Rosalind Russell
Acting
Born 1907-06-04
Died 1976-11-28
Waterbury, Connecticut, USA
84 credits
Golden Globe Awards 5
Tony Awards 1
star on Hollywood Walk of Fame 1
Screen Actors Guild Life Achievement Award 1
Connecticut Women's Hall of Fame 1
Jean Hersholt Humanitarian Award 1
Awards
Nominated for 4 Academy Awards
Academy Awards 4 nominated
- 1959 Best Actress Nominated Auntie Mame
- 1948 Best Actress Nominated Mourning Becomes Electra
- 1947 Best Actress Nominated Sister Kenny
- 1943 Best Actress Nominated My Sister Eileen
Golden Globe Awards 5 won
- 1963 Best Actress in a Motion Picture – Musical or Comedy Won Gypsy
- 1962 Best Actress in a Motion Picture – Musical or Comedy Won A Majority of One
- 1959 Best Actress in a Motion Picture – Musical or Comedy Won Auntie Mame
- 1948 Best Actress – Motion Picture Drama Won Mourning Becomes Electra
- 1947 Best Actress – Motion Picture Drama Won Sister Kenny
Tony Awards 1 won · 1 nominated
- 1957 Best Actress in a Play Nominated
- 1953 Best Actress in a Musical Won Wonderful Town
star on Hollywood Walk of Fame 1 won
- — star on Hollywood Walk of Fame Won
Screen Actors Guild Life Achievement Award 1 won
- — Screen Actors Guild Life Achievement Award Won
Connecticut Women's Hall of Fame 1 won
- 2005 Connecticut Women's Hall of Fame Won
Jean Hersholt Humanitarian Award 1 won
- 1973 Jean Hersholt Humanitarian Award Won
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Catherine Rosalind Russell (June 4, 1907 – November 28, 1976) was an American actress of stage and screen, perhaps best known for her role as a fast-talking newspaper reporter in the Howard Hawks screwball comedy His Girl Friday, as well as the role of Mame Dennis in the film Auntie Mame. She won all 5 Golden Globes for which she was nominated, and was tied with Meryl Streep for wins until 2007 when Streep was awarded a sixth. Russell won a Tony Award in 1953 for Best Performance by an Actress in a Musical for her portrayal of Ruth in the Broadway show Wonderful Town (a musical based the film My Sister Eileen, in which she also starred).
Russell was known for playing character roles, exceptionally wealthy, dignified ladylike women. She had a wide career span from the 1930s to the 1970s and attributed her long career to the fact that, although usually playing classy and glamorous roles, she never became a sex symbol, not being famous for her looks.
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Acting
58 credits
The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson
The Mike Douglas Show
What's My Line?
The Oscars
The Ed Sullivan Show
Startime
The American Film Institute Salute to ...
His Girl Friday
Letter to Loretta
Auntie Mame
The Women
Picnic
Gypsy
That's Entertainment! III
Evelyn Prentice
The Trouble with Angels
General Electric Theater
My Sister Eileen
China Seas
The Citadel
The Fabulous Allan Carr
Sister Kenny
Tell It to the Judge
Reckless
West Point of the Air
James Stewart: A Wonderful Life
Forsaking All Others
The Twilight Zone: Rod Serling's Lost Classics
Rendezvous
Breakdowns of 1941
Hollywood: Style Center of the World
Breakdowns of 1938
Craig's Wife
She Wouldn't Say Yes
Live, Love and Learn
A New Romance of Celluloid: The Miracle of Sound
Night Must Fall
The Romance of Celluloid
Mourning Becomes Electra
The Velvet Touch
Never Wave at a WAC
What a Woman
No Time for Comedy
A Woman of Distinction
Under Two Flags
Where Angels Go, Trouble Follows
This Thing Called Love
From the Ends of the Earth
The President Vanishes
They Met in Bombay
The Guilt of Janet Ames
Mrs. Pollifax — Spy
Breakdowns of 1944
Flight for Freedom
The Crooked Hearts
Four's a Crowd
Man-Proof
Trouble for Two
Writing
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