Known For
Acting
Born
Dec 02, 1925
Died
Aug 24, 2013
Place of Birth
Grosse Pointe Park, Michigan, USA
Credits
114 titles
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
Filmography
Broadway: Beyond the Golden Age
Self
The Lightkeepers
Mrs. Deacon
The Golden Boys
Melodeon Player
THE BEATLES in HELP!
Self
The Way Back Home
Julie Harris
East of Eden: Art in Search of Life
Herself
Broadway: The Golden Age, by the Legends Who Were There
Self
Not for Ourselves Alone: The Story of Elizabeth Cady Stanton & Susan B. Anthony
Susan B. Anthony (voice)
The First of May
Carlotta
Love Is Strange
Sylvia McClain
Bad Manners
Professor Harper
Ellen Foster
Leonora Nelson
Walter Matthau: Diamond in the Rough
Self
The Christmas Tree
Sister Anthony
Little Surprises
Passage to Paradise
Martha
Carried Away
Joseph's Mother
Secrets
Caroline Phelan
The Outer Limits
Hera
James Dean and Me
Self (uncredited)
One Christmas
Sook
Scarlett
Eleanor Butler
Baseball
Voice
When Love Kills: The Seduction of John Hearn
Alice
The Dark Half
Reggie DeLesseps
Vanished Without a Trace
Odessa Ray
Housesitter
Edna Davis
The Civil War
Mary Chestnut (voice)
Anthony Quinn: An Original
Self
Single Women, Married Men
Lucille Frankel
Broadway's Dreamers: The Legacy of the Group Theatre
Self (voice)
Isadora Duncan: Movement from the Soul
Isadora Duncan (voice)
The Christmas Wife
Iris
Too Good to Be True
Margaret Berent
Gorillas in the Mist
Roz Carr
The Woman He Loved
Alice
Forever James Dean
Herself
The Cat That Drank and Used Too Much
Narrator
Wordplay
Self - Celebrity Panelist
Nutcracker: The Motion Picture
Clara (Voice)
Night of 100 Stars II
Self
The Shakers: Hands to Work, Hearts to God
(voice)
Brontë
Charlotte Brontë
Family Ties
Margaret
Night of 100 Stars
Self
The Voyage of Odysseus
Narrator
Brooklyn Bridge
Emily Roebling (voice)
Knots Landing
Lilimae Clements
The Gift
Anne Devlin
Tales of the Unexpected
Mrs Bixby