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Barbara Barrie
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Barbara Barrie (born Barbara Ann Berman, May 23, 1931) is an American actress of film, stage and television. She is also an accomplished author.
Her film breakthrough came in 1964 with her performance as Julie in the landmark film One Potato, Two Potato, for which she won the Best Actress Award at the Cannes Film Festival. She is best known for her role as Evelyn Stoller in Breaking Away, which brought her an Academy Award nomination for Best Supporting Actress in 1979 and an Emmy Award nomination in 1981 when she reprised the role in the television series based on the film.
On television she is perhaps best known for her portrayal, between 1975 and 1978, of the wife of the namesake captai…
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Barbara Barrie (born Barbara Ann Berman, May 23, 1931) is an American actress of film, stage and television. She is also an accomplished author. Her film breakthrough came in 1964 with her performance as Julie in the landmark film One Potato, Two Potato, for which she won the Best Actress Award at the Cannes Film Festival. She is best known for her role as Evelyn Stoller in Breaking Away, which brought her an Academy Award nomination for Best Supporting Actress in 1979 and an Emmy Award nomination in 1981 when she reprised the role in the television series based on the film. On television she is perhaps best known for her portrayal, between 1975 and 1978, of the wife of the namesake captain in the detective sitcom Barney Miller. Barrie also is known for her extensive work in the theatre, receiving a Tony Award nomination for Best Featured Actress in a Musical in 1971 for originating the role of Sarah in Stephen Sondheim's Company.
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BODY OF WORK
Barbara Barrie's Filmography
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Things Like This
as Portia Anthony
The Magnificent Meyersons
as Celeste
Keeping Company with Sondheim
as Self
Significant Other
as Helene Berman
Above All Things
as Maggie
Six by Sondheim
as Self (archive footage)
Harvest
as Yetta Monopoli
Twelve Thirty
as Eve
The Six Wives of Henry Lefay
as Mae
Frame Of Mind
as Thelma
Fathers and Sons
as Ruth
Second Best
as Dorothea
Judy Berlin
as Sue Berlin
30 Days
as Barbara Trainer
$pent
as Mrs. Walsh
A Chance of Snow
as Ruth Pulmer
Hercules
as Alcmene (voice)
My Breast
as Milly
The Odd Couple: Together Again
as Gloria Unger
No Poster
First Impressions
as Anne Charney
UFO Cafe
as Delores
Kojak: Flowers For Matty
as Dora Mattingly
My First Love
as Ruth Waxman
Winnie
as Mrs. Drake
The Passage
as Rachel Bonner
Real Men
as Mom Pirandello
End of the Line
as Jean Haney
No Poster
Vital Signs
as Frances
The Execution
as Sophie Langbein
Two of a Kind
as Dottie Minor
Not Just Another Affair
as Martha Dawson
Working
as Schoolteacher
Barefoot In the Park
as Mrs. Banks
The Children Nobody Wanted
as Hanna
Private Benjamin
as Harriet Benjamin
To Race the Wind
as Mrs. Krents
Breaking Away
as Evelyn Stoller
The Bell Jar
as Jay Cee
Summer of My German Soldier
as Mrs. Bergen
Child of Glass
as Emily Armsworth
Tell Me My Name
as Emily McPhail
For the Use of the Hall
as Charlotte
To Be Young, Gifted and Black
The Rank and File
Original Cast Album: Company
as Self / Sarah
One Potato, Two Potato
as Julie Cullen Richards
The Caretakers
as Edna
Giant
as Mary Lou Decker (uncredited)