page_title: Julie Bowen
section_title: Personal life
hierarchical_section_title: Julie Bowen / Personal life
caption_attribution_description: English: Actress Julie Bowen at the 25th Annual ‘A Time for Heroes’ Celebration on October 19, 2014
context_page_description: Julie Bowen Luetkemeyer is an American actress, best known for playing Claire Dunphy on the TV comedy series Modern Family. She also played Aunt Gwen on Dawson's Creek, Carol Vessey on Ed, Denise Bauer on Boston Legal and Sarah Shephard on Lost. Her Modern Family role brought her six nominations for the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Comedy Series, which she won in 2011 and 2012.
  Bowen has also appeared in films such as Happy Gilmore, Multiplicity, Venus and Mars, Joe Somebody, Kids in America, Sex and Death 101, Crazy on the Outside, Jumping the Broom and Horrible Bosses.
context_section_description: Bowen suffers from the cardiovascular condition bradycardia in which her regular heartbeat is below normal. As a result, she has worn a pacemaker since her early twenties.
  Bowen married Scott Phillips, a real estate investor and software developer, on September 9, 2004. The couple has three sons, the first born in April 2007, and twins born in May 2009, with whom she was visibly pregnant when shooting the pilot for Modern Family. She is a self-described "low Protestant." In February 2018, she filed for divorce from Phillips which was finalized on September 13, 2018.
  Bowen has stated that motherhood has made her a lot more conservative.
  In 2016, Bowen appeared in "Fight Song", a Pitch Perfect-inspired music video shown at the Democratic National Convention in support of candidate Hillary Clinton.
caption: Bowen at the 25th Annual "A Time for Heroes" Celebration in October 2014
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