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Stage and screen star Vanessa Redgrave will receive an Academy Fellowship from the British Academy of Film and Television Arts (BAFTA), according to a Reuters report. Redgrave will receive her fellowship, the highest honor that the organization can convey, on February 21, when the winners of the 2010 BAFTA Awards are announced.
Redgrave won a Tony Award for her performance in the 2003 revival of Long Day’s Journey Into Night, and was Tony-nominated for her work in The Year of Magical Thinking in 2007. Among her other New York stage credits are Orpheus Descending and The Lady From the Sea on Broadway, as well as Antony and Cleopatra, Hecuba, and Vita and Virginia.
The fellowship is being given in honor of the actress’ work on screen over the course of six decades. She won an Academy Award for Julia and received another five Oscar nominations for her work in Morgan: A Suitable Case for Treatment, Isadora, Mary, Queen of Scots, The Bostonians, and Howard’s End. Among her many other screen credits are Camelot, A Man for All Seasons, Prick Up Your Ears, Atonement, and Venus. Redgrave has also won two Emmy Awards for her work in Playing for Time and If These Walls Could Talk 2.
