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Julie Bowen

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Julie Bowen (born Julie Bowen Luetkemeyer; March 3, 1970) is an American actress. She is best known as Claire Dunphy in ABC sitcom Modern Family (2009–2020), for which she received widespread critical acclaim, winning two Primetime Emmy Awards. Bowen also starred as Roxanne Please in NBC medical drama series ER (1998–1999), Carol Vessey in the NBC comedy-drama series Ed (2000–2004), and Denise Bauer in the ABC legal drama series Boston Legal (2005–2007), and recurred as Sarah Shephard in the ABC drama series Lost (2005–2007). Bowen has appeared in many films, such as Happy Gilmore (1996), Multiplicity (1996), Joe Somebody (2001), Horrible Bosses (2011), Life of the Party (2018), Hubie Halloween (2020), The Fallout (2021), Totally Killer (2023), and Happy Gilmore 2 (2025). Read more on Wikipedia

Her biography is available in 45 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 44 in 2024). Julie Bowen is the 5,442nd most popular actor (down from 4,478th in 2024), the 8,457th most popular biography from United States (down from 6,564th in 2019) and the 2,489th most popular American Actor.

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Among ACTORS

Among actors, Julie Bowen ranks 5,442 out of 13,578. Before her are Lana Clarkson, Tor Johnson, Kenjiro Tsuda, Margaret Leighton, Mitzi Gaynor, and Erik King. After her are Jared Martin, June Lockhart, Terry Kinney, Andrei Smirnov, Estelle Winwood, and Pino Caruso.

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Among people born in 1970, Julie Bowen ranks 208. Before her are Ken Leung, Marc Rosset, Nick Offerman, Noureddine Morceli, Prince Carlos, Duke of Parma, and Tufan Erhürman. After her are Pedro Proença, Anthony Anderson, Iryna Bilyk, Marie-Josée Croze, Erick Thohir, and Jørn Lier Horst.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Julie Bowen ranks 8,459 out of 20,380. Before her are Michael Stonebraker (1943), Evan Stone (1964), James Stafford (1932), Erik King (1963), William Chittick (1943), and William L. Marcy (1786). After her are Jared Martin (1941), June Lockhart (1925), Tom Lehrer (1928), Mike D'Antoni (1951), George Murdock (1897), and Andrew Cuomo (1957).

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Among ACTORS In United States

Among actors born in United States, Julie Bowen ranks 2,490. Before her are Kal Penn (1977), Michael Badalucco (1954), Tommy Noonan (1921), Lana Clarkson (1962), Mitzi Gaynor (1931), and Erik King (1963). After her are Jared Martin (1941), June Lockhart (1925), Terry Kinney (1954), John Bennett Perry (1941), Jeannie Berlin (1949), and Jeffrey Combs (1954).

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