Name
Julie Hesmondhalgh
Known For
Acting
Birthday
1970-02-25 (56 years old)
Place of Birth
Accrington, Lancashire, England, UK
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!
Known For
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- 2009 Coronation Street: Romanian Holiday as Hayley Cropper
- 2022 The Outing as Nellie
- 2023 Operation Magpie as Carol Galloway
- 2022 Help
- 2015 Black Roses: The Killing of Sophie Lancaster
- 1994 Pat and Margaret as Helper in Old Age Home
- Soon What Would Julie Do? as Julie
- 2015 Closets as Penny
- 2018 I Told My Mum I Was Going On An RE Trip as Herself (Introduced By)
- 2018 Peterloo as Female Reformer
- 2019 Pond Life as Muirel Panks
- 2020 The National Television Awards Celebrate 25 Years as Self
- 2020 Coronation Street: Queens of the Street as Herself
- 2016 Boys On Film 15: Time & Tied as Penny (segment "Closets")
- 2010 East Street as Hayley Cropper
- 2015 La Couchette as Kath
- 2004 The Best of So Graham Norton as Self (archive footage)
- 2002 Harry Hill's TV Burp ( 1 episode )
- 2021 The Pact ( 6 episodes ) as Nancy
- 1998 So Graham Norton ( 1 episode ) as Self
- 1995 The Frank Skinner Show ( 1 episode ) as Self
- 2014 Inside No. 9 ( 1 episode ) as Kath
- 2015 Cucumber ( 8 episodes ) as Cleo Whitaker
- 2013 Broadchurch ( 8 episodes ) as Trish Winterman
- 2009 Moving On ( 1 episode ) as Linda
- 1994 The Dwelling Place ( 3 episodes ) as Rose Turnbull
- 2024 Mr Bates vs The Post Office ( 4 episodes ) as Suzanne Sercombe
- 2005 Doctor Who ( 1 episode ) as Judy Maddox
- 2015 Tofu ( 8 episodes ) as Cleo
- 2014 Happy Valley ( 6 episodes ) as Amanda Wadsworth
- 2020 The Trouble with Maggie Cole ( 6 episodes ) as Jill Wheadon
- 2023 You & Me ( 3 episodes ) as Linda
- 1999 Loose Women ( 4 episodes ) as Self
- 1960 Coronation Street ( 1931 episodes ) as Hayley Patterson / Hayley Cropper
- 1998 Who Wants to Be a Millionaire? ( 1 episode ) as Self - Contestant
- 2007 Would I Lie to You? ( 1 episode ) as Self - Panellist
- 2026 Crookhaven ( 5 episodes ) as Sue
- 2025 The Celebrity Traitors ( 1 episode ) as Self - Contestant
- 1996 Dalziel and Pascoe ( 1 episode ) as Wendy Walker
- 2020 Alma's Not Normal ( 2 episodes ) as Aunty Ange
