Most Recent Role: Julie March on Matlock
Gender: Female
Birthplace: Fremont, Nebraska
Birthday: 4-15-1940
Birth Name: Juliana Edith Sommars
Gender: Female
Birthplace: Fremont, Nebraska
Birthday: 4-15-1940
Birth Name: Juliana Edith Sommars
Born Juliana Edith Sommars in Fremont, Nebraska on April 15, 1940, Julie grew up in the midwest, residing both in Iowa and South Dakota. She showed early signs of talent as a public orator in high school where she won many awards for her public speaking abilities. Most notable of awards was South Dakota's winner in the American Legion National Oratory Contest. 1958 proved Julie to be the...
Most Recent Appearance
The Confession
Thursday 1 December 1994 on ABC
Julie returns to Atlanta from L.A. for a legal conference, and when a former snitch calls her to the jailhouse and admits that she lied, Julie convinces Matlock to defend the man, an admitted thief who had one cardinal rule...never break into a house when anyone is home. After Jerri talks with...
To overcome shyness, Julie began taking speech classes while in Junior High School.
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Julie's appeared in her first play, The Little Foxes, as a senior in high school
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Julie has hazel eyes.
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Julie has been married three times: to Robert Trentacosta, Stuart Irwin, Jr. and (presently) John Karns.
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In her youth, Julie studied Native American history and culture.
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Julie:(on her early school days)...I practiced handwriting until I wrote perfectly. That was my claim to fame. I was the girl with the prettiest handwriting.
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Julie: (on her relationship with Doug McClure) It had all the intensity and beauty and storminess of a high school romance.
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Julie: (commenting on the fact that she was an only girl with 3 brothers) I was very spoiled.
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Julie: (About the pitfalls of being an actress) It's a profession in which you're constantly being attacked for yourself. Your size, weight, hair color and so on.
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Julie: I was offered a couple of very good scholarships when I graduated from high school. I still wasn't thinking about becoming an actress, but a drama instructor at San Bernadino Junior College became pretty excited about my acting. I never really took myself that seriously.
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Other Appearances
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Matlock
A.D.A. Julie March (Season 2-6, recurring before ep. 34) |
The Governor & J.J.
Jennifer Jo (J.J." Drinkwater |
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Barnaby Jones
Design for Madness Amy Cameron |
Barnaby Jones
Dark Homecoming Ruby Deems |
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Ben Casey
What to Her is Plato? Ruth Ann Carmody |
Beyond Westworld
Take-over Liz Nicholson |
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Bob Hope Presents The Chrysler Theatre
Storm Crossing Maggie Lake |
Bonanza
The Roper Emma Hewitt |
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McCloud
Somebody's Out to Get Jennie Diane Parlette/Jennie Tanaquil |
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"Personal favorite"Perfect Julie Sommars is an accomplished actress of movies and television, although the large body of her work was for the small screen. She is best known for her roles as Jennifer Jo Drinkwater in "The Governor and J.J." and Julie March in "Matlock". Continue » Posted Mar 5, 2007 4:55 pm PST |
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