Julie Dretzin

Julie Dretzin is an American actress and audiobook reader whose first professional role was Tess Goode in the Broadway play The Sisters Rosensweig in 1993. She was born in 1968 in the United States. Her stage work continued with The Family of Mann and Uncommon Women and Others in 1994, and she appeared in A Dybbuk with the Hartford Stage Company a year later. On television she appeared in Six Feet Under as Barb, the sister of Lisa Kimmel, across six episodes, and her performances as Pamela in Breaking Bad and as Eleanor in The Handmaid's Tale were well received. Her films include Beastly (2011), Goodbye World (2013) and Ride (2014). She has also narrated audiobooks, some for children and in a range of accents, and in 2003 the Young Adult Library Services Association put her 2001 reading of The Beetle and Me: A Love Story on its list of audiobooks for young adults.