Julie trained at LAMDA and is best known for her award-winning portrayal of Hayley Cropper in Coronation Street, a role for which she won multiple awards including: an RTS Award for Best Performance (2013), a National TV Award for Best Serial Drama Performance (2014) and a Best Actress Award at the British Soap Awards (2014).
Julie’s many theatre credits include: The Greatest Play in The History of the World (Trafalgar Studios London, Edinburgh Fringe Festival/ Royal Exchange), There Are No Beginnings (Leeds Playhouse), Mother Courage and her Children (Royal Exchange), The Report (Royal Court), The Almighty Sometimes, Wit (winner of Best Female Performer 2017 MTAs), Black Roses: The Killing of Sophie Lancaster (winner Best Studio Performance 2012, MTAs), Blindsided (all at Manchester Royal Exchange) and God Bless the Child (Royal Court Jerwood Theatre).
Television Credits include: The Pact, The A-Word, The Trouble with Maggie Cole, Doctor Who, Catastrophe, Broadchurch (BAFTA nomination for Best Supporting Actress, 2018), Happy Valley, Black Roses (RTS Award for Best Actress 2015), Moving On, Inside No. 9, Banana, Cucumber, The Dwelling Place, Pat and Margaret, The Bill and Dalziel and Pascoe.
Radio Credits include: Trust, Cracking the Feathers, Tinsel Girl and The Pain Clinic, Dead Cert, What Maisie Knew (BBC), Dead Weight, BBC Festival of Poetry, Anansi Boys, Glue, Over Here, Over There, The Fix, Fat Little Thing, Zola: Blood (Drink), Cleaning Up, Queens of the Coal Age, Deadheading, Dead Clever, Dead Pan, Glue, Pick of the Week (Radio 4); The Verb, Torchbearers, Exile (BBC Radio 3).
Her most recent film credits include: Pond Life with Bill Buckhurst and Peterloo directed by Mike Leigh.
Julie’s Working Diary was published by Methuen in 2019, as part of the Theatre Makers series.