Rosemary Ann Harris (born September 19, 1927) is a Tony Award-winning and Academy Award-nominated English actress and a member of the American Theatre Hall of Fame.
Rosemary Jeanne Harris (born 1923, London) is a British writer of fiction for children.
Harris attended school in Weymouth, and then studied at the Central Saint Martins College of Art and Design, the Chelsea School of Art and the Courtauld Institute. She served in the British Red Cross Nursing Auxiliary Westminster Division during World War II, and has worked as a picture restorer, a reader for Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, and a children's book reviewer for The Times from 1970 to 1973. She won the Carnegie Medal in 1968 for The Moon in the Cloud. This book was the first in a trilogy dealing with a child's adventures in ancient Egypt. The subsequent books were The Shadow on the Sun and The Bright and Morning Star. The book was also the basis for a 1978 episode of the BBC series Jackanory.
(2000) 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.
Her real-life daughter, Jennifer Ehle, played the younger version of her character Valerie in the film Sunshine (1999). She also played the part of young Calypso in "Camomile Lawn, The" (1992) (mini), with her mother taking the role of the older Calypso.
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 Tony nominations three years in a row (1984-1986) are an accomplishment no other actor or actress can claim.
