Julie Hagerty's unique personality and talent likely would have been better served had she worked under the Hollywood studio system. As it is, her place in cinema history is secure with her role of stewardess Elaine Dickinson in the comedy classic Airplane! (1980). Hagerty should have evolved into a latter-day Jean Arthur, or become a highly ...
Outer Critics Circle Award for Outstanding Featured Actress in a Play
Movies
Airplane!, Airplane II: The Sequel, What About Bob?, She's the Man, Lost in America, Just Friends, Confessions of a Shopaholic, A Midsummer Night's Sex Comedy, Noises Off, Freddy Got Fingered, Beyond Therapy, The Story of Us, A Guy Thing, A Master Builder, 2081, Storytelling, Bad Medicine, Bloodhoun...
TV Shows
The Winner, Women of the House, Princesses, Reunited
Summers with her family in the Lakes Region area of Maine.
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Married to life insurance industry and theatrical producer Richard Kagan (2007).
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Was personally involved with writer-director Albert Brooks in the 1980s, who cast her in his film Lost in America (1985).
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Auditioned for her first role in the Off-Off Broadway play, "Mutual Benefit Life", written by playwright Robert Patrick and directed by Norman René ("Prelude to a Kiss"), just to get experience in auditioning, and to her surprise was cast after one reading. She was also cast by Rene in the next play at the same theater and was seen in it and immediately signed for Airplane! (1980).
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Once romantically involved with director/choreographer Bob Fosse, she was cast in a small role in his film All That Jazz (1979). Her role ended up on the cutting room floor.
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Listed as one of twelve "Promising New Actors of 1985" in John Willis' Screen World, Vol. 37.