1. Rosemary Ann Harris was born on 19 September 1927 and is an English actress.
22 Facts About Rosemary Harris
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Rosemary Harris 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.
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Rosemary Harris began her stage career in 1948, before making her Broadway debut in 1952.
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Rosemary Harris was born on 19 September 1927 in Ashby De La Zouch, Leicestershire, the daughter of Enid Maude Frances and Stafford Berkeley Rosemary Harris.
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Rosemary Harris's father was in the Royal Air Force, and as a result, Harris' family lived in India during her early childhood.
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Rosemary Harris attended convent schools, and later studied at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art from 1951 to 1952.
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Rosemary Harris first appeared in New York City in 1951 in Moss Hart's Climate of Eden, and then returned to Britain for her West End debut in The Seven Year Itch which ran for a year at the Aldwych.
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Rosemary Harris then entered a classical acting period in productions with the Bristol Old Vic and then the Old Vic, appearing at the latter as Ophelia in the National Theatre Company's opening production of Hamlet in October 1963, alongside Peter O'Toole in the title role.
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Rosemary Harris met Ellis Rabb who had plans to start his own producing company on Broadway.
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Rosemary Harris reprised her role in the 1963 British film adaptation acting opposite Olivier, Michael Redgrave, and Joan Plowright.
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Rosemary Harris returned to Broadway portraying Megara in Herakles at the Lyceum Theatre.
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Rosemary Harris appeared in an off-Broadway production of George Bernard Shaw's Man and Superman at the Phoenix Theatre.
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Rosemary Harris gained acclaim working further with the APA, and was cast as Eleanor of Aquitaine in The Lion in Winter opposite Robert Preston's Henry II at the Ambassador Theatre.
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Rosemary Harris received praise for the role as well as the Tony Award for Best Actress in a Play.
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Rosemary Harris received Tony Award for Best Actress in a Play nominations for her roles as Anna in Harold Pinter's Old Times and Julie Cavendish in George S Kaufman and Edna Ferber's The Royal Family.
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In 1974, Rosemary Harris starred in the BBC TV serial Notorious Woman, which aired on PBS in the US as part of Masterpiece Theatre.
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Rosemary Harris returned to Broadway acting in Neil Simon's Lost in Yonkers.
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Rosemary Harris returned to Broadway in a revival of Edward Albee's A Delicate Balance for which she received a nomination for the Tony Award for Best Actress in a Play.
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Rosemary Harris acted with Colin Firth, Irene Jacob, Malcolm McDowell, and Kelly Macdonald.
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On 11 September 2018, a week before her 91st birthday, Rosemary Harris took over the role of Mrs Higgins in the Broadway revival of My Fair Lady from Diana Rigg.
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Rosemary Harris recently acted in the HBO limited series The Undoing as a guest actress and had a recurring role in the HBO Max comedy series Search Party.
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Rosemary Harris' archive is part of the performing arts collections at the Harry Ransom Center, which include her scripts, photographs, posters, correspondence, playbills, and other ephemera.