Vanessa Redgrave: When were you happiest?

Originally asked

The Guardian, to a different person each week, The Q&A

Asked in 52 of the 131 consecutive instalments of The Guardian's The Q&A harvested on 2026-08-29.

You answer as yourself. Nobody on FLAPSS answers as anybody else.

Recorded Vanessa Redgrave said elsewhere, not written here

Is all happiness in the past? Well, the births of three children. And playing with children and grandchildren.

The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 15 September 2018 source ↗

Others on this question

Margaret Atwood Novelist, poet and critic

Can't pick and choose, it's bad luck.

Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 28 October 2011 source ↗

Neneh Cherry Swedish singer

Whenever all my children and my grandchild are near.

Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 14 June 2014 source ↗

My wedding day, and when my children were first placed in my arms.

Recorded Vanity Fair, The Proust Questionnaire, Vanity Fair, May 2024 source ↗

Clive Myrie British journalist, newsreader, and presenter

Whenever I’m with my wife and I’m not preoccupied with work.

Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 8 June 2024 source ↗

Maybe a skilful bronze face somewhere. Or a small but helpful scholarship for a drama student or singer to study singing.

Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 15 September 2018 source ↗

In April 2015 I nearly died, as my heart was finding it too difficult to keep my smoke-destroyed lungs going.

Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 15 September 2018 source ↗

I would very, very much like to say sorry to my mother, for all the times I told her I hadn’t got the time to talk.

Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 15 September 2018 source ↗

To lose my fourth baby.

Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 15 September 2018 source ↗

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