Julie Hesmondhalgh

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Birthday:

25 February 1970, Accrington, Lancashire, England, UK

Birth Name:

Julie Claire Hesmondhalgh

Height:

162 cm

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! Show less «

The LGBT world is one that I'm familiar and comfortable with.

[on Cucumber (2015)] It's just a drama about a group of people having sex with each other. I don't find it risqué. Just because it's about ...Show more »

[on Cucumber (2015)] It's just a drama about a group of people having sex with each other. I don't find it risqué. Just because it's about gay sex, it doesn't mean that it's dirty or controversial. Show less «

I don't think there's as much of a divide between types of acting as there used to be. If someone has been in a good soap opera and they've ...Show more »

I don't think there's as much of a divide between types of acting as there used to be. If someone has been in a good soap opera and they've had a big storyline, TV channels are pretty savvy that they can attract people to watch other things they're in. Show less «

I just caught up with Marvellous (2014) with Toby Jones, which I loved. And I thought The Lost Honour of Christopher Jefferies (2014) was br...Show more »

I just caught up with Marvellous (2014) with Toby Jones, which I loved. And I thought The Lost Honour of Christopher Jefferies (2014) was brilliant. Show less «