Rosemary Harris Biography (3)

Rosemary Harris received an Academy Award nomination for her performance in 1994's Tom and Viv opposite Willem Dafoe, and she was recently seen in the critically acclaimed Sunshine with Ralph Fiennes as the widowed matriarch Valerie. In the film, the younger incarnation of the character is played by Harris' own daughter, actress Jennifer Ehle. Harris was seen in the supernatural thriller The Gift for director Sam Raimi.

Harris made her feature film debut in 1954 opposite Elizabeth Taylor, Stewart Granger and Peter Ustinov in the classic Beau Brummell, and she has appeared in such films as The Boys From Brazil, Crossing Delancey, director Kenneth Branagh's Hamlet and My Life So Far.

Harris' television work includes The Holocaust, in which she received a Golden Globe, Notorious Woman—The Life of George Sand, for which she received an Emmy, and The Camomile Lawn. She made her stage debut with Moss Hart's Climate of Eden on Broadway. Her other theatre credits include The Seven Year Itch in London, and on Broadway, she starred inThe Lion in Winter winning the Tony Award, The Royal Family, Old Times, Lost in Yonkers, Pack of Lies, A Delicate Balance, and Noel Coward's Hay Fever and Waiting in the Wings opposite Lauren Bacall. Harris' classical work at the Old Vic and the Royal National Theatre includes roles as Cressida, Desdemona, Ophelia and Ilyena in Uncle Vanya, with Laurence Olivier and Michael Redgrave.

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