Julie Bowen
Julie Bowen
Julie Bowen Luetkemeyer, known professionally as Julie Bowen, is an American actress. She is best known for playing Carol Vessey on Ed, Denise Bauer on Boston Legal, Sarah Shephard on Lost, and Claire Dunphy on the comedy Modern Family. The latter earned her six nominations for the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Comedy Series, winning in 2011 and 2012...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionTV Actress
Date of Birth3 March 1970
CityBaltimore, MD
CountryUnited States of America
I met Clinton at a benefit for teachers, which was a very good charity, but I met him for about 90 seconds, and I thought it was important to meet the leader of the free world. So I stood next to him for a photograph, and then apparently that's all it takes.
In New York I didn't have a TV. I had a rented bed. I never hung art on the walls. I always liked to be able to throw everything into a bag and leave. And I think I have that attitude about certain relationships, and I think it was a protective measure.
I'm in total celebrity denial in general, but there's awareness that probably if somebody has met you, they might go and tell somebody. I just would rather have the word on the street stay at a neutral, not like, "She shows up in a ball gown," but "She seemed nice." That's fine.
I frequently do drive carpool in the clothes I slept in, because it's impossible to get three children out the door with lunches packed and all that stuff and have a do.
I think it's pretty common for people to get excited when they meet somebody that they know from the media.
I'm most certainly not the Beatles.
I count myself lucky to be fairly anonymous but occasionally have people tell me nice things.
My husband is very funny and his humor has gotten us through a lot. He's good at defusing me.
I have this fancy Givenchy bag. I don't know what the Kardashians have in their bags - I bet they have really expensive products or six cellphones or something. I have a cellphone and some lipstick for me, and the rest is just filled with stuff for the kids - sunscreen and lip balm and little Ziploc bags of pretzels and cheese sticks.
Kids don't seem to recognize when they're hungry until they're starving and in the emergency zone, so I'm like, "Who wants some apple slices and cheese?"
Kids think the world is about them, so if you forgot to put the right flavor yogurt in their lunch, and they have too much homework when they come home, they're like, "You know I hate peach!" There's a part of me that's like, "I'm so sorry. I could have shown my love more."
I read some article where Reese Witherspoon said, "If you're not yelling at your kids, you're not spending enough time with them." It made me feel so much better.
We've had four or five casts in three years. There was a point when I thought the Department of Children and Family Services was going to show up at my door!
How many times can you say, "No yanking on one another's genitals?" Everything is hilarious until someone starts crying.