Acting
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!
Filmography
Crookhaven
Series · 2026
Call the Midwife: Sisters in Arms
Series · 2026
The Celebrity Traitors
Series · 2025
Mr Bates vs The Post Office
Series · 2024
Operation Magpie
Film · 2023
You & Me
Series · 2023
The Outing
Film · 2022
Help
Film · 2022
The Pact
Series · 2021
The National Television Awards Celebrate 25 Years
Film · 2020
Coronation Street: Queens of the Street
Film · 2020
The Trouble with Maggie Cole
Series · 2020
Alma's Not Normal
Series · 2020
Pond Life
Film · 2019
I Told My Mum I Was Going On An RE Trip
Film · 2018
Peterloo
Film · 2018
Boys On Film 15: Time & Tied
Film · 2016
Black Roses: The Killing of Sophie Lancaster
Film · 2015
Closets
Film · 2015
La Couchette
Film · 2015
Cucumber
Series · 2015
Tofu
Series · 2015
Inside No. 9
Series · 2014
Happy Valley
Series · 2014
Broadchurch
Series · 2013
East Street
Film · 2010
Coronation Street: Romanian Holiday
Film · 2009
Moving On
Series · 2009
Would I Lie to You?
Series · 2007
Doctor Who
Series · 2005
The Best of So Graham Norton
Film · 2004
Harry Hill's TV Burp
Series · 2002
Loose Women
Series · 1999
So Graham Norton
Series · 1998
Who Wants to Be a Millionaire?
Series · 1998
Dalziel and Pascoe
Series · 1996
The Frank Skinner Show
Series · 1995
Pat and Margaret
Film · 1994
The Dwelling Place
Series · 1994
Coronation Street
Series · 1960
What Would Julie Do?
Film