“I would go completely mad if I didn’t have some lovely thing to work on,” she told Forbes in 2023. “I think really, since I had a bad surgery on my throat, I’ve just turned to this with Emma and it’s been such a joy. It has been very refreshing for me and reviving in a way, because of course, it was a very sad event.”

Nonetheless, she knows how lucky she is to thrive in such a competitive industry.

“I’ve just been so really lucky in my career that the opportunities, the mentors—somehow being somewhere at the right moment,” Julie added. “None of it was really planned—and so, things don’t just land on your desk every second but surprises do, and I just think nobody has been more fortunate than I’ve been.”

For a look at Julie’s life over the years, keep reading.