Actress Julie Harris photo taken by Carl Van Vechten 1952

Julie Harris (born Julia Ann Harris on December 2, 1925 in Grosse Pointe Park, Michigan) is an American actress. Image File history File links Julie_Harris. ... Image File history File links Julie_Harris. ... Photographic self-portrait by Carl Van Vechten, 1934 Carl Van Vechten (June 17, 1880 – December 21, 1964) was an American writer and photographer who was a patron of the Harlem Renaissance and the literary executor of Gertrude Stein. ... December 2 is the 336th day (337th in leap years) of the year in the Gregorian calendar. ... 1925 (MCMXXV) was a common year starting on Thursday (link will take you to calendar). ... Grosse Pointe Park is a city located in Wayne County, Michigan. ...

She has received more Tony Award nominations (ten) and wins (five) than any other performer and in 1966 won the Sarah Siddons Award for her work in Chicago theatre. Harris's screen debut was in 1952 in The Member of the Wedding, for which she was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Actress. She had created the role on Broadway. She has also appeared in such seminal films as East of Eden, Reflections in a Golden Eye, and Requiem for a Heavyweight. What is popularly called the Tony Award (formally, the Antoinette Perry Award) is an annual award celebrating achievements in live American theater, including musical theater. ... The Sarah Siddons Society is an American non-profit organization founded in 1952 by prominent Chicago theatre patrons with the goal of promoting excellence in the theatre. ... Not to be confused with the Chicago Theatre, aka Chicago Theater, built in 1921, a theater at 175 North State Street Chicago theatre refers not only to theatre performed in Chicago, Illinois but also to the movement in that town that saw a number of small, meagerly-funded companies grow... 1952 was a leap year starting on Tuesday (link will take you to calendar). ... The Member of the Wedding is a novel and play by Carson McCullers. ... The Academy Award for Best Actress is one of the awards given to people working in the motion picture industry by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences; nominations are made by Academy members who are actors and actresses. ... This article is about the street in New York City. ... East of Eden book cover East of Eden is a novel by Nobel Prize winner John Steinbeck, published in September 1952. ... Summary Originally a 1956 teleplay by Rod Serling(Twilight Zone creator) written for the live television show Playhouse 90, Requiem for a Heavyweight was turned into a movie with Anthony Quinn in the role originated by Jack Palance. ...

Besides her Academy Award nomination and her Tony Awards, Harris has won three Emmy Awards and has been nominated eleven times. An Emmy Award. ...

On television, she is best known for her role as Lilimae Clements on the soap opera Knots Landing, a role she played as a recurring character from 1980 to 1981 and as a series regular from 1981 to 1987. A soap opera is an ongoing, episodic work of fiction, usually broadcast on television or radio . ... Knots Landing was a primetime soap opera that aired from December 27, 1979 until May 13, 1993 on CBS. Knots Landing was midsize community on the California coast, mainly focusing on the cul-de-sac Seaview Circle. ... 1981 (MCMLXXXI) is a common year starting on Thursday of the Gregorian calendar. ... 1987 (MCMLXXXVII) is a common year starting on Thursday of the Gregorian calendar. ...

She lives in Chatham, Cape Cod, and was a friend to the late illustrator Edward Gorey and neighbor to the late Shirley Booth whom she visited. While there she has continued to work and has narrated 5 historical documentaries by Christopher Seufert and Mooncusser Films and is active as a director on the board of the independent Wellfleet Harbor Actor's Theater. She has also done extensive voice over work for documentary maker Ken Burns. Cape Cod and the Massachusetts and Rhode Island coastline Cape Cod and Cape Cod Bay from space, April 1997. ... Edward St. ... Shirley Booth (August 30, 1898 – October 16, 1992) was an acclaimed American actress. ... Christopher Seufert is a film producer and director. ... Mooncusser Films, LLC is the film and video production company founded by documentary producer/director Christopher Seufert. ... Kenneth Lauren Burns (born July 29, 1953) is an American documentary filmmaker. ...

She is thrice divorced with one son, Peter Gurian.

She has survived (despite her seemingly frail physique): breast cancer, a bad fall requiring surgery and a stroke.

• Julie Harris Documentary and Narration Work.