Julie Harris
Birthday: 1925-12-02 | Place of Birth: Grosse Pointe Park, Michigan, USAFrom 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
Acting
Role
as Mrs. Deacon
as Self
as Susan B. Anthony (voice)
as Leonora Nelson
as Joseph's Mother
as Herself
as Eleanor Butler
as Sook
as Reggie DeLesseps
as Edna Davis
as Mary Chestnut
as Alice
as Iris
as Margaret Berent
as Roz Carr
as (voice)
as Emily Roebling (voice)
as Mrs. Helen 'Nellie' Taft
as Alice Fienchild
as Elizabeth Hall Morgan
as Leona Miller
as Gladys
as Alison Langdon
as Betty Fraley
as Miss Nora Thing
as Eleanor Lance
as Maria (Priest's Mistress)
as Grace Miller
as Mattie Silver
as Abra Bacon
