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THIS IS YOUR LIFE - Julia McKenzie, actress and singer, was surprised by Eamonn Andrews outside the Royalty Theatre in London after her car was 'forced' to stop on its way to the Waldorf Hotel.

Julia, who was born in Enfield, trained at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama and began her career in West End musicals such as Maggie May, Mame and Company. In 1976, she appeared in the West End revue Side by Side by Sondheim, and made her Broadway debut when the show transferred to New York a year later, receiving a Tony Award nomination for Best Featured Actress in a Musical.

She made her dramatic acting debut in Alan Ayckbourn's play Ten Times Table in 1979 and at the same time became a familiar face on television in the ITV sitcoms Maggie and Her and That Beryl Marston...!

"Oh Eamonn – I didn't even go home to change!"

programme details...

• Edition No: 581
• Subject No: 578
• Broadcast date: Wed 2 Dec 1981
• Broadcast time: 7.00-7.30pm
• Recorded: Mon 26 Oct 1981
• Venue: Royalty Theatre
• Series: 22
• Edition: 8
• Code name: Neighbour

on the guest list...

• Irene Handl
• Gareth Hunt
• Jerry Harte - husband
• Susan Kramer
• Jenny Wren
• Bob Sessions
• Olivia Breeze
• Laurel Ford
• Jonathan Cecil
• Peter Gale
• Anna Sharkey
• David Robb
• Margaret Lawrence
• Kathleen - mother
• Percy Grint
• Una Stubbs
• Paul Eddington
• John Turner
• Lee Remick
Filmed tributes:
• Ginger Rogers
• Lonnie Donegan
• Ned Sherrin
• Ray Cook
• David Kernan
• Millicent Martin
• Lucy - aunt

related appearances...

• Russell Harty - Dec 1980
• Millicent Martin - Dec 1984
• Dave Willetts - Mar 1991
• Ned Sherrin - Feb 1995

production team...

• Researcher: John Graham
• Writers: Tom Brennand, Roy Bottomley
• Directors: Paul Stewart Laing, Terry Yarwood
• Producer: Jack Crawshaw

• names above in bold indicate subjects of This Is Your Life

Life is a Cabaret

a musical theatre chorus line

Screenshots of Julia McKenzie This Is Your Life