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
We make them [kids] earn the stuff they want. They're not going to play with their iPad today unless they do their chores.
I use an app called ChoreMonster. The kids earn points for brushing teeth or picking up the dog poop. It's genius.
[Preparing for award shows] gets insane. The dress, the hair, the makeup...I end up always picking the dress at the last second.
We can't have iPads until after 7 p.m. Otherwise the entire day is, "iPad time? What about now?" It makes me crazy. And no TV on weekend mornings.
I always come across sounding like I hate my children. I actually love them very much.
Baltimore is a great place.
There's an expression: Great is the enemy of the good. Sometimes in trying to be great, you make a mess of things.
I discovered on school days, when they've got to get up at 6:30, they won't get out of bed. But on the weekends, they were up at 6 a.m. I was like, "Why do you guys wake up so early on the weekends?" It's like, "Because I wake up and I think, Is it a TV day? And if it is..." So we had to change that rule. I'm like, "Thank you for telling me what I need to do."
I suffer the terrible disease of low self-esteem.
I live alone with my one dog and they say it like it's a sad, it's a terrible thing. This woman lives alone with her two cats.
I read books more than I go out. As a matter of fact, I get a little concerned about some of my anti-social habits. I will choose a night with Somerset Maugham or Russell Banks over a crowded bar any day.
I tell my kids, "Look, your life is a video game, and I have to get you from level zero to 18 as an independent person with all your skills and limbs intact. Every time you hit your brother or throw food, you're taking us all back."
As a matter of fact, I get a little concerned about some of my anti-social habits.
I'm so not stylish by nature, but I've learned to work with what I have.