Julie Aigner-Clark

## Julie Clark

**Julie Clark** (nee **Aigner**) is the founder of the Baby Einstein Company, the creator of the Baby Einstein franchise and the director of the first 10 videos in the series.

## Biography

Julie was born in 1967 and went to Michigan State University, where she got a degree in teaching. She then married William "Bill" Clark. They lived in Atlanta, GA where Julie gave birth to her daughter, Aspen in 1994. She left her job as a teacher and created Baby Einstein in when she discovered that there were no age-appropriate toys or videos or TV shows to share her love of art, classical music, language, and poetry with her daughter. She then gave birth to her younger daughter, Sierra in 1997. The family then moved to Colorado, where they filmed the rest of the videos until 2012. From 2005 to 2006, she started another company to help kids with Stranger Safety and Internet Safety, called The Safe Side. In 2016, she started another company which is similar to Baby Einstein called WeeSchool (originally created in 2013 as BabyBytes).

In early 2004, she was diagnosed with breast cancer. She is now cancer free.

## Personality

Julie is caring towards her children, but isn’t afraid to punish them if they go too far. She and her husband act playfully romantic towards each other, though she is apparently more level-headed than him. An example of this is when she's concerned about Aspen playing video games too much and tells her to do some sport outside in "The Loudest Yard".

Julie is an aspiring novelist, but initially seemed to lack a creative side. Prior to "A Novel Idea", her novel was about a bored dental assistant talking to her fish, based on her own experiences, before being inspired by Aspen to write about a thrill seeker with blonde hair, based on her own adventures.

The films have demonstrated that Julie can make big decisions from realizing just one detail. In *The Baby Einstein Movie*, she agreed to move to Scotland only from Aspen mentioning how their house in Denver has only one bathroom, and in *A Baby Einstein Christmas*, she agreed to chase down the Sharkodile only because it had picked up the Christmas decorations she put on the front of the house.

## Fan fiction

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## Names in other languages

 Spanish (Latin America)
 French
 Dutch
 German
 Italian
 Portuguese (Brazil)
 Russian
 Korean
 Mandarin (Taiwan)

## Voice Actors

* Alison Dowling (*UK*)
* Jill Talley (*US*)
* Aline Ghezzi (*Brazil*)
* Liu Xiaoyun (*China*)
* Vibeke Hastrup (*Denmark*)
* Minna Stärnjvall (*Finland*)
* Valérie Siclay (*France and French Speaking Canada*)
* Ranja Bonalana (*Germany*)
* Carina Luo (*Hong Kong*)
* Inga María Valdimarsdóttir (*Iceland*)
* Deborah Ciccorelli (*Italy*)
* María Fernanda Morales (*Latin America*)
* Lee Yong-Soon (*South Korea*)
* Sharon Dyall (*Sweden*)
* Phairod Chokdee Phusit (*Thailand*)
* Melise de Winter (*The Netherlands*)

## Trivia

* Julie's entire face was never shown during the first season. It was revealed along with her husband's in the Season 2 premiere.
	+ Before "11 Clarks a Leapin'," most of Julie's face was already revealed by "Cereal Offender."
* Julie is the only member of the immediate Clark family whose first name isn’t alliterative.
* Her name is a pun on the words "read aloud," after which an episode is also named.
	+ This references her goal to become a novelist.
* Out of all of the kids, she is closest with Aspen.
* Before Julie met her husband, she used to be a crossing guard.
* Julie made a voice speaking cameo on March 23, 2017, in the *Saturday Morning Hang Zone with Aspen Clark*.
* She’s strong enough to carry her husband.
	+ She also appears to be stronger than Bill himself, as she was able to turn the wrench when taking out the tire from Vanzilla, while he couldn’t in "Maddison Long".
* She’s a member of a book club.
* The colors and styles of clothing that the Clark and Ruderman parents wear correspond with each other. Julie and Mrs. Ruderman both wear red button-up shirts, with collars and rolled-up sleeves.
* She had freckles when she was younger.
* Her favorite color is violet.
* Julie is the third named character who had a birthday onscreen, after Brandon and Alice.
	+ Julie's birthday occurs a few weeks before Bill's half-birthday. Since Bill is a Libra, that means her birthday is somewhere in March or April, making her a Pisces or Aries.
* She knows how to fly a plane, because Albert told her stories of when he was in the navy and got the necessary knowledge on how flying a plane works.
* Julie and Bill had to separate at least one point in their marriage because Bill had infectious mononucleosis, which he caught from a contaminated microphone.
* It’s shown that Julie can make some dental jokes in "Julie Aigner-Clark".
* Julie doesn’t like Thessalonikian sheep dip, as she finds it too "gamey."
* She’s "not a fan" of snakes, so it’s unknown how she relates to El Diablo.
* She had a girdle at some point, which was then fashioned into one of Sierra's many identical purple t-shirts.
* When Bill cannot speak properly due to his fear, she understands him.
* She bought a tankini on her and Bill's honeymoon, but has since gained weight and no longer fits it.
* She is the only person whose lap Pavlov will sit upon.
* Julie herself believes that she and her relatives from her side of the family were all born in Denver.
* It's currently unknown if she has any siblings.
	+ It's also unknown if her mother is still alive since neither she nor Albert mentions her whereabouts.
	+ As of January 2024, it's never been revealed if any of Julie's relatives on her side of the family besides Albert and Ruth are still alive or if they're living in Denver.
* Bill proposed to her in the fall.
* She was best friends with Chef Pat, Mrs. Ruderman and Flip back in high school.
* She has been married to Bill for 21 years.
* Before Mia was born, she registered her kids for daycare but had been on the waiting list ever since she was pregnant with Sierra.
* Although she went to Luther J. Price Middle School and Midtown High School, it's currently unknown if she attended Morningside Elementary School during her childhood.
* She can play the the tambourine and the piano skillfully as seen in "House Music" and "Tripped!".
* She graduated Midtown High School in the 1990’s, so it's likely she was born in the late 1970’s.
* She and Bill were given a vase on their wedding day, which their children have broken several times.
* She, Maddison, Olivia, Aspen, Bill, Amy, Katie and Bailey are so far the only characters to have a birthday celebrated in an episode.
* She has a box of her old maternity clothes in the attic.
* She owns a particular type of expensive perfume, which she only wears while on dates with Bill.