Rosemary Harris
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Harris at the 2007 Spider-Man 3 premiere in Queens, New York
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| Born |
Rosemary Ann Harris 19 September 1927 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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