- Julia McKenzie
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caption = As Miss Marple (2008)
birthname = Julia McKenzie
birthdate = birth date and age|1941|2|17|df=yes
birthplace =Enfield ,Middlesex ,England ,UK
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occupation =Actress ,Presenter , Director,Writer
yearsactive = 1973 - present
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1982 "Guys and Dolls "
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awards =Julia McKenzie (born
17 February 1941 ,Enfield ) is an Englishactress andtheatre director .Career
McKenzie was born in Enfield,
Middlesex ,England , the daughter of Kathleen Rowe and Albion McKenzie. [ [http://www.filmreference.com/film/39/Julia-McKenzie.html Julia McKenzie Biography (1941-) ] ]Theatre
In London's West End her performing credits include "
Guys and Dolls " (Miss Adelaide) and "Sweeney Todd" (Mrs Lovett ), winning theOlivier 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.Television
On television she was popular with British viewers as Hester in "
Fresh Fields " and the sequel "French Fields " in the 1980s oppositeAnton Rodgers , for which she was votedTV Times Favourite Female Comedy Performance for five consecutive years. She also appeared as Mrs Forthby in "Blott on the Landscape ". Film credits include "Hotel du Lac ", "Shirley Valentine ", "Bright Young Things " and "These Foolish Things".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 withMichael Gambon andJudi 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 toGI Moore before McKenzie got the part.She was announced as the replacement for
Geraldine McEwan as ITV'sMiss Marple . [ [http://www.thestage.co.uk/news/newsstory.php/19793/mckenzie-to-take-on-miss-marple-role-for-itv The Stage / News / McKenzie to take on Miss Marple role for ITV ] ] 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!"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 ".She also teamed up with silksoundbooks [ [http://silksoundbooks.com SilkSoundBooks.com: Home | Download our unique, unabridged audiobooks ] ] to record an unabridged, high quality, mp3 audio book of Lewis Carrol's "Through the Looking Glass".
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* [http://silksoundbooks.com silksoundbooks]
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