Adorable (but not in a nauseating way), this quick-witted blonde started booking TV-movies and guest spots in her early twenties. A turn as Adam Sandler's love interest in the lowbrow 1996 comedy
Happy Gilmore led to a handful of big-screen appearances. But Bowen's effervescent charm has primarily been showcased on the small screen, notably in her role as a small-town dream girl on the dramedy
Ed as well as recurring romantic roles on
ER and
Jake in Progress. In 2005 Bowen signed on to
Boston Legal and injected the quirky legal series with a bit of heart.
Julie Bowen Fast Facts:
- Spent junior year at Brown University in Florence and is fluent in Italian.
- Acted in several college productions, including Guys and Dolls and Stage Door.
- Studied at the Actor's Institute, Shakespeare & Company and Will Geer's Theatricum.
- Older sister Molly is an interior designer in Los Angeles; younger sister Anne is a doctor.
- Announced she was pregnant with her first child in November, 2006.
- Julie Bowen Relationships:
- Anne Luetkemeyer Coughlin - Sister
- Gus Phillips - Son
- John Luetkemeyer - Father
- John Phillips - Son
- Molly Luetkemeyer - Sister
- Oliver Mclanahan Phillips - Son
- Scott Phillips - Husband
- Susan Luetkemeyer - Mother
- College:
- Brown University, Providence, RI (BA in Italian Renaissance Studies, 1991)
