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Barbara Barrie

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Biography

Barbara Barrie made a name for herself on Broadway in the 1960s and 1970s before joining the cast of television's Barney Miller, as Barney's…more

Born

5/23/1931, Chicago, Illinois, USA

Birth Name

Barbara Ann Berman

Gender

Female

Credits

Star (9)

Role
- Suddenly Susan
  Helen "Nana" Keane
  - S 4: Ep 21 The Finale (2)
    12/26/00
  - S 4: Ep 20 The Finale (1)
    12/26/00
  - S 4: Ep 19 The Reversal
    12/26/00
  - S 4: Ep 18 Susan and the Professor
    12/26/00
  - S 4: Ep 17 The Bird in the Wall
    6/27/00
  - + 88 More Credits
- Double Trouble
  Margo Foster
  - S 2: Ep 15 Where's Poppa?
    3/30/85
  - S 2: Ep 14 The Day of the Rose
    3/23/85
  - S 2: Ep 13 Funny Girl
    3/2/85
  - S 2: Ep 12 September Song
    2/23/85
  - S 2: Ep 11 Old Movies
    2/16/85
  - + 10 More Credits
- Reggie
  Elizabeth Potter
  - S 1: Ep 6 Once a Father
    9/1/83
  - S 1: Ep 5 It's My Party and I'll Die if I Want to
    8/25/83
  - S 1: Ep 4 Reggie's Warning
    8/18/83
  - S 1: Ep 3 That's Life
    8/11/83
  - S 1: Ep 2 The Seduction of Reggie
    8/4/83
  - + 1 More Credits
- Tucker's Witch
  Ellen Hobbes
  - S 1: Ep 12 Murder Is the Key
    7/9/83
  - S 1: Ep 11 Living and Presumed Dead
    5/5/83
  - S 1: Ep 10 Formula for Revenge
    4/28/83
  - S 1: Ep 9 Rock Is a Hard Place
    4/14/83
  - S 1: Ep 8 Psych-Out
    4/7/83
  - + 6 More Credits
- Breaking Away
  Evelyn Stohler
  - S 1: Ep 7 La Strada
    1/10/81
  - S 1: Ep 6 Rainy Night in Georgia
    1/3/81
  - S 1: Ep 5 Heart Like a Wheel
    12/27/80
  - S 1: Ep 4 King Of The Quarry
    12/20/80
  - S 1: Ep 3 Knowing Her
    12/13/80
  - + 3 More Credits
- Roots: The Next Generations
  Dodie Brattle
  - S 1: Ep 7 Part 7
    2/25/79
- Barney Miller
  Elizabeth Miller
  - S 2: Ep 22 The Mole
    3/18/76
  - S 2: Ep 20 The Psychiatrist
    2/26/76
  - S 2: Ep 19 Massage Parlor
    2/19/76
  - S 2: Ep 15 Happy New Year
    1/8/76
  - S 2: Ep 4 Ambush
    10/2/75
  - + 11 More Credits
- Diana
  Norma Brodnik
  - S 1: Ep 15 Kung Who?
    1/7/74
  - S 1: Ep 14 New Marshall In Town
    12/24/73
  - S 1: Ep 13 Who's Minding The Cat?
    12/17/73
  - S 1: Ep 12 Never,Never,Never Again.....Maybe
    12/10/73
  - S 1: Ep 11 Long Shots And Fat Chances
    12/3/73
  - + 10 More Credits
- Love of Life
  Ginny Crandall (1960)
Guest Star (67)

Role
- Enlightened
  Carol
  - S 1: Ep 9 Consider Helen
    12/5/11
- Nurse Jackie
  Libby Sussman
  - S 2: Ep 7 Silly String
    5/3/10
- Army Wives
  Virginia
  - S 3: Ep 15 As Time Goes By
    9/20/09
- Surviving Suburbia
  Didi
  - S 1: Ep 13 No Reception
    8/7/09
- Pushing Daisies
  Mamma Jacobs
  - S 1: Ep 5 Girth
    10/31/07
- TV Land Confidential
  Herself
  - S 1: Ep 5 Breakout and Disappearing Stars
    10/12/05
- Dead Like Me
  Phyllis
  - S 2: Ep 8 The Escape Artist
    9/12/04
  - S 2: Ep 7 Rites of Passage
    9/5/04
- Law & Order: Special Victims Unit
  Paula Haggerty
  - S 4: Ep 24 Perfect
    5/9/03
- Once and Again
  Peg Sammler
  - S 2: Ep 4 Feast or Famine
    11/21/00
- Disney's Hercules
  voice of Alcmene
  - S 2: Ep 4 Hercules and the Parents Weekend
    10/3/98
- The Commish
  Ann Palmer
  - S 4: Ep 11 A Christmas Story
    12/17/94
- CBS Schoolbreak Special
  Shirley
  - S 12: Ep 1 My Summer as a Girl
    10/25/94
- Lovejoy
  Miss Lillian
  - S 5: Ep 13 The Lost Colony
    12/27/93
- The Odd Couple
  Gloria Unger
  - S 5: Ep 23 The Odd Couple: Together Again
    9/24/93
- The ABC Afterschool Special
  Anne Charney
  - S 20: Ep 2 Summer Stories: The Mall (1)
    3/19/92
- Law & Order
  Mrs. Bream
  - S 2: Ep 16 Vengeance
    2/18/92
- Babes
  Mom
  - S 1: Ep 17 Mom
    2/21/91
- thirtysomething
  Barbara Steadman
  - S 4: Ep 1 Prelude to a Bris
    9/22/90
  - S 1: Ep 16 Accounts Receivable
    3/1/88
- A Fine Romance (1989)
  Aunt Grace
  - S 1: Ep 3 A Horse Is a Horse, Of Course, Of Course
    1/26/89
- Family Ties
  Aunt Rosemary
  - S 6: Ep 9 The Way We Were
    11/8/87
- Kate & Allie
  Anne
  - S 3: Ep 23 Late Bloomer
    5/12/86
- Trapper John, M.D.
  Dr. Kate Hanley
  - S 6: Ep 7 A Fall to Grace
    11/25/84
- American Playhouse
  Schoolteacher
  - S 1: Ep 14 Working
    4/13/82
- Private Benjamin
  Harriet Benjamin
  - S 2: Ep 7 Bye, Bye Benjamin
    11/30/81
- Lou Grant
  Edna Raines
  - S 3: Ep 11 Andrew (2): Trial
    12/10/79
  - S 3: Ep 10 Andrew (1): Premonition
    12/3/79
- Barney Miller
  Elizabeth Miller
  - S 5: Ep 12 Toys
    12/14/78
  - S 4: Ep 19 Quo Vadis?
    3/2/78
- Disneyland
  Emily Arnsworth
  - S 24: Ep 16 Child of Glass (2-hour)
    5/14/78
- McMillan & Wife
  Emily Church
  - S 5: Ep 3 Aftershock
    11/9/75
- Bronk
  Lorna
  - S 1: Ep 5 Terror
    10/19/75
- Hollywood Television Theatre
  Guest Star
  - S 1: Ep 10 For the Use of the Hall
    4/3/75
- The Mary Tyler Moore Show
  Judith Chandler
  - S 5: Ep 6 I Love a Piano
    10/19/74
- The ABC Afternoon Playbreak
  Tina Bordeaux
  - S 2: Ep 7 A Mask of Love
    12/7/73
- The Dick Cavett Show
  Herself
  - S 6: Ep 183 June 22, 1972
    6/22/72
- The David Frost Show
  Herself
  - S 2: Ep 251 August 20, 1970
    8/20/70
- The Invaders
  Gale Frazer
  - S 2: Ep 5 The Enemy
    10/3/67
- Ironside
  Myra Dupont
  - S 1: Ep 4 The Leaf in the Forest
    9/21/67
- Bob Hope Presents The Chrysler Theatre
  Laurel Catlan
  - S 4: Ep 12 The Eighth Day
    12/21/66
- Trials of O'Brien
  Jean Fields
  - S 1: Ep 17 A Horse Called Destiny
    1/21/66
- Rawhide
  Mrs. Harmon
  - S 7: Ep 26 Mrs. Harmon
    4/16/65
- Ben Casey
  Guest Star
  - S 4: Ep 18 A Rambling Discourse on Egyptian Water Clocks
    2/1/65
- The Fugitive (1963)
  Aimee
  - S 2: Ep 17 The End Is But the Beginning
    1/12/65
- The Alfred Hitchcock Hour
  Dr. Jane Waterleigh
  - S 3: Ep 11 Consider Her Ways
    12/28/64
- The Defenders (1961)
  Shirley Lowell
  - S 4: Ep 2 The Seven Hundred-Year Old Gang (2)
    10/1/64
  - S 4: Ep 1 The Seven Hundred-Year Old Gang (1)
    9/24/64
- The Nurses (1962)
  Laura Crane
  - S 2: Ep 36 The Love of a Smart Operator
    6/25/64
- The Alfred Hitchcock Hour
  Isabel Smith
  - S 2: Ep 31 Isabel
    6/5/64
- Ben Casey
  Martha Dignan
  - S 2: Ep 30 Lullaby for Billy Dignan
    5/6/63
- Alcoa Premiere
  Virginia Stanley
  - S 2: Ep 24 The Dark Labyrinth
    3/21/63
- The Twilight Zone
  Myra
  - S 4: Ep 8 Miniature
    2/21/63
- The Virginian
  Ellen Beecher
  - S 1: Ep 21 The Small Parade
    2/20/63
- Dr. Kildare
  Peggy Farrow
  - S 2: Ep 17 The Mosaic
    1/31/63
- Naked City
  Marcia
  - S 4: Ep 11 Dust Devil on a Quiet Street
    11/28/62
- Naked City
  Sarah
  - S 4: Ep 4 And By the Sweat of Thy Brow...
    10/10/62
- The Untouchables
  Cheryl Hines
  - S 4: Ep 3 The Chess Game
    10/9/62
- Route 66
  Celia
  - S 2: Ep 24 Even Stones Have Eyes
    3/30/62
- Naked City
  Rosalind Faber
  - S 3: Ep 20 To Walk Like a Lion
    2/28/62
- The Defenders (1961)
  Fran Helber
  - S 1: Ep 13 The Attack
    12/9/61
- The United States Steel Hour
  Trina Trent
  - S 9: Ep 1 Delayed Honeymoon
    9/6/61
- The Armstrong Circle Theatre
  Joanna Sommers
  - S 12: Ep 6 Black Market Babies
    1/4/61
- The Play of the Week
  Lila
  - S 1: Ep 26 A Palm Tree in a Rose Garden
    4/4/60
- Decoy
  Anne
  - S 1: Ep 13 My Brother's Killer
    1/6/58
- Kraft Television Theatre
  Cora Leigh Canfield
  - S 11: Ep 8 The Sound of Trouble
    11/20/57
- Suspicion
  Ethel
  - S 1: Ep 7 Heartbeat
    11/11/57
- Decoy
  Mrs. Foley
  - S 1: Ep 2 The Little Red Clown
    10/21/57
- Robert Montgomery Presents Your Lucky Strike Theatre
  Guest Star
  - S 8: Ep 23 Wait for Me
    2/18/57
- Kraft Television Theatre
  Hazel
  - S 10: Ep 6 Ten Grapefruit to Lisbon
    10/24/56
- Kraft Television Theatre
  Lady Ruth
  - S 9: Ep 11 My Lady Ruth
    12/7/55
- Kraft Television Theatre (1953)
  Guest Star
  - S 2: Ep 33 Cynara
    5/12/55

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- Award wins and nominations: Award nominations: 1980 - Oscar at the Academy Awards - Best Actress in a Supporting Role for Breaking Away (1979) 1981 - Emmy at the Emmy Awards - Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Drama Series for Breaking Away (1980) 1992 - Emmy at the Emmy Awards - Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Drama Series for Law & Order (1990) 2000 - Independent Spirit Award at the Independent Spirit Awards - Best Supporting Female for Judy Berlin (1999) 2003 - Emmy at the Emmy Awards - Outstanding Guest Actress in a Drama Series for Law & Order: Special Victims Unit (1999) Award wins: 1964 - Best Actress at the Cannes Film Festival - Best Actress in a Leading Role for One Potato, Two Potato (1964)
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- Barbara wrote Second Act in 1997. A book chronicling her 30-year experience with irritable bowel syndrome (IBS) and subsequent cancer.
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- Barbara was born in Illinois, but raised in Texas.
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