Julia Morrison was born Julia Anne Holys in Palo Alto, CA. She attended The College of William & Mary on a full scholarship, where she studied biology. Upon graduation & at the encouragement of her theater professor, she moved to New York to pursue a career in film & acting.

Julia is a Grillo-Marxuach Family Fellow in Writing for Film & TV at USC's School of Cinematic Arts, an Alliance for Women in Media and Loreen Arbus Foundation Scholar, and a graduate of the Maggie Flanigan Studio - a Meisner-based acting conservatory.