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Julia Morris is one of Australia’s most accomplished and celebrated performers, who has seamlessly moved between the stage and the screen. She first appeared on Aussie TV at 17, singing on the talent show New Faces. By the mid-nineties Julia was a household name as a headlining stand-up and actor, with starring roles in comedy sketch favourite Full Frontal, night-time talk show In Melbourne Tonight and comedy panel show, Beauty and the Beast. Julia also starred in the Melbourne run of the hit Broadway musical ‘I Love You, You’re Perfect, Now Change!’
As a stand-up comedian, Julia has featured in every major comedy festival in the world, taking to the stage with Whoopi Goldberg, Richard Pryor and Robin Williams. From Comedy Festival Galas to the Prime Minister’s Midwinter Ball, Julia’s infectious humour is universally loved.
She moved to London in 2000, featured in several British sitcoms, co-hosted Liquid News, a daily entertainment show on the BBC, also featuring on several comedy panels including QI, then hosted by Stephen Fry..
Her 2001 solo show won the prestigious Herald Angel Award at the Edinburgh Comedy Festival. She also won Time Out London’s ‘Comedy Performer of the Year’.
She met her husband, Dan in the UK, where she also gave birth to her first daughter. They all moved back to Australia in 2008, where Julia and Australian Opera star David Hobson won Channel 7’s celebrity singing show It Takes Two.
Julia had her second daughter in 2008 and became a published author, penning a memoir ‘Don’t You Know Who I Used To Be?’ in 2009.
Having won ‘Best Australian Act’ at the Time Out Sydney 2009 Comedy Awards, Julia relocated her family to Los Angeles, where she studied with Hollywood acting coach, Lesly Kahn.
In 2011 Julia returned home, becoming Australia’s first Celebrity Apprentice and raising nearly $200,000 for breast cancer research. The following year, Julia was cast as the female lead, Gemma Crabb, in the Nine Network drama House Husbands. The show established itself as an audience favourite, with Julia being nominated for ‘Most Popular Actress’ in Australia’s Logie Awards for five years in a row. The final season was broadcast in 2017.
Between August and November 2013 Julia hosted Nine Network’s Australia’s Got Talent. The same year, her ‘No Judgement’ stand-up tour won the Helpmann Award for Best Comedy. (Australia’s Tonys.)
In 2015 Julia co-hosted the first Australian season of Network Ten’s hit reality show I’m A Celebrity… Get Me Out Of Here! with Dr Chris Brown, returning to the jungle in 2020.
In 2019, she starred in Chris and Julia’s Sunday Night Takeaway, the Australian version of the ‘Ant and Dec’ feel-good UK hit. In 2020, she reached the top 4 in the semi-finals of The Masked Singer (as ‘Kitten’)
In 2021, Julia released the Audible original, Julia Morris Makes it EASY ( Audiobook )
She lives in Melbourne with her husband Dan, daughters Ruby and Sophie and their dogs, Tootsie and Ken.
Julia Morris is one of Australia’s most accomplished and celebrated performers, who has seamlessly moved between the stage and the screen. She first appeared on Aussie TV at 17, singing on the talent show New Faces. By the mid-nineties Julia was a household name as a headlining stand-up and actor, with starring roles in comedy sketch favourite Full Frontal, night-time talk show In Melbourne Tonight and comedy panel show, Beauty and the Beast. Julia also starred in the Melbourne run of the hit Broadway musical ‘I Love You, You’re Perfect, Now Change!’
As a stand-up comedian, Julia has featured in every major comedy festival in the world, taking to the stage with Whoopi Goldberg, Richard Pryor and Robin Williams. From Comedy Festival Galas to the Prime Minister’s Midwinter Ball, Julia’s infectious humour is universally loved.
She moved to London in 2000, featured in several British sitcoms, co-hosted Liquid News, a daily entertainment show on the BBC, also featuring on several comedy panels including QI, then hosted by Stephen Fry..
Her 2001 solo show won the prestigious Herald Angel Award at the Edinburgh Comedy Festival. She also won Time Out London’s ‘Comedy Performer of the Year’.
She met her husband, Dan in the UK, where she also gave birth to her first daughter. They all moved back to Australia in 2008, where Julia and Australian Opera star David Hobson won Channel 7’s celebrity singing show It Takes Two.
Julia had her second daughter in 2008 and became a published author, penning a memoir ‘Don’t You Know Who I Used To Be?’ in 2009.
Having won ‘Best Australian Act’ at the Time Out Sydney 2009 Comedy Awards, Julia relocated her family to Los Angeles, where she studied with Hollywood acting coach, Lesly Kahn.
In 2011 Julia returned home, becoming Australia’s first Celebrity Apprentice and raising nearly $200,000 for breast cancer research. The following year, Julia was cast as the female lead, Gemma Crabb, in the Nine Network drama House Husbands. The show established itself as an audience favourite, with Julia being nominated for ‘Most Popular Actress’ in Australia’s Logie Awards for five years in a row. The final season was broadcast in 2017.
Between August and November 2013 Julia hosted Nine Network’s Australia’s Got Talent. The same year, her ‘No Judgement’ stand-up tour won the Helpmann Award for Best Comedy. (Australia’s Tonys.)
In 2015 Julia co-hosted the first Australian season of Network Ten’s hit reality show I’m A Celebrity… Get Me Out Of Here! with Dr Chris Brown, returning to the jungle in 2020.
In 2019, she starred in Chris and Julia’s Sunday Night Takeaway, the Australian version of the ‘Ant and Dec’ feel-good UK hit. In 2020, she reached the top 4 in the semi-finals of The Masked Singer (as ‘Kitten’)
In 2021, Julia released the Audible original, Julia Morris Makes it EASY ( Audiobook )
She lives in Melbourne with her husband Dan, daughters Ruby and Sophie and their dogs, Tootsie and Ken.
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