Julie HarrisAKA:
Julie Ann Harris
Nationality:
American Birthdate:
12/02/1925 Birthplace:
Grosse Pointe, Michigan
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biography
Acknowleged as one of the premiere American stage performers, Julie Harris has also found success in features and on television in a career that has spanned some six decades. Winner of an unprecedented five acting Tony Awards, the petite Michigan native with the distinctive lilting voice received her training at the Perry-Mansfield School of Dance and Theater in Colorado, the prestigious Yale School of Drama and the Actors Studio. Harris made her stage debut in the 1945 Broadway production of "It's a Gift" and within five years had won the starmaking role of teenager Frankie Addams in Carson
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Year
Milestone
1945
Broadway debut, "It's a Gift"
1948
TV debut in "Actors Studio"
1950
Won acclaim portraying a teenager in Carson McCuller's "The Member of the Wedding" on Broadway"
1951
Starred in the Broadway production of "I Am a Camera"; won first of five Tony Awards
1952
Film debut recreating her stage role as Frankie in Fred Zinnemann's adaptation of "The Member of the Wedding"; won Oscar nomination as Best Actress
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