1. Julia Anne Sweeney was born on October 10,1959 and is an American actress and comedian.
17 Facts About Julia Sweeney
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Julia Sweeney gained fame as a cast member on the NBC sketch comedy series Saturday Night Live from 1990 to 1994.
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Julia Sweeney played Mrs Keeper in the film Stuart Little and voiced Brittany in Father of the Pride.
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Julia Sweeney appeared in the Hulu series Shrill, the Showtime series Work in Progress, and the Starz series American Gods.
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Julia Sweeney's father was an attorney and federal prosecutor, while her mother was a homemaker.
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Julia Sweeney attended Marycliff High School and Gonzaga Preparatory School, where she appeared in a number of plays.
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Julia Sweeney graduated with a double major in economics and European history from the University of Washington, where she was student body vice president and became a member of Delta Gamma sorority.
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In 1988, while still working as an accountant, Julia Sweeney enrolled in classes with the improvisational comedy troupe the Groundlings, eventually being selected to be part of the troupe's Sunday Company.
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At a Groundlings performance in 1989, Saturday Night Live producer Lorne Michaels discovered Julia Sweeney and offered her a spot as one of Saturday Night Live's featured players.
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Julia Sweeney joined the regular Saturday Night Live cast the following year and remained with the show through four seasons, from 1990 to 1994.
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Miramax released a film version of the show in 1998, directed by Julia Sweeney and produced by Quentin Tarantino.
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Julia Sweeney has released a CD recording of In the Family Way and, in 2006, performed a 25-minute excerpt of the show at the Hollywood Bowl with a new orchestration written especially for her piece by composer Anthony Marinelli and performed by the Los Angeles Philharmonic.
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Julia Sweeney appeared at the 2019 CSICon put on by the Center for Inquiry, where she presented about half of the monologue for the conference attendees.
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Julia Sweeney was the voice of Margo on the ABC animated series The Goode Family, Dr Glove on Back at the Barnyard, Miss Tronica on Lloyd in Space, and Sheri Squibbles in Pixar's 2013 animated film Monsters University.
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From 2009 to 2010, Julia Sweeney was part of the regular rotation of panelists for the NPR news quiz radio show Wait Wait.
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In 2021, Julia Sweeney was cast in the third season of American Gods on Starz.
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Julia Sweeney has long pushed for acceptance of people who are not religious, and in 2019 she was appointed to be on the board of directors of the Center for Inquiry.