Anne Erica Isobel Mackenzie is a former BBC political and current affairs presenter.
Her mother Katie Ann (née Maclean; 1924–1979), was a midwife, and her father Donald (1924-1996) was a postmaster at his parents' post office in Portnaguran.
She has one brother, Lewis, who has a PhD in physics and is a senior lecturer in the Department of Computing Science at the University of Glasgow.
[1] A student of the Nicolson Institute in Stornoway, Mackenzie left for the mainland to study history at the University of Glasgow.
She returned to the Isle of Lewis, where she met a producer for Grampian TV, (now STV North), who was on holiday.
He offered her a screen test, and she embarked on a career as a journalist and broadcaster that spanned more than twenty five years.
She reported and co-hosted the regional TV station's news programme North Tonight for fourteen years.
Mackenzie continued her work with Radio Scotland and also fronted political shows, including Cross Examination.
Later that year she reported for the BBC network current affairs show Here and Now, with Sue Lawley.
She would now host the programme with Jackie Bird on alternate nights, as part of a mini revamp of the broadcast.
During the 2003 campaign, Anne Mackenzie interviewed all the Scottish party leaders and chaired The Big Debate for BBC Scotland.
Gavin Docherty of the Sunday Mail wrote in 1999: "She is best known for her confrontational interview style - and the politicians know there is always the chance she'll jump down their throat and dance all over their tonsils".