A lot of people say they don’t like the tweedier version. McKenzie noted: 'It’s difficult because Agatha Christie wrote her in two ways.First, very much what Geraldine McEwan played: a slight, rather Victorian creature. 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. In 2007 she co-starred with Michael Gambon and Judi Dench in the BBC1 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. Film credits include Hotel du Lac, Shirley Valentine, Bright Young Things and These Foolish Things. She also appeared as Mrs Forthby in Blott on the Landscape and as a Midsomer villager involved in a series of murders in an episode of Midsomer Murders. She went on to greater popularity with British viewers as Hester in Fresh Fields and the sequel French Fields in the 1980s opposite Anton Rodgers, for which she was voted TV Times Favourite Female Comedy Performance for five consecutive years. On television, McKenzie co-starred with Irene Handl in the sitcom Maggie and Her (1978–79), and with Gareth Hunt in That Beryl Marston.! (1981). McKenzie appeared in a National Theatre 80th birthday tribute to Lord Olivier, Happy Birthday, Sir Larry on in the presence of Olivier himself. She has also appeared in Follies as Sally at the Shaftesbury Theatre in 1987 and Into the Woods as the Witch at the Phoenix Theatre in 1990. She appeared in Side By Side By Sondheim in the West End in 1976 and on Broadway in 1977, and was nominated for a Tony Award and a Drama Desk Award for her performance.

Lovett (1994), winning the Olivier Award for Actress of the Year in a Musical for each.įor her role in Woman in Mind, she received the Evening Standard Award for Best Actress.

In London's West End her performing credits include Guys and Dolls as Miss Adelaide (1982) and Sweeney Todd as Mrs. She was born Julia Kathleen McKenzie on 17 February 1938, in Enfield, Middlesex, England, the daughter of Kathleen Rowe and Albion McKenzie.

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