Andrea Bowen

Andrea Bowen is an American actress who began on Broadway as a child and became known for playing Julie Mayer on Desperate Housewives. Born in Columbus in 1990, she made her Broadway debut in 1996 in Les Misérables as Young Cosette, the youngest actress ever to take the role at six. She stayed on Broadway through 2001, appeared in the 1998 revival of The Sound of Music and played Adèle in the 2000 musical Jane Eyre, and returned to The Sound of Music at the Hollywood Bowl in 2006 as Liesl. She played Julie Mayer from 2004 to 2012, and her screen work also includes guest roles on Boston Public, One Tree Hill and Law & Order: Special Victims Unit, plus the films Eye of the Dolphin (2007), The Preacher's Daughter (2012) and G.B.F. (2014). She shared two Screen Actors Guild Awards for the Desperate Housewives ensemble and won a Prism Award.