Julie Bowen

She has three sons from this marriage namely Oliver Mclanahan, and the twins Gustav and John.

She has been suffering from cardio-vascular problems since her early twenties and has a pacemaker installed to keep the pulse rate from dangerously going down.

Julie Bowen was born Julie Bowen Luetkemeyer on March 3, 1970 in Baltimore, Maryland, United States.

Her father is John Luetkemeyer Jr, who is a real estate agent and her mother is Suzanne Luetkemeyer.

She has an elder sister named Annie and a younger sister named Molly.

She attended the ‘Calvert School’ in Baltimore and ‘Garrison Forest School’ in Maryland during her initial school days and then joined the ‘St.George’s School’ on Rhode Island.

She also attended the sophisticated and high class ‘Roland Park County School’ located in Baltimore, Maryland at one point of time.

Julie Bowen started getting roles while studying at the ‘Actors Studio’ and her first role was in a soap opera titled ‘Loving ‘in 1992.

In 1993 she acted in a college drama titled ‘Class of ‘96’ while in 1994 she acted in the lead role in the television film ‘Runaway Daughters’.

In 1995 she was seen in the in the television series ‘Extreme’ in which she played the role of Andie Mcdermot.

She got her next role in 1996 in the TV series ‘Happy Gilmore’. Very soon other roles in films followed that included the film ‘Multiplicity’ in which she appeared in supporting roles.

In 1997 she co-starred with Tom Everett Scott in the film ‘An American Werewolf in Paris’. Incidentally the character played by Tom had the name ‘Andy McDermot’ which was similar to her role name in the series ‘Extreme’ earlier.

Julie Bowen won nominations for the ‘Primetime Emmy Award’ for ‘Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Comedy Series’ six times consecutively for the role of Claire Dunphy in ‘Modern Family’ and has won the award twice in the years 2011 and 2012.

She has also bagged the ‘Screen Actors Guild’ awards for the same role in the same television series which has been running since 2009.

She has been appointed as a spokesperson for ‘Neutrogena’ which is a company selling ‘Pure Glow’ products and has also appeared in advertisements for these products.