As the daughter of a banker Julie Harris learned her craft at the prestigious Yale Drama School. Harris was the first woman awarded for this school, a scholarship (the second was her subsequent acting colleague and friend Joan Van Ark). She also attended the Actors Studio and belonged to a generation of actors of the Lee Strasberg - and Method Acting movement.

After she finished her acting training with flying colors, it was for Julie Harris is not particularly difficult to come to commitment - she was talented in professional circles as a very, adaptable and energetic, well known. Moreover, they interpreted their roles, profiles, whether it was supporting or minor roles, subtle, and always with "draft". The Broadway took notice of the petite actress - and she made her debut here in 1945 as a 19-year-old in the play It's A Gift ( 'The House in Montevideo') by Curt Goetz.

Seven years later, she made her big screen debut in the film Member of the Wedding (German title "The girl Frankie"), a role she was already just been playing on Broadway. The 50s marked a career boost, but in 1955 they occupied a leading role in "East of Eden" directed by Elia Kazan alongside James Dean - and through its role as an empathetic "Abra" world famous.

More movies with cult status was followed and confirmed its reputation as a convertible and versatile actress of the "big" cinema of the 1950s, 60s and 70s the long term. She appeared in the films Requiem for a Heavyweight, The Haunting, Reflections in a Golden Eye alongside Marlon Brando and Elizabeth Taylor, The Split, The Hiding Place, or Voyage of the Damned alongside Maria Schell, and Oskar Werner with.

In TV it was Harris, among others in TV series like "Columbo", "White House back door", "admire Under the California sun" and several TV movies.

In spite of all film and TV roles Julie Harris was her passion as a theater actress faithful and casually stepped again on the Broadway. Here one could admire them, inter alia, as Jeanne d'Arc, or even as a singer in the musical "Skyscraper.

Following a prolonged abstinence drama, which was caused by one stroke in 1999, was Julie Harris 2006 now see the first time in the film "The Way Back Home" and 2008 in Chatham.

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