Julie Kathleen Payne (born September 11, 1946) is an American
television, film and stage actress who, in a career lasting over four
decades, has specialized primarily in comedy roles as well as voice
acting. She was a cast member in three short-lived network sitcoms
during 1983â€"86, and appeared in about twenty feature films and over
a hundred episodes of TV series as well as providing voices for scores
of TV animated shows.A native of Oregon, Julie Payne was born in the
small city of Sweet Home, near the lake and river areas adjoining the
Cascade Range. Growing up in the state's second-largest city, Eugene,
she attended South Eugene High School where she performed in a number
of school productions, including The Music Man, The Madwoman of
Chaillot, The Lark and Once Upon a Mattress. Graduating in 1964, she
moved to California, where she attended Santa Clara University,
majoring in drama, and San Francisco State University, majoring in
French. Leaving without a degree, she traveled to Europe, where she
hitchhiked through various locations and, upon returning to San
Francisco during the 1967 Haight-Ashbury "Summer of Love", became a
member of the improvisational comedy/satire group, The Committee,
remaining with it, on and off, until 1974.During her years with The
Committee, she began appearing in films (her on-screen debut occurred
as part of the group's performance at the September 1969 Big Sur Folk
Festival, held a month after Woodstock, and is included in the 1971
concert film, Celebration at Big Sur).At the start of the 1970s, she
was seen in bit parts, without the group, in The Strawberry Statement
and The Candidate, as well as on television (The Flip Wilson Show, The
Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson, The Midnight Special, The Streets
of San Francisco and others).
television, film and stage actress who, in a career lasting over four
decades, has specialized primarily in comedy roles as well as voice
acting. She was a cast member in three short-lived network sitcoms
during 1983â€"86, and appeared in about twenty feature films and over
a hundred episodes of TV series as well as providing voices for scores
of TV animated shows.A native of Oregon, Julie Payne was born in the
small city of Sweet Home, near the lake and river areas adjoining the
Cascade Range. Growing up in the state's second-largest city, Eugene,
she attended South Eugene High School where she performed in a number
of school productions, including The Music Man, The Madwoman of
Chaillot, The Lark and Once Upon a Mattress. Graduating in 1964, she
moved to California, where she attended Santa Clara University,
majoring in drama, and San Francisco State University, majoring in
French. Leaving without a degree, she traveled to Europe, where she
hitchhiked through various locations and, upon returning to San
Francisco during the 1967 Haight-Ashbury "Summer of Love", became a
member of the improvisational comedy/satire group, The Committee,
remaining with it, on and off, until 1974.During her years with The
Committee, she began appearing in films (her on-screen debut occurred
as part of the group's performance at the September 1969 Big Sur Folk
Festival, held a month after Woodstock, and is included in the 1971
concert film, Celebration at Big Sur).At the start of the 1970s, she
was seen in bit parts, without the group, in The Strawberry Statement
and The Candidate, as well as on television (The Flip Wilson Show, The
Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson, The Midnight Special, The Streets
of San Francisco and others).
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