Julie Morkel

Julianne Shannon Morkel (born August 21, 1978) is an American actress, writer, voice actress and producer. She is best known for playing Laurie Deegan in Madcaps and Aurora Barretta in Enigma Beach, and for voicing Morgana in This Is The Way to Tinseltown. She is also a writer and production manager for Mole Miner, a writer and occasional voice actor on Living on an Edge and Dan & Marilyn, and an executive producer for Preternatural and The Morkels. She is the sister of Phelan and Jason Morkel.

Early life
Julianne Shannon Morkel was born in. Her father Nicholas H. Morkel (born 1931) was born in, and her mother Cassandra Morkel (née Bergamo; 1930-2014) was born in , and settled in  at the age of 6. Her brothers are cartoonist, animator, writer, filmmaker, actor and singer Phelan Morkel (born 1975) and actor Jason Morkel (born 1980).

Morkel describing her upbringing as "pleasant", as her parents wished to make sure their children grew up having a positive outlook on life. By the age of 6, she had already developed a talent for writing stories.

Morkel attended, which her brothers also attended. She went to the, but did not graduate before moving to to begin a career in television.

Career
Morkel's first acting roles came in 1997 when she did voice work on a few anime dubs for Gotaku at Boston City Sound Studios under the pseudonym "Julianne Bergamo", including voicing Azusa Noyama in four episodes of their English dub of  when the character's regular voice actress Amanda Forzano went on vacation. Morkel's big break was her role as supporting character Aurora Barretta in the last six seasons of RKO's Enigma Beach from 1999 to 2005; she later reprised that role in the sequel series Genesis. Morkel also starred as Laurie Donohue in sitcom Summer & Laurie (2000–2001), which ran for one season.

As did the rest of the cast, Morkel gained unexpected popularity with the premiere of the RKOx sitcom Madcaps in 2010, in which she plays main character Laurie Deegan. Her portrayal of the character has since gotten her nominated for six for. She received a nomination for the for her performance as Linda Castro in the 2013 film M.

In addition to performing in live-action and animated productions, Julie has also been involved in other aspects of animation, such as having been a production manager for Mole Miner since season 8, and she has also written episodes of Mole Miner, Morten, Living on an Edge and Dan & Marilyn, as well as episodes of non-Morkel & Associates series such as Two for One.

In 2018, she was cast in her brother Phelan's longtime associate Ty Wojciehowicz's animated period comedy-drama series This Is The Way to Tinseltown, where she voices the free-spirited dancer Morgana.

Relationships
Morkel married animation writer Steven Deller in 2009 at the Ecumenical Church of Christ in,. They live in.

Interests and hobbies
Morkel is a collector of vintage dolls, a hobby referenced in some of her work, including her decision to make the Mole Miner character Sammy a doll collector. She is also a fan of the  toyline and franchise, having worked alongside her husband as writers on the 2022 animated series.