Julyana Soelistyo

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Julyana Soelistyo
Bornc. 1971
Sumatra, Indonesia
Other namesJulyana Barrett
OccupationActress
Years active1998–Present
SpouseTim Barrett

Julyana Soelistyo is an American stage and film actress who, in 1998, was nominated for a

Tony Award for Best Featured Actress in a Play for her performance in Golden Child
.

Early life

Julyana Soelistyo was born to

Penang, Malaysia, taking lessons in piano and violin. Later, she attended Oregon State University, where she appeared in productions of The Tempest (as Ariel), Les Liaisons Charmantes, The Misanthrope and Piaf.[1] After Soelistyo graduated in 2002, she attended San Francisco's American Conservatory Theater to earn her MFA.[2] During 1995–1997, Soelistyo played the title characters, all of which were children, in the Seattle Children's Theatre plays Naomi's Road, Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, and Still Life with Iris.[2]

Career

Soelistyo met

Clarence Derwent Award and was nominated for a Tony Award, but lost to Anna Manahan
.

She has also appeared in the Yale Repertory Theatre's performance of Iphigenia at Aulis, as Cordelia and the Fool in the 1998 New Jersey Shakespeare Festival's performance of King Lear,[5] Imogen in Cymbeline at the Intiman Theatre in Seattle, Dorie in the world premiere of On the Jump, and the Daughter of Antiochus/ Marina in the Brooklyn Academy of Music's Pericles.

Soelistyo has appeared in the films Earthly Possessions and Martin Scorsese's Bringing Out the Dead. Steven Spielberg offered her the role of Pumpkin in Memoirs of a Geisha, and Soelistyo was cast, but the part ultimately went to Youki Kudoh.[6]

In 2010, she appeared in The Tempest in a production at the Stratford Festival, again as Ariel, opposite Christopher Plummer.[7] The production was filmed in 2010 and had its Canadian and US theatrical release in 2012.[8]

Personal

She is married to Tim Barrett, a former Oregon State pre-med student whom she met when he worked on stage lighting for the university's theatre program.[1][2]

References

  1. ^ a b Floyd, Mark. OSU grad nominated for Tony Award for "Golden Child", Oregon State University, May 5, 1998. Retrieved June 4, 2008.
  2. ^ a b c Drukman, Steven. Trusting a Playwright's Language, The New York Times, May 24, 1998. Retrieved June 4, 2008.
  3. ^ Canby, Vincent. Is the New Hot Playwright Profound or Just Slick?, The New York Times, April 26, 1998. Retrieved June 4, 2008.
  4. ^ Jenkins, Jeffrey Eric. Broadway alive and kicking, Seattle Post-Intelligencer, May 25, 1998. Retrieved June 4, 2008.
  5. ^ Klein, Alvin. A Season with Star Power on Many a Marquee, The New York Times, September 13, 1998. Retrieved June 4, 2008.
  6. ^ Seno, Alexandra. Asia Now: People, CNN, November 30, 2000. Retrieved June 4, 2008.
  7. ^ Kaplan, Jon (2010-09-02). "The Tempest". NOW. Retrieved 2020-12-04.
  8. IMDb Edit this at Wikidata

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