Julia McKenzie

Julia McKenzie (born 17 February 1941) is an English actress and theatre director.

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McKenzie was born in Enfield, Middlesex, England, the daughter of Kathleen Rowe and Albion McKenzie. She is also a patron of The Stephen Sondheim Appreciation Society.

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Theatre

In London's West End her performing credits include Guys and Dolls (Miss Adelaide) and Sweeney Todd (Mrs Lovett), winning the Olivier Award for Best Actress in a Musical for both, and Woman in Mind for which she received the Evening Standard Award for Best Actress. She has also appeared in Follies and Into the Woods. She appeared in Side By Side By Sondheim in the West End and on Broadway, and was nominated for a Tony Award and a Drama Desk Award for her performance.

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Television

On television, McKenzie co-starred with Irene Handl in the sitcom Maggie and Her (1978-79). She went on to greater popularity with British viewers as Hester in Fresh Fields and the sequel French Fields in the 1980s opposite Anton Rodgers, for which she was voted TV Times Favourite Female Comedy Performance for five consecutive years. She also appeared as Mrs Forthby in Blott on the Landscape and as a Midsomer villager involved in a series of murders in an episode of Midsomer Murders. Film credits include Hotel du Lac, Shirley Valentine, Bright Young Things and These Foolish Things.

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In 2007 she was reunited with Anton Rodgers (again as a husband and wife team) in the ITV comedy You Can Choose Your Friends. In Autumn 2007 she co-starred with Michael Gambon and Judi Dench in the BBC1 costume drama series Cranford, playing Mrs Forrester, a military widow of slender means, very attached to her Alderney cow Daisy. This role was mooted to be given to GI Moore before McKenzie got the part.

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She was announced as the replacement for Geraldine McEwan as ITV's Miss Marple. On the announcement she said, "Just about everybody in the world knows about Miss Marple and has an opinion of what she should be like, so I'm under no illusions about the size of the task ahead. And I suppose I'll have to remind myself how to knit!" McKenzie's first series of Marple comprises A Pocket Full of Rye, Murder is Easy, Why Didn't They Ask Evans?, and They Do It with Mirrors. She is currently filming her second series of the show, with The Mirror Crack'd from Side to Side, The Secret of Chimneys, and The Blue Geranium.

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Other work

She is a radio performer with a long list of credits including Blithe Spirit, The Country Wife and A Room with a View. As a director she has staged Stepping Out, Peter Pan, Hey, Mr. Producer!, Steel Magnolias, Putting It Together and A Little Night Music.

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She also recorded an audio book of Lewis Carroll's Through the Looking Glass.

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