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

Herself

Broadway's Dreamers: The Legacy of the Group Theatre

Martha

Passaggio per il paradiso

Personal Info

Known For

Acting

Known Credits

74

Gender

Female

Birthday

1925-12-02

Place of Birth

Grosse Pointe Park, Michigan, USA

Also Known As

Julie Anne Harris