Cast & creator
Julie Hesmondhalgh
Best known for Coronation Street, Doctor Who, Loose Women
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!
Also known as: Julie Hesmond-Halgh
17
film credits
24
television credits
41
1960–2026 · acting roles
7.0
average across scored titles
Signature credits
Known for
Across film & television
Filmography (41)
Showing 41 of 41 credits
Coronation Street
Hayley Patterson / Hayley Cropper
1960
Doctor Who
Judy Maddox
2005
Loose Women
Self
1999
Would I Lie to You?
Self - Panellist
2007
Dalziel and Pascoe
Wendy Walker
1996
Who Wants to Be a Millionaire?
Self - Contestant
1998
Inside No. 9
Kath
2014
The Celebrity Traitors
Self - Contestant
2025
Broadchurch
Trish Winterman
2013
Happy Valley
Amanda Wadsworth
2014
Crookhaven
Sue
2026
Moving On
Linda
2009
The Frank Skinner Show
Self
1995
So Graham Norton
Self
1998
Harry Hill's TV Burp
2002
Cucumber
Cleo Whitaker
2015
The Pact
Nancy
2021
Alma's Not Normal
Aunty Ange
2020
Mr Bates vs The Post Office
Suzanne Sercombe
2024
You & Me
Linda
2023
Call the Midwife: Sisters in Arms
Sister Alice
2026
The Trouble with Maggie Cole
Jill Wheadon
2020
Tofu
Cleo
2015
The Best of So Graham Norton
Self (archive footage)
2004
The Dwelling Place
Rose Turnbull
1994
Peterloo
Female Reformer
2018
La Couchette
Kath
2015
The National Television Awards Celebrate 25 Years
Self
2020
Boys On Film 15: Time & Tied
Penny (segment "Closets")
2016
East Street
Hayley Cropper
2010
Pat and Margaret
Helper in Old Age Home
1994
Pond Life
Muirel Panks
2019
Coronation Street: Romanian Holiday
Hayley Cropper
2009
I Told My Mum I Was Going On An RE Trip
Herself (Introduced By)
2018Coronation Street: Queens of the Street
Herself
2020
What Would Julie Do?
Julie
The Outing
Nellie
2022
Closets
Penny
2015
Black Roses: The Killing of Sophie Lancaster
2015
Operation Magpie
Carol Galloway
2023