All of us here at Silksoundbooks would like to wish our star audiobook reader Julia McKenzie a very happy birthday. She was born on February 17th in Enfield, Middlesex, the daughter of Albion McKenzie, a works accountant and his wife Kathleen.

Julia has dominated the stage musical on both sides of the Atlantic for most of her professional life. Amongst many others her performances in Guys and Dolls, Sweeney Todd, Follies, Into the Woods and Side By Side By Sondheim have won her two Olivier Awards and a Tony nomination.For her performance in the play Woman in Mind in London’s West End she received the Evening Standard Award for Best Actress.

In 2005, Julia decided to give up theatre work and has devoted much of her time, except for some radio work and the role of Mrs Forrester in Cranford, to what she calls “smelling the roses”. Then came the offer of playing Agatha Christie's most famous amateur sleuth Miss Marple. As Julia herself said 'you can’t turn down Marple! ', so we can still enjoy Julia's acting talent in a big role on the small screen.

Julia's two Silksoundbooks downloadable audio books, Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and Through The Looking Glass and What Alice Found There are wonderfull unabridged readings of the great stories by Lewis Carroll.

Happy Birthday Julia !