Julie Harris
Biography
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Julia Ann Harris (December 2, 1925 – August 24, 2013) was an American actress. Renowned for her classical and contemporary stage work, she received five Tony Awards for Best Actress in a Play. Harris debuted on Broadway in 1945, against the wishes of her mother, who wanted her to be a society debutante. Harris was acclaimed for her performance as an isolated 12-year-old girl in the 1950 play The Member of the Wedding, a role she reprised in the 1952 film of the same name, for which she was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Actress. In 1951, her range was demonstrated as Sally Bowles in the original production of I Am a Camera, for which she won her first Tony award. She subsequently appeared in the 1955 film version. Harris gave acclaimed performances in films including The Haunting (1963), and Reflections in a Golden Eye (1967), in which she played opposite Marlon Brando. A method actor, she won Tony awards for The Lark (1956), Forty Carats (1969), The Last of Mrs. Lincoln (1973), and The Belle of Amherst (1977). She was also a Grammy Award winner and a three time Emmy Award winner. Harris was inducted into the American Theatre Hall of Fame in 1979, received the National Medal of Arts in 1994,[1] and the 2002 Special Lifetime Achievement Tony Award Description above from the Wikipedia article Julie Harris, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Known For
Abra Bacon
East of Eden
Roz Carr
Gorillas in the Mist
Alison Langdon
Reflections in a Golden Eye
Reggie DeLesseps
The Dark Half
Edna Davis
Housesitter
Self
Anthony Quinn: An Original
Eleanor Lance
The Haunting
Elizabeth Hall Morgan
Home for the Holidays
Gladys
The Split
Betty Fraley
Harper
Joseph's Mother
Carried Away
Miss Nora Thing
You're a Big Boy Now
Betsie ten Boom
The Hiding Place
Narrator
The Cat That Drank and Used Too Much
Mrs. Deacon
The Lightkeepers
Isadora Duncan (voice)
Isadora Duncan: Movement from the Soul
Sister Anthony
The Christmas Tree
Katherine
How Awful About Allan
Grace Miller
Requiem for a Heavyweight
Melodeon Player
The Golden Boys
Sally Bowles
I Am a Camera
Self
The Beatles: Help!
Joan of Arc
The Lark
Frances 'Frankie' Addams
The Member of the Wedding
Self
Broadway: The Golden Age, by the Legends Who Were There
Iris
The Christmas Wife
Gerrie Mason
The People Next Door
Maria (Priest's Mistress)
The Power and the Glory
Belinda
Johnny Belinda
Sook
One Christmas
Mrs. Greenwood
The Bell Jar
Margaret Berent
Too Good to Be True
Carlotta
The First of May
Odessa Ray
Vanished Without a Trace
Little Surprises
Mary Todd Lincoln
The Last of Mrs. Lincoln
Leona Miller
House on Greenapple Road
Sally Hamil
Sally's Irish Rogue
Alice
The Woman He Loved
Caroline Phelan
Secrets
Queen Victoria
Victoria Regina
Eliza Doolittle
Pygmalion
Clara (Voice)
Nutcracker: The Motion Picture
Self
Night of 100 Stars II
Emily Roebling (voice)
Brooklyn Bridge
Shevawn
A Wind from the South
Professor Harper
Bad Manners
Helen Cooper
The Truth About Women
Georgia Henderson
Stubby Pringle's Christmas
Charity Jones
Tarzan and the Perils of Charity Jones
Self (uncredited)
James Dean and Me
Anne Devlin
The Gift
(voice)
The Shakers: Hands to Work, Hearts to God
Alice
When Love Kills: The Seduction of John Hearn
Nora
A Doll's House
Leonora Nelson
Ellen Foster
Charlotte Brontë
Brontë
Elizabeth Holvak
Long Way Home
Emily Dickinson
The Belle of Amherst
Alice Fienchild
Voyage of the Damned
Herself
East of Eden: Art in Search of Life
Herself
Forever James Dean
Elizabeth Holvak
The Greatest Gift
Self
Walter Matthau: Diamond in the Rough
Florence Nightingale
The Holy Terror
Brigid Mary Mangan
Little Moon of Alban
Brigid Mary Mangan
Little Moon of Alban
Charity Jones
Tarzan and the Four O'Clock Army
Lucille Frankel
Single Women, Married Men
Self
Night of 100 Stars
Narrator
The Voyage of Odysseus
Self
Broadway: Beyond the Golden Age
Self (voice)
Broadway's Dreamers: The Legacy of the Group Theatre
Martha
Passaggio per il paradiso
Ophelia
Hamlet
Julie Harris
The Way Back Home
Personal Info
Known For
Acting
Known Credits
76
Gender
Female
Birthday
1925-12-02
Place of Birth
Grosse Pointe Park, Michigan, USA
Also Known As
Julie Anne Harris