Emmy Award winning American actress Julie Bowen's showbiz career spans well over two decades, in the course of which she has essayed a number of memorable roles in several tv shows and movies. She is best familiar to the television audience for her work in shows like Ed (2000-04), Lost (2005-07), Boston Legal (2005-07) and Modern Family (2009-), the last of which won her back-to-back Primetime Emmy Awards for Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Comedy Series in 2011 and 2012.

Besides television, Bowen has also appeared in a number of films, notable among which are the sports comedy Happy Gilmore (1996), the comedy-drama Joe Somebody (2001), the black comedy Horrible Bosses (2011) and the 2018 comedy movie Life of the Party.