Julie Carmen

Julie Carmen
File:Julie Carmen - blue.jpg Carmen in 2009
Born	(1954-04-04) April 4, 1954 New York City, New York, U.S.
Years active	1978–present
Spouse(s)	Gary Hoffman (?–present)
Children	2

Julie Carmen (born April 4, 1954) is an American actress, dancer and a licensed psychotherapist. She came to prominence onscreen in the 1980s, winning the Venice Film Festival Best Supporting Actress Award for her role in John Cassavetes' film, Gloria. Her acting training was with Sanford Meisner at Neighborhood Playhouse and with Uta Hagen at HB Studios. Carmen was on the Board of Directors of both Women in Film for three years and IFP/West for six years.

Acting work

Carmen was born in New York City, New York, and has Spanish and Cuban ancestry. She has starred in a variety of films including Robert Redford's The Milagro Beanfield War, John Carpenter's In the Mouth of Madness, opposite Sam Neill, The Penitent opposite Raul Julia and Armand Assante; King of the Jungle opposite John Leguizamo; and Fright Night II as vampire Regine Dandrige. She starred in Dawn Patrol, directed by Daniel Petrie, Jr. opposite Scott Eastwood, Rita Wilson and Jeff Fahey. In 2012 she played a supporting role in Last Weekend starring Patricia Clarkson.

Carmen appeared on television as the female lead in the 1992 NBC mini-series Drugs Wars: The Cocaine Cartel, as well as playing the mother of Angelina Jolie's character in the 1997 Hallmark Entertainment miniseries True Women and the female lead opposite Val Kilmer in Gore Vidal's Billy the Kid directed by Billy Graham. Julie played female lead opposite George C. Scott in two made for television movies, Finding the Way Home and Curacao (also called Deadly Waters). She was a series regular, as Linda Rodriguez Kirkridge, on the short-lived ABC sitcom Condo (1983), and guest starred in three first-season (1990) episodes of the HBO original comedy series Dream On.

She danced on Broadway in Luis Valdez's Zoot Suit, and was resident choreographer at INTAR under the direction of Max Ferra. She studied dance at the Merce Cunningham and Erik Hawkins Studios, and Pilates with at the Joseph Pilates original studio in NYC, which led to her 1979 teaching position at Ron Fletcher's Pilates Studio in Los Angeles. In 2007, she played the lead role Liz Estrada at the Getty Villa's commissioned update of Lysistrata.

In 2015, Julie returned to television, appearing as a series regular in the independent TV pilot Myrna as Stefie, the ex-wife of the title character.

Education

She earned a BS from the State University of New York, a Masters degree in Clinical Psychology from Antioch College, and is a Licensed Marriage Family Therapist. She is also certified through the International Association of Yoga Therapists and Yoga Alliance at the ERYT-500 level.

Carmen was trained as a drama therapist by Ramon Gordon of Cell Block Theater. She designed and led the drama therapy and yoga therapy programs at Passages Drug and Alcohol Residential Treatment Center. She was a yoga therapist at Monte Nido Eating Disorder Centers and the Los Angeles School Districts Program for Pregnant Teens.

Psychotherapist

Recently she has worked as a licensed psychotherapist. She was referenced in actress Suzanne Somers' book, Ageless: The Naked Truth About Bioidentical Hormones. in the chapter titled Julie Carmen Yoga.

External links

• Julie Carmen at the Internet Movie Database