Julie Harris (American actress)
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Publicity photo of Julie Harris (1973)
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Julia Ann Harris December 2, 1925 Grosse Pointe, Michigan, U.S. |
| Died | August 24, 2013 (aged 87) West Chatham, Massachusetts, U.S. |
| Cause of death | Congestive heart failure |
| Occupation | Actress |
| Years active | 1948–2009 |
| Spouse(s) | Jay Julian (1946–1954; divorced) Manning Gurian (1954–1967; divorced) Walter Carroll (1977–1982; divorced) |
| Children | Peter Gurian |
Julia Ann "Julie" Harris (December 2, 1925 – August 24, 2013) was an American stage, screen, and television actress. A 10-time Tony Award nominee and five-time winner, she won for I Am a Camera (1952), The Lark (1956), Forty Carats (1969), The Last of Mrs. Lincoln (1973), and The Belle of Amherst (1977). She also won three Emmy Awards, a Grammy Award, and was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Actress for the 1952 film The Member of the Wedding. She was inducted into the American Theatre Hall of Fame in 1979, received the National Medal of Arts in 1994, and the 2002 Special Lifetime Achievement Tony Award.
Julia Ann Harris was born in Grosse Pointe, Michigan, the daughter of Elsie L. (née Smith), a nurse, and William Pickett Harris, an investment banker. She graduated from Grosse Pointe Country Day School, which later merged with two others to form the University Liggett School. In New York City, she attended The Hewitt School. As a teenager, she also trained at the Perry-Mansfield Performing Arts School & Camp in Colorado with Charlotte Perry, a mentor who encouraged Harris to apply to the Yale School of Drama, which she soon attended for a year.
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