
Barbara Barrie
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.
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Acting History
2025
Things Like This as Portia Anthony
2023The Magnificent Meyersons as Celeste
2022Keeping Company with Sondheim as Self
2020Significant Other as Helene Berman
2018Above All Things as Maggie
2013Six by Sondheim as Self (archive footage)
2011Harvest as Yetta Monopoli
2011Twelve Thirty as Eve
2009The Six Wives of Henry Lefay as Mae
2009Frame Of Mind as Thelma
2007Pushing Daisies as Mamma Jacobs
2007Army Wives as Virginia
2004Second Best as Dorothea
2003Dead Like Me as Phyllis
1999Judy Berlin as Sue Berlin
1999Once and Again
1999Law & Order: Special Victims Unit as Paula Haggerty
199930 Days as Barbara Trainer
1999$pent as Mrs. Walsh
1998A Chance of Snow as Ruth Pulmer
1998Hercules as Alcmene (voice)
1997Hercules as Alcmene (voice)
1996Suddenly Susan as Helen 'Nana' Keane
1994Scarlett as Pauline Robillard
1994My Breast as Milly
1993The Odd Couple: Together Again as Gloria Unger
1992First Impressions as Anne Charney
1991The Commish as Ann Palmer
1990Guess Who's Coming for Christmas? as Delores
1990Law & Order as Mrs. Bream
1990Kojak: Flowers For Matty as Dora Mattingly
1988My First Love as Ruth Waxman
1988Winnie as Mrs. Drake
1988After the Rain as Rachel Bonner
1987thirtysomething
1987Real Men as Mom Pirandello
1987End of the Line as Jean Haney
1987I'll Take Manhattan as Sarah Amberville
1986Vital Signs as Frances
1986Lovejoy as Miss Lillian
1985The Execution as Sophie Langbein
1984Double Trouble as Margo Foster
1984Kate & Allie
1983Reggie as Elizabeth Potter
1982Two of a Kind as Dottie Minor
1982Tucker's Witch as Ellen Hobbes
1982Not Just Another Affair as Martha Dawson
1982Family Ties as Aunt Rosemary
1982Working as Schoolteacher
1982Barefoot In the Park as Mrs. Banks
1981The Children Nobody Wanted as Hanna
1980Breaking Away as Evelyn Stohler
1980Private Benjamin as Harriet Benjamin
1980To Race the Wind as Mrs. Krents
1979Breaking Away as Evelyn Stoller
1979The Bell Jar as Jay Cee
1979Roots: The Next Generations as Dodie Brattle
1979Backstairs at the White House as Mamie Eisenhower
1978Summer of My German Soldier as Mrs. Bergen
1978Child of Glass as Emily Armsworth
1977Tell Me My Name as Emily McPhail
197779 Park Avenue as Kaati Fludjicki
1977Lou Grant
1977Lou Grant as Edna Raines
1975Bronk
1975Barney Miller as Elizabeth Miller
1975For the Use of the Hall as Charlotte
1973Diana as Norma Brodnik
1972To Be Young, Gifted and Black
1971McMillan & Wife as Emily Church
1971The Rank and File
1971Great Performances as Self
1970Original Cast Album: Company as Self / Sarah
1970The Mary Tyler Moore Show as Judith Chandler
1968The Dick Cavett Show as Self - Guest
1967Ironside
1967The Invaders as Gale Frazer
1964One Potato, Two Potato as Julie Cullen Richards
1963Bob Hope Presents the Chrysler Theatre as Laurel Catlan
1963Mr. Novak as Mary Smith
1963The Fugitive as Aiemee Rennick
1963The Caretakers as Edna
1962The Alfred Hitchcock Hour as Dr. Jane Waterleigh
1962The Alfred Hitchcock Hour as Isabel Smith
1962The Virginian as Ellen Beecher
1961Ben Casey
1961Dr. Kildare as Peggy Farrow
1961The Defenders as Fran Helber
1961The Defenders as Shirley Lowell
1961Kraft Mystery Theatre
1960Route 66
1959The Twilight Zone as Myra Russell
1959Rawhide as Liz Harmon
1958Naked City as Rosalind Faber
1958Naked City as Sarah Hinson
1958Naked City as Marcia Kormack
1957Decoy as Anne
1957Decoy as Mrs. Foley
1956Giant as Mary Lou Decker
1955Playwrights '56
1954The Wonderful World of Disney as Emily Armsworth
1951Love of Life
1950Robert Montgomery Presents as Maggie Correll
1947Kraft Television Theatre








