
Actor
Julie Hesmondhalgh
Born 1970 · 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!
Acting

Doctor Who
Judy Maddox · 2005

Broadchurch
Trish Winterman · 2013

Happy Valley
Amanda Wadsworth · 2014

Inside No. 9
Kath · 2014

Would I Lie to You?
Self - Panellist · 2007

Mr Bates vs The Post Office
Suzanne Sercombe · 2024

Peterloo
Female Reformer · 2018

Cucumber
Cleo Whitaker · 2015

The Pact
Nancy · 2021

The Celebrity Traitors
Self - Contestant · 2025

Coronation Street
Hayley Patterson / Hayley Cropper · 1960

Who Wants to Be a Millionaire?
Self - Contestant · 1998

Pat and Margaret
Helper in Old Age Home · 1994

Dalziel and Pascoe
Wendy Walker · 1996

Crookhaven
Sue · 2026

Boys On Film 15: Time & Tied
Penny (segment "Closets") · 2016

Moving On
Linda · 2009

The Frank Skinner Show
Self · 1995

So Graham Norton
Self · 1998

The Trouble with Maggie Cole
Jill Wheadon · 2020

The Dwelling Place
Rose Turnbull · 1994

Pond Life
Muirel Panks · 2019

You & Me
Linda · 2023

Closets
Penny · 2015