Badger

Relentless, fearless activist who never stops fighting for her cause.

Vanessa Redgrave has spent decades using her platform to champion controversial political causes — from Palestinian rights to refugee welfare — refusing to be silenced even when it cost her professionally, such as her infamous 1978 Oscar speech denouncing 'Zionist hoodlums' that scandalized Hollywood. She combines extraordinary artistic tenacity with an unflinching moral stubbornness, returning again and again to causes others would abandon. Like a badger, she is fiercely determined, impossible to intimidate, and will dig in and hold her ground no matter the opposition.