Barbara Barrie

Personal Info

Known For

Acting

Born

1931-05-23

Place of Birth

Chicago, Illinois, USA

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