Julia Kathleen Nancy McKenzie CBE (born 17 February 1941) is an English actress, singer, presenter, and theatre director. ​She was awarded the Laurence Olivier Theatre Award in 1983 (1982 season) for Best Actress in a Musical, Guys and Dolls. She was awarded the Laurence Olivier Theatre Award in 1994 (1993 season) for Best Actress in a Musical for her performance in Sweeney Todd at the Royal National Theatre. She was awarded the 1987 London Evening Standard Theatre Award for Best Actress for her performance in Woman in Mind. Was nominated for Broadway's 1977 Tony Award as Best Actress (Featured Role - Musical) for "Side by Side by Sondheim" (under the name "Julie N. McKenzie").

Filmography

• 2023Allelujah — Mrs Maudsley
• 2022Gangsta Granny Strikes Again — Granny
• Gold Digger — Hazel
• 2018The Queen and I — The Queen Mother
• The Casual Vacancy — Shirley Mollison
• 2013Gangsta Granny — Granny
• 2013Miss Marple: Endless Night — Jane Marple
• 2012Happy and Glorious — Queen's Double
• The Mystery of Edwin Drood — Mrs. Crisparkle
• The Town — Betty Nicholas
• 2007Celebration — Prue
• Cranford — Mrs Forrester
• 2007You Can Choose Your Friends — Margaret Snell
• 2006Notes on a Scandal — Marjorie
• 2006These Foolish Things — Miss Abernethy
• Agatha Christie's Marple — Miss Marple
• 2003Bright Young Things — Lottie Crump
• Death in Holy Orders — Margaret Munroe
• The Last Detective — Sheila Harthog
• Jack and the Beanstalk: The Real Story — Jack's Mum
• 2001Putting It Together — Musical, Writer
• 1999Jack and the Beanstalk — Mavis
• 1998Hey, Mr. Producer! The Musical World of Cameron Mackintosh — Writer
• Midsomer Murders — Ruby Wilmott
• 1996The Snow Queen's Revenge — The Snow Queen / Freda / The Proprietor
• 1996Vol-au-vent — Audrey
• Ghosts — Mrs Amberson
• 1995The Old Curiosity Shop — Mrs Jartley
• 1995The Snow Queen — Old Lady / Freda
• 1992Adam Bede — Mrs. Poyser
• French Fields — Hester Fields
• 1989Shirley Valentine — Gillian
• 1987Side by Side by Sondheim
• 1986Hotel du Lac — Jennifer Pusey
• 1985Absent Friends — Diana
• 1985Blott on the Landscape
• Blott on the Landscape — Mrs Forthby
• 1985Dear Box Number — Betty Wilson
• Theatre Night — Diana
• Fresh Fields — Hester Fields
• 1984Henson's Place: The Man Behind the Muppets — Narrator (voice)
• Sharing Time — Polly
• 1983Those Glory Glory Days — Mrs Herrick
• Fame Is the Spur — Pen Muff
• That Beryl Marston...! — Georgie Bodley
• 1980An Audience with Dame Edna Everage
• 1980The Wildcats of St Trinian's — Miss Dolly Dormancott
• 1979Ike — Sybil Bryan
• Ike — Sibyl Bryan
• Battle of the Sexes
• Maggie and Her — Maggie Brooks
• 1975Dick Deadeye, or Duty Done — Rose Maybud (voice)
• The Stanley Baxter Picture Show

Appearances as themselves (6)

• 2022Stephen Sondheim's Old Friends — Self
• 2021Cameron Mackintosh - The First 50 Years — Self
• 2008Stanley Baxter: Now and Then — Self - Narrator
• GMTV — Self
• Wogan — Self
• An Audience with... — Self