Rosemary Harris

Rosemary Harris

1927-09-19 Suffolk, England, UK 43 Credits

Biography

Rosemary Harris (born September 19, 1927) is a distinguished English actress with a career spanning over seven decades. Renowned for her work in theater, film, and television, she has received numerous accolades, including a Tony Award, an Emmy Award, and a Golden Globe. Harris is perhaps best known to modern audiences for her portrayal of Aunt May in Sam Raimi's Spider-Man trilogy (2002–2007). Her illustrious stage career includes a Tony Award for Best Actress for her role as Eleanor of Aquita...

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Oscar Wilde About America

Oscar Wilde About America

2025

Acting

This big-hearted romp from New York City to Hollywood, CA leads Oscar to the queer joy, love, and liberation that eluded him 141 years ago, with the a...

Spider-Man: All Roads Lead to No Way Home

Spider-Man: All Roads Lead to No Way Home

2022

as Self (archive footage)

6.8
Acting

JB Smoove and Martin Starr host a celebration of 20 years of "Spider-Man" movies, from the Sam Raimi trilogy to Marc Webb's movies and the trio from J...

How Holocaust came to Television

How Holocaust came to Television

2019

as Self

Acting

At the beginning of 1979, after more than 30 years of collective repression, a dramatized and emotional US television miniseries ensured that the Germ...

Broadway: The Next Generation

Broadway: The Next Generation

2017

as Self

10.0
Acting

A look at the past, present and future of the Great White Way.

The von Trapp Family: A Life of Music

The von Trapp Family: A Life of Music

2015

as Older Agathe von Trapp

5.9
Acting

Agathe von Trapp, the eldest daughter of a well-known musical family, overcomes many obstacles to pursue her musical career and move to the United Sta...

This Means War

This Means War

2012

as Nana Foster

6.2
Acting

Two top CIA operatives wage an epic battle against one another after they discover they are dating the same woman.

Radio Free Albemuth

Radio Free Albemuth

2010

as VALIS (voice)

5.4
Acting

Record store clerk Nick Brady begins to experience strange visions from an entity he calls VALIS that cause him to uproot his family and move to Los A...

The Fall

The Fall

2009

as a reporter

4.0
Acting

Two brothers are forced to confront a terrible crime that was hidden in their past.

Is Anybody There?

Is Anybody There?

2009

as Elsie

6.2
Acting

A young boy who lives in an old folks' home strikes up a friendship with a retired magician.

The Monday Before Thanksgiving

2008

as Lillian Cotlo

4.0
Acting

On the Monday before Thanksgiving, the anniversary of her mother's death, Theresa reflects on the choices she's made and how comfortable she really is...

Before the Devil Knows You're Dead

Before the Devil Knows You're Dead

2007

as Nanette Hanson

7.1
Acting

When two brothers organize the robbery of their parents' jewelry store, the job goes horribly wrong, triggering a series of events that send them and ...

Spider-Man 3

Spider-Man 3

2007

as May Parker

6.4
Acting

The seemingly invincible Spider-Man goes up against an all-new crop of villains—including the shape-shifting Sandman. While Spider-Man’s superpowers a...

Belonging

Belonging

2004

as May Copplestone

5.6
Acting

Jess (Brenda Blethyn) and town handyman Jacob (Kevin Whately) have been happily married 20 years, recently taking in a trio of Jacob's elderly relativ...

Being Julia

Being Julia

2004

as Julia's Mother

6.5
Acting

Julia Lambert is a true diva: beautiful, talented, weathly and famous. She has it all - including a devoted husband who has mastermined her brilliant...

Spider-Man 2

Spider-Man 2

2004

as May Parker

7.3
Acting

Peter Parker is going through a major identity crisis. Burned out from being Spider-Man, he decides to shelve his superhero alter ego, which leaves th...

Broadway: The Golden Age, by the Legends Who Were There

Broadway: The Golden Age, by the Legends Who Were There

2003

as Self

7.0
Acting

Broadway: The Golden Age is the most important, ambitious and comprehensive film ever made about America's most celebrated indigenous art form. Award...

Spider-Man

Spider-Man

2002

as May Parker

7.3
Acting

After being bitten by a genetically altered spider at Oscorp, nerdy but endearing high school student Peter Parker is endowed with amazing powers to b...

Behind the Ultimate Spin: The Making of 'Spider-Man'

Behind the Ultimate Spin: The Making of 'Spider-Man'

2002

as Self

5.0
Acting

Documentary on the making of 'Spider-Man.'

Blow Dry

Blow Dry

2001

as Daisy

5.9
Acting

The annual British Hairdressing Championship comes to Keighley, a town where Phil and son Brian run a barbershop and Phil's ex-wife Shelly and her lov...

The Gift

The Gift

2000

as Annie's Granny

6.5
Acting

Annie Wilson, young widow and mother of three, makes her living foretelling others' futures⁠—though her own has become cloudier than even she can see....

Sunshine

Sunshine

1999

as Valerie Sors

6.5
Acting

The fate of a Hungarian Jewish family throughout the 20th century.

My Life So Far

My Life So Far

1999

as Gamma MacIntosh

5.7
Acting

A memoir of the lives of a family growing up on a post World War I British estate headed up by a strong disciplinarian, her daughter, her inventor hus...

Hamlet

Hamlet

1996

as Player Queen

7.3
Acting

Hamlet, Prince of Denmark, returns home to find his father murdered and his mother now marrying the murderer... his uncle. Meanwhile, war is brewing.

Looking for Richard

Looking for Richard

1996

as Self - Interviewee

6.8
Acting

Al Pacino's deeply-felt rumination on Shakespeare's significance and relevance to the modern world through interviews and an in-depth analysis of "Ric...

The Little Riders

1996

as Grandma Roden

Acting

Young American Joanne Hunter is stranded in the German-occupied Holland with her Dutch grandparents. The German CO, Captain Kessel begins to wage war ...

Death of a Salesman

Death of a Salesman

1996

as Linda

6.5
Acting

Willy Loman is an over-the-hill salesman who faces a personal turning point when he loses his job and attempts to make peace with his family: Willy's ...

A Summer Day's Dream

1994

Acting

Adaptation of the play by J B Priestley. After a nuclear war, the nations have combined to set up a World Government. An old man who lives quietly in ...

Tom & Viv

Tom & Viv

1994

as Rose Haigh-Wood

6.1
Acting

The story of the marriage of the poet T. S. Eliot to socialite Vivienne Haigh-Wood, which had to cope with her gynaecological and emotional problems a...

The Bridge

The Bridge

1992

as Aunt Jude

4.5
Acting

When Isobel Hetherington and her three young daughters take up their seaside residence in the hot summer of 1887, life seems idyllic. But the arrival ...

Crossing Delancey

Crossing Delancey

1988

as Pauline Swift

5.9
Acting

Thirty-something Isabelle spends her time going from her tiny, solitary West Side apartment to that of her grandmother on the Lower East Side. While h...

Strange Interlude

Strange Interlude

1988

as Mrs. Amos Evans

5.0
Acting

Adaptation of an experimental play in nine acts by American playwright Eugene O'Neill. Strange Interlude makes extensive use of a soliloquy technique,...

The Ploughman's Lunch

The Ploughman's Lunch

1983

as Ann Barrington

5.1
Acting

As the UK begins its military engagement in the Falklands, a BBC news journalist attempts to climb up from his working-class roots, at any cost, lying...

To the Lighthouse

To the Lighthouse

1983

as Mrs. Ramsay

5.4
Acting

A faithful dramatization of Virginia Woolf's novel. A lecturer, his family, the spinster Aunt Lily, an old friend, and a student, Charles Tansley, spe...

The Boys from Brazil

The Boys from Brazil

1978

as Mrs. Doring

6.7
Acting

Nazi hunter Ezra Lieberman discovers a sinister and bizarre plot to rekindle the Third Reich.

The Royal Family

The Royal Family

1977

as Julie Cavendish

8.0
Acting

George S. Kaufman and Edna Ferber collaborated on this 1927 hit comedy about an eminent and slightly eccentric theatrical clan. A Barrymore-like brood...

A Flea in Her Ear

A Flea in Her Ear

1968

as Gabrielle Chandebisse

6.2
Acting

Suspecting that her husband might be having an affair, a wife plots to catch him in the act.

Blithe Spirit

Blithe Spirit

1966

as Elvira Condomine

Acting

The play concerns the socialite and novelist Charles Condomine, who invites the eccentric medium and clairvoyant, Madame Arcati, to his house to condu...

Uncle Vanya

Uncle Vanya

1963

as Yelena

4.0
Acting

Adaptation of Chekhov's play from the Chichester Festival.

Wuthering Heights

Wuthering Heights

1958

as Catherine Earnshaw

Acting

Mistreated foundling Heathcliff and his stepsister Catherine fall in love, but when she marries a wealthy man, he becomes obsessed with getting reveng...

Twelfth Night

Twelfth Night

1957

as Viola

Acting

Twins Viola and Sebastian are separated by a shipwreck. Viola lands in Illyria, where she disguises herself as a man and enters the service of Duke Or...

The Shiralee

The Shiralee

1957

as Lily Parker

5.1
Acting

An Australian "swagman" finds his wife with another man, so he takes the daughter, Buster, with him. On the road together, going from town to town and...

Othello

Othello

1955

as Desdemona

8.5
Acting

The earliest British televised production in existence of the play Othello, with black American actor, Gordon Heath, in the title role. This was the f...

Beau Brummell

Beau Brummell

1954

as Mrs. Fitzherbert

6.5
Acting

Captain George Bryan Brummell is a British soldier who appreciates fine clothing and innovative dress. Although he initially alienates the Prince of W...