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Rolf Harris Order of the British Empire|CBE, Order of Australia|AM (born 30 March 1930), is an Australian musician, singer, composer, painter, and Presenter|television host.

Named after Rolf Boldrewood, an Australian writer his mother admired, he was born in Bassendean, Western Australia|Bassendean, a suburb of Perth, Western Australia|Perth, Western Australia, Australia, to Cromwell ("Crom") Harris and Agnes Margaret Harris (nÃ©e Robbins) who had emigrated from Wales. He is the nephew of Australian artist Pixie O'Harris, (1903-1991); i.e., Rhona Olive Pratt, nÃ©e Harris.

As an adolescent and young adult Harris was a champion swimmer being the Australian Junior 110 yards Backstroke Champion in 1946 and Western Australian state champion over a variety of distances and strokes during the period 1948–1952. Harris attended Perth Modern School in Subiaco, Western Australia|Subiaco, and the University of Western Australia. He met his wife, the Welsh sculptress and jeweller Alwen Hughes, while they were both art students, and they married on 1 March 1958. They have one daughter, Bindi Harris (born 10 March, 1964), who studied art at Bristol Polytechnic and is now a painter.

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Harris had experience in Perth on television in its early years, with his rapid drawing style and flair for amusing entertainment. He moved to England as an art stude... read all