Julie Hesmondhalgh
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!
Born: 25 February 1970
Played In
TV Show
Mar 2026
Crookhaven
Sue
TV Show
Oct 2025
The Celebrity Traitors
Self - Contestant
TV Show
Jan 2024
Mr Bates vs The Post Office
Suzanne Sercombe
Movie
Dec 2023
Operation Magpie
Carol Galloway
TV Show
Feb 2023
You & Me
Linda
Movie
Nov 2022
Help
Movie
Sep 2022
The Outing
Nellie
TV Show
May 2021
The Pact
Nancy
Movie
Dec 2020
Coronation Street: Queens of the Street
Herself
TV Show
Mar 2020
The Trouble with Maggie Cole
Jill Wheadon
Movie
Jan 2020
The National Television Awards Celebrate 25 Years
Self
Movie
Apr 2019
Pond Life
Muirel Panks
Movie
Nov 2018
Peterloo
Female Reformer
Movie
Jan 2018
I Told My Mum I Was Going On An RE Trip
Herself (Introduced By)
Movie
Aug 2016
Boys On Film 15: Time & Tied
Penny (segment "Closets")
Movie
Oct 2015
Black Roses: The Killing of Sophie Lancaster
Movie
Oct 2015
Closets
Penny
Movie
Mar 2015
La Couchette
Kath
TV Show
Jan 2015
Cucumber
Cleo Whitaker
TV Show
Jan 2015
Tofu
Cleo
TV Show
Apr 2014
Happy Valley
Amanda Wadsworth
TV Show
Feb 2014
Inside No. 9
Kath
TV Show
Mar 2013
Broadchurch
Trish Winterman
Movie
Nov 2010
East Street
Hayley Cropper
Movie
Oct 2009
Coronation Street: Romanian Holiday
Hayley Cropper
TV Show
May 2009
Moving On
Linda
TV Show
Jun 2007
Would I Lie to You?
Self - Panellist
TV Show
Mar 2005
Doctor Who
Judy Maddox
TV Show
Nov 2002
Harry Hill's TV Burp
TV Show
Sep 1999
Loose Women
Self
TV Show
Sep 1998
Who Wants to Be a Millionaire?
Self - Contestant
TV Show
Jul 1998
So Graham Norton
Self
TV Show
Mar 1996
Dalziel and Pascoe
Wendy Walker
TV Show
Sep 1995
The Frank Skinner Show
Self
Movie
Sep 1994
Pat and Margaret
Helper in Old Age Home
TV Show
May 1994
The Dwelling Place
Rose Turnbull
TV Show
Dec 1960
Coronation Street
Hayley Patterson / Hayley Cropper
Movie
What Would Julie Do?
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