Nominated for Tony Award (Best Performance by a Leading Actress in a Play) for 'Waiting in the Wings'. The award was won by her daughter Jennifer Ehle. [2000]
Her real life daughter, Jennifer Ehle, played the younger version of her character, Valerie, in the film Sunshine (1999).
Lives in Winston-Salem, North Carolina.
Graduated from RADA.
An Associate Member of RADA.
Won Broadway's 1966 Tony Award as Best Actress (Dramatic) for originating the part of Eleanor of Aquitaine in "The Lion in Winter." Subsequently, she has been nominated for seven other Tony Awards: as Best Actress (Dramatic), in 1972 for Harold Pinter's "Old Times," and as Best Actress (Play), in 1976 for a revival of "The Royal Family of Broadway, in 1984 for George Bernard Shaw's "Heartbreak House," in 1985 for "Pack of Lies," in 1986 for a revival of Noel Coward's "Hay Fever," in 1996 for a revival of Edward Albee's :A Delicate Balance," and in 2000 for "Waiting in the Wings." Her nominations three-years-in-a-row (1984-1985-1986) is a record unsurpassed by any other Tony-nominated actor or actress.
Rosemary Harris Detailed Biography
Rosemary Harris (born on September 19, 1927 in Ashby, Suffolk, England) is an Academy Award nominated English actress and a member of the American Theatre Hall of Fame.
Beyond her accomplished Broadway career, she is famous for her film role as May Parker in Spider-Man and Spider-Man 2. She was also nominated for an Academy Award for the film Tom & Viv.
She has been married to American writer John Ehle since 1967 and they have a daughter, U.S.-born actress, Jennifer Ehle.
