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name: "Barbara Harris"
canonical: "https://film.one/person/barbara-harris"
roles: ["Actor"]
born: "25 July 1935"
died: "21 August 2018"
reviewed_on_fi1m: 3
average_fi1m_score: 74
updated: "2026-09-16T21:18:09.252468+00:00"
licence: "© Fi1m Ltd. Written by AI under a human editor; checked against sources before publication. Quote with attribution and a link to the canonical URL."
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# Barbara Harris

Actor. Born 25 July 1935 in Evanston, Illinois, USA. Died 21 August 2018.

## Details

- **Work:** Actor
- **Born:** 25 July 1935, Evanston, Illinois, USA
- **Died:** 21 August 2018
- **Active:** 1975–1997
- **Also known as:** Barbara Densmoor Harris

## Biography

Barbara Harris was an American actress. She began acting as a teenager in Chicago and appeared in small parts with the Playwrights Theatre Club. She studied at Wilbur Wright College and made her Broadway debut in 1961.

Harris received a Tony Award for Best Actress in a Musical for *The Apple Tree* (1966). Her film roles include *Nashville* (1975), *Family Plot* (1976), *Freaky Friday* (1976), *Peggy Sue Got Married* (1986) as Evelyn Kelcher, *Dirty Rotten Scoundrels* (1988) and *Grosse Pointe Blank* (1997). She was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress for *Who Is Harry Kellerman and Why Is He Saying Those Terrible Things About Me?* (1971) and received four Golden Globe nominations. She retired from acting in the 1990s and later taught.

*Sources: en.wikipedia.org, imdb.com, theguardian.com.*

## On Fi1m (3)

- *Grosse Pointe Blank* (1997), Fi1m 55, as Mary Blank — [page](https://film.one/film/grosse-pointe-blank.md)
- *Peggy Sue Got Married* (1986), Fi1m 79, as Evelyn Kelcher — [page](https://film.one/film/peggy-sue-got-married.md)
- *Nashville* (1975), Fi1m 89, as Winifred / Albuquerque — [page](https://film.one/film/nashville.md)

## Also known for

- *Dirty Rotten Scoundrels* (1988), Fanny Eubanks
- *Family Plot* (1976), Blanche Tyler
- *Freaky Friday* (1976), Ellen Andrews
- *Alfred Hitchcock Presents* (1955), Beth
- *Plaza Suite* (1971), Muriel Tate

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