The Writeup: As the story goes, Julie's first audition was for the off Broadway play Mutual Benefit Life, an audition she was attending just to build some experience for herself. Much to her surprise she was cast in the role after just one reading. She also appeared in the next play at the same theater, which led to her casting in Airplane! (1980), her feature film debut and career making role. She was utterly perfect in the movie, hilarious as Elaine Dickinson, the redheaded flight attendant, a role she reprised in the 1982 sequel. Throughout her career Julie has appeared on a few TV shows, most notably Princesses (1991) and Reunited (1998), but she is primarily a feature film actress and has certainly found her greatest successes in the feature film realm. Not just a gifted comedic performer, she was excellent as Albert Brooks's wife in Lost in America (1985) and impressed critics and audiences alike with her turn in Goodbye, New York (1985). Other impressive film efforts include Rude Awakening (1989), What About Bob? (1991), Noises Off... (1992), U Turn (1997), Held Up (1999, a truly dreadful film starring Jamie Foxx), the monumentally dreadful Freddy Got Fingered (2001), and A Guy Thing (2003).