Julia Morris is one of Australia’s most accomplished and celebrated performers. A quadruple threat, Julia has moved seamlessly between stage and screen for more than 34 years.
She first appeared on Australian television at just 17, singing on the talent show New Faces. By the mid‑nineties, Julia was a household name, headlining as a stand‑up comedian and actor, with starring roles in comedy sketch favourite Full Frontal, the night‑time talk show In Melbourne Tonight, and the panel show Beauty and the Beast. Around the same time, she starred in the Melbourne season of the hit Broadway musical I Love You, You’re Perfect, Now Change!
As a stand‑up comedian, Julia has performed at every major comedy festival in the world and has shared the stage with comedy legends including Whoopi Goldberg, Richard Pryor and Robin Williams. From comedy festival galas to the Prime Minister’s Midwinter Ball, her infectious humour has been embraced by audiences across generations.
In 2000, Julia moved to London, where she became known as ‘Lady JMo’. During this time, she appeared in several British sitcoms, co‑hosted Liquid News, a daily entertainment program on the BBC, and featured on numerous comedy panel shows, including Stephen Fry’s QI. Her 2001 solo show earned the prestigious Herald Angel Award at the Edinburgh Comedy Festival, and she was later named Time Out London’s Comedy Performer of the Year.
After giving birth to her first daughter, Ruby, Julia returned to Australia in 2008. That same year, she and opera star David Hobson won Channel Seven’s celebrity singing competition It Takes Two. Julia also welcomed her second daughter, Sophie, and published her memoir Don’t You Know Who I Used To Be? in 2009.
Following her success at the Time Out Sydney Comedy Awards, where she won Best Australian Act in 2009, Julia relocated with her family to Los Angeles to study with renowned Hollywood acting coach Lesly Kahn. In late 2011, she returned home to become Australia’s first Celebrity Apprentice, raising nearly $200,000 for breast cancer research.
Julia went on to star as Gemma Crabb in Nine Network’s drama House Husbands, which quickly became an audience favourite. Her performance earned her five consecutive nominations for Most Popular Actress at the Logie Awards, with the final season airing in 2017. In 2013, she hosted Australia’s Got Talent, and her No Judgement stand‑up tour won the Helpmann Award for Best Comedy.
In 2015, Julia began co‑hosting Network Ten’s I’m A Celebrity… Get Me Out Of Here! alongside Dr Chris Brown. The show has since become a cornerstone of Ten’s annual programming, filmed each year near South Africa’s Kruger National Park.
In February 2019, Julia went straight from the African jungle to Chris and Julia’s Sunday Night Takeaway, the Australian adaptation of the much‑loved UK format made famous by Ant and Dec. In 2020, she appeared as Kitten on The Masked Singer, making it to the top four before being unmasked. That same year, Julia returned to the jungle to launch a new season of I’m A Celebrity… Get Me Out Of Here!
In 2021, Julia released the Audible original Julia Morris Makes It EASY, which was also published in paperback through HarperCollins Australia.
Her television success continued in 2022, when she was nominated for the Gold Logie for Most Popular Personality on Australian Television. That year, she returned as host of Season 8 of I’m A Celebrity… Get Me Out Of Here!, which went on to win Most Outstanding Reality TV Program at the TV WEEK Logie Awards.
2023 marked another standout year. Julia returned to host Season 9 of I’m A Celebrity and joined the inaugural season of Taskmaster Australia as a contestant. She also appeared on a range of popular programs, including Guy Montgomery’s Guy Mont Spelling Bee, Have You Been Paying Attention?, Thank God You’re Here, and Celebrity Gogglebox, and served as the narrator for Dogs Behaving Badly. Alongside her television work, Julia toured her show 75 Years in the Business to sold‑out audiences across Australia.
In 2024 and 2025, Julia returned to the jungle for another successful run of I’m A Celebrity… Get Me Out Of Here! alongside her new co‑host, Robert Irwin.
Launching into 2026, Julia will front Season 12 of I’m A Celebrity… Get Me Out Of Here! and continue to expand her television footprint. She will appear on the ABC in the highly anticipated sketch series URZILA and take on the role of principal in the new comedy format Class Clowns, overseeing a group of unruly comedians as they tackle increasingly ludicrous assignments inspired by classic school subjects.
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Julia Morris was an absolute hit! Everyone loved her and I'm glad we chose her. ... keep reading Priceline
It's great to find someone who's talk is Hugh Hefner-straight without being boorish or attention seeking, especially as she's damn funny with it. Morris is a natural performer, her Gatling gun delivery spitting out an hour's worth of universally cracking lines with barely a pause or a flat moment.
She can reduce an audience to a limp heap of laughed-out exhaustion. She has the artfully written patter rich in skillful self-derogation, diabolical powers of observation, a twisted sense of absurdity and cultural acuity, delivered with devastating timing. A jewel in the national crown.
It's great to find someone who's talk is Hugh Hefner-straight without being boorish or attention seeking, especially as she's damn funny with it. Morris is a natural performer, her Gatling gun delivery spitting out an hour's worth of universally cracking lines with barely a pause or a flat moment.
Morris's show is one long, blue, naughty, unrelenting paragraph, with punch lines flipped over the shoulder with a lift of a Jimmy Choo... if you've even the smallest funny bone it will spill you out into the night with a stubborn grin. I'm still laughing.
Comedian Julia Morris, as Lewis's partner, Gemma, is a genuine revelation: serious, and somehow both vulnerable and formidable.
Julia Morris impressively makes a lot with a little here. She could prove to be the show's surprise package.
Her autobiography, Don't You Know Who I Used To Be?', had me laughing, crying, then crying with laughter. The woman is a Gucci-clad genius.
She can reduce an audience to a limp heap of laughed-out exhaustion. She has the artfully written patter rich in skillful self-derogation, diabolical powers of observation, a twisted sense of absurdity and cultural acuity, delivered with devastating timing. A jewel in the national crown.
Great fun! Julia wowed the audience, appealing to all demographics. She pitched her presentation perfectly, a real send-up of the conference theme. Excellent evaluations: 6.8 out of a possible 7... the highest dinner score ever! Don't know how you will match this speaker next year.
Amazing energy and very well prepared for the day. The whole crowd loved Julia's work.
Julia Morris was an absolute delight to work with for our Awards Night in June 2010. She confidentially executed a heavily scheduled presentation of over 40 awards, yet still maintained a sharp wit, sassy humour and friendly yet professional demeanour. Her ability to work with a large number of audience members, and an even larger script content ensured that not only were our guests entertained but we were also able to stay within our production times - a skill always valued by our other suppliers assisting us with the event. Lastly, our event was held on one of the rainiest nights of the last couple of years, and Ms Morris arrived by foot to the venue wearing gumboots (temporarily), full formal attire and a huge smile. Her good humour and lack of pretension was widely appreciated!
Breathless, glamourous, camp, snobby, self deprecating, gossipy, fastpaced, surprisingly barbed yet subtle with a stream of energy and material that is a lot stronger than her brash-but-catty style might suggest... a delivery so relentless that you beg her to inhale, so rich with potential catchphrases you struggle to take them all in. It holds the audience who can't afford to lose concentration for a split second for fear of losing something great.
When Julia Morris is in full verbal flow on a stage, it's as though Joan Rivers, Germaine Greer and Betty Boop are all living inside the same body. Phew, she's a scorcher.
Wonderful, hilarious and unmissable - living proof that audacity and irreverent effervescence are life skills.
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