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Barbara Barrie
Chicago, Illinois, USA
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 196…
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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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2025
Things Like This
Movie Portia Anthony
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2023
The Magnificent Meyersons
Movie Celeste
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2022
Keeping Company with Sondheim
Movie Self
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2020
Significant Other
Movie Helene Berman
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2018
Above All Things
Movie Maggie
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2013
Six by Sondheim
Movie Self (archive footage)
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2011
Harvest
Movie Yetta Monopoli
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2011
Twelve Thirty
Movie Eve
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2009
The Six Wives of Henry Lefay
Movie Mae
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2009
Nurse Jackie
TV show Libby Sussman
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2009
Frame Of Mind
Movie Thelma
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2007
Pushing Daisies
TV show Mamma Jacobs
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2007
Army Wives
TV show Virginia
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2005
Fathers and Sons
Movie Ruth
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2004
Second Best
Movie Dorothea
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2003
Dead Like Me
TV show Phyllis
More credits
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1999
Judy Berlin
Movie Sue Berlin
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1999
Once and Again
TV show
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1999
Law & Order: Special Victims Unit
TV show Paula Haggerty
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1999
30 Days
Movie Barbara Trainer
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1999
$pent
Movie Mrs. Walsh
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1998
A Chance of Snow
Movie Ruth Pulmer
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1998
Hercules
TV show Alcmene (voice)
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1997
Hercules
Movie Alcmene (voice)
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1996
Suddenly Susan
TV show Helen 'Nana' Keane
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1994
Scarlett
TV show Pauline Robillard
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1994
My Breast
Movie Milly
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1993
The Odd Couple: Together Again
Movie Gloria Unger
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1992
First Impressions
Movie Anne Charney
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1991
The Commish
TV show Ann Palmer
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1990
UFO Cafe
Movie Delores
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1990
Law & Order
TV show Mrs. Bream
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1990
Kojak: Flowers For Matty
Movie Dora Mattingly
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1988
My First Love
Movie Ruth Waxman
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1988
Winnie
Movie Mrs. Drake
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1988
The Passage
Movie Rachel Bonner
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1987
thirtysomething
TV show
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1987
Real Men
Movie Mom Pirandello
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1987
End of the Line
Movie Jean Haney
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1987
I'll Take Manhattan
TV show Sarah Amberville
