- Born
- Birth nameBarbara Ann Berman
- Height5′ 5½″ (1.66 m)
- After endless stage and television work, Barrie received a Cannes Film Festival Award for Best Actress for her performance in the ground-breaking racial drama One Potato, Two Potato (1964), as Julie, a young, white mother who marries a black man after she and her daughter are abandoned by her husband. The following decade, Barrie portrayed Evelyn in Breaking Away (1979), which earned her an Academy Award nomination for Best Supporting Actress, and later, an Emmy nomination, when she reprised the role in the television series based on the film. Later in her career, Barrie also was nominated for an Independent Spirit Award for Best Supporting Female for her performance as Sue Berlin, mother to the title character, Judy Berlin (1999).- IMDb Mini Biography By: Anthony Ronald Vario; M. Wallace
- SpouseJay Malcolm Harnick(July 23, 1964 - February 27, 2007) (his death, 2 children)
- Children
- Was in Charleston, South Carolina, making the TV mini-series Scarlett (1994) when she became dizzy and passed out. Taken to a nearby hospital, they did a sigmoidoscopy of the lower colon the following day and discovered that she had rectal cancer. She was treated successfully surgically. She wrote "Second Act" in 1997, a frank and irreverently humorous book chronicling her 30-year experience first with irritable bowel syndrome (IBS) and her cancer battle.
- She created Tomato Lightning, a spicy chutney available in gourmet food stores.
- Long married to Jay Malcolm Harnick, founder and longtime artistic director of TheatreworksUSA, the nation's largest company for young audiences and a training ground for some of the more noted names in entertainment, including F. Murray Abraham, for almost 40 years. Jay Harnick was the brother of Sheldon Harnick. Jay and Barbara's children are Jane Harnick and Aaron Harnick. During his tenure, Harnick's company performed for 50,000,000 children and earned Drama Desk and Lucille Lortel awards, the only children's theatre to do so. Jay Harnick retired in 2000 and died on February 27, 2007.
- She is the author of two critically acclaimed novels for young adults: "Lone Star" (1989) and "Adam Zigzag" (1995).
- Received a 1971 Tony nomination as Best Featured Actress in a Musical for her performance in Stephen Sondheim's "Company," and is also featured on the landmark documentary by D.A. Pennebaker on the making of the show's cast album.
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