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Julie Harris

Age: 83
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Birth Place: Grosse Pointe Park, Michigan, USA
Born: Dec. 2nd, 1925

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Julie Harris' Main TV Roles

NOTE: Complete List of Works can be found at IMDB

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(3 April 1999) Fell backstage in Stamford, Connecticut, USA, requiring surgery to drain fluid from her head.
(30 May 2001) Suffered a stroke.
Julie Harris is the most honored performer in Tony history with ten nominations and five victories. She won the award as Best Actress (Dramatic) for "I Am A Camera" (1952), "The Lark" (1956), "Forty Carats" (1969), and "The Last of Mrs. Lincoln" (1973); and as Best Actress (Play) for "The Belle of Amherst" (1977). Her five additional nominations were: for Best Actress (dramatic), "Marathon '33" (1964) and "The Au Pair Man" (1974); for Best Actress (musical), "Skyscraper" (1966); and for Best Actress (play), "Lucifer's Child" (1991), and "The Gin Game" (1997).
First directed by 'Tony Abatemarco' (qv) in _Lucifer's Child (1995) (TV)_ (qv) on Broadway, for which she received a Tony nomination.
'Elia Kazan' (qv), in his autobiography "A Life," said that he was grateful to have Harris on the set of _East of Eden (1955)_ (qv) because she had a calming influence on 'James Dean (I)' (qv). Kazan praised Harris as both an actress and as a human being.
Daughter of William Pickett Harris and wife Elsie Stivers Smith.
She and producer 'Robert Whitehead (II)' (qv), were named two recipients of Special Tony Awards for Lifetime Achievement in the Theater, May 2002. It was her sixth Tony award.
She was awarded the American National Medal of the Arts in 1994 by the National Endowment of the Arts in Washington D.C.

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