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!

Фільмографія

• Call the Midwife: Sisters in Arms — Sister Alice
• Crookhaven — Sue
• Mr Bates vs The Post Office — Suzanne Sercombe
• 2023Operation Magpie — Carol Galloway
• You & Me — Linda
• 2022Help
• 2022The Outing — Nellie
• The Pact — Nancy
• Alma's Not Normal — Aunty Ange
• The Trouble with Maggie Cole — Jill Wheadon
• 2019Pond Life — Muirel Panks
• 2018Peterloo — Female Reformer
• 2016Boys On Film 15: Time & Tied — Penny (segment "Closets")
• 2015Black Roses: The Killing of Sophie Lancaster
• 2015Closets — Penny
• Cucumber — Cleo Whitaker
• 2015La Couchette — Kath
• Tofu — Cleo
• У дев'ятому номері — Kath
• Щаслива долина — Amanda Wadsworth
• Бродчерч — Trish Winterman
• 2010East Street — Hayley Cropper
• 2009Coronation Street: Romanian Holiday — Hayley Cropper
• Moving On — Linda
• Доктор Хто — Judy Maddox
• Harry Hill's TV Burp
• Далзієл і Паско — Wendy Walker
• 1994Pat and Margaret — Helper in Old Age Home
• The Dwelling Place — Rose Turnbull
• Вулиця коронації — Hayley Patterson / Hayley Cropper
• What Would Julie Do? — Julie

Ток-шоу, премії та інші появи (10)

• The Celebrity Traitors — Self - Contestant
• 2020Coronation Street: Queens of the Street — Herself
• 2020The National Television Awards Celebrate 25 Years — Self
• 2018I Told My Mum I Was Going On An RE Trip — Herself (Introduced By)
• Would I Lie to You? — Self - Panellist
• 2004The Best of So Graham Norton — Self (archive footage)
• Loose Women — Self
• So Graham Norton — Self
• Who Wants to Be a Millionaire? — Self - Contestant
• The Frank Skinner Show — Self