
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!
TV Shows(23)

Crookhaven
Sue

The Celebrity Traitors
Self - Contestant

Mr Bates vs The Post Office
Suzanne Sercombe

You & Me
Linda

The Pact
Nancy

The Trouble with Maggie Cole
Jill Wheadon

Alma's Not Normal
Aunty Ange

Cucumber
Cleo Whitaker

Tofu
Cleo

Inside No. 9
Kath

Happy Valley
Amanda Wadsworth

Broadchurch
Trish Winterman

Moving On
Linda

Would I Lie to You?
Self - Panellist

Doctor Who
Judy Maddox

Harry Hill's TV Burp

Loose Women
Self

So Graham Norton
Self

Who Wants to Be a Millionaire?
Self - Contestant

Dalziel and Pascoe
Wendy Walker