
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!

Doctor Who
TV • 2005

Coronation Street
TV • 1960

Inside No. 9
TV • 2014

Would I Lie to You?
TV • 2007

Dalziel & Pascoe
TV • 1996

Loose Women
TV • 1999

Broadchurch
TV • 2013

Moving On
TV • 2009

The Frank Skinner Show
TV • 1995

Happy Valley
TV • 2014

So Graham Norton
TV • 1998

Who Wants to Be a Millionaire?
TV • 1998

Harry Hill's TV Burp
TV • 2002

Crookhaven
TV • 2026

Cucumber
TV • 2015

The Pact
TV • 2021

Mr Bates vs The Post Office
TV • 2024

You & Me
TV • 2023