Julie Warner - Biography

Juliet Mia "Julie" Warner (born February 9, 1965) is an American actress.

Life and career

Early life

Warner was born in Manhattan, New York. Her mother, Naomi, is a literary agent, an independent marketing consultant, and a licensing director. Her father, Neil Warner, is a jingle composer, a pianist, and an arranger. Her paternal grandfather was Hollywood composer Jack Shilkret, the brother of composer Nathaniel Shilkret. Warner attended the Dalton School at age twelve. There she met an agent who advised Warner to consider acting. Shortly thereafter, Warner landed a role on the soap opera, Guiding Light. Warner earned a degree in theater arts from Brown University in 1987. After her graduation, Warner moved to Los Angeles, where she worked as a waitress while auditioning for acting.

Career

Warner appeared in two episodes of Star Trek: The Next Generation: "Booby Trap" in 1989, and "Transfigurations" in 1990 as Christy Henshaw.

Warner's most famous roles include her 1991 breakout co-starring performance with Michael J. Fox in Doc Hollywood, then her co-starring role with Billy Crystal in 1992's Mr. Saturday Night. She was in Indian Summer in 1993, Robert A Heinlein's "The Puppet Masters" in 1994, and "Tommy Boy" in 1995. She played the role of Danny Lipton for three seasons in the TV series Family Law, and the recurring character Megan O'Hara in Nip/Tuck. In 2005, Warner began starring as the wife to Howie Mandel in his hidden camera/situation comedy Hidden Howie. She starred in the Hallmark Channel Original Movie, Our First Christmas, where she plays a mother trying to navigate the difficult waters of combining two families after the deaths of her own and her new husband's spouses. In 2009, she played Rose Pinchbinder in the children's TV show True Jackson, VP in the episode "Keeping Tabs".

Personal life

In 1995, Warner married writer-director Jonathan Prince. They have a son named Jackson, born in 1997.

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