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Julie Minta Gleneck is the epitome of the charismatic, All-American girl next door! Bringing a refreshing energy to any project she is involved in, she most recently has directed that enthusiasm towards producing and hosting her own TV show, The American Spirit, which focuses on the unsung heroes who make a difference in people's lives. |
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Julie grew up in the small town of Wilton, New Hampshire (pop. 2700), and is the second of five children. As a child, she was intellectually gifted, reading books at the age of 2 years and became the first student at Wilton Elementary School to skip a grade in 1980. Julie is also very artistically talented. She joined her first onstage production at the tender age of 5 as Pierre in Pierre and the Lion. Continuing to excel in her studies as an honor roll student, she continued to persue her artistic bent by auditioning for professional productions at the age of 8. A few years and many productions later, Julie discovered that this was her true love; to make people happy, to laugh, to cry, and to help them to escape their everyday problems by performing for them. |
| By the age of 17, she had taken part in over 20 stage productions including The Little Prince, Five Children,Harriet the Spy, and Regarding Electra. Determined to make it, she worked her way through modeling school and began competing in pageants. In 1992 while dually preparing to audition for the lead role in Snow White; and in competing in the Miss New Hampshire | |
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| Teen USA pageant, Julie's car slid out of control on black ice and slammed into a telephone pole, head-on, on a stormy winter day while driving home from school. She sustained life-threatening injuries. As the jaws of life pried her out of the wreckage 2 ½ hours later, the rescue crew noticed the complete dismemberment of her right knee and terrible lacerations to the right side of her face, a major artery was severed |  |
| on her leg, causing a loss of pulse twice. With amazing medical attention and a complete determination to fulfill her life's passion, Julie was spurred on through rehabilitation and recovering | |
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captured her role of Snow White and to place 2nd runner up in that
year's Miss New Hampshire Teen USA pageant. In late 1992, Julie began her college career at Boston's renowned Regis College, mostly on scholarships she had been awarded. It was while at Regis that she discovered a love for travel. On a tour to Italy with the combined choirs of Regis and Worcester Polytechnic Institute, she had the opportunity to sing for Pope John Paul II at the Vatican in Rome. While preparing to graduate in 1996 with a bachelor’s degree in television broadcasting and a minor in the fine arts, Julie was crowned Miss New Hampshire USA 1996. At 20 years old, Julie was one of the youngest state titleholders. |
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| A whirlwind of a year was to come. Speaking and inspiring many people at over 30 appearances for charities such as the Special Olympics, Boys & Girls Clubs, High Hopes Foundation, Shriner's, and at the Alzheimer's Association, Julie still holds these organizations close to her heart. |
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In the spring of 1996, on the same day that Julie auditioned for the Yale School of Drama's graduate program, she was honored with the Jaycee's Outstanding Young Citizen of New Hampshire award. Upon graduation, the world was her oyster. Julie was lured to the lights, camera, action of Hollywood by a talent manager that saw her during the Miss USA pageant. In January 1997, with $600 in her pocket, 3 suitcases, and a dream, she left the comfort of family and friends, and boarded a one-way flight to Los Angeles. |
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After working closely with a Malibu, CA film company, developing
their independent films, Julie decided to start producing her own
TV show in 2003. This amazing and inspiring show became called, The American Spirit, and is produced through Julie's own production company, JMG Productions. In addition, Julie continued to exhibit her entrepreneurial skills by founding and operating Pageant Prints, a company that caters to pageant printing needs, for contestants and directors alike, from 2003-2007. She continues her passion of pageants and live events by coordinating weddings and producing other live events part-time. She has earned both her California and Arizona Real Estate License and currently works as an Industrial Specialist for NAI Horizon (www.naihorizon.com) in Phoenix, AZ as another avenue for having fun and earning a living at the same time! Always a hard-working and determined young woman, these events are merely stepping stones in her dynamic career and life journey!
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