Julie Payne

Julie Payne is an American television, film and stage actress who, in a career lasting over four decades, has specialized primarily in comedy roles as well as voice acting. She was a cast member in three short-lived network sitcoms during 1983–1986, and appeared in about twenty feature films and over a hundred episodes of TV series as well as providing voices for scores of TV animated shows, of which her best known character is that of Liz Wilson.

Early life Julie Payne was born in Indianapolis, Indiana , but in the early 1950s her family moved to Sweet Home, Oregon, near the lake and river areas adjoining the Cascade Range, where her father got a job as the local newspaper editor . Growing up in the state's second-largest city, Eugene, she attended South Eugene High School, where she performed in a number of school productions, including The Music Man, The Madwoman of Chaillot, The Lark and Once Upon a Mattress. After graduating in 1964, she moved to California, where she studied drama at Santa Clara University and French at San Francisco State University. Her father, Ken Payne, later became head of the English Department at Sheldon High School; her mother, Lucy Payne, was an author.

Career Leaving college without a degree, Payne traveled to Europe, where she hitchhiked through various locations and, upon returning to San Francisco during the 1967 Haight-Ashbury "Summer of Love", became a member of the improvisational comedy/satire group, The Committee, remaining with it, on and off, until 1974.

Personal life Payne married actor-songwriter Richard Reicheg.

Filmography

Film

Television