Julie White

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Julie White (born June 4, 1961) is an American actress. She was born in the Balboa Naval Hospital in San Diego, California. When she was three years old, she and her family moved to Austin, Texas, where they own a ranch. She started acting in local plays and became a semiprofessional at 16. While she was playing the lead role in the musical, The Baker's Wife, the show's authors encouraged her to take her talent to New York.

After graduating from high school, she followed their advice, enrolling as a history major at Fordham University and beginning her professional work. Appearing both in new plays and in the classics, White expanded her experience via regional theaters throughout the United States. Her acting credits include roles in Absurd Person Singular, Money and Friends, Marvin's Room, Largo Desolato, and On the Verge.

White made her New York debut off-Broadway as the lead in Lucky Stiff. Her other off-Broadway credits include The Stick Wife, Early One Evening, Just Say No, Over Texas, and a starring role in Spike Heels with Kevin Bacon and Tony Goldwyn.

On Broadway, she made a name for herself starring in Wendy Wasserstein's Pulitzer Prize-winning play, The Heidi Chronicles.

Grace Under Fire was White's first television series, which she left prematurely due to the antics of the show's troubled star, Brett Butler. Many years later, White made several guest appearances on HBO's Six Feet Under as Mitzi Dalton-Huntley and on NBC's Law and Order: SVU as neurosurgeon Dr. Anne Morella. White appeared on Desperate Housewives as "Amanda" in the season two finale but was forced to turn down a recurring role so that she could star in the Broadway version of The Little Dog Laughed, which debuted off-Broadway and for which she she received rave reviews playing Diane, a screen agent, who, as one critic put it, is "a Mephistopheles in Manolos."