Julie Hesmondhalgh

Born

Julie Claire Hesmondhalgh , Accrington, Lancashire, England, UK

Birthday

1970-02-25

Occupation

Actress

Spouse(s)

Ian Kershaw

Years Active

1988–

Julie Claire Hesmondhalgh (born 25 February 1970) is an English actress, known for her role as Hayley Cropper in the ITV soap opera Coronation Street between 1998 and 2014. For this role, she won Best Serial Drama Performance at the 2014 National Television Awards and Best Actress at the 2014 British Soap Awards.
Since departing Coronation Street, Hesmondhalgh's projects include regular television roles in the 2015 Russell T Davies penned drama series Cucumber and the 2016 series of Happy Valley.
Hesmondhalgh was born in Accrington, Lancashire. As a teenager, she was moderately interested in acting, but wished to become a social worker. She applied to drama school to be with her friends and studied at the London Academy of Music and Dramatic Art from 1988 to 1991 (one of her classmates was Benito Martinez). On finishing her training, Hesmondhalgh was a part of Arts Threshold, a small independent theatre in London, for several years. In the 1990s, she appeared in such television dramas as The Bill, Catherine Cookson's The Dwelling Place, and in the Victoria Wood comedic television movie Pat and Margaret.

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