Julie Hesmondhalgh
Acting • Born 1970-02-25
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!
Filmography
36 credits
Coronation Street: Romanian Holiday
Movie • 2009
Hayley Cropper
The Outing
Movie • 2022
Nellie
Operation Magpie
Movie • 2023
Carol Galloway
Help
Movie • 2022
Black Roses: The Killing of Sophie Lancaster
Movie • 2015
Pat and Margaret
Movie • 1994
Helper in Old Age Home
What Would Julie Do?
Movie
Julie
Closets
Movie • 2015
Penny
I Told My Mum I Was Going On An RE Trip
Movie • 2018
Herself (Introduced By)
Peterloo
Movie • 2018
Female Reformer
Pond Life
Movie • 2019
Muirel Panks
The National Television Awards Celebrate 25 Years
Movie • 2020
Self
Coronation Street: Queens of the Street
Movie • 2020
Herself
Boys On Film 15: Time & Tied
Movie • 2016
Penny (segment "Closets")
East Street
Movie • 2010
Hayley Cropper
Harry Hill's TV Burp
TV • 2002
Dalziel & Pascoe
TV • 1996
The Pact
TV • 2021
Nancy
So Graham Norton
TV • 1998
Self
The Frank Skinner Show
TV • 1995
Self
Inside No. 9
TV • 2014
Kath
Cucumber
TV • 2015
Cleo Whitaker
Broadchurch
TV • 2013
Trish Winterman
Moving On
TV • 2009
Linda
The Dwelling Place
TV • 1994
Rose Turnbull
Mr Bates vs The Post Office
TV • 2024
Suzanne Sercombe
Doctor Who
TV • 2005
Judy Maddox
Tofu
TV • 2015
Cleo
Happy Valley
TV • 2014
Amanda Wadsworth
The Trouble with Maggie Cole
TV • 2020
Jill Wheadon
You & Me
TV • 2023
Linda
Loose Women
TV • 1999
Self
Coronation Street
TV • 1960
Hayley Patterson / Hayley Cropper
Who Wants to Be a Millionaire?
TV • 1998
Self - Contestant
Would I Lie to You?
TV • 2007
Self - Panellist
Crookhaven
TV • 2026
Sue