Rosalind Russell
Gender: Female
Born: 4th June 1907
Died: 28th November 1976
Nationality: United States of America
TV programs: Startime
Movies: His Girl Friday, Picnic, Sister Kenny, The Citadel, My Sister Eileen, West Point of the Air, Five Finger Exercise, It Had to Happen, The Women, Auntie Mame, Gypsy, The Trouble with Angels, China Seas, Under Two Flags, Where Angels Go, Trouble Follows, No Time for Comedy, Roughly Speaking, Rendezvous, A Majority of One, Night Must Fall, Evelyn Prentice, The Guilt of Janet Ames, Mourning Becomes Electra, Flight for Freedom, Take a Letter, Darling, Forsaking All Others, Craig's Wife, Man-Proof, Tell It to the Judge, Trouble for Two, Mrs. Pollifax-Spy, Oh Dad, Poor Dad, Mama's Hung You in the Closet and I'm Feeling So Sad, The Girl Rush, A Woman of Distinction, Never Wave at a WAC, The Velvet Touch, What a Woman!, The Crooked Hearts, Rosie!, The Casino Murder Case, Design for Scandal, Live, Love and Learn, The Night Is Young, The Feminine Touch, Fast and Loose, She Wouldn't Say Yes, Romance of Celluloid
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 on the film My Sister Eileen, in which she also starred).
Russell was known for playing character roles, exceptionally wealthy, dignified ladylike women, as well as for being one of the few actresses of her time who regularly played professional women, such as judges, reporters, and psychiatrists. 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.
Rosalind Russell was one of seven siblings born in Waterbury, Connecticut, to James Edward and Clara
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