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Rosemary Harris

Rosemary Harris
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Harris at the 2007 Spider-Man 3 premiere in Queens, New York
Born Rosemary Ann Harris
(1927-09-19) 19 September 1927 (age 89)
Ashby-de-la-Zouch, Leicestershire, UK
Nationality British
Occupation Actress
Years active 1948–present
Spouse(s) Ellis Rabb (m. 1959; div. 1967)
John Ehle (m. 1967)
Children Jennifer Ehle

Rosemary Ann Harris (born 19 September 1927) is an English actress best known for her role as Aunt May in the Sam Raimi Spider-Man trilogy. She is a 1986 American Theatre Hall of Fame inductee.

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 1966 for The Lion in Winter. On television, she won an Emmy Award for the 1974 TV serial Notorious Woman, and a Golden Globe for the 1978 miniseries Holocaust. For the 1994 film Tom & Viv, she received a Best Supporting Actress Academy Award nomination. She is the mother of actress Jennifer Ehle.

Harris was born in Ashby-de-la-Zouch, Leicestershire, the daughter of Enid Maude Frances (née Campion) and Stafford Berkely Harris. One of her grandmothers, born into a family of boyars in Muntenia, was Romanian. Her father was in the Royal Air Force and as a result, Harris' family lived in India during her childhood. She attended convent schools, and later studied at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art from 1951 to 1952.


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