Julia Sweeney Biography
Julia Sweeney is an American actor, comedian, and author who rose to prominence as a cast member of the NBC sketch comedy series Saturday Night Live, which ran from 1990 until 1994. She played Mrs. Keeper in the film Stuart Little and voiced Brittany in Father of the Pride. She has recently been on the Hulu series Shrill, Showtime’s Work in Progress, and Starz’s American Gods.
How old is Julia Sweeney? – Age
She is 64 years old as of 10 October 2023. She was born in 1959 in Spokane, Washington, United States. Her real name is Julia Anne Sweeney.
Julia Sweeney Family – Education
Sweeney was born and raised in Spokane, Washington, the daughter of Robert Mark Sweeney and Jeraldine “Jeri” Sweeney (née Ivers). Her father was an attorney and federal prosecutor, while her mother was a homemaker. She has an Irish Catholic background. Sweeney is the oldest of five children; she had two brothers, William Robert “Bill” Sweeney and Michael Ivers Sweeney, both of whom died; she also has a brother, Jim Sweeney, and a sister, Meg Sweeney. As a child, she enjoyed impersonating voices and making up characters. She attended Marycliff High School and Gonzaga Preparatory School, where she performed in several plays. She graduated from the University of Washington with a double major in economics and European history, where she also served as student body vice president and joined the Delta Gamma sorority.
Is Julia Sweeney married? – Husband
Sweeney’s husband Michael Blum is a scientist. The couple has a daughter, who they adopted from China. They live in Chicago.
Julia Sweeney Net Worth
She has an estimated net worth of $2 million.
How tall is Julia Sweeney? – Height
She stands at a height of 5 feet 7¾ inches (1.72 m).
Julia Sweeney Saturday Night Live
Lorne Michaels, the producer of Saturday Night Live (SNL), spotted Sweeney during a Groundlings performance in 1989 and gave her a spot as one of the show’s featured actors. She joined the regular Saturday Night Live cast the next year and stayed with the show for four seasons, 1990-1994. Pat, whose gender was impossible to tell, inspired Sweeney’s iconic It’s Pat! sketches on Saturday Night Live as well as a later feature film of the same name, which was a critical and commercial failure.
Julia Sweeney Monologues
In the wake of leaving the cast of Saturday Night Live, Sweeney got back to Los Angeles where, without further ado a while later, her profession was required to be postponed by a progression of individual injuries. Her sibling Michael was determined to have lymphoma, and presently Sweeney found that she also had malignant growth. Her sibling didn’t endure the disease. All through the trial, Sweeney recounted accounts of her encounters in serio-comic exhibitions at L.A’s. elective satire club, the Un-Nightclub, ultimately forming the tales into a one-lady stage show called God Said Ha!, which appeared at San Francisco’s Enchanted Performance center in 1995.
God Said Ha! moved to Broadway, winning the 1996 New York Parody Celebration’s Crowd Grant, and a Cd recording of the show procured her a Grammy selection for Best Satire Collection that very year. Miramax delivered a movie rendition of the show in 1998, coordinated by Sweeney and created by Quentin Tarantino. The film procured the Brilliant Space Needle Grant at the Seattle Global Film Celebration, and was delivered on DVD in 2003. Parts of the talks from Un-Supper club were highlighted on episode 9 of This American Life (then known as Your Radio Playhouse) in January 1996. Since her underlying discourse, she has showed up on three more This American Life episodes.
Sweeney’s subsequent talk chronicled the reception of her girl from China. In the Family Way began in front of an audience in New York City in mid 2003 at the Ars Nova Theater. The show was coordinated by Broadway stage chief Imprint Brokaw, prior to moving to the Groundlings Theater in Los Angeles. Sweeney has likewise delivered a Cd recording of In the Family Way and, in 2006, played out a 25-minute extract of the show at the Hollywood Bowl with another coordination composed particularly for her piece by writer Anthony Marinelli and performed by the Los Angeles Philharmonic.
Sweeney’s third personal discourse is named Relinquishing God. In it, she examines her Catholic childhood, early strict belief system, and the life altering situations and inside search that persuaded her to think that the universe can work all alone without a divinity to manage it; as well as her turning into a nonbeliever. Sweeney shares the record of when her mom told her that her birthday was truly October 10 rather than September 10, and that it was so horrendous to find she was not a winsome Virgo but rather actually a Libra.
A sound recording of Relinquishing God was delivered on Album in 2006, and it was shot live in front of an audience in May 2007. The film debuted at the Seattle Worldwide Film Celebration on June 13, 2008, and the DVD of the show was delivered in November 2008.
In the wake of removing a long time from the spotlight to be a rural Chicago housewife and mother, Sweeney got back with a fourth discourse in which she riffs on contemporary legislative issues and religion, among different subjects. The presentation was famous to such an extent that it sold out its unique six-day run at the Audrey Skirball Kenis Theater at the Geffen Playhouse in Los Angeles, as well as a one-week expansion. Sweeney showed up at the 2019 CSICon put on by the Middle for Request (CFI), where she introduced about portion of the speech for the gathering participants.