Barbara Barrie
- Acting
- May 23, 1931 · Chicago, Illinois, USA
Biography
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.
Known for
Filmography
- Things Like This · Portia Anthony
- The Magnificent Meyersons · Celeste
- Keeping Company with Sondheim · Self
- Significant Other · Helene Berman
- Above All Things · Maggie
- Six by Sondheim · Self
- Harvest · Yetta Monopoli
- Twelve Thirty · Eve
- The Six Wives of Henry Lefay · Mae
- Nurse Jackie · Libby Sussman
- Frame Of Mind · Thelma
- Pushing Daisies · Mamma Jacobs
- Army Wives · Virginia
- Fathers and Sons · Ruth
- Second Best · Dorothea
- Dead Like Me · Phyllis
- Judy Berlin · Sue Berlin
- Once and Again
- Law & Order: Special Victims Unit · Paula Haggerty
- 30 Days · Barbara Trainer
- $pent · Mrs. Walsh
- A Chance of Snow · Ruth Pulmer
- Hercules · Alcmene (Voice)
- Hercules · Alcmene (Voice)
- Suddenly Susan · Helen 'Nana' Keane
- Scarlett · Pauline Robillard
- My Breast · Milly
- The Odd Couple: Together Again · Gloria Unger
- First Impressions · Anne Charney
- The Commish · Ann Palmer
- UFO Cafe · Delores
- Law & Order · Mrs. Bream
- Kojak: Flowers For Matty · Dora Mattingly
- My First Love · Ruth Waxman
- Winnie · Mrs. Drake
- The Passage · Rachel Bonner
- thirtysomething
- Real Men · Mom Pirandello
- End of the Line · Jean Haney
- I'll Take Manhattan · Sarah Amberville
- Vital Signs · Frances
- Lovejoy · Miss Lillian
- The Execution · Sophie Langbein
- Double Trouble · Margo Foster
- Kate & Allie
- Reggie · Elizabeth Potter
- Two of a Kind · Dottie Minor
- Tucker's Witch · Ellen Hobbes
- Not Just Another Affair · Martha Dawson
- Family Ties · Aunt Rosemary
- Working · Schoolteacher
- Barefoot In the Park · Mrs. Banks
- American Playhouse · Schoolteacher
- The Children Nobody Wanted · Hanna
- Breaking Away · Evelyn Stohler
- Private Benjamin · Harriet Benjamin
- To Race the Wind · Mrs. Krents
- Breaking Away · Evelyn Stoller
- The Bell Jar · Jay Cee
- Roots: The Next Generations · Dodie Brattle
- Backstairs at the White House · Mamie Eisenhower
- Summer of My German Soldier · Mrs. Bergen
- Child of Glass · Emily Armsworth
- Tell Me My Name · Emily McPhail
- 79 Park Avenue · Kaati Fludjicki
- Lou Grant · Edna Raines
- Bronk
- Barney Miller · Elizabeth Miller
- For the Use of the Hall · Charlotte
- Diana · Norma Brodnik
- To Be Young, Gifted and Black
- McMillan & Wife · Emily Church
- The Rank and File
- Great Performances · Self
- Original Cast Album: Company · Self / Sarah
- The Mary Tyler Moore Show · Judith Chandler
- The Dick Cavett Show · Self
- Ironside
- The Invaders · Gale Frazer
- One Potato, Two Potato · Julie Cullen Richards