An actress/writer/director/producer/stand-up comic, Edna Julie Harris was born on June 26, 1976 in New York City. Her show biz career began at age 3, as a model for print advertisements.

By age 6, she was performing in local theatre, doing commercials and lending her voice to numerous voice-overs and jingles for radio and television commercials (in fact as a child Harris recorded over 200 voice-overs for radio, television, and animation). She also landed a role on Broadway, at age 9, in The Marriage of Figaro, starring Christopher Reeve. She made numerous television appearances, including at age 11 having a supporting role in a 1988 made-for-television movie, Gryphon, starring Amanda Plummer (the movie was later released on home-video in 1990).