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Julie Hesmondhalgh
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 th…
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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!
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2026
Call the Midwife: Sisters in Arms
TV show Sister Alice
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2026
Crookhaven
TV show Sue
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2025
The Celebrity Traitors
TV show Self - Contestant
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2024
Mr Bates vs The Post Office
TV show Suzanne Sercombe
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2023
Operation Magpie
Movie Carol Galloway
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2023
You & Me
TV show Linda
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2022
Help
Movie
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2022
The Outing
Movie Nellie
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2021
The Pact
TV show Nancy
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2020
Coronation Street: Queens of the Street
Movie Herself
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2020
Alma's Not Normal
TV show Aunty Ange
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2020
The Trouble with Maggie Cole
TV show Jill Wheadon
- 2020
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2019
Pond Life
Movie Muirel Panks
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2018
Peterloo
Movie Female Reformer
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2018
I Told My Mum I Was Going On An RE Trip
Movie Herself (Introduced By)
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2016
Boys On Film 15: Time & Tied
Movie Penny (segment "Closets")
- 2015
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2015
Closets
Movie Penny
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2015
La Couchette
Movie Kath
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2015
Cucumber
TV show Cleo Whitaker
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2015
Tofu
TV show Cleo
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2014
Happy Valley
TV show Amanda Wadsworth
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2014
Inside No. 9
TV show Kath
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2013
Broadchurch
TV show Trish Winterman
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2010
East Street
Movie Hayley Cropper
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2009
Coronation Street: Romanian Holiday
Movie Hayley Cropper
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2009
Moving On
TV show Linda
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2007
Would I Lie to You?
TV show Self - Panellist
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2005
Doctor Who
TV show Judy Maddox
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2004
The Best of So Graham Norton
Movie Self (archive footage)
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2002
Harry Hill's TV Burp
TV show
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1999
Loose Women
TV show Self
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1998
Who Wants to Be a Millionaire?
TV show Self - Contestant
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1998
So Graham Norton
TV show Self
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1996
Dalziel and Pascoe
TV show Wendy Walker
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1995
The Frank Skinner Show
TV show Self
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1994
Pat and Margaret
Movie Helper in Old Age Home
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1994
The Dwelling Place
TV show Rose Turnbull
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1960
Coronation Street
TV show Hayley Patterson / Hayley Cropper
