Julie Hesmondhalgh

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Acting

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

• Operation Magpie (2023)
• Help (2022)
• The Outing (2022)
• Coronation Street: Queens of the Street (2020)
• The National Television Awards Celebrate 25 Years (2020)
• Pond Life (2019)
• Peterloo (2018)
• I Told My Mum I Was Going On An RE Trip (2018)
• Boys On Film 15: Time & Tied (2016)
• Black Roses: The Killing of Sophie Lancaster (2015)
• Closets (2015)
• La Couchette (2015)
• East Street (2010)
• Coronation Street: Romanian Holiday (2009)
• The Best of So Graham Norton (2004)
• Pat and Margaret (1994)
• What Would Julie Do?