![]() Avg.User Rating: Rate this person: Actor Born: June 15, 1955 in Cincinnati, OH Biography:Like many actresses who've been typecast as airheads, Julie Hagerty is infinitely more intelligent than most of the characters she's played. After six years' worth of training in her hometown of Cincinnati and at Julliard, Hagerty pursued a modelling career in New York, continuing to take acting lessons under the tutelage of William Hickey. She then spent a few seasons playing a variety of roles at the Production Company, a Greenwich Village theatre troupe which she co-founded with her brother Michael. In 1980, she appeared in her first film, playing ditzy stewardess Elaine Dickinson in the disaster-flick lampoon "Airplane!". The following year, she delivered a marvelous performance as the limited-intellect mistress of professorial Jose Ferrer in Woody Allen's "A Midsummer Night's Sex Comedy" (1982). A couple of inconsequential projects followed (including the inevitable "Airplane!" sequel) before... Full Biography
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