Julie Hesmondhalgh

Known for ActingBorn 1970-02-25 (age 56)Accrington, Lancashire, England, UK

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!Read more

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Crookhaven

The Celebrity Traitors

Mr Bates vs The Post Office

Inside No. 9

Happy Valley

Broadchurch

Would I Lie to You?

Pat and Margaret

Doctor Who

Boys On Film 15: Time & Tied

Alma's Not Normal

The Frank Skinner Show

Moving On

Cucumber

So Graham Norton

The Pact

Peterloo

The Dwelling Place

Who Wants to Be a Millionaire?

The Trouble with Maggie Cole

Pond Life

Dalziel and Pascoe

Harry Hill's TV Burp

Coronation Street: Romanian Holiday

Closets

You & Me

Tofu

Coronation Street

Loose Women

Operation Magpie

The Outing

The National Television Awards Celebrate 25 Years

Coronation Street: Queens of the Street

I Told My Mum I Was Going On An RE Trip

Black Roses: The Killing of Sophie Lancaster

La Couchette

East Street

What Would Julie Do?