Rosemary Harris

Also known as Rosemary Ann Harris

British actress

Person · Open Library

Born: 1923
Works: 42

Top works

Christian appeals from Russia
Zed
Dead Head A Dirty Business Mystery
Slugfest
Beauty and the beast

via Open Library + Wikidata

Film & TV

Acting · Suffolk, England, UK

Rosemary Harris (born September 19, 1927) is a distinguished English actress with a career spanning over seven decades. Renowned for her work in theater, film, and television, she has received numerous accolades, including a Tony Award, an Emmy Award, and a Golden Globe. Harris is perhaps best known to modern audiences for her portrayal of Aunt May in Sam Raimi's Spider-Man trilogy (2002–2007).…

Known for

Oscar Wilde About America2025
The Undoing — Janet Fraser2020
How Holocaust came to Television — Self2019
Search Party — Beatrice2016
The von Trapp Family: A Life of Music — Older Agathe von Trapp2015
This Means War — Nana Foster2012
Radio Free Albemuth — VALIS (voice)

Article

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).