This article is about the British actress. For the author of children's fiction, see Rosemary Harris (writer).
British actress (born 1927)
Rosemary Harris
Harris in 2007
Born
Rosemary Ann Harris
(1927-09-19) 19 September 1927 (age 96)
Ashby, Suffolk, England
Years active
1948–present
Spouses
Ellis Rabb
(m. 1959; div. 1967)
John Ehle
(m. 1967; died 2018)
Children
Jennifer Ehle
Rosemary Ann Harris (born 19 September 1927) is an English actress. She is the recipient of an Emmy Award, a Golden Globe Award, and a Tony Award as well as nominations for an Academy Award, a BAFTA Award, and three Laurence Olivier Awards. Harris was inducted into the American Theater Hall of Fame in 1986, and she won the Tony Award for Lifetime Achievement in the Theatre in 2017.
Harris began her stage career in 1948, before making her Broadway debut in 1952. For her New York stage work, she is a four-time Drama Desk Award winner and nine-time Tony Award nominee, winning the Tony Award for Best Actress in a Play in for portraying Eleanor of Aquitaine in The Lion in Winter (1966). Her other Tony-nominated roles were in Old Times (1972), The Royal Family (1976), Heartbreak House (1984), Pack of Lies (1985), Hay Fever (1986), A Delicate Balance (1996), Waiting in the Wings (2000), and The Royal Family (2010).
She won the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actress in a Limited Series or Movie for her portrayal of George Sand in the BBC serial Notorious Woman (1976), and the Golden Globe Award for Best Actress – Television Series Drama for playing Berta Palitz Weiss in the miniseries Holocaust (1978). For her performance in the historical drama film Tom & Viv (1994) she was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress. Harris is also known for her portrayal of May Parker, the paternal aunt of Peter Parker in Sam Raimi's Spider-Man (2002), Spider-Man 2 (2004), and Spider-Man 3 (2007).
Rosemary Ann Harris (born 19 September 1927) is an English actress. She is the recipient of an Emmy Award, a Golden Globe Award, and a Tony Award as well...
Ehle was born in Winston-Salem, North Carolina, to English actress RosemaryHarris and American author John Ehle. Her ancestry includes Romanian (from...
work included a 1973 production of A Streetcar Named Desire, starring RosemaryHarris (to whom he was married from 1959 to 1967), James Farentino, and Patricia...
Rachel Griffiths, Rachael Leigh Cook, Josh Hartnett, Bill Nighy, RosemaryHarris, and Heidi Klum. Shelley Allen operates a hairdressing shop in Keighley...
performances from Reizl Bozyk, David Hyde-Pierce, Sylvia Miles and RosemaryHarris. Amy Irving was nominated for a Golden Globe for the film, for Best...
serial based on the life of the French author George Sand. It starred RosemaryHarris in the title role. The seven episodes were written by Harry W. Junkin...
De La Mare (Faber, 1970) The Child in the Bamboo Grove, written by RosemaryHarris (Faber, 1971) Cinderella, adapted from Charles Perrault (Faber, 1972)...
Freddy, and Linda Mugleston as Mrs. Pearce. Replacements included RosemaryHarris as Mrs. Higgins, Laura Benanti as Eliza, and Danny Burstein, then Alexander...
Spider-Man, often playing a supporting role. May was portrayed by RosemaryHarris in Sam Raimi's Spider-Man trilogy, Sally Field in Marc Webb's The Amazing...
the Ambassador Theatre on March 3, 1966, starring Robert Preston and RosemaryHarris, who won a Tony Award for her portrayal of Eleanor. It was adapted...
attendees. The non-competitive Special Tony Award was presented to RosemaryHarris, Terrence McNally and Harold Wheeler for Lifetime Achievement in the...
1916. The marriage produced three children: Anthony, Marigold and Rosemary. Harris divorced his first wife in 1935 and subsequently met Therese ('Jillie')...
Norman). The family is headed by the maternal grandmother MacIntosh (RosemaryHarris), affectionately known as "Gamma", whose decisions are to be obeyed...
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