Vanessa Redgrave to receive Oscar tribute in London
Story by Jack Foley
VANESSA Redgrave is to receive an Oscar tribute in London this weekend to mark her incredible career.
She will be joined at the star-studded event on Sunday by her Driving Miss Daisy West End co-star James Earl Jones, who will accept an honorary Oscar himself the day before via video link to the Academy’s Governors Awards in Los Angeles.
Jones, who did not want to interrupt his London run in the play to accept the award in person, will instead pay tribute to his esteemed co-star on the Sunday, when the pair will be joined by a number of celebrity friends and guests, including host David Hare, Meryl Streep and Ralph Fiennes, who recently directed her in Coriolanus.
Redgrave, 74, has appeared in more than 80 films, including 1977’s Julia for which she won the best supporting actress Oscar.
In 1987, she also received a BAFTA Actress nomination in the Actress in a Supporting Role for Prick Up Your Ears, while recent work includes the 2002 mini-series The Gathering Storm, for which Vanessa was BAFTA-nominated, Joe Wright’s Atonement and Venus, alongside Peter O’Toole and Leslie Phillips.
She can currently be seen alongside Rhys Ifans in Roland Emmerich’s controversial Shakespeare epic, Anonymous
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