Rosemarie DeWitt

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Biography

A dyed-in-the-wool New Yorker, actress Rosemarie DeWitt made a steady transition from dreaming about acting to making a name for herself in the city's vibrant theater industry. Following years of increasingly larger roles on the stage and on the small screen, it was an unusual family connection that provided her first major break into feature films. As the great granddaughter of the film's subject, boxer James J. Braddock, DeWitt landed a plum …
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Job Title

Actor, Other

Born

October 26, 1974

Career Milestones

2012

Played a teacher opposite Matt Damon and John Krasinski in "Promised Land," directed by Gus Van Sant

2012

Cast opposite Emily Blunt and Mark Duplass in the acclaimed indie "Your Sister's Sister"

2012

Co-starred in the romantic drama "A Little Bit of Heaven"

2010

Played Ben Affleck's wife in the recession drama "The Company Men," directed by John Wells

2009

Cast as the title character's sister on the Showtime series "The United States of Tara"

2008

Played title character opposite Anne Hathaway in Jonathan Demme's "Rachel Getting Married"; earned an Independent Spirit Award nomination for Best Supporting Female

2007

Landed recurring role on the first season of "Mad Men" (AMC) as lead character Don Draper's mistress Midge Daniels

2006

Co-starred with Ron Livingston on the short-lived Fox series "Standoff"

2005

Played the hardened, but vulnerable Roberta in John Patrick Shanley's "Danny and the Deep Blue Sea" at the Second Stage Theatre

2005

Cast as Renee Zellweger's neighbor Sara Wilson in Ron Howard's "Cinderella Man" (film depicted the life of her grandfather, boxer James J. Braddock)

2004

Played Fanny in Craig Lucas' off-Broadway play "Small Tragedies"

2004

Feature film debut, Matthew Coppola's drama "Fresh Cut Grass"

2002

Cast in George S. Kaufman's play "The Butter and Egg Man" as the fetching assistant Jane Weston

2001

First TV appearance, an episode of NBC's "Law & Order: Special Victims Unit"

2000

First stage performance in Glenn Meizer's off-Broadway play "Anonymous"

Awards

2013

Independent Spirit Award for Best Supporting Female in Your Sister's Sister

2009

Independent Spirit Award for Best Supporting Female in Rachel Getting Married

2008

Toronto Film Critics Association Award for Best Supporting Performance, Female in Rachel Getting Married