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Oct 2024
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Julie Bowen: ‘Modern Family’ Success Cam...

Guy Raz | Wondery
About this episode

Julie Bowen is a celebrated actress and two-time Emmy winner who brought the iconic character of Claire Dunphy to life for 11 seasons.

In this episode, Julie chats with Guy Raz about her childhood love of theater in Baltimore, waiting tables while studying acting in New York, breaking into Hollywood with roles in films like ‘Happy Gilmore’ and on TV Shows such as ‘Ed’, and finding out she got cast in ‘Modern Family’ while in labor with her two twin boys.

Julie stars in the new Peacock series ‘Hysteria!’ 

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