Ms Julia McKenzie's Biography

Ms Julia McKenzie's Professional Career

Career

actress and director; Hon DLitt South Bank Univ 1999, Hon Dr Royal Acad of Music; FGSM 1985; Theatre West End and New York performances incl: Cowardy Custard, Miriam in Outside Edge, Lily Garland in On the Twentieth Century, Hobson's Choice, Schweyk in the Second World War, Miss Adelaide in Guys and Dolls (NT, Best Actress Variety Club Awards, Best Actress Soc of West End Theatre Awards, Olivier Award), Sally in Follies, The Witch in Into the Woods, Company, Promises Promises, Mame, Side by Side (by Sondheim); Alan Ayckbourn plays incl: Norman Conquests, Ten Times Table, Communicating Doors, Woman in Mind (Best Actress London Evening Standard Awards 1986); Mrs Lovett in Sweeney Todd (RNT, Olivier Award for Best Actress in a Musical) 1994, Royal Family 2001, Philadelphia Story 2005; theatre dir: Stepping Out (Duke of York's Theatre), Steel Magnolias (Lyric Theatre), Just So (Watermill Theatre Newbury), Merrily We Roll Along (staged concert, 1988), Putting it Together (NY and London), Little Night Music (Tokyo), Musical of the World (Denmark), Honk (NT, USA and Denmark, Best Musical Olivier Awards) 2000-01; Television incl: Fame is the Spur, Dear Box Number, Those Glory Glory Days, Blott on the Landscape, Absent Friends, Hotel du Lac, Adam Bede, Hester in Fresh Fields and French Fields (voted Favourite Comedy Performer TV Times Viewers' Poll 1985, 1986, 1987 and 1989), The Last Detective, Death in Holy Orders, Celebration 2006, You Can Choose Your Friends 2007, Cranford Chronicles 2007, Miss Marple in Marple 2008-, Cranford 2009; Film incl: Shirley Valentine, Old Curiosity Shop, Bright Young Things, Notes on a Scandal 2006

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