Julie Hesmondhalgh
ActingAlso Known As
Julie Hesmond-Halgh
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!
Movies
(15 total)
Peterloo
as Female Reformer
Pat and Margaret
as Helper in Old Age Home
Closets
as Penny
Boys On Film 15: Time & Tied
as Penny (segment "Closets")
Pond Life
as Muirel Panks
Coronation Street: Romanian Holiday
as Hayley Cropper
The Outing
as Nellie
Operation Magpie
as Carol Galloway
What Would Julie Do?
as Julie
I Told My Mum I Was Going On An RE Trip
as Herself (Introduced By)
East Street
as Hayley Cropper
TV Shows
(21 total)
Doctor Who
as Judy Maddox
Broadchurch
as Trish Winterman
Happy Valley
as Amanda Wadsworth
Inside No. 9
as Kath
Would I Lie to You?
as Self - Panellist
Coronation Street
as Hayley Patterson / Hayley Cropper
Mr Bates vs The Post Office
as Suzanne Sercombe
The Pact
as Nancy
Cucumber
as Cleo Whitaker
Who Wants to Be a Millionaire?
as Self - Contestant
Loose Women
as Self
You & Me
as Linda
Moving On
as Linda
Tofu
as Cleo
The Trouble with Maggie Cole
as Jill Wheadon
So Graham Norton
as Self
The Dwelling Place
as Rose Turnbull
