With over twenty years experience performing to crowds all over the world, Julia Morris is one of Australia’s most successful and polished comedy exports and has shared the stage with comedy royalty including Richard Pryor, Jason Alexander, Whoopi Goldberg, Jerry Lewis and Robin Williams.
Julia has been a regular face on Australian television since her debut on New Faces in 1985 and by 1995 she was a household name, hosting or starring in popular shows including Full Frontal, In Melbourne Tonight and Beauty and the Beast.
Between 2000 and 2007, ‘Lady J-Mo’ (as she is affectionately called) lived in the UK. During that time Julia hosted TV shows for the BBC, worked with everyone from Stephen Fry to Dame Edna, appeared in nearly every major international comedy festival from Montreal to South Africa, won the prestigious Herald Angel award at the Edinburgh Festival 2002 and was named Time Out London’s ‘Comedy Performer of the Year’ in 2004. Whilst in the UK Julia also starred in the successful Edinburgh production of ‘Hunting Diana’ and wrote and performed three different one woman shows on London’s prestigious West End.
In December 2006 Julia gave birth to her first daughter Ruby, and returning to Australia in 2007 with her new family, co-hosted the Astra-Award winning Singing Office. In early 2008 Julia and opera star David Hobson not only won Channel 7’s popular celebrity singing show It Takes Two, but, with their interpretations of songs like “We Don’t Need Another Hero”, also provided the nation with some of the most memorable TV moments of the year.
During It Takes Two, Julia discovered she was pregnant again and in November 2008 she delivered her second daughter, Sophie. Julia used the final months of her second pregnancy to pen the memoirs of her time abroad, entitled “Don’t You Know Who I Used To Be?”, which were released to popular acclaim in April 2009.
Julia’s 2008 and 2009 stand-up tours were both nominated for the Helpmann Award (Australia’s version of the Tony or Olivier theatre awards) and she won ‘Best Australian Act’ at the Time Out Sydney 2009 Comedy Awards. Julia also appeared at the Just For Laughs Festival in 2009, including being specially selected to perform at Whoopi Goldberg’s Gala – the night was a triumph and meetings with several American TV networks followed.
Since early 2010 Julia has split her time between Sydney and Los Angeles, where she attended acting school and captured the hearts and imaginations of many of LA’s top industry execs. Back in Australia she has hosted several high profile events including the prestigious 2011 Midwinter Ball in Australia’s Parliament House and the opening night of the 2012 Melbourne International Comedy Festival.
In November 2011 Julia became Australia’s very first ‘Celebrity Apprentice’ and in May 2012 she announced a lead role in House Husbands, a major new drama from Nine Network and Playmaker Media.
As the Lady says, “Dementis Pro Is”! (Translation from Latin = “I’m mad for it”!)
p.s. Yes, Julia’s ‘Lady’ title is real – her husband Dan bought it on the internet as a Christmas present. See the “Silliness” page for more information on Julia’s unroyal confirmation…