Julie Carmen is a psychotherapist with an extensive background as an actress. Born in New York, she came to prominence onscreen in the 1980s, winning the Venice Film Festival Best Supporting Actress Award for her role in John Cassavetes' Gloria opposite Gena Rowlands and Buck Henry. Her acting training was with Sanford Meisner at Neighborhood Playhouse and with Uta Hagen at HB Studios. Julie Carmen was on the Board of Directors of both Women in Film for three years and IFP/West for six years. She received a BS from SUNY; a Masters in Clinical Psychology from Antioch and is a Licensed Marriage Family Therapist. She is also certified through the International Association of Yoga Therapists and Yoga Alliance at the ERYT-500 level.
Julie was the female lead in more than three dozen feature films, mini-series and movies-of-the-week. After a break-out performance in Robert Redford's Milagro Beanfield War, (watch video clips at http://www.nowcasting.com/juliecarmen) Julie starred in John Carpenter's In the Mouth of Madness opposite Sam Neill; The Penitent opposite Armand Assante and Raul Julia; Finding The Way Home opposite George C. Scott, who she co-starred with again in Deadly Currents with William Peterson. Julie played the female lead in Michael Mann's Emmy nominated NBC mini-series Drugs Wars Part Two: The Cocaine Cartel and she played Angelina Jolie's mom in the Hallmark mini series True Women. Julie starred opposite Val Kilmer in Gore Vidal's Billy the Kid; opposite John Leguizamo in King Of The Jungle and plays a cameo in the upcoming Falling Awake. Julie developed a cult following for her Vampiress Regine in Fright Night Part Two and for Nina, the environmental revolutionary in the HBO series Dream on. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pmAaR9xhGGg. In Europe Julie starred in films for Filmverlaug in Berlin and Boca Boca in Madrid. Julie was in the Broadway production of Luis Valdez's Zoot Suit and was the resident choreographer off-Broadway at Intar. Julie played the lead in Liz Estrada which the Getty Villa commissioned in 2007 as an update of the Greek anti-war play Lysistrata. See photos at http://www.juliecarmen.50webs.com.
Julie works primarily as a psychotherapist in private practice in Los Angeles. For the last five years, Julie has been teaching yoga to Suzanne Somers who wrote a Julie Carmen Yoga chapter in her book Ageless, The Naked Truth About Bioidentical Hormones. Julie distributes her instructional DVD "SlowFlow Yoga", and her audio CD "Yoga for Hormones" through http://www.YogaTalks.com and http://www.JulieCarmenYoga.com.
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