Trivia

Has a pacemaker.

Is fluent in Italian.

Says that, while she was at the tail end of filming her fake labor scene on Boston Legal (2004), she went into actual labor with her son Oliver.

Graduated from Brown University in 1991 with a B.A. degree in Renaissance studies. She spent her junior year in Florence, Italy.

Julie Benz is often mistaken for her and, when asked for her autograph, Benz would sign Bowen's name.

Has three sons with her ex-husband Scott Phillips: Oliver McLanahan Phillips (b. April 10, 2007) and twins John Phillips and Gustav Phillips (b. May 8, 2009).

Her ex-husband Scott Phillips, a real-estate investor, proposed Thanksgiving 2003, when she was starring as schoolteacher "Carol Vessey" on TV's Ed (2000). The two were married from September 2004 to September 2018.

Her father Jack Luetkemeyer works in commercial real estate, Julie is the middle child among three daughters; older sister Molly Luetkemeyer is an interior designer in Los Angeles and younger sister Annie is a doctor in San Francisco.

Commented that, apparently genuinely, the actor out there now that she finds the sexiest is DJ Qualls, who makes a very unconventional sex symbol.

On her hit series Modern Family (2009) she was married to a real estate broker (played by Ty Burrell). In real life, she was married to a real estate investor.

Finalized her divorce from Scott Phillips four days after their 14th wedding anniversary.

Has said she regretted making The Last Man on Planet Earth (1999) because she was the non-lesbian character.

She is a spokesperson for Neutrogena.

Attended the prestigious Roland Park Country School in Baltimore, Maryland.

Went to Costa Rica on her honeymoon. While there, she and her husband helped newly-hatched baby turtles crawl from their nest to the ocean, ensuring that the group survived instead of being attacked by predators.

On the TV series Extreme (1995) she played a character named "Andie McDermot". She later co-starred in the movie An American Werewolf in Paris (1997), whose main male character (played by Tom Everett Scott) was named "Andy McDermot".

She is of German, as well as Scots-Irish/Northern Irish, Welsh, English, Scottish, Irish, and French, descent. Her great-great-grandfather, John Valcoulon LeMoyne, was a U.S. Representative from Illinois, and her great-great-great-grandfather, Magnus Miller Murray, was Mayor of Pittsburgh, from 1828 to 1830, and from 1831 to 1832. Magnus's father was Commodore Alexander Murray.

Lives in Beverly Hills, California.