Actor: Vanessa Redgrave

Vanessa Redgrave won Best Supporting Actress for Julia and used the acceptance speech to condemn what she called Zionist hoodlums, which caused an enormous and lasting controversy.

She has been nominated six times and is regarded as among the finest classical actors of her generation, with Isadora, Howards End and Atonement across a sixty-year film career.

She comes from an acting family spanning four generations and has been a lifelong political activist, which has repeatedly cost her work.