The actress Julie Harris stood out in several film productions and won five Tony Awards, three Emmy Awards and a Hollywood Oscar nomination.
Born Julia Ann Harris on December 2, 1925 in Michigan, in her 60-year career she stood out in theater, film and television, earning her five Tony Awards, three Emmy Awards and a Hollywood Oscar nomination.
In theater, starting in the 1940s she stood out in productions of “The Glass Menagerie,” “40 Carat,” “Oedipus the King,” “Hamlet” and “The Road to Mecca,” among others.
She trained at the Actor's Studio, which allowed her access to cinema, at the beginning under the guidance of Fred Zinnemann, shortly after under the orders of Elia Kazan.
For her theatrical work, she received nine nominations for the Tony Award for best actress. She received it five times, while for her career she received a special Tony in 2001.
He worked in almost a hundred productions for film or TV, of which “East of Paradise” (1955), by Elia Kazan, stands out alongside James Dean and he excelled alongside Laurence Harvey and Shelley Winters in “I Am a Camera”. by Henry Cornelius.
"I Am a Camera" was the film version of the Christopher Isherwood piece that she herself had performed in the theater, for which she was nominated for the BAFTA award, as an actress, which would inspire Bob Fosse's musical “Cabaret.”
Other films in which she participated were “Requiem for a Champion” (1960), alongside Anthony Quinn; “The Haunted House” (1963), “Reflections in Your Golden Eyes” (1967), by John Huston, with Liz Taylor and Marlon Brando, “Gorillas in the Mist” (1988), “The Sinister Half” (1993) , and “The Captains” (2008).
On TV she was the protagonist of numerous television films and a guest actress in series such as “Laredo”, “Harper”, “Bonanza”, “Cuero rawhide”, “The Garrison commandos”, “Alma de acero”, “Daniel Boone”, “Valley of passions”, and “The Virginian”, among others.
Harris was married three times, to lawyer Jay I. Julian, to producer Manning Gurian with whom she had her only child, Pater Ashton, and to writer William Erwin Carroll.
