Keeper: The Legend of Omar Khayyam (2005) as Miss Sangorski |
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Short Order (2005) as Marianne |
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Merci Docteur Rey (2004) as herself |
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Good Boy! (2003) as The Greater Dane (voice) |
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Byron (2003) as Lady Melbourne |
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The Locket (2002) as Esther Huish |
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Hell on Earth: The Desecration & Resurrection of The Devils (2002) as Self |
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Searching for Debra Winger (2002) as Self |
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Crime and Punishment (2002) as Rodion's mother |
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The Gathering Storm (2002) as Clemmie Churchill |
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Escape to Life: The Erika and Klaus Mann Story (2001) as (voice) |
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The Pledge (2001) as Annalise Hansen |
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A Rumor of Angels (2000) as Maddy Bennett |
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The Adventures of Young Indiana Jones: Love's Sweet Song (2000) as Vicky's Mother |
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Uninvited (2000) as Mrs. Rutterburn |
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Mirka (2000) as Kalsan |
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1961 (2000) as Edith Tree |
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If These Walls Could Talk 2 (2000) as Edith Tree |
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Büyükada'da Sürgün (2000) as Narrator |
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Girl, Interrupted (1999) as Dr. Wick |
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Cradle Will Rock (1999) as Countess Constance La Grave |
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Lulu on the Bridge (1998) as Catherine Moore |
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Deep Impact (1998) as Robin Lerner |
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Déjà Vu (1998) as Skelly |
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Bella Mafia (1997) as Graziella Luciano |
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Behind the Mask : The IRA and Sinn Fein (1997) as Self |
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Mrs. Dalloway (1997) as Mrs. Clarissa Dalloway |
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Wilde (1997) as Lady Speranza Wilde |
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Michael Redgrave: My Father (1997) as Self |
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Smilla's Sense of Snow (1997) as Elsa Lübing |
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The Willows in Winter (1996) as Grandmother / Narrator |
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Looking for Richard (1996) as Self - Interviewee |
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Two Mothers for Zachary (1996) as Nancy Shaffell |
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Mission: Impossible (1996) as Max |
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The Wind in the Willows (1995) as Grandmother / Narrator |
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Down Came a Blackbird (1995) as Anna Lenke |
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A Month by the Lake (1995) as Miss Bentley |
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Little Odessa (1994) as Irina Shapira |
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Great Moments in Aviation (1994) as Dr. Angela Bead |
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Storia di una capinera (1994) as Suor Agata |
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They (1993) as Florence Latimer |
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The House of the Spirits (1993) as Nivea del Valle |
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Mother's Boys (1993) as Lydia |
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Un muro de silencio (1993) as Kate Benson |
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Howards End (1992) as Ruth Wilcox |
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The Ballad of the Sad Cafe (1991) as Miss Amelia |
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What Ever Happened to Baby Jane? (1991) as Blanche Hudson |
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Diceria dell'untore (1990) as Suor Crocifissa |
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Orpheus Descending (1990) as Lady Torrance |
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Похороны Сталина (1990) as English journalist |
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Romeo.Juliet (1990) as Mother Capulet (voice) |
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A Man for All Seasons (1988) as Lady Alice More |
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Consuming Passions (1988) as Mrs. Garza |
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Comrades (1987) as Mrs. Carlyle |
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Prick Up Your Ears (1987) as Peggy Ramsay |
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Second Serve (1986) as Renee Richards |
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Wetherby (1985) as Jean Travers |
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Steaming (1985) as Nancy |
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Three Sovereigns for Sarah (1985) as Sarah Cloyce |
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Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs (1984) as The Evil Queen |
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The Bostonians (1984) as Olive Chancellor |
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Sing Sing (1983) as la Regina |
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My Body, My Child (1982) as Leenie Cabrezi |
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Playing for Time (1980) as Fania Fenelon |
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The Fifth War (1980) as |
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Bear Island (1979) as Heddi Lindquist |
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Yanks (1979) as Helen |
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Agatha (1979) as Agatha Christie |
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Julia (1977) as Julia |
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The Palestinian (1977) as Self |
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The Seven-Per-Cent Solution (1976) as Lola Deveraux |
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Out of Season (1975) as Ann |
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Murder on the Orient Express (1974) as Mary Debenham |
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Right to Work March (1972) as |
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Mary, Queen of Scots (1971) as Mary, Queen of Scots |
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La Vacanza (1971) as Immacolata Meneghelli |
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The Devils (1971) as Sister Jeanne des Anges |
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The Trojan Women (1971) as Andromache |
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Dropout (1970) as Mary |
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The Body (1970) as Narrator |
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A Mother with Two Children Expecting Her Third (1970) as Herself |
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No Arks (1969) as Narrator |
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Oh! What a Lovely War (1969) as Sylvia Pankhurst |
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The Sea Gull (1968) as Nina |
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Un tranquillo posto di campagna (1968) as Flavia |
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Isadora (1968) as Isadora Duncan |
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Red and Blue (1968) as Jacky |
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The Charge of the Light Brigade (1968) as Mrs Clarissa Morris |
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Red, White, and Zero (1968) as Jacky |
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Camelot (1967) as Guenevere |
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Tonite Let's All Make Love in London (1967) as Self |
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The Sailor from Gibraltar (1967) as Sheila |
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Blow-Up (1966) as Jane |
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A Man for All Seasons (1966) as Anne Boleyn |
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Morgan: A Suitable Case for Treatment (1966) as Leonie Delt |
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Maggie (1964) as Maggie |
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As You Like It (1963) as Rosalind |
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A Sunday in September (1961) as Self |
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Circus at Clopton Hall (1961) as Narrator |
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Behind the Mask (1958) as Pamela Benson-Gray |
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All That I Am () as |
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The Boy at the Back of the Class () as Queen |
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The Crystal Planet () as The Matriarch (voice) |
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The Estate (2025) Executive Producer |
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Sea Sorrow (2017) Director |
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Sea Sorrow (2017) Screenplay |
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The Fever (2007) Executive Producer |
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Occupied Palestine (1981) Producer |
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The Palestinian (1977) Producer |