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Julie McCullough

Full / Real Name: Julie Michelle McCullough
Born: 30 January 1965 (59 years old)
Gender: Female

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Julie McCullough is an American model and actress and stand-up comedienne best known as Playboy magazine's Playmate of the Month for February 1986, and for her role as Julie Costello in the sitcom Growing Pains, a role from which she was controversially fired due to her Playboy career.

Television

McCullough was cast in the role of Julie Costello on Growing Pains in 1989 but only appeared in eight episodes before she was fired in 1990 after protests from the show's star Kirk Cameron, who converted to evangelical Christianity.

He called for McCullough's termination because of his objections to her having posed nude in Playboy, and accused the show's producers of promoting pornography.

A decade later, Cameron apologised to his TV family, attributing his prior behaviour to his lack of maturity, but did not mend fences with McCullough, who remains critical of him, stating that she lost a lot from the public criticism she endured from the controversy.

Aside from Growing Pains, McCullough has had recurring roles in the television series The Drew Carey Show, Robyn's Hoods, High Tide and Pacific Blue.

She has had guest appearances on the following shows:

Who's The Boss?
1st & Ten
Max Headroom
Superboy
The Golden Girls
Beverly Hills, 90210
Jake And The Fatman
Harry And The Hendersons
Drexell's Class
Relic Hunter
Black Scorpion

McCullough also appeared in the made-for-TV movies Without Her Consent (1990) and Arly Hanks (1993).

Film

McCullough has had roles in the following feature films:

Big Bad Mama II (1987)
The Blob (1988)
Round Trip to Heaven (1992)
The Baby Doll Murders (1993)
The St. Tammany Miracle (1994)
Echo of Blue (1996)
Top of the World (1997)
Breast Men (1997)
Me and Will (1999)
Intrepid (2000)
West from North Goes South (2004)

McCullough has not appeared on screen (big or small) since 2004 - she now works as a stand-up comedienne, and has performed at the Hollywood Improv, the Palms Hotel and Casino, and the Laugh Factory.


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Julie Costello


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