Julie White

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Julie White
White in 2011
Born	(1961-06-04) June 4, 1961 San Diego, California, U.S.
Occupation	Actress
Years active	1991–present

Julie White (born June 4, 1961) is an American actress. She is known for her role in Grace Under Fire and for her role as Judy Witwicky in the Transformers film series.

Personal life

White was born in the Balboa Naval Hospital in San Diego, California, the daughter of Sue Jane (née Terry), a therapist, and Edwin White, a dentist. White and her family moved to Austin, Texas, to take up ranching when she was three years old. She started acting in local plays and became a semi-professional at 16. While she was playing the lead role in the musical, The Baker's Wife, the show's authors encouraged her to take her talent to New York City. After graduating from high school, she followed their advice, enrolling as a history major at Fordham University.

Career

White has been a prolific stage actress, getting her start in regional theatre. Her theater credits include roles in Absurd Person Singular, Money and Friends, Marvin's Room, Largo Desolato and On the Verge. White made her off-Broadway debut as the lead in Lucky Stiff. Her other off-Broadway credits include The Stick Wife, Early One Evening, Just Say No, Over Texas, and a starring role in Spike Heels with Kevin Bacon and Tony Goldwyn. White also appeared in a one-woman show, Theresa Rebeck's Bad Dates, written especially for her.

On Broadway, White appeared in a production of Wendy Wasserstein's Pulitzer Prize-winning play, The Heidi Chronicles. In 2006, she appeared in The Little Dog Laughed by Douglas Carter Beane, playing Diane, a screen agent, who, as one critic put it, is "a Mephistopheles in Manolos". The show, originally produced off-Broadway, transferred to Broadway with a new cast, including former Grace Under Fire costar Tom Everett Scott. She won the Tony Award for Best Performance by a Leading Actress in a Play for her performance, over fellow nominees Angela Lansbury, Vanessa Redgrave, Swoosie Kurtz and Eve Best.

White played Nadine, the quirky neighbor on Grace Under Fire. White joined the show when it launched in 1993 and appeared in the first four seasons. However, she did not appear in the show's final season. Her departure was attributed to conflict with the show's troubled star, Brett Butler.

White has subsequently made several guest appearances on HBO's Six Feet Under as Mitzi Dalton-Huntley and on NBC's Law & Order: Special Victims Unit as Dr. Anne Morella. White also appeared on Desperate Housewives as Amanda in the Season Two finale but chose to turn down a recurring role when she was offered the role in The Little Dog Laughed. She plays Judy Witwicky, mother of the main human character Sam Witwicky, in Transformers and its sequels, Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen and Transformers: Dark of the Moon. White appeared in the ABC sitcom Cavemen in 2007.

In 2008, White received a Drama Desk Award nomination for her role in the play From Up Here. In 2009, she appeared in the HBO original movie Taking Chance starring Kevin Bacon. She also lent her voice to the 2009 computer-animated film Monsters vs. Aliens.

White has served several times as a guest judge on the reality TV series Iron Chef America.

Filmography

Year	Title	Role	Notes
1991–1992	Law & Order	Sandy	2 episodes
1995	The Heidi Chronicles	Fran
1997	Flypaper	Cindy
1993–1997	Grace Under Fire	Nadine Swoboda	97 episodes
1998	Arli$$	N/A	1 episode
1999	Touched by an Angel	Molly Avery	1 episode
2000	What Women Want	N/A	Unconfirmed
2000	Strong Medicine	Caitlin Crawford	1 episode
2000	JAG	Det. Wanda Schilling	1 episode
2001	Thieves	Barb Lieser	1 episode
2001	Say It Isn't So	Ruthie Falwell
2001	Nathan's Choice	Marcia
2001	Six Feet Under	Mitzi Dalton Huntley	4 episodes
2002	Slap Her... She's French	Bootsie Grady
2003	Whoopi	Press Secretary	1 episode
2003	Law & Order: Special Victims Unit	Dr. Anne Morella	5 episodes, 2003–2007
2004	Rescue Me	Dr. Goldberg	1 episode
2004	Sunday on the Rocks	Elly
2005	War of the Worlds	Woman
2006	The Astronaut Farmer	Beth Goode
2006	Desperate Housewives	Amanda	2 episodes
2007	Michael Clayton	Mrs. Greer
2007	The Nanny Diaries	Jane Gould
2007	Transformers	Judy Witwicky
2007	Cavemen	Leslie	7 episodes
2009	Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen	Judy Witwicky
2009	Breaking Upwards	Joanie
2009	Monsters vs. Aliens	Wendy Murphy	Voice
2009	Taking Chance	Colonel Karen Bell
2010	Funny in Farsi	Candace Smiley	1 episode
2010	Language of a Broken Heart	Mimi
2010	Morning	Mary
2011	Transformers: Dark of the Moon	Judy Witwicky
2012–2013	Go On	Anne
2012	Lincoln	Elizabeth Blair Lee

External links

• Julie White at the Internet Broadway Database
• Julie White at the Internet Movie Database
• Julie White at AllRovi
• Leading Ladies, Working in the Theatre video from American Theatre Wing, December 2006
• BroadwayWorld Article: "Julie White to Star in 'From Up Here' at MTC"