Julia Whelan

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Julia Whelan received her Bachelor of Arts from Middlebury College (2008)

Julia Whelan (born May 8, 1984 in Oregon ) is an American actress , best known for her role in the television series Once again with feelings .

life and career

Julia Whelan was born in May 1984 to a firefighter and a teacher in Oregon , USA . She started appearing in amateur theaters at the age of five , while her annual trips to the Oregon Shakespeare Festival in Ashland fueled her interest in an acting career. When she was ten, she began taking acting lessons from the actor and screenwriter Geof Prysirr , and she had a close professional and personal acquaintance. Prysirr accompanied Whelan on trips to Los Angeles , where she quickly got her first roles on television. So she had in the 1996 television series Nowhere Man - Without Identity! and in the television film And every day, Santa Claus takes on smaller roles.

Whelan became known to a wider audience in the 1998 television film Too Young for a Baby as the younger sister, the main pregnant character played by Kirsten Dunst . In the same year she also appeared in guest roles in Ein Wink des Himmels and Emergency Room . A year later she was cast as Grace , the 14-year-old daughter of Elizabeth "Lily" Manning ( Sela Ward ), for the drama series Again With Emotion . She played this role from 1999 to the end of the series in 2002 and brought her not only greater notoriety, but also a Young Artist Award in 2001 together with Evan Rachel Wood and Meredith Deane in the category of outstanding cast in a television series . At the awards ceremony a year earlier, she had already been nominated for this role in the category Best Supporting Actress in a television series (comedy or drama) , but lost to Shari Dyon Perry , who was recognized for her role in Any Day Now . After the series ended in 2002, Whelan turned to other projects. In the lifetime television film The Secret Life of Zoey , she played the drug addict girl Zoey Carter alongside Mia Farrow and Andrew McCarthy .

Until 2004 she was then seen in other rather smaller television roles before she enrolled for Middlebury College . She spent the academic year 2006-2007 as a visiting student at Lincoln College at the University of Oxford . She then returned to Middlebury for her senior year, where she graduated magna cum laude in 2008 . In 2010 she took her acting career back on and stood in the same year for the horror - fantasy film Warriors of Light next to Brad Dourif , Mackenzie Rosman , Thomas Ian Nicholas and Hallee Hirsh as Emily in front of the camera. For the next two years, she mainly took on guest roles in well-known crime series such as Navy CIS: LA , Castle and The Closer .

In 2019 Julia Whelan's debut novel Mein Jahr mit dir (originally: My Oxford Year ) was published in a German translation by Veronika Dünninger.

Filmography (selection)

Web links

Commons : Julia Whelan  - Collection of Images

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Carla Hall: Acting Her Age . In: TV Guide . 48, No. 17, April 22, 2000, pp. 42-44. Retrieved December 9, 2012.
  2. ^ Julia Whelan in Once and Again on WCHS-TV8 . In: WCHS-TV.com . Archived from the original on February 9, 2007. Retrieved July 16, 2008.
  3. ↑ 22nd Annual Awards ( Memento from November 12, 2010 in the Internet Archive )
  4. ↑ 21st Annual Awards . In: YoungArtistAwards.org . Retrieved December 9, 2012.
  5. ^ Class of 2008 - Paul Ward '25 Prize in Writing for the Class of 2008 (pdf) In: Middlebury.edu . Retrieved December 9, 2012.
  6. ↑ Julia Whelan: Overseas Briefing - News . In: The Middlebury Campus . October 26, 2006. Archived from the original on February 25, 2007. Retrieved on December 9, 2012.
personal data
SURNAME Whelan, Julia
BRIEF DESCRIPTION US-american actress
DATE OF BIRTH May 8, 1984
PLACE OF BIRTH Oregon , United States