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Julie Kavner starred in Nora Ephron's 1992 feature film
This Is Your Life, and co-starred with Robert DeNiro and
Robin Williams in the 1990 film Awakenings.
Kavner received four Emmy Award nominations for her work on FOX's
multi-Emmy Award-winning series The Tracey Ullman Show
(1987-1990). In her supporting role as Brenda Morgenstern in the
situation comedy Rhoda, she also received four Emmy Award
nominations, winning the coveted Emmy in 1987. She received yet
another Emmy Award nomination for her starring role in the daytime
special The Girl Who Couldn't Lose in 1975.
She has appeared in numerous Woody Allen movies including New
York Stories: Oedipus Wrecks, Radio Days, Hannah and Her Sisters,
Alice and Shadows and Fog, as well as the features
Surrender, National Lampoon Goes to the Movies,
and Bad Medicine. Additional television credits include
co-starring roles in the television films No Other Love
with Richard Thomas, Katherine with Sissy Spacek and Revenge
of the Stepford Wives with Sharon Gless.
Kavner received two American Comedy Awards in 1989 for Funniest
Supporting Female for her work on The Tracey Ullman Show
and New York Stories. On stage, she has played under Burt
Reynolds' direction in Two for the Seesaw with Martin Sheen
at Reynolds' Dinner Theater in Jupiter, Florida. In Canada she
starred in It Had to Be You, written by Renee Taylor and
Joseph Bologna.
A native of Los Angeles, Kavner studied Theater Arts and graduated
with honors from San Diego State University. She divides her time
between New York and Los Angeles. Her hobbies include swimming,
running and playing the flute.
Julie's characters include...
Marge Simpson
Patty
Selma
Grandma Bouvier
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