Julie Hagerty

Julie Beth Hagerty is an American actress born on June 15, 1955, in Cincinnati, Ohio. Her father, Jerald William "Jerry" Hagerty Jr., was a musician, and her mother, Harriet Yuellig, worked as a model and singer. Her brother Michael Hagerty was also an actor. Hagerty attended Indian Hill High School and was signed with Ford Models at age fifteen, spending summers modeling in New York City. She relocated to the city permanently in 1972, where she worked at her brother's theater group and studied with actor William Hickey.

Hagerty made her off-Broadway debut in 1979 at her brother's theater, The Production Company, starring in Mutual Benefit Life. In 1983 she appeared off-Broadway at the Vandam Theatre in Shel Silverstein's Wild Life, directed by Art Wolff, in an ensemble production that also featured W.H. Macy, Christopher Murney, Henderson Forsythe, Conard Fowkes, Jody Gelb, Howard Lee Sherman, and Raynor Scheine. Her Broadway career spanned from 1986 to 2002 and included productions of Three Men on a Horse, The Front Page, The House of Blue Leaves, and the 2002 revival of Morning's at Seven. She received a Theatre World Award in 1986.

Her film career began with a small part in All That Jazz that was cut from the finished film. She was subsequently cast opposite Robert Hays in the parody film Airplane!, released in June 1980, in which she played Elaine Dickinson. The film became the third-highest-grossing comedy in box office history at that time, behind Smokey and the Bandit and National Lampoon's Animal House. She reprised the role in Airplane II: The Sequel in 1982. Throughout the 1980s, Hagerty appeared in a range of theatrical films, including Woody Allen's A Midsummer Night's Sex Comedy in 1982 and Albert Brooks's Lost in America in 1985.

During the 1990s and 2000s, Hagerty took on supporting roles in Hollywood films and television projects. Her film credits from this period include What About Bob? in 1991, Just Friends in 2005, and She's the Man in 2006. In 1991 she starred alongside Fran Drescher and Twiggy in the CBS sitcom Princesses, which aired for five weeks. She later starred in the short-lived 1998 sitcom Reunited and played Charlotte Sterling in a 1999 episode of Everybody Loves Raymond. Beginning in 2003, she had a recurring role as a babysitter named Polly on Malcolm in the Middle, and starting in 2011 she took over the voice role of Carol, Lois's sister, on Family Guy.

Hagerty's later film work includes A Master Builder in 2014, Instant Family in 2018, Marriage Story and the Disney film Noelle in 2019, and A Christmas Story Christmas in 2022, in which she played Mrs. Parker, the mother of Ralphie, a role originated by Melinda Dillon in the 1983 original. She also appeared in the series Trial & Error in 2017 in a recurring role as a pet parapsychologist and starred in the series Black Monday in 2019. In 2023, two additional films featuring Hagerty were released: the action-comedy The Out-Laws, directed by Tyler Spindel, and the romantic comedy Somebody I Used to Know.

In her personal life, Hagerty lived with Bob Fosse during most of 1978. She married Peter Burki in 1986; the couple divorced in 1991. She subsequently married insurance executive Richard Kagan in 1999.