Julie Hesmondhalgh
Acting
1970-02-25 · 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!
Filmography
Call the Midwife: Sisters in Arms
2026 · Series
Crookhaven
2026 · Series
The Celebrity Traitors
2025 · Series
The Celebrity Traitors: Uncloaked
2025 · Series
Mr Bates vs The Post Office
2024 · Series
Operation Magpie
2023 · Movie
You & Me
2023 · Series
Help
2022 · Movie
The Outing
2022 · Movie
The Pact
2021 · Series
Coronation Street: Queens of the Street
2020 · Movie
Alma's Not Normal
2020 · Series
The Trouble with Maggie Cole
2020 · Series
The National Television Awards Celebrate 25 Years
2020 · Movie
Pond Life
2019 · Movie
Peterloo
2018 · Movie
I Told My Mum I Was Going On An RE Trip
2018 · Movie
Boys On Film 15: Time & Tied
2016 · Movie
Black Roses: The Killing of Sophie Lancaster
2015 · Movie
Closets
2015 · Movie
La Couchette
2015 · Movie
Cucumber
2015 · Series
Tofu
2015 · Series
Happy Valley
2014 · Series
Inside No. 9
2014 · Series
Broadchurch
2013 · Series
East Street
2010 · Movie
Coronation Street: Romanian Holiday
2009 · Movie
Moving On
2009 · Series
Would I Lie to You?
2007 · Series
Doctor Who
2005 · Series
The Best of So Graham Norton
2004 · Movie
Harry Hill's TV Burp
2002 · Series
Loose Women
1999 · Series
Who Wants to Be a Millionaire?
1998 · Series
So Graham Norton
1998 · Series
Dalziel and Pascoe
1996 · Series
The Frank Skinner Show
1995 · Series
Pat and Margaret
1994 · Movie
The Dwelling Place
1994 · Series
Coronation Street
1960 · Series
What Would Julie Do?
Movie