Julie Hesmondhalgh
Biography
Julie was born in Accrington, Lancashire in February 1970. A woman with a strong social conscience, she originally wanted to be a social worker. She was an amateur actress with the Oswaldtwistle Players and studied A-level Theatre Studies at Accrington and Rossendale College. Fate took a turn when she took an audition for drama school to be with her friends. It landed her a place at LAMDA, where she studied from 1988-1991. After graduating she set up her own theatre company, Arts Threshold, with a group of friends in Paddington, taking time out for TV roles in The Bill, the Catherine Cookson drama The Dwelling Place, a care home worker in Victoria Wood's comedy film Pat and Margaret and, just prior to Coronation Street, as an animal rights protestor in Dalziel & Pascoe. She was spotted by the casting crew for "Coronation Street" whilst playing in "Much Ado About Nothing" in the Royal Exchange theatre in Manchester, playing the dual roles of a maid and a night watchman!
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Full filmography
- Doctor Who (2005) as Judy Maddox
- Coronation Street (1960) as Hayley Patterson / Hayley Cropper
- Broadchurch (2013) as Trish Winterman
- Inside No. 9 (2014) as Kath
- Would I Lie to You? (2007) as Self - Panellist
- Dalziel and Pascoe (1996) as Wendy Walker
- Crookhaven (2026) as Sue
- Loose Women (1999) as Self
- Happy Valley (2014) as Amanda Wadsworth
- Moving On (2009) as Linda
- Who Wants to Be a Millionaire? (1998) as Self - Contestant
- The Frank Skinner Show (1995) as Self
- Harry Hill's TV Burp (2002)
- So Graham Norton (1998) as Self
- The Celebrity Traitors (2025) as Self - Contestant
- Cucumber (2015) as Cleo Whitaker
- The Pact (2021) as Nancy
- Mr Bates vs The Post Office (2024) as Suzanne Sercombe
- The Trouble with Maggie Cole (2020) as Jill Wheadon
- You & Me (2023) as Linda
- The Dwelling Place (1994) as Rose Turnbull
- Peterloo (2018) as Female Reformer
- Tofu (2015) as Cleo
- Pat and Margaret (1994) as Helper in Old Age Home