Elizabeth Rees-Williams was known as the ex-wife of Richard Harris.
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Rees-Williams was born on May 1, 1936, in Cardiff, United Kingdom and she died on April 15, 2022.
In 1957, Harris married Elizabeth Rees-Williams, daughter of David Rees-Williams, 1st Baron Ogmore.
They had three children: actor Jared Harris, actor Jamie Harris, and director Damian Harris. Harris and Rees-Williams divorced in 1969, after which Elizabeth married Rex Harrison.
Aside from these facts, Rees-Williams’ other details are not known.
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However, Rees-Williams’ ex-husband Richard Harris was an Irish actor and singer. He appeared on stage and in many films, notably as Corrado Zeller in Michelangelo Antonioni’s Red Desert, Frank Machin in This Sporting Life, for which he was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Actor, and as King Arthur in the 1967 film Camelot, as well as the 1981 revival of the stage musical.
He played an English aristocrat captured by the Sioux in A Man Called Horse (1970), Oliver Cromwell in Cromwell (1970), an embattled Irish farmer in Jim Sheridan’s The Field (which earned him a second Academy Award nomination for Best Actor), English Bob in Clint Eastwood’s Western film Unforgiven (1992), Roman emperor Marcus Aurelius in Gladiator (2000), The Count of Monte Cristo (2002) as Abbé Faria.
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