Early Years
MacKenzie was born in Stornoway and grew up on the peninsula of Point, Outer Hebrides. Her mother Katie Ann, was a midwife, and her father Donald MacKenzie was a postmaster on the Isle of Lewis. She has one brother, Lewis.
A student of the Nicolson Institute in Stornoway, MacKenzie left for the mainland to study history at Glasgow University. She obtained a MA Honours and intended to become a teacher. 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.
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