Julia herself was forced to fight a life-threatening illness -Ĭervical cancer. She and herįamily vainly tried to nurse him back to health. Life turned extremely dark for Julia at this point.ĭivorced from Hibbert, brother Michael developed lymphoma. Generate great buzz, however, as it was basically a one-joke premise Pat's equally androgynous partner "Chris." The feature film did not SheĬo-wrote the script with Hibbert and co-starred with David Foley who played
JULIA SWEENEY SPOKANE MOVIE
Highly discouraged, Julia parted ways with SNL in 1994 and worked up a featureįilm version of It's Pat: The Movie (1994) while her irons in the fire were hot. During her SNL stay, she managed some outside work with small roles in the comedy Honey, I Blew Up the Kid (1992) the SNL related feature film Coneheads (1993) and the drama Pulp Fiction (1994). The show, including her timid wallflower type named "Mea Culpa," whoseĬharacter became the basis of a stage show co-written by Julia andĪctor/writer/husband Stephen Hibbert called "Mea's Big Apology" in 1992. "Pat" would outshine practically everything else she did on Underused, which seemed to be the case for many of its distaff team at Though she became a regular cast member the following season and found an instantĪudience rapport with her creepy Pat character, the comic gifts were vastly
JULIA SWEENEY SPOKANE TV
Sketch-writing, Julia was escalated to the big time appearing on such TV shows as "Brothers," "Hard Time on Planet Earth" and "Not Necessarily the News, she hit an early peak when she was selected to join Saturday Night Live (1975) in 1990 as a featured player. Afterįine-tuning her skills in improv, character development and Taking classes on a whim at the famed Groundlings Theater.
Finally developing the courage to realize her dream, she started She worked for five years as an accountant for Columbia Studios in LosĪngeles. With the show business arena following graduation.
With a prep school education, she first came into contact Julia, the oldest of five children born to an Irish-Catholic federal prosecutor,ĭemonstrated an early talent for mimicry but downplayed any interest in This sniveling,Ĭhunky-framed, springy-haired, plaid shirt-wearing, grotesque-lookingĬharacter named Pat was the basis of many hilarious sketches that toyed Single, highly unappetizing androgynous character.
Benevolent, sweet-faced, actress and comedienne Julia (Anne) Sweeney, who wasīorn on Octoin Spokane, Washington, is normally identified with one
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