"Wonderful, hilarious and unmissable - living proof that audacity and irreverent effervescence are life skills" – The Scotsman
Ever since singing Holding Out For A Hero on New Faces at the age of seventeen and tying first place with a girls’ marching band, Julia Morris knew she was going to make it big. Several years of honing her stand-up and variety skills followed, both as an entertainer in Club Med resorts and as resident MC at the Sydney Comedy Store. Then Julia got her big television break in 1995 on Logie award-winning comedy sketch show Full Frontal.
Quickly becoming a household name, roles followed for Julia on many popular nineties shows including In Melbourne Tonight, Beauty and the Beast, Great Aussie Bloopers, Gladiators, The Midday Show, Who Dares Wins, and Good Morning Australia. During this time, Julia was also part of TTFM’s breakfast radio team. In 2000, Australia’s favourite funny lady left our shores to show the UK how it’s done.
Eight years later, Julia has achieved both commercial and critical success in the UK on stage, radio and television. Her refreshing honesty captured the imagination of British comedy’s elite and whilst in the UK Julia got to work with and warm up the likes of Paul Whitehouse, Stephen Fry, Catherine Tate, Vic Reeves and Bob Mortimer, Graham Norton and her own personal Dalai Llama - the great Dame Edna.
Whilst abroad, Julia hosted TV shows for the BBC, appeared in nearly every major international Festival from South Africa to Montreal, won the prestigious Herald Angel award at the Edinburgh Festival 2002 and was named Time Out magazine’s ‘Comedy Performer of the Year’ in 2004. What was left? Maybe it was time to bag herself a husband, the title of ‘Lady’ (bought on the internet by her husband Dan), a baby daughter, and bring her new family back to settle in her beloved homeland.
The Aussie public welcomed their prodigal daughter with open arms.
Since returning to Australia, ‘Lady’ Julia Morris simply hasn’t stopped. She has featured on every major commercial television channel, on shows including Good News Week, Sunrise and Thank God You're Here - and was series team captain on Foxtel’s Astra award-winning The Singing Office.
Julia and her opera superstar partner David Hobson not only won the third series of Channel 7’s hit show It Takes Two, but, with their interpretations of songs like Tina Turner’s We Don’t Need Another Hero and the Habanera from Bizet’s Carmen, also provided the nation with some of the most memorable TV moments of 2008.
Julia’s stand-up featured at the gala performances of both the 2008 Melbourne International Comedy Festival and Sydney’s Cracker Comedy Festival (she also competed on the winning team in the televised Great Debate at the former). Her stand-up shows in both festivals were complete sell-outs.
What’s next for Julia? Only time will tell. But one thing’s for sure – Australia simply can’t get enough of her.
"… when Julia Morris is in full verbal flow on a stage, it's as though Joan Rivers, Germaine Greer and Betty Boop are all living inside the same body. Phew, she's a scorcher." – The Herald
"Breathless, glamorous, camp, snobby, self deprecating, gossipy, fast-paced, surprisingly barbed yet subtle with a stream of energy and material that is a lot stronger than her brash-but-catty style might suggest… a delivery so relentless that you beg her to inhale, so rich with potential catchphrases you struggle to take them all in. It holds the audience who can’t afford to lose concentration for a split second for fear of losing something great." – chortle.co.uk
