Julia Zemiro fell in love with the New South Wales southern highlands town of Bowral through her partner, Carsten Prien, a Danish expat who she met on a plane more than a decade ago. “It’s a very nice place to live – and calm – when you’ve got kind of a busy lifestyle,” she says.
And hers is a busy kind of lifestyle. When I meet her in Bowral in early August (they moved here during Covid lockdowns), she’s enjoying a couple of months of downtime between projects. In May, she wrapped a seven-week shoot for season three of Fisk, in which she plays an officious office manager and probate lawyer turned mediator. She then flew straight to Uluṟu-Kata Tjuta national park in the Northern Territory to film an episode for season two of her latest screen venture, Great Australian Walks, for which she is also an executive producer. And in October, she is will hit the road for a 38-date national tour of RocKwiz Live, the offshoot of the popular, long-running SBS music trivia show for which she is perhaps still best known.
