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!

Most Known For

Doctor Who

as Judy Maddox

Coronation Street

as Hayley Patterson / Hayley Cropper

Inside No. 9

as Kath

Broadchurch

as Trish Winterman

Would I Lie to You?

as Self - Panellist

Loose Women

as Self

Happy Valley

as Amanda Wadsworth

Who Wants to Be a Millionaire?

as Self - Contestant

Dalziel & Pascoe

Moving On

as Linda

Harry Hill's TV Burp

The Frank Skinner Show

as Self

So Graham Norton

as Self

Mr Bates vs The Post Office

as Suzanne Sercombe

The Pact

as Nancy

Cucumber

as Cleo Whitaker

Tofu

as Cleo

You & Me

as Linda

Peterloo

as Female Reformer

The Trouble with Maggie Cole

as Jill Wheadon