Julie Harris profile
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Julie Harris

2nd December 1925 Grosse Pointe Park, Michigan, USA Acting

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.

74 Movies 44 TV Shows 125 Credits
Filmography

Movies & TV Shows

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Secrets 25th May 1995 as Caroline Phelan
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Brontë 14th November 1983 as Charlotte Brontë
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Harper 22nd February 1966 as Betty Fraley
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Scarlett 13th November 1994 as Eleanor Butler
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Hawkins 13th March 1973 as Janet Hubbard
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Columbo 15th September 1971 as Karen Fielding
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Bonanza 12th September 1959 as Sarah Carter
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Rawhide 9th January 1959 as Emma Teall