 A noted child actor, Whelan first appeared on screen at the age of eleven, and continued to take television roles until her matriculation into Middlebury College in 2004; Whelan graduated magna cum laude from Middlebury in 2008 after spending the 2006-7 academic year as a visiting student at Lincoln College, Oxford.Whelan returned to film acting in November 2008 with a role in the fantasy thriller "Fading of the Cries".Julia May Whelan was born in Oregon on May 8, 1984.