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.
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Movies (41)
Broadway: Beyond the Golden Age
as Self
2021
The Lightkeepers
as Mrs. Deacon
2009
The Golden Boys
as Melodeon Player
2008
The Beatles: Help!
as Self
2007
The Way Back Home
as Julie Harris
2006
East of Eden: Art in Search of Life
as Herself
2005
Broadway: The Golden Age, by the Legends Who Were There
as Self
2003
The First of May
as Carlotta
1999
Bad Manners
as Professor Harper
1998
Ellen Foster
as Leonora Nelson
1997
Walter Matthau: Diamond in the Rough
as Self
1997
The Christmas Tree
as Sister Anthony
1996
Little Surprises
1996
Passage to Paradise
as Martha
1996
Carried Away
as Joseph's Mother
1996
Secrets
as Caroline Phelan
1995
James Dean and Me
as Self (uncredited)
1995
One Christmas
as Sook
1994
When Love Kills: The Seduction of John Hearn
as Alice
1993
The Dark Half
as Reggie DeLesseps
1993
Vanished Without a Trace
as Odessa Ray
1993
Housesitter
as Edna Davis
1992
Anthony Quinn: An Original
as Self
1990
Single Women, Married Men
as Lucille Frankel
1989
Broadway's Dreamers: The Legacy of the Group Theatre
as Self (voice)
1989
Isadora Duncan: Movement from the Soul
as Isadora Duncan (voice)
1989
The Christmas Wife
as Iris
1988
Too Good to Be True
as Margaret Berent
1988
Gorillas in the Mist
as Roz Carr
1988
The Woman He Loved
as Alice
1988
Forever James Dean
as Herself
1988
The Cat That Drank and Used Too Much
as Narrator
1987
Nutcracker: The Motion Picture
as Clara (Voice)
1986
Night of 100 Stars II
as Self
1985
The Shakers: Hands to Work, Hearts to God
as (voice)
1984
Brontë
as Charlotte Brontë
1983
Night of 100 Stars
as Self
1982
The Voyage of Odysseus
as Narrator
1982
Brooklyn Bridge
as Emily Roebling (voice)
1981
The Gift
as Anne Devlin
1979
The Bell Jar
as Mrs. Greenwood
1979
TV Shows (9)
Not for Ourselves Alone: The Story of Elizabeth Cady Stanton & Susan B. Anthony
as Susan B. Anthony (voice)
1999
The Outer Limits
as Hera
1995
Scarlett
as Eleanor Butler
1994
Baseball
as Voice
1994
The Civil War
as Mary Chestnut
1990
Wordplay
as Self - Celebrity Panelist
1986
Family Ties
as Margaret
1982
Knots Landing
as Lilimae Clements
1979
Tales of the Unexpected
as Mrs Bixby
1979