Julie Harris

Julia Ann Harris was born December 2, 1925, and made her Broadway debut in 1945. She broke through in 1950 in The Member of the Wedding, a role she carried to film in 1952 and earned an Academy Award nomination. The Tony wins came in waves: I Am a Camera in 1952, The Lark in 1956, Forty Carats in 1969, The Last of Mrs. Lincoln in 1973, The Belle of Amherst in 1977 - five times the best, a record that still stands. She moved between stage and screen without losing her centre, appearing in East of Eden, The Haunting, and Reflections in a Golden Eye, and winning three Primetime Emmys across four decades. The honours stacked late: American Theater Hall of Fame in 1979, the National Medal of Arts in 1994, a Special Lifetime Achievement Tony in 2002, the Kennedy Center Honor in 2005. She died August 24, 2013, having spent sixty-eight years proving that greatness in acting is measurable after all.