Rose Gregorio

Rose Gregorio was an American actress who began onstage in Chicago in the 1950s before shifting toward film and television supporting roles. Born in Chicago to parents from Italy, she first appeared on television in 1961 on Armstrong Circle Theatre, then moved to New York City, where she played the title part in The Days and Nights of BeeBee Fenstermaker Off-Broadway. Her Broadway debut came in 1968 with The Cuban Thing, and that year she took her first screen role, in The Swimmer (1968). Later movies included Who Is Harry Kellerman and Why Is He Saying Those Terrible Things About Me? (1971), Eyes of Laura Mars (1978), True Confessions (1981), Five Corners (1987), City of Hope (1991) and The Deep End of the Ocean (1999). She received Clarence Derwent and Drama Desk Awards and a Tony nomination for The Shadow Box in 1977, and played Helen Hathaway on ER from 1996 to 1999.