Julie Bovasso

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Julie Bovasso (August 1, 1930 - September 14, 1991), was an American actress.

Julia Bovasso was born in Brooklyn, New York to an Italian-American family.

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She appeared in many films, including such famous ones as Saturday Night Fever and Moonstruck, in which she played stereotypical Italian-American matrons. However, she had an important supporting role in Sidney Lumet's "The Verdict".

However, Off-Broadway she wrote and appeared in very avant-garde material, such as Jean Genet's The Maids, for which she won the very first Best Actress Obie (Off-Broadway) Award in the mid-1950s, which was presented to her by Shelley Winters.

She also was known as a writer, with her writing credits including Gloria and Esperanza.

In her earlier acting days, she played Rose Corelli Fraser in the short-lived soap opera, From These Roots. She was subsequently fired from that show, due to a disagreement with producers and was replaced.

She died of cancer in New York City at the age of 61.