Barbara Barrie
Born: 1931-05-23 in Chicago, Illinois, USA
Known For: Acting
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.
Filmography
2025
- Things Like This as Portia Anthony
2023
- The Magnificent Meyersons as Celeste
2022
- Keeping Company with Sondheim as Self
2020
- Significant Other as Helene Berman
2018
- Above All Things as Maggie
2013
- Six by Sondheim as Self (archive footage)
2011
- Twelve Thirty as Eve
- Harvest as Yetta Monopoli
2009
- The Six Wives of Henry Lefay as Mae
- Frame Of Mind as Thelma
2007
- Army Wives as Virginia
- Pushing Daisies as Mamma Jacobs
2004
- Second Best as Dorothea
2003
- Dead Like Me as Phyllis
1999
- Law & Order: Special Victims Unit as Paula Haggerty
- Once and Again
- Judy Berlin as Sue Berlin
- $pent as Mrs. Walsh
- 30 Days as Barbara Trainer
1998
- Hercules as Alcmene (voice)
- A Chance of Snow as Ruth Pulmer
1997
- Hercules as Alcmene (voice)
1996
- Suddenly Susan as Helen 'Nana' Keane
1993
- The Odd Couple: Together Again as Gloria Unger
1992
- First Impressions as Anne Charney
1991
- The Commish as Ann Palmer
1990
- Law & Order as Mrs. Bream
- Kojak: Flowers For Matty as Dora Mattingly
- Guess Who's Coming for Christmas? as Delores
1988
- My First Love as Ruth Waxman
- Winnie as Mrs. Drake
- After the Rain as Rachel Bonner
1987
- thirtysomething
- Real Men as Mom Pirandello
- End of the Line as Jean Haney
- I'll Take Manhattan as Sarah Amberville
1986
- Lovejoy as Miss Lillian
- Vital Signs as Frances
1985
- The Execution as Sophie Langbein
1984
- Kate & Allie
- Double Trouble as Margo Foster
1983
- Reggie as Elizabeth Potter
1982
- Family Ties as Aunt Rosemary
- Working as Schoolteacher
- Not Just Another Affair as Martha Dawson
- Tucker's Witch as Ellen Hobbes
- Two of a Kind as Dottie Minor
- Barefoot In the Park as Mrs. Banks
1981
- The Children Nobody Wanted as Hanna
1980
- Private Benjamin as Harriet Benjamin
- To Race the Wind as Mrs. Krents
- Breaking Away as Evelyn Stohler
1979
- Roots: The Next Generations as Dodie Brattle
- Breaking Away as Evelyn Stoller
- The Bell Jar as Jay Cee
- Backstairs at the White House as Mamie Eisenhower
1978
- Child of Glass as Emily Armsworth
- Summer of My German Soldier as Mrs. Bergen
1977
- Lou Grant
- Tell Me My Name as Emily McPhail
- 79 Park Avenue as Kaati Fludjicki
1975
- Barney Miller as Elizabeth Miller
- Bronk
- For the Use of the Hall as Charlotte
1973
- Diana as Norma Brodnik
1971
- Great Performances as Self
- McMillan & Wife as Emily Church
- The Rank and File
1970
- The Mary Tyler Moore Show as Judith Chandler
- Original Cast Album: Company as Self / Sarah
1968
- The Dick Cavett Show as Self - Guest
1967
- Ironside
- The Invaders as Gale Frazer
1964
- One Potato, Two Potato as Julie Cullen Richards
1963
- The Fugitive as Aiemee Rennick
- Bob Hope Presents the Chrysler Theatre as Laurel Catlan
- Mr. Novak as Mary Smith
- The Caretakers as Edna
1962
- The Alfred Hitchcock Hour as Dr. Jane Waterleigh
- The Virginian as Ellen Beecher
1961
- Dr. Kildare as Peggy Farrow
- Ben Casey
- The Defenders as Fran Helber
- Kraft Mystery Theatre
1960
1959
- The Twilight Zone as Myra Russell
- Rawhide as Liz Harmon
1958
- Naked City as Rosalind Faber
1957
- Decoy as Anne
1956
- Giant as Mary Lou Decker
1955
1954
- The Wonderful World of Disney as Emily Armsworth
1951
1950
- Robert Montgomery Presents as Maggie Correll