Acting
Julie Harris
EN, IT cinema · 81 credits
Born
2 December 1925
Died
24 August 2013 (aged 87)
Birthplace
Grosse Pointe Park, Michigan, USA
Also known as Julie Anne Harris
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
The Lightkeepers
as Mrs. Deacon
The Golden Boys
as Melodeon Player
The Way Back Home
as Julie Harris
James Dean: Forever Young
as Self (archive footage)
The First of May
as Carlotta
Love Is Strange
as Sylvia McClain
Bad Manners
as Professor Harper
Ellen Foster
as Leonora Nelson
Carried Away
as Joseph's Mother
The Christmas Tree
as Sister Anthony
Passage to Paradise
as Martha
Secrets
as Caroline Phelan
James Dean and Me
as Self (uncredited)
One Christmas
as Sook
The Dark Half
as Reggie DeLesseps
Vanished Without a Trace
as Odessa Ray
Housesitter
as Edna Davis
Isadora Duncan: Movement from the Soul
as Isadora Duncan (voice)
Single Women, Married Men
as Lucille Frankel
Broadway's Dreamers: The Legacy of the Group Theatre
1989
Broadway's Dreamers: The Legacy of the Group Theatre
as Self (voice)
Gorillas in the Mist
as Roz Carr
Too Good to Be True
as Margaret Berent
The Woman He Loved
as Alice
Nutcracker: The Motion Picture
as Clara (Voice)
Brontë
as Charlotte Brontë
The Voyage of Odysseus
as Narrator
Brooklyn Bridge
as Emily Roebling (voice)
The Bell Jar
as Mrs. Greenwood
The Gift
as Anne Devlin
Stubby Pringle's Christmas
as Georgia Henderson
The Last of Mrs. Lincoln
as Mary Todd Lincoln
The Belle of Amherst
as Emily Dickinson
Voyage of the Damned
as Alice Fienchild
The Hiding Place
as Betsie ten Boom
Long Way Home
as Elizabeth Holvak
Home for the Holidays
as Elizabeth Hall Morgan
The Greatest Gift
as Elizabeth Holvak
Tarzan and the Perils of Charity Jones
as Charity Jones
How Awful About Allan
as Katherine
The People Next Door
as Gerrie Mason
House on Greenapple Road
as Leona Miller
The Split
as Gladys
Tarzan and the Four O'Clock Army
as Charity Jones
Reflections in a Golden Eye
as Alison Langdon
Harper
as Betty Fraley
You're a Big Boy Now
as Miss Nora Thing
The Holy Terror
as Florence Nightingale
Little Moon of Alban
as Brigid Mary Mangan
Hamlet
as Ophelia
The Haunting
as Eleanor Lance
The Power and the Glory
as Maria (Priest's Mistress)
Pygmalion
as Eliza Doolittle
Requiem for a Heavyweight
as Grace Miller
The War Lover
Costume Design
Victoria Regina
as Queen Victoria
The Heiress
1961
The Heiress
as Catherine Sloper
Sally's Irish Rogue
as Sally Hamil
A Doll's House
as Nora
Little Moon of Alban
as Brigid Mary Mangan
The Lark
as Joan of Arc
The Truth About Women
as Helen Cooper
East of Eden
as Abra Bacon
I Am a Camera
as Sally Bowles
A Wind from the South
as Shevawn
The Member of the Wedding
as Frances 'Frankie' Addams