Julia Zemiro

Julia Zemiro (/zəmɪəroʊ/; born c. 1967) is an Australian television presenter, radio host, actress, singer, writer, and comedian. She is best known as the host of the music quiz and live performance show RocKwiz. Zemiro, who was born in France, is a fluent English and French speaker and has acted in French.

Julia Zemiro was born in France in around 1967. In 1970, when she was two and a half years old, her family moved to Australia. Her mother, Jane, is a retired teacher and education academic (University of Sydney) originally from Queensland. Her French father, Claude, was a retired restaurateur.

Zemiro attended Sydney Girls High School and the University of Sydney, where she studied for a Bachelor of Arts.^{[citation needed]} She moved to Melbourne after being accepted into the Victorian College of the Arts, graduating in 1994 with a Diploma of Dramatic Arts (Acting).^{[citation needed]}

After graduation, Zemiro found work touring with the Bell Shakespeare Company. She featured in various short films, including The Extra and Muffled Love, winning the Tropfest Best Actress award twice, in 1999 (for The Extra) and in 2001 (for Muffled Love). She co-wrote, performed and directed Backpackers for the 2000 Melbourne International Comedy Festival.

Zemiro appeared as Bronya in Eurovision, the Musical (2003), Euromax 7 The Musical (2004) and Eürobeat: Almost Eurovision (2006).^{[citation needed]}

A long-time Theatresports veteran, Zemiro played at the Belvoir St Theatre, Sydney, for many years before her move to Melbourne. She 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". She was a core cast member of the improvised stage show Spontaneous Broadway.^{[citation needed]}

In 2014, Zemiro played Roxane's duenna in Edmond Rostand's 1897 play Cyrano de Bergerac opposite Richard Roxburgh's Cyrano with the Sydney Theatre Company.

Zemiro first appeared as a television presenter as the host of World Telly 2, an international co-production. She previously appeared in the original World Telly as part of an improvised comedy group. The World Telly programmes were broadcast by ABC's Australia Television, the ABC's original but now defunct venture into international satellite broadcasting.^{[citation needed]}