Julie Payne (actress, born 1946)

Not to be confused with Julie Payne (actress, born 1940).

Julie Payne
Born	Julie Kathleen Payne Sweet Home, Oregon, U.S.
Alma mater	Santa Clara University San Francisco State University
Occupation(s)	Actress, voice actress, singer
Years active	1969–present

Julie Kathleen Payne is an American television, film and stage actress who, in a career lasting over four decades, has specialized primarily in comedy roles as well as voice acting. She was a cast member in three short-lived network sitcoms during 1983–1986, and appeared in about twenty feature films and over a hundred episodes of TV series as well as providing voices for scores of TV animated shows, of which her best known character is that of Liz Wilson.

Early life

A native of Oregon, Julie Payne was born in Sweet Home, near the lake and river areas adjoining the Cascade Range. Growing up in the state's second-largest city, Eugene, she attended South Eugene High School, where she performed in a number of school productions, including The Music Man, The Madwoman of Chaillot, The Lark and Once Upon a Mattress. After graduating in 1964, she moved to California, where she studied drama at Santa Clara University and French at San Francisco State University.

Career

Leaving college without a degree, Payne traveled to Europe, where she hitchhiked through various locations and, upon returning to San Francisco during the 1967 Haight-Ashbury "Summer of Love", became a member of the improvisational comedy/satire group, The Committee, remaining with it, on and off, until 1974.

During her years with The Committee, she began appearing in films (her on-screen debut occurred as part of the group's performance at the September 1969 Big Sur Folk Festival, held a month after Woodstock, and is included in the 1971 concert film, Celebration at Big Sur).

At the start of the 1970s, she was seen in bit parts, without the group, in The Strawberry Statement and The Candidate, as well as on television (The Flip Wilson Show, The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson, The Midnight Special, The Streets of San Francisco and others).

In 1976, two years after leaving The Committee, she and another former member of the group, Ruth Silveira, wrote and starred in People Pie, their two-woman satirical revue which they premiered in Los Angeles and took on the road, including to Eugene, its initial stop, and her first visit to the city since leaving it in 1964.

Between February 1983 and June 1986, she was a regular in three network series, but each lasted less than three months. In CBS' hour-long 1983 humorous fantasy, Wizards and Warriors, she played good queen Lattinia, one of many characters in a large ensemble cast, but the special-effects-laden expensive series was a Saturday-night ratings failure, lasting only from February 26 to May 14. She also starred in "WKRP in Cincinnati" as Buffy, one of Johnny Fever's former girlfriends.

Starting in mid-1980s, Payne shifted her focus to television voice work. She was heard in the animated segments of The Tracey Ullman Show and provided various voices, primarily those of Dr. Liz Wilson and Lanolin in a series of specials based on the comic strip Garfield, as well as in the series Garfield and Friends and The Garfield Show.

In 1993, she played Embarcadero Bank worker Eleanor Cooke (AKA Former Smash Club cage dancer Ginger Snap) in the Full House episode "Smash Club: the Next Generation". Payne portrayed the recurring character of Larry David's mother-in-law on his HBO satirical comedy series, Curb Your Enthusiasm.

Filmography

Film

Year	Title	Role	Notes
1970	The Strawberry Statement	Woman
1971	THX 1138	Announcer	Voice
1972	The Candidate	Woman
1979	Real Life	Dr. Anne Kramer
1980	First Family	Gloria's Secret Service Agent #3
1981	The Incredible Shrinking Woman	Neighbor
1983	Private School	Coach Whelan
1983	Twice Upon a Time	Flora Fauna	Voice
1984	The Lonely Guy	Rental Agent
1984	This Is Spinal Tap	Mime Waitress
1985	Fraternity Vacation	Naomi Tvedt
1986	Just Between Friends	Karen
1986	Jumpin' Jack Flash	Receptionist at Elizabeth Arden
1988	Portrait of a White Marriage	Mrs. Prufrock
1989	Uncle Buck	Additional voices
1990	Misery	Reporter #1
1992	Glengarry Glen Ross	Additional voices
1994	Monkey Trouble	Librarian
1995	The Brady Bunch Movie	Mrs. Simmons
1996	Spy Hard	Mother Superior
2001	Teddy Bears' Picnic	Lila Claypool
2003	American Wedding	Mrs. Zyskowski
2005	Cruel but Necessary	Pearl

Television

Year	Title	Role	Notes
1973	Love, American Style	Sylvia	Episode: "Love and the See-Through Mind"
1973	The Streets of San Francisco	Mrs. Durand	Episode: "The Twenty-Four Karat Plague"
1974	The Bob Newhart Show	Dr. Sharon Rudell	Episode: "The Great Rimpau Medical Arts Co-Op Experiment"
1975	Sanford and Son	Terestia	Episode: "The Family Man"
1976	Saturday Night Live	Sandy Locke	Episode: "Elliott Gould/Anne Murray"
1977–1979	Laverne & Shirley	Colonel Turner / Charmayne	3 episodes
1978	Peeping Times	Amateur Surgeon	Television film
1979	WKRP in Cincinnati	Buffy Denver	2 episodes
1979	Taxi	Sister Number One	Episode: "The Great Place"
1980	Shirley	Mrs. Burke	Episode: "Fenced In"
1980	Archie Bunker's Place	Sylvia	Episode: "Home Again"
1981	Harper Valley PTA	Doris Diefenbarker	Episode: "Stella and Howard"
1982	Hart to Hart	Nurse	Episode: "Harts and Fraud"
1982	Madame's Place	Micheline Juliette	Episode #1.38
1982	Family Ties	Lynn Sullivan	Episode: "Oops"
1983	Prime Times	Various	Television film
1983	Wizards and Warriors	Queen Lattinia	3 episode
1983	Full House	Mrs. Knopf	Television film
1983	Oh Madeline	Lorna	Episode: "Portrait of the Artist with a Young Man"
1983	Garfield on the Town	Dr. Liz Wilson	Television short
1984	The Duck Factory	Aggie Aylesworth	13 episodes
1984	E/R	Mrs. Turner	Episode: "Both Sides Now"
1984	Benson	Eunice	Episode: "Make War, Not Love"
1985	Joanna	Sigourney Schultz	Television film
1985	George Burns Comedy Week	Loretta Hayes	Episode: "The Dynamite Girl"
1985	The Twilight Zone	Clerk	Episode: "Wish Bank"
1985	The History of White People in America	Irma	Television film
1986	Garfield in Paradise	Mai-Tai / Stewardess	Television short
1986	Leo & Liz in Beverly Hills	Lucille Trumbley	6 episodes
1987	The New Gidget	Julia Genet	Episode: "Does Paul Know?"
1987	CBS Summer Playhouse	Rita	Episode: "Puppetman"
1987	This Week Indoors	Nancy Reagan	Television film
1987	The Tracey Ullman Show	Dr. N!Godatu	6 episodes
1987	Pound Puppies	911 Operator 1	Episode: "The Rescue Pups/Good Night, Sweet Pups"
1987	A Garfield Christmas	Mom	Television film
1988	Crash Course	Maxine Konner
1988–1994	Garfield and Friends	Lanolin / Dr. Liz Wilson	85 episodes
1989	Murphy Brown	Phyllis	Episode: "It's How You Play the Game"
1989	This Is America, Charlie Brown	Mrs. Holiday	Episode: "The Great Inventors"
1989	Who's the Boss?	Skye	Episode: "It's Somebody's Birthday"
1989	Garfield's Babes and Bullets	Kitty	Television short
1989	L.A. Law	Ellen Barrett	Episode: "The Unsterile Cuckoo"
1989	Garfield's Thanksgiving	Dr. Liz Wilson	Television short
1990	Garfield's Feline Fantasies	Nadia
1990	The Adventures of Don Coyote and Sancho Panda	Additional voices	Episode: "Pity the Poor Pirate"
1990	Bagdad Cafe	County Clerk	Episode: "City on a Hill"
1990–1991	The Wonder Years	Mrs. Falcinella	3 episodes
1991	Get a Life	Dr. Rand	Episode: "Married"
1991	Paradise	Hattie / Margaret	2 episodes
1991	The Haunted	Annie	Television film
1991	Garfield Gets a Life	Library Girl / Receptionist	Television short
1991	Dream On	Margaret Tittlewood	Episode: "Calling the Kettle Black"
1991	The New WKRP in Cincinnati	Buffy	2 episodes
1991	Perfect Strangers	Mrs. Johnson	Episode: "Wild Turkey"
1991	Major Dad	Mrs. Lonigan	Episode: "The Shell Game"
1993	Good Advice	Salesperson	Episode: "Pilot"
1993	Full House	Eleanor Cooke / Ginger Snap	Episode: "Smash Club: the Next Generation"
1993	Café Americain	Helene	Episode: "Deck the Halls with Boughs of Holly"
1994	Picket Fences	Juror	Episode: "System Down"
1994	Monty	Sister Stigmata	Episode: "Wild, Wild Willy and His O.K. Corral"
1994–1997	Beverly Hills, 90210	Peggy, Arnold's Secretary	3 episodes
1995	Aaahh!!! Real Monsters	Beautician / Monique	Episode: "A Room with No Viewfinder/Krumm Rises to the Top"
1996	Lois & Clark: The New Adventures of Superman	Wanda	Episode: "The People v. Lois Lane"
1996	California Dreams	Amber Dubois	Episode: "The Fashion Man"
1998	L.A. Doctors	Mrs. Kleming	Episode: "Nate Expectations"
2000–2005	Curb Your Enthusiasm	Cheryl's Mother	7 episodes
2004	Judging Amy	Nancy Kolnikoff	Episode: "Predictive Neglect"
2005	NYPD Blue	Judith Howell	Episode: "Old Man Quiver"
2009–2016	The Garfield Show	Dr. Liz Wilson / Mrs. Wilson / Mrs. Arbuckle	14 episodes

External links

• Julie Payne at IMDb