1. Julia Zemiro was born on 14 April 1967 and is a French-born Australian television presenter, radio host, actress, singer, writer and comedian.
34 Facts About Julia Zemiro
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Julia Zemiro is best known as the host of the music quiz and live performance show RocKwiz.
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Julia Zemiro's mother, Jane, is a retired teacher and education academic originally from Queensland.
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In 1970, when she was two and a half years old, Julia Zemiro's family moved from her birthplace, France, to Australia.
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Julia Zemiro attended Sydney Girls High School and the University of Sydney, where she studied for a Bachelor of Arts.
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Julia Zemiro was accepted into the Victorian College of the Arts at the University of Melbourne in 1992.
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Julia Zemiro graduated from VCA in 1994 with a Diploma of Dramatic Arts.
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Julia Zemiro has featured in short films including The Extra and Muffled Love, winning the Tropfest Best Actress award twice, in 1999 and in 2001.
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Julia Zemiro co-wrote, performed and directed Backpackers for the 2000 Melbourne International Comedy Festival.
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Julia Zemiro appeared as "Bronya" in Eurovision, the Musical, Euromax 7 The Musical and Eurobeat: Almost Eurovision.
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Julia Zemiro performed with Impro Melbourne, starring in their annual season of Celebrity Theatresports and regularly appeared in their Melbourne International Comedy Festival hit, "Late Nite Impro".
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Julia Zemiro was a core cast member of the improvised stage show Spontaneous Broadway.
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In 2014, Julia Zemiro played Roxane's duenna in Edmond Rostand's 1897 play Cyrano de Bergerac opposite Richard Roxburgh's Cyrano with the Sydney Theatre Company.
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Julia Zemiro first appeared as a television presenter as the host of World Telly 2, an international co-production.
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Julia Zemiro previously appeared in the original World Telly as part of an improvised comedy group.
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Subsequently, Julia Zemiro has enjoyed a variety of performances on television.
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Julia Zemiro was a judge on LifeStyle Food's Great BBQ Challenge in 2006 and 2007.
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In 2007, Julia Zemiro appeared in and won Australia's Brainiest TV Star.
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Julia Zemiro has appeared in television commercials, including as a satiric French fashion expert called Fifi La Croix for Target's breast cancer campaign.
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Julia Zemiro appeared as a guest in the third episode of Top Gear Australia and in 2009 on ADbc.
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Julia Zemiro appeared in Conspiracy 365 during 2012, a 12-part Australian drama series on FMC as Oriana De La Force.
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Julia Zemiro appeared on BBC's QI in November 2012, after appearing on stage with Stephen Fry and Alan Davies on QI Live in Melbourne in December 2011.
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Julia Zemiro has subsequently appeared on QI in January 2013 and January 2016.
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Julia Zemiro took the French-speaking role of Isabelle in the 2013 ABC TV film An Accidental Soldier, a film directed by Rachel Ward and set in France during World War I Her interview program, Julia Zemiro's Home Delivery, in which she interviewed five Australian comedians in five episodes, began on ABC1 on 18 September 2013.
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Julia Zemiro could be seen on screens across Europe when she appeared on a video-clip insert to the tongue-in-cheek interval act of the second semi-final of the Eurovision Song Contest 2014 in Copenhagen.
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Julia Zemiro led a recorded plea to the EBU asking that Australia be allowed to join Eurovision, before being seen in a helicopter 'moving' Australia to its new position in the centre of Europe.
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Julia Zemiro hosted the 2014 New Year's Eve telecast from Sydney Harbour with Toby Truslove for ABC TV.
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From August 2023, the new series Great Australian Walks, hosted by Julia Zemiro and featuring a variety of famous guests, aired on SBS Television.
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Julia Zemiro covers the Northern Territory and Western Australia, while Youssef takes on Victoria and South Australia, and Chick New South Wales and Tasmania.
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Julia Zemiro emceed the feminist March 4 Justice protest rally outside Parliament House, Canberra, in March 2021.
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In September 2021, Julia Zemiro hosted the launch of the Independent climate activist Kylea Tink's campaign against sitting Liberal Member for North Sydney Trent Zimmerman.
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Julia Zemiro praised human rights commissioner Gillian Triggs as a formidable "social justice advocate [whose] investigation into Australia's human rights record [won] her a legion of friends and some very powerful enemies".
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In February 2022, a New Year's Eve Tweet by Julia Zemiro was queried in a Senate Estimates hearing in relation to the ABC's social media guidelines on impartiality and balance.
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Julia Zemiro has a factual entertainment program and is espousing her own views.