Wednesday, June 16, 2010

The Beauty of Retrospect, Actress Edition: Julie Bowen

When I last featured television actress Julie Bowen, who first made a name for herself as Carol Vessey on the late and lamented NBC comedy-drama "Ed," she was on ABC's "Boston Legal."

That has changed.


Julie Bowen - still looking as gorgeous and fresh-faced as she did in 2000, when "Ed" debuted - now stars as Claire Dunphy in "Modern Family," a sitcom about an extended family comprised of three separate units - a traditional nuclear family, a gay couple and their adopted daughter, and a third unit involving the family patriarch married to a young and sexy trophy wife with a son from a previous marriage.

Claire is the mother in the nuclear family. In addition to dealing with a vain older daughter, a nasty younger daughter, and a dimwitted son, she has to contend with the whims of her doofus husband Phil, who is sort of like the guy Carol Vessey could have easily married if she hadn't wed Ed Stevens first.

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