Personal Info
Known Credits
71
Gender
Female
Birthdate
1907-06-04 (118 Y.O)
Place Of Birth
Waterbury, Connecticut, USA
Also Known For
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 Musica ...
Known For
Acting
2017 --
Lighting Up with Hildy Johnson
| Self (archive footage)
2006 --
On Assignment: 'His Girl Friday'
| Self (archive footage)
1995 --
The Flood of ‘55
| Herself (archive footage)
1994 --
That's Entertainment! III
| (archive footage)
1994 --
The Twilight Zone: Rod Serling's Lost Classics
| Hildy Johnson (archive footage) (uncredited)
1988 --
James Stewart: A Wonderful Life
| Self (archive footage)
1973 --
The Men Who Made the Movies: King Vidor
| Self (archive footage)
1972 --
The Crooked Hearts
| Laurita Dorsey
1971 --
Mrs. Pollifax — Spy
| Mrs. Pollifax
1968 --
Where Angels Go, Trouble Follows
| Mother Simplicia
1967 --
Rosie!
| Rosie Lord
1967 --
Oh Dad, Poor Dad, Mamma's Hung You in the Closet and I'm Feeling So Sad
| Madame Rosepettle
1966 --
The Trouble with Angels
| Mother Superior
1962 --
Gypsy
| Rose Hovick
1962 --
Five Finger Exercise
| Louise Harington
1961 --
A Majority of One
| Bertha Jacoby
1958 --
Auntie Mame
| Mame Dennis
1958 --
Wonderful Town
| Ruth Sherwood
1955 --
Picnic
| Rosemary - The School Teacher
1955 --
The Girl Rush
| Kim Halliday
1953 --
Never Wave at a WAC
| Josephine "Jo" McBain
1950 --
A Woman of Distinction
| Susan Manning Middlecott
1949 --
Tell It to the Judge
| Marsha Meredith
1948 --
The Velvet Touch
| Valerie Stanton
1947 --
Blow-Ups of 1947
| Self
1947 --
Mourning Becomes Electra
| Lavinia Mannon
1947 --
The Guilt of Janet Ames
| Janet Ames
1946 --
Sister Kenny
| Elizabeth Kenny
1945 --
She Wouldn't Say Yes
| Dr. Susan A. Lane
1945 --
Screen Snapshots (Series 25, No. 1): 25th Anniversary
| Self
1945 --
Roughly Speaking
| Louise Randall Pierson
1944 --
Breakdowns of 1944
| Self
1943 --
What a Woman
| Carol Ainsley
1943 --
Flight for Freedom
| Tonie Carter
1942 --
My Sister Eileen
| Ruth Sherwood
1942 --
Take a Letter, Darling
| A.M. MacGregor
1942 --
Screen Snapshots (Series 22, No. 10)
| Self
1941 --
Design for Scandal
| Judge Cornelia C. Porter
1941 --
Breakdowns of 1941
| Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
1941 --
The Feminine Touch
| Julie Hathaway
1941 --
They Met in Bombay
| Anya Von Duren
1940 --
This Thing Called Love
| Ann Winters
1940 --
A New Romance of Celluloid: The Miracle of Sound
| Self
1940 --
No Time for Comedy
| Linda Paige Esterbrook
1940 --
Hired Wife
| Kendal Browning
1940 --
Hollywood: Style Center of the World
| Self
1940 --
His Girl Friday
| Hildy Johnson
1939 --
The Women
| Sylvia Fowler
1939 --
From the Ends of the Earth
| Self
1939 --
Fast and Loose
| Garda Sloane
1938 --
Breakdowns of 1938
| Rosalind (archive footage) (uncredited)
1938 --
The Citadel
| Christine Manson
1938 --
Four's a Crowd
| Jean Christy
1938 --
Man-Proof
| Elizabeth Kent
1937 --
Live, Love and Learn
| Julie Stoddard
1937 --
The Romance of Celluloid
| Self
1937 --
Night Must Fall
| Olivia Grayne
1936 --
Craig's Wife
| Harriet Craig
1936 --
Screen Snapshots (Series 16, No. 1)
| Self
1936 --
Trouble for Two
| Miss Vandeleur
1936 --
Under Two Flags
| Lady Venetia Cunningham
1936 --
It Had to Happen
| Beatrice Newnes
1935 --
Rendezvous
| Joel Carter
1935 --
China Seas
| Sybil Barclay
1935 --
Reckless
| Josephine 'Jo' Mercer
1935 --
West Point of the Air
| Dare Marshall
1935 --
The Casino Murder Case
| Doris
1935 --
The Night Is Young
| Countess Zarika Rafay
1934 --
Forsaking All Others
| Eleanor
1934 --
The President Vanishes
| Sally Voorman
1934 --
Evelyn Prentice
| Mrs. Nancy Harrison