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This means she will be free to enjoy what she believes is a Once in a Lifetime Experience.īut then on her very first day, a quick and smooth-tongued local runs her shirt. She has been promised that she will be able to work remotely and be able to go back to Washington when she is done with her year at Oxford. But then she is invited to take up an enviable position in the presidential campaign of a rising political star. She has always wanted to go to Oxford and she finally got a Rhodes scholarship at 24 and is heading to England. “My Oxford Year” by Julia Whelan introduces Ella Durran, an American woman that has been planning the same thing ever since she was in her early teenage years. She would, later on, use her experience as an audiobook narrator to pen her fiction novels in “My Oxford Year” and “Thank You for Listening.” When she was at the end of her rope, she called the contact who gave her a demo and the rest is history. When they met at the graduation, she told Whelan that she would be a great narrator given that she loved reading, had a degree in English and Creative Writing, and had also worked in acting. It was at this time that she made the decision to tap into a resource she got offered upon her graduation from college.Īt the time, one of her best friends informed her that she was the daughter of an audiobook director and producer. But she was soon hit by the realization that is not how the entertainment world works.įollowing a year of struggling to find something to do in entertainment, Julia Whelan ended up taking side gigs that included tutoring.
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She sincerely believed she would head to Los Angles and find her old job and several TV shows waiting for her. She had gone to college believing that she would graduate and pick off from right where she left off. When she finally returned to acting this time in her twenties, she realized that it was not the same industry.


During this time, she went abroad to study at Oxford and also at Middlebury College. Whelan has said that she never set out to become famous as she just loved acting and wanted to experience life with as many people as she could, which she could only achieve through acting.Īs a teenager, Whelan decided to leave acting for a while so that she could go to college.
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She also played the titular role in “The Secret Life of Zoey,” the Lifetime TV movie in addition to other projects. She starred in “Once and Again,” the ABC family drama which ran for three seasons. As such, acting was something that was imprinted into her psyche very early on.ĭespite the fact that Julia Whelan was not born into a family that was involved in show business, it was not long before she got involved in just that. Right from the time she was 5, she started doing local children’s theater.Īs an only child, she had no audience to practice on and hence she used to dictate her stories to babysitters and thereafter act them out.

In a recent interview, she said that maybe she came out of the womb loving acting. However, acting is something that she knew she loved right from when she was very little. Similar to many audiobook directors and narrators, the 38-year-old expert never intended to work in audiobooks. She also calls herself a certified tea sommelier, half-decent amateur baker, and former writing tutor. Whelan has also been nominated for a Grammy award for her work in audiobook directing. The internationally acclaimed bestselling title that she wrote and narrated was the winner of the Society of Voice Arts Award. She penned “My Oxford Year” her debut novel in 2018 and the work went on to become a bestselling title. Over the years, he has become one of the most sought-after audiobook narrators with more than 500 titles to her name. Julia Whelan is an award-winning audiobook narrator, lifelong actor, screenwriter, and bestselling author.
