A lot of people say they don’t like the tweedier version. First, very much what Geraldine McEwan played: a slight, rather Victorian creature. She noted: "It’s difficult because Agatha Christie wrote her in two ways. In 2008, she was announced as the replacement for Geraldine McEwan as ITV's Miss Marple. Forrester, a military widow of slender means, very attached to her cow Bessie.
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Also in 2007, she co-starred with Michael Gambon and Judi Dench in the BBC One costume drama series Cranford, playing Mrs. In 2007, she was reunited with Anton Rodgers (again as a husband and wife team) in the ITV comedy You Can Choose Your Friends. She was the subject of This Is Your Life in 1981 when she was surprised by Eamonn Andrews outside the Royalty Theatre in London. She has also made several appearances in BBC TV's long running variety show, The Good Old Days. Film credits include Hotel du Lac (1986), Shirley Valentine (1989), Bright Young Things (2003), These Foolish Things (2006) and Notes on a Scandal (2006). She appeared as Mrs Forthby in Blott on the Landscape and as a villager involved in a series of murders in an episode of Midsomer Murders. The role also earned her a 1985 BAFTA nomination for Best Entertainment Performance.
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She went on to greater popularity with British viewers as Hester in the 1980s sitcom Fresh Fields opposite Anton Rodgers, and its 1990s sequel French Fields, for which she was voted TV Times Favourite Female Comedy Performance for five consecutive years. McKenzie’s early television credits include the sitcom Maggie and Her (1978–1979), alongside Irene Handl and That Beryl Marston.! (1981), with Gareth Hunt.
McKenzie appeared in a National Theatre 80th birthday tribute to Lord Olivier, Happy Birthday, Sir Larry, on in the presence of Olivier himself. The role won her a second Olivier Award in 1994. She continued her association with Stephen Sondheim when she starred as Mrs Lovett in the 1993 London revival of Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street. She went on to appear in the original West End productions of two Sondheim musicals, playing Sally in Follies at the Shaftesbury Theatre in 1987, and the Witch in Into the Woods at the Phoenix Theatre in 1990. įor her role in the 1986 West End production of the Alan Ayckbourn play Woman in Mind, McKenzie won the Evening Standard Award for Best Actress. For her role as Miss Adelaide in the 1982 West End revival of Guys and Dolls, she won the first of two Olivier Awards for Best Actress in a Musical. She also received a Drama Desk Award nomination. She appeared in the West End revue Side by Side by Sondheim in 1976, and made her Broadway debut when the show transferred to New York in 1977, receiving a Tony Award nomination for Best Featured Actress in a Musical. McKenzie's early West End musical credits include Maggie May (1966), Mame (1969), and Company (1971). She trained at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama. McKenzie was born on 17 February 1941, in Enfield, Middlesex, England, the daughter of Kathleen Rowe and Albion McKenzie.
Her film appearances include Bright Young Things (2003) and Notes on a Scandal (2006). She also starred in the original London productions of the Sondheim musicals Follies (1987) and Into the Woods (1990). A six-time Olivier Award nominee, she has twice won the Olivier Award for Best Actress in a Musical for the 1982 revival of Guys and Dolls and the 1993 revival of Stephen Sondheim's Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street. McKenzie has also starred in numerous musicals, receiving a 1977 Tony Award nomination for her work in the Broadway revue, Side by Side by Sondheim. On television, she is known for her BAFTA Award nominated role as Hester Fields in the sitcom Fresh Fields (1984–1986) and its sequel French Fields (1989–1991), and as Miss Marple in Agatha Christie's Marple (2009–2013). She has premièred leading roles written by both Alan Ayckbourn and Stephen Sondheim. Julia Kathleen Nancy McKenzie CBE (born 17 February 1941) is an English actress, singer, presenter, and theatre director.
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