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Julie White began her professional career in New York appearing in such off-Broadway plays as Lucky Stiff, The Stick Wife, Just Say No, The Family of Mann and a starring role in Spike Heels, with Kevin Bacon and Tony Goldwyn. On Broadway, she won accolades for her performance in Wendy Wasserstein's The Heidi Chronicles, for which she reprised her role in the TNT movie starring Jamie Lee Curtis. In recent years, she originated the role of Beth in Donald Margulis' Pulitzer Prize-winning Dinner with Friends and was included in the New York Times' Top Ten of the Year for her work in Theresa Rebeck's Bad Dates and Daniel Stern's Barbra's Wedding.

White recently ended a 16-week engagement on Broadway in Douglas Carter Beane's The Little Dog Laughed, playing the conniving Hollywood power broker Diane, a role she originated at Second Stage. For her outstanding work, she not only won an Obie Award but has also been nominated for a Tony Award, a Drama Desk Award, an Outer Critics Circle Award, a Drama League Award and a Lucille Lortel Award.

On film White was last seen in The Astronaut Farmer, starring Billy Bob Thornton. Her other movies include War of the Worlds, Slap Her…She's French, Say It Isn't So and What Women Want. On the small screen White's recurring roles include Dr. Anne Morella in Law & Order: Special Victims Unit, Mitzi Dalton-Huntley in Six Feet Under and as series regular Nadine Swoboda in Grace Under Fire. She has also made many guest appearances on such shows as Strong Medicine, JAG, Touched by an Angel, Arli$$ and Law & Order. She will next be seen in Tony Gilroy's Michael Clayton, starring George Clooney, and The Nanny Diaries, starring Laura Linney and Scarlett Johansson.

Born in San Diego, White attended Fordham University.