Broadway Legend Julie Harris, Five-Time Tony Winner, Dies at 87

Broadway performer Julie Harris passed away this Saturday in her Massachusetts home at age 87. Though the actress appeared in film and television, she will be remembered primarily for her stage performances - as Sally Bowles in "I Am a Camera" and as Emily Dickinson in "The Belle of Amherst."

In her long and distinguished career, the Michigan-native won five Tony Awards for best actress in a play, more than anyone else in that category. She also starred in a number of memorable screen roles, including the romantic lead opposite James Dean in "East of Eden," adapted from the classic Steinbeck novel, as well as Lilimae Clements on the prime-time soap "Knots Landing" from 1980 to 1987.

Harris had her first stroke in 2001 while appearing in a production of Claudia Allen's "Fossils" in Chicago, and then suffered a second one in 2010, according to a close family friend.

Harris seemed to have found her voice and her greatest success in theater. She once said, "The theater has been my church. I don't hesitate to say that I found God in the theater."