Julianna McCarthy

Julianna McCarthy is an American actress born in Erie, Pennsylvania on August 17th, 1929. She was fifty-one years old when she started acting, playing the role of Nadine in the 1980 film Seed of Innocence. Her first role in a horror film was the 1988 supernatural nightmare movie Bad Dreams. In 1990, she played Mrs. O'Hara in the Bert I. Gordon film Satan's Princess. Immediately following her work in this film, McCarthy was cast in the role of housekeeper Mrs. Sarah Johnson in the 1991 revival of the 1960s gothic soap opera Dark Shadows. McCarthy played a dual role in the program. In addition to playing Mrs. Johnson, she also played the role of Abigail Collins in a storyline commonly referred to as the "1790 Flashback". In 1995, Julianna played Walter Paisley's landlady Mrs. Swicker in Roger Corman's remake of the 1959 horror-comedy A Bucket of Blood. In 1996, she played Old Lady Bradley, mother to Dee Wallace's Patricia Ann Bradley in Peter Jackson's The Frighteners. In 2002, she played a professor in the biopic Ted Bundy.