Julia Whelan
Julia Whelan ( born May 8, 1984 in Oregon) is an American actress, best known for her role in the television series Once and Again.
Life and career
Julia Whelan was born in May 1984 as the daughter of a firefighter and a teacher in the U.S. state of Oregon. At the age of five years, she appeared in layman theaters, while their annual trips to the Oregon Shakespeare Festival in Ashland reinforced their interest in an acting career. With ten she started when actor and screenwriter Geof Prysirr taking acting lessons, they also maintained a close professional and personal acquaintance. Prysirr accompanied Whelan traveling to Los Angeles, where she quickly got first roles on television. So they had in 1996 in the television series Nowhere Man - Without identity! and in the TV movie Groundhog Day Santa Claus held minor roles.
A wider audience Whelan in 1998 in the TV movie Too young for a baby than younger sister, played by Kirsten Dunst pregnant main character, known. In the same year she was also in guest roles in Promised Land and Emergency Room - To see the emergency room. A year later she was cast as Grace, the 14- year-old daughter of Elizabeth "Lily" Manning ( Sela Ward), for the drama series Once and Again. She played this role from 1999 to the series in late 2002 and brought her not only greater awareness but also in 2001 together with Evan Rachel Wood and Meredith Deane a Young Artist Award in the category of Outstanding Ensemble in a TV series. At the award ceremony a year earlier she had been nominated for this role already in the category Best Supporting Actress in a TV Series ( Comedy or Drama ), but lost to Shari Dyon Perry, who was honored for her role in Any Day Now. After the series expired in 2002, was devoted Whelan other projects. So she played in the Lifetime TV movie The Secret Life of Zoey alongside Mia Farrow and Andrew McCarthy, the drug-addicted girl Zoey Carter.
By 2004, she was then seen in other more minor television roles before she enrolled for the Middlebury College. The 2006-2007 academic year she spent as a visiting student at Lincoln College at the University of Oxford. Then they came for her senior year to Middlebury and closed the university there in 2008 with magna cum laude. In 2010 she took her acting career back on and still standing in the same year for the horror - fantasy film Warriors of Light alongside Brad Dourif, Mackenzie Rosman, Thomas Ian Nicholas and Hallee Hirsh as Emily in front of the camera. In the following two years she took over mainly guest appearances in popular television crime shows like NCIS: LA, Castle, and The Closer.