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!
Mr Bates vs The Post Office
Suzanne Sercombe · (4 episodes)
2024
Operation Magpie
Carol Galloway
2023
You & Me
Linda · (3 episodes)
2023
Help
2022
The Outing
Nellie
2022
The Pact
Nancy · (6 episodes)
2021
The Trouble with Maggie Cole
Jill Wheadon · (6 episodes)
2020
The National Television Awards Celebrate 25 Years
Self
2020
Pond Life
Muirel Panks
2019
Peterloo
Female Reformer
2018
I Told My Mum I Was Going On An RE Trip
Herself (Introduced By)
2018
Boys On Film 15: Time & Tied
Penny (segment "Closets")
2016
Black Roses: The Killing of Sophie Lancaster
2015
Closets
Penny
2015
La Couchette
Kath
2015
Cucumber
Cleo Whitaker · (8 episodes)
2015
Tofu
Cleo · (8 episodes)
2015
Happy Valley
Amanda Wadsworth · (6 episodes)
2014
Inside No. 9
Kath · (1 episode)
2014
Broadchurch
Trish Winterman · (8 episodes)
2013
Coronation Street: Romanian Holiday
Hayley Cropper
2009
Moving On
Linda · (1 episode)
2009
Doctor Who
Judy Maddox · (1 episode)
2005
Loose Women
Self · (1 episode)
1999
Loose Women
Self - Presenter · (3 episodes)
1999
So Graham Norton
Self · (1 episode)
1998
Dalziel & Pascoe
(1 episode)
1996
Pat and Margaret
Helper in Old Age Home
1994
What Would Julie Do?
Julie
Coronation Street: Queens of the Street
Herself
Harry Hill's TV Burp
(1 episode)
2002
The Frank Skinner Show
Self · (1 episode)
1995
The Dwelling Place
Rose Turnbull · (3 episodes)
1994
Coronation Street
Hayley Patterson / Hayley Cropper · (1492 episodes)
1960