Julie Harris

AKA:
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 Continued
Credits
Actor
2000
Professor Harper
1998
Joseph's Mother
1996
Grace Miller
1962
Abra
1955
Edna Davis
Reggie Delesseps
Betty Fraley
Gerrie Mason
Helen Cooper
Mrs Greenwood
Carlotta
Sally Bowles
Eleanor Lance
Charlotte Bronte
milestones
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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