Julia Álvarez

Julia Álvarez was born on Mar 27, 1950 in USA. Julia Álvarez's big-screen debut came with In the Time of the Butterflies directed by Mariano Barroso in 2001.

Julia Alvarez, the second of four daughters, was born in New York City on March 27, 1950, but her parents brought her home to their native Dominican Republic when she was less than a month old. Her father, a doctor, was active in the underground movement against the dictator General Rafael Trujillo. Because of these activities, the Alvarez family was forced to flee the Dominican Republic in August 1960, and resettled permanently in New York. At the age of thirteen, Julia Alvarez was sent by her parents to Abbot Academy, a private boarding school for girls.