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...
Known For
Complete Filmography

Oscar Wilde About America
2025
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
2022
as Self (archive footage)
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
2019
as Self
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
2017
as Self
A look at the past, present and future of the Great White Way.

The von Trapp Family: A Life of Music
2015
as Older Agathe von Trapp
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
2012
as Nana Foster
Two top CIA operatives wage an epic battle against one another after they discover they are dating the same woman.

Radio Free Albemuth
2010
as VALIS (voice)
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
2009
as a reporter
Two brothers are forced to confront a terrible crime that was hidden in their past.

Is Anybody There?
2009
as Elsie
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
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
2007
as Nanette Hanson
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
2007
as May Parker
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
2004
as May Copplestone
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
2004
as Julia's Mother
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
2004
as May Parker
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
2003
as Self
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
2002
as May Parker
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'
2002
as Self
Documentary on the making of 'Spider-Man.'

Blow Dry
2001
as Daisy
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
2000
as Annie's Granny
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
1999
as Valerie Sors
The fate of a Hungarian Jewish family throughout the 20th century.

My Life So Far
1999
as Gamma MacIntosh
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
1996
as Player Queen
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
1996
as Self - Interviewee
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
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
1996
as Linda
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
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
1994
as Rose Haigh-Wood
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
1992
as Aunt Jude
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
1988
as Pauline Swift
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
1988
as Mrs. Amos Evans
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
1983
as Ann Barrington
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
1983
as Mrs. Ramsay
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
1978
as Mrs. Doring
Nazi hunter Ezra Lieberman discovers a sinister and bizarre plot to rekindle the Third Reich.

The Royal Family
1977
as Julie Cavendish
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
1968
as Gabrielle Chandebisse
Suspecting that her husband might be having an affair, a wife plots to catch him in the act.

Blithe Spirit
1966
as Elvira Condomine
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
1963
as Yelena
Adaptation of Chekhov's play from the Chichester Festival.

Wuthering Heights
1958
as Catherine Earnshaw
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
1957
as Viola
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
1957
as Lily Parker
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
1955
as Desdemona
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
1954
as Mrs. Fitzherbert
Captain George Bryan Brummell is a British soldier who appreciates fine clothing and innovative dress. Although he initially alienates the Prince of W...