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
