Barbara Barrie

Actor May 23 (age 94) Chicago, Illinois, USA 1947–2025 (78 year career)

6.3 avg rating

Biography

Barbara Barrie (born Barbara Ann Berman, May 23, 1931) is an American actress of film, stage and television. She is also an accomplished author. Her film breakthrough came in 1964 with her performance as Julie in the landmark film One Potato, Two Potato, for which she won the Best Actress Award at the Cannes Film Festival. She is best known for her role as Evelyn Stoller in Breaking Away, which brought her an Academy Award nomination for Best Supporting Actress in 1979 and an Emmy Award nominat…

Known For

Film

Hercules

Alcmene (voice)

Film

Giant

Mary Lou Decker

Film

Breaking Away

Evelyn Stoller

Film

Private Benjamin

Harriet Benjamin

Film

Barney Miller

Elizabeth Miller

Film

Real Men

Mom Pirandello

Film

The Six Wives of Henry Lefay

Mae

Film

Six by Sondheim

Self (archive footage)

Filmography

Acting (99)

Movies (47)

Things Like This

2025

as Portia Anthony

6.3

The Magnificent Meyersons

2023

as Celeste

4.0

Keeping Company with Sondheim

2022

as Self

9.0

Significant Other

2020

as Helene Berman

Above All Things

2018

as Maggie

7.0

Six by Sondheim

2013

as Self (archive footage)

Twelve Thirty

as Eve

Harvest

as Yetta Monopoli

Frame Of Mind

as Thelma

The Six Wives of Henry Lefay

as Mae

Second Best

as Dorothea

Judy Berlin

as Sue Berlin

$pent

as Mrs. Walsh

30 Days

as Barbara Trainer

A Chance of Snow

as Ruth Pulmer

Hercules

as Alcmene (voice)

My Breast

as Milly

The Odd Couple: Together Again

1993

as Gloria Unger

10.0

First Impressions

1992

as Anne Charney

UFO Cafe

1990

as Delores

Kojak: Flowers For Matty

1990

as Dora Mattingly

4.5

After the Rain

1988

as Rachel Bonner

Winnie

as Mrs. Drake

My First Love

as Ruth Waxman

Real Men

as Mom Pirandello

End of the Line

as Jean Haney

Vital Signs

as Frances

The Execution

as Sophie Langbein

Not Just Another Affair

as Martha Dawson

Barefoot In the Park

as Mrs. Banks

Working

as Schoolteacher

Two of a Kind

as Dottie Minor

The Children Nobody Wanted

as Hanna

Private Benjamin

as Harriet Benjamin

To Race the Wind

as Mrs. Krents

Breaking Away

as Evelyn Stoller

The Bell Jar

as Jay Cee

Summer of My German Soldier

as Mrs. Bergen

Child of Glass

as Emily Armsworth

Tell Me My Name

as Emily McPhail

For the Use of the Hall

1975

as Charlotte

6.0

To Be Young, Gifted and Black

The Rank and File

Original Cast Album: Company

1970

as Self / Sarah

7.2

One Potato, Two Potato

1964

as Julie Cullen Richards

The Caretakers

as Edna

Giant

as Mary Lou Decker

Television (52)

Pushing Daisies

as Mamma Jacobs

Army Wives

as Virginia

Dead Like Me

as Phyllis

Law & Order: Special Victims Unit

as Paula Haggerty

Once and Again

Hercules

as Alcmene (voice)

Suddenly Susan

as Helen 'Nana' Keane

Scarlett

as Pauline Robillard

The Commish

as Ann Palmer

Law & Order

as Mrs. Bream

thirtysomething

I'll Take Manhattan

as Sarah Amberville

Lovejoy

as Miss Lillian

Kate & Allie

Double Trouble

as Margo Foster

Reggie

as Elizabeth Potter

Family Ties

as Aunt Rosemary

Tucker's Witch

as Ellen Hobbes

Breaking Away

as Evelyn Stohler

Roots: The Next Generations

1979

as Dodie Brattle

7.5

Backstairs at the White House

as Mamie Eisenhower

Lou Grant

79 Park Avenue

as Kaati Fludjicki

Barney Miller

as Elizabeth Miller

Barney Miller

as Elizabeth Miller

Bronk

Diana

as Norma Brodnik

Great Performances

as Self

McMillan & Wife

as Emily Church

The Mary Tyler Moore Show

as Judith Chandler

The Dick Cavett Show

as Self - Guest

Ironside

The Invaders

as Gale Frazer

The Fugitive

as Aiemee Rennick

Bob Hope Presents the Chrysler Theatre

as Laurel Catlan

Mr. Novak

as Mary Smith

The Alfred Hitchcock Hour

as Isabel Smith

The Virginian

as Ellen Beecher

Dr. Kildare

as Peggy Farrow

The Defenders

as Fran Helber

Ben Casey

Kraft Mystery Theatre

Route 66

The Twilight Zone

as Myra Russell

Rawhide

as Liz Harmon

Naked City

as Rosalind Faber

Decoy

as Mrs. Foley

Playwrights '56

The Wonderful World of Disney

as Emily Armsworth

Love of Life

Robert Montgomery Presents

1950

as Maggie Correll

5.6

Kraft Television Theatre

1947

7.5