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'Anyone watching the 17 year-old Julia Morris singing Bonnie Tyler's 'Holding Out For A Hero' on NEW FACES could tell two things ... she had guts and she had talent. Not too many years later Julia got her big break (alongside Eric Bana) on the Logie award-winning comedy sketch show FULL FRONTAL. From that platform she went on to other television and radio and she soon became one of Australia's most loved female comedians. She was young, successful ... and single, so in 2000, like so many Aussies before her, Julia decided to try her luck overseas and jetted off to the UK. There was no instant success but she spent 8 years in the UK and ended up claiming both commercial and critical success on stage, radio and television. Her refreshing honesty captured the imagination of British comedy's elite and she worked with the likes of Stephen Fry, Catherine Tate, Vic Reeves and Bob Mortimer, Graham Norton and her own personal Dalai Llama - the great Dame Edna. But there comes a time when an Aussie girl needs to come home...'(Publication summary)
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Off the Shelf : Memoir
2009
single work
review
— Appears in: The Age , 9 May 2009; (p. 26)
— Review of Don't You Know Who I Used to Be : From Manolos to Motherhood 2009 single work autobiography
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Off the Shelf : Memoir
2009
single work
review
— Appears in: The Age , 9 May 2009; (p. 26)
— Review of Don't You Know Who I Used to Be : From Manolos to Motherhood 2009 single work autobiography