Birthday
1907/06/04
Day of death
1976/11/28 (69 years old)
Gender
Female
Place of Birth
Waterbury, Connecticut, USA
Also know as
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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 Musica...Read more
(1940) His Girl Friday
as Hildy Johnson
(2006) On Assignment: 'His Girl Friday'
as Self (archive footage)
(2017) Lighting Up with Hildy Johnson
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
(1967) Oh Dad, Poor Dad, Mamma's Hung You in the Closet and I'm Feeling So Sad
as Madame Rosepettle
(1947) The Guilt of Janet Ames
as Janet Ames
(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
(1935) Reckless
as Josephine 'Jo' Mercer
(1946) Sister Kenny
as Elizabeth Kenny
(1968) Where Angels Go, Trouble Follows
as Mother Simplicia
(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
(1935) The Casino Murder Case
as Doris
(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) Forsaking All Others
as Eleanor
(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) This Thing Called Love
as Ann Winters
(1949) Tell It to the Judge
as Marsha Meredith
(1962) Five Finger Exercise
as Louise Harington
(1945) Screen Snapshots (Series 25, No. 1): 25th Anniversary
as Self
(1942) Screen Snapshots (Series 22, No. 10)
as Self
(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) The Men Who Made the Movies: King Vidor
as Self (archive footage)
(1947) Blow-Ups of 1947
as Self
(1994) That's Entertainment! III
as (archive footage)
(1937) The Romance of Celluloid
as Self
(1938) Breakdowns of 1938
as Rosalind (archive footage) (uncredited)
(1944) Breakdowns of 1944
as Self
(1940) Hollywood: Style Center of the World
as Self
(1939) From the Ends of the Earth
as Self
(1940) A New Romance of Celluloid: The Miracle of Sound
as Self
(1936) Screen Snapshots (Series 16, No. 1)
as Self
(1988) James Stewart: A Wonderful Life
as Self (archive footage)
(1994) The Twilight Zone: Rod Serling's Lost Classics
as Hildy Johnson (archive footage) (uncredited)
(1953) General Electric Theater
as Cynthia
(1951) Schlitz Playhouse of Stars
as ---
(1973) The American Film Institute Salute to ...
as Self
(1953) The Oscars
as Self
(1953) Letter to Loretta
as Self - Guest Host
(1961) The Mike Douglas Show
as Self
(1948) The Ed Sullivan Show
as Self
(1962) The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson
as Self
(1950) What's My Line?
as Self