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Rosemary Ann Harris (born September 19, 1930) is a Tony Award-winning and Academy Award-nominated English actress and a member of the American Theatre Hall of Fame.
Harris was born in Ashby, Suffolk, England to Enid Maude Frances (Campion) and Stafford Berkley Harris. Her grandmother, Bertha, 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.

Early in her acting career, she gained experience in English repertory theatre (In 1948, she acted in Kiss and Tell at Eastbourne with Tilsa Page and John Clark) before training at RADA. She first appeared in New York in 1951 in Moss Hart`s Climate of Eden, and then returned to England for her West End debut in The Seven Year Itch which ran for a year at the Aldwich. She then entered a classical acting period in productions with the Bristol Old Vic and then the Old Vic.

Her first film followed, Beau Brummel with Stewart Granger and Elizabeth Taylor, and then a touring season with The Old Vic brought her back to Broadway in Tyrone Guthrie`s production of Troilus and Cressida. She met Ellis Rabb who had plans to start his own producing company on Broadway. By 1959, the Association of Producing Artist (APA) was established, and she and Rabb were married in December of that year. Over the next two years their energies were combined into making the APA a ten year success. In 1962, she returned to England and Laurence Olivier`s Chichester Festival Theatre, and in 1964 again, when she was Ophelia to Peter O`Tooles`s Hamlet, for the inaugural production of the new Royal National Theatre of Great Britain.

Returning to New York, she worked further with the APA, and then was cast as Eleanor of Aquitaine in The Lion in Winter, a performance that garnered her a Tony Award in 1966. Rabb directed her one last time as Natasha in War and Peace in 1967, the same year they agreed to divorce. And a little while later, Harris married again to the American writer John Ehle. They settled in the countryside of Winston-Salem, North Carolina, and it was there that their daughter Jennifer was born. Jennifer Ehle followed in her mother`s footsteps by becoming a noted film, television and Broadway actress.