Born Julie Oliver in Dallas, Texas. Julie's first exposure to the performing arts was an outdoor production of Romeo & Juliet at SMU when she was five. She was immediately smitten and thus began a lifelong love of Shakespeare and acting. She has been involved in stage acting most of her adult life but it wasn't until later in life that she discovered that she loved film acting as well when serendipity introduced her to film directors Josh Bass and Wayne Slaten. She studied Communication Arts at Austin College and Engineering Geology at Texas A&M.