Rosalind Russell

Personal Info

Know For

Acting

Gender

Female

Birthday

1907-06-04 (69 years old)

Deathday

1976-11-28

Place of Birth

Waterbury, Connecticut, USA

Rosalind Russell

Biography

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 k...

Acting

1940

His Girl Friday

as Hildy Johnson

2017

Lighting Up with Hildy Johnson

as Self (archive footage)

2006

On Assignment: 'His Girl Friday'

as Self (archive footage)

1939

The Women

as Sylvia Fowler

1972

The Crooked Hearts

as Laurita Dorsey

1942

My Sister Eileen

as Ruth Sherwood

1948

The Velvet Touch

as Valerie Stanton

1947

1958

Auntie Mame

as Mame Dennis

1966

The Trouble with Angels

as Mother Superior

1938

Four's a Crowd

as Jean Christy

1962

Gypsy

as Rose Hovick

1955

Picnic

as Rosemary - The School Teacher

1946

Sister Kenny

as Elizabeth Kenny

1935

Reckless

as Josephine 'Jo' Mercer

1968

1935

China Seas

as Sybil Barclay

1947

Mourning Becomes Electra

as Lavinia Mannon

1935

Rendezvous

as Joel Carter

1934

Evelyn Prentice

as Mrs. Nancy Harrison

1938

The Citadel

as Christine Manson

1936

Under Two Flags

as Lady Venetia Cunningham

1937

Night Must Fall

as Olivia Grayne

1941

The Feminine Touch

as Julie Hathaway

1941

Design for Scandal

as Judge Cornelia C. Porter

1941

They Met in Bombay

as Anya Von Duren

1940

Hired Wife

as Kendal Browning

1942

Take a Letter, Darling

as A.M. MacGregor

1945

She Wouldn't Say Yes

as Dr. Susan A. Lane

1953

Never Wave at a WAC

as Josephine "Jo" McBain

1936

Craig's Wife

as Harriet Craig

1935

West Point of the Air

as Dare Marshall

1934

1950

A Woman of Distinction

as Susan Manning Middlecott

1940

No Time for Comedy

as Linda Paige Esterbrook

1945

Roughly Speaking

as Louise Randall Pierson

1943

Flight for Freedom

as Tonie Carter

1961

A Majority of One

as Bertha Jacoby

1955

The Girl Rush

as Kim Halliday

1937

Live, Love and Learn

as Julie Stoddard

1971

Mrs. Pollifax — Spy

as Mrs. Pollifax

1936

Trouble for Two

as Miss Vandeleur

1995

The Flood of ‘55

as Herself (archive footage)

1939

Fast and Loose

as Garda Sloane

1935

The Night Is Young

as Countess Zarika Rafay

1938

Man-Proof

as Elizabeth Kent

1967

Rosie!

as Rosie Lord

1943

What a Woman

as Carol Ainsley

1940

1949

Tell It to the Judge

as Marsha Meredith

1962

Five Finger Exercise

as Louise Harington

1936

It Had to Happen

as Beatrice Newnes

1958

Wonderful Town

as Ruth Sherwood

1934

The President Vanishes

as Sally Voorman

1941

Breakdowns of 1941

as Self (archive footage) (uncredited)

1973

1947

1994

That's Entertainment! III

as (archive footage)

1938

Breakdowns of 1938

as Rosalind (archive footage) (uncredited)

1987

James Stewart: A Wonderful Life

as Self (archive footage)

1994

The Twilight Zone: Rod Serling's Lost Classics

as Hildy Johnson (archive footage) (uncredited)

2009

Life is a Banquet

as Self (Archive Footage)

Production

1971

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