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!
2024
as Suzanne Sercombe
2023
as Carol Galloway
2023
as Linda
2022
2022
as Nellie
2021
as Nancy
2020
as Jill Wheadon
2020
as Self
2019
as Muirel Panks
2018
as Female Reformer
2018
as Herself (Introduced By)
2016
as Penny (segment "Closets")
2015
2015
as Penny
2015
as Cleo Whitaker
2014
as Amanda Wadsworth
2014
as Kath
2013
as Trish Winterman
2009
as Hayley Cropper
2009
as Linda
2005
as Judy Maddox
2002
1996
1994
as Helper in Old Age Home
1994
as Rose Turnbull
1960
as Hayley Patterson / Hayley Cropper
as Julie
as Herself