Julie Hesmondhalgh

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

Doctor Who

Coronation Street

Inside No. 9

Broadchurch

Would I Lie to You?

Loose Women

Dalziel and Pascoe

Crookhaven

All Movies (16)

• Operation Magpie2023 · as Carol Galloway
• Help2022
• The Outing2022 · as Nellie
• Coronation Street: Queens of the Street2020 · as Herself
• The National Television Awards Celebrate 25 Years2020 · as Self
• Pond Life2019 · as Muirel Panks
• Peterloo2018 · as Female Reformer
• I Told My Mum I Was Going On An RE Trip2018 · as Herself (Introduced By)
• Boys On Film 15: Time & Tied2016 · as Penny (segment "Closets")
• Black Roses: The Killing of Sophie Lancaster2015
• Closets2015 · as Penny
• La Couchette2015 · as Kath
• East Street2010 · as Hayley Cropper
• Coronation Street: Romanian Holiday2009 · as Hayley Cropper
• Pat and Margaret1994 · as Helper in Old Age Home
• What Would Julie Do?— · as Julie

All TV Shows (22)

• Crookhaven2026 · as Sue
• The Celebrity Traitors2025 · as Self - Contestant
• Mr Bates vs The Post Office2024 · as Suzanne Sercombe
• You & Me2023 · as Linda
• The Pact2021 · as Nancy
• The Trouble with Maggie Cole2020 · as Jill Wheadon
• Cucumber2015 · as Cleo Whitaker
• Tofu2015 · as Cleo
• Happy Valley2014 · as Amanda Wadsworth
• Inside No. 92014 · as Kath
• Broadchurch2013 · as Trish Winterman
• Moving On2009 · as Linda
• Would I Lie to You?2007 · as Self - Panellist
• Doctor Who2005 · as Judy Maddox
• Harry Hill's TV Burp2002
• Loose Women1999 · as Self
• Who Wants to Be a Millionaire?1998 · as Self - Contestant
• So Graham Norton1998 · as Self
• Dalziel and Pascoe1996 · as Wendy Walker
• The Frank Skinner Show1995 · as Self
• The Dwelling Place1994 · as Rose Turnbull
• Coronation Street1960 · as Hayley Patterson / Hayley Cropper