Julie Harris
Born December 02, 1925 (Age: 100)
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Grosse Pointe Park, Michigan, USA
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.
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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Filmography
Passage to Paradise
1996
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as Martha
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Age: 70
The Dark Half
1993
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as Reggie DeLesseps
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Age: 67
Housesitter
1992
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as Edna Davis
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Age: 66
Anthony Quinn: An Original
1990
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as Self
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Age: 64
Nutcracker: The Motion Picture
1986
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as Clara (Voice)
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Age: 60
Tarzan and the Perils of Charity Jones
1971
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as Charity Jones
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Age: 45
Tarzan and the Four O'Clock Army
1968
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as Charity Jones
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Age: 42
Harper
1966
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as Betty Fraley
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Age: 40
Hamlet
1964
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as Ophelia
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Age: 38
The Haunting
1963
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as Eleanor Lance
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Age: 37
Pygmalion
1963
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as Eliza Doolittle
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Age: 37
Victoria Regina
1961
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as Queen Victoria
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Age: 35
Sally's Irish Rogue
1960
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as Sally Hamil
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Age: 34
A Doll's House
1959
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as Nora
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Age: 33
No Image
Johnny Belinda
1958
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as Belinda
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Age: 32
Little Moon of Alban
1958
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as Brigid Mary Mangan
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Age: 32
A Wind from the South
1955
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as Shevawn
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Age: 29
East of Eden
1955
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as Abra Bacon
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Age: 29