Julie Hesmondhalgh

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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 from 1998 to 2014.

She received Best Serial Drama Performance at the 2014 National Television Awards and Best Actress at the 2014 British Soap Awards for this role. Cucumber (2015), Happy Valley (2016), and Broadchurch (2017) were among Hesmondhalgh's other regular television appearances.

Her stage appearances include God Bless the Child at the Royal Court Theatre in London (2014) and Wit at the Royal Exchange in Manchester (2016). Methuen Drama released her Working Diary in 2019 as part of their Theatre Makers collection. She is co-founder of Take Back, a Manchester-based theatre company dedicated to giving script in hand quick reactions to social and political events.

Early life

Hesmondhalgh was born in Accrington, Lancashire, England. She went to drama school from 1988 to 1991, and Benito Martinez, one of her classmates, attended the London Academy of Music and Dramatic Art from 1988 to 1991 (one of her classmates was Benito Martinez). Hesmondhalgh was a member of Arts Threshold, a small independent theatre in London, for many years, and she worked with Rufus Norris in his first directorial debut after completing her training. She appeared in television dramas including The Bill, Catherine Cookson's The Dwelling Place, and Margaret Wood's comedic television film Pat and Margaret.

Personal life

Hesmondhalgh is married to screenwriter Ian Kershaw. The couple and their two children live in Tameside.

Hesmondhalgh is a Labour Party member. In August 2015, she supported Jeremy Corbyn's campaign in the Labour Party leadership election. "Proudly supporting Jeremy Corbyn in the Labour leadership race," she tweeted. In the 2017 UK general election, she campaigned for Corbyn as the party's leader. "I hoped the Labour Party and its core values would now be in accordance with my deeply held socialist convictions of equality, justice, and peace," she said at Labour's general election campaign launch in Manchester in May.

Hesmondhalgh appeared on ITV game show All Star Mr & Mrs with husband Ian on May 1, 2013, raising £20,000 for Maundy Relief.

Hesmondhalgh is a patron of the following organizations: Trans Media Watch, Maundy Relief, Marple Drama, WAST, Reuben's Retreat, Reuben's Rehearment, The Alex Williams Believer and Achieve Trust, and The Sophie Lancaster Foundation (for whom she and Ian held a creative writing competition in schools throughout the North West in 2011). Following Sophie Lancaster's assassination, the new group was formed.

In 2019, she founded 500 Acts of Kindness, a charity group in which 500 members contribute a pound a week to help an individual, group, family, or charity in need.

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Career

Hesmondhalgh is best known for his role in Coronation Street's ITV soap opera Coronation Street. She appeared on the program for the first transgender person in a British soap opera in January 1998. After the birth of her first child, she took maternity leave from the soap between 2000 and 2001. Hesmondhalgh, who appeared on the show for nearly ten years, has decided to take a year to spend more time with her family. She started on October 22, 2007, and then returned on November 17th, 2008. Hesmondhalgh appeared on ITV's The Cube on December 24, 2011, winning £20,000 for her Accrington-based anti-poverty charity, Maundy Relief.

Hayley's character, Hesmondhalgh, was involved in high-profile newslines, including one about a gender change and another concerning a hostage taleline in the Underworld factory where Hayley and Carla Connor (Alison King) were kidnapped, bound and gagged by rogue businessman Tony Gordon, who had intended to murder them. They were unhurt, but Tony was killed in the ensuing explosion. Following a fight against pancreatic cancer, Hesmondhalgh will leave Coronation Street in January 2014 after 15 years on the show, and Hayley's role was to leave in a turbulent right-to-die storyline. Hesmondhalgh filmed her final scenes on November 18, 2013; they were broadcast on January 22, 2014, when she shared her longtime co-star, David Neilson, on the night she received a National Television Award for Best Performance in a Serial Drama. Over ten million viewers tuned in to Hayley's last episode, where she ended her life. She worked with pancreatic cancer charities to raise concerns of the disease, was involved in a petition and attended a parliamentary debate on the subject in 2014.

Hesmondhalgh appeared in the Channel 4 drama series Cucumber, written by Russell T Davies, starting from January 22nd. Sophie Lancaster was also included in the BBC Four film Black Roses: The Killing of Sophie Lancaster, a television film about Sophie Lancaster's assassination. Hesmondhalgh performed the role of Sophie's mother, Sylvia Lancaster, in a role she had previously played on stage. Hesmondhalgh is a student at the Sophie Lancaster Foundation and a friend of Sylvia Lancaster. Hesmondhalgh received the Royal Television Society Award for Best Female Actor in a Drama in 2015 for her role as Sylvia.

Hesmondhalgh appeared in an episode of the BBC drama Moving Forward, starring Shane Richie and John Thomson, as well as one episode of Inside No. 9, written by Steve Pemberton and Reece Shearsmith in 2015.

Hesmondhalgh appeared on BBC One in 2016. Sally Wainwright, a writer, author, and executive producer, was given the opportunity. Amanda Wadsworth, a midwife and working mother from Yorkshire who has a tumultuous friendship with her husband, John (Kevin Doyle), has a tense marriage with her husband, John.

In the third and final series of Broadchurch on ITV, Hesmondhalgh played Trish.

Hesmondhalgh was confirmed as a guest star in the Doctor Who episode "Kerblam" in 2018. "I am a little confused about it."

Amanda Hesmondhalgh appeared in the first episode of Channel 4's Catastrophe's final season starring Rob Delaney and Sharon Horgan. In March 2019, it was announced that Hesmondhalgh would be included in a new six-part ITV comedy drama, The Trouble with Maggie Cole and Dawn French.

Methuen Drama released her Working Diary in 2019 as part of their Theatre Makers collection. She is co-founder of Take Back, a Manchester-based theatre company dedicated to making script in hand rapid responses to social and political events.

In 2020, Hesmondhalgh appeared in Heather in the third series of The A Word. In May 20,21, Hesmondhalgh appeared in Nancy on BBC1's The Pact, as Laura Fraser, Rakie Ayola, Eiry Thomas, Aneurin Barnard, and Jason Hughes. Pete McTighe wrote the book, which was set in Wales.

Hesmondhalgh began narrating The Weakest Link in 2021, taking over from Jon Briggs.

Hesmondhalgh appeared in Black Roses in Manchester from 19 to 29 September 2012, portraying Sylvia Lancaster. Rachel Austin appeared in The Killing of Sophie Lancaster. Sophie Lancaster, Sylvia's late daughter, was the subject of the play based on a true-life tale. In 2013, Hesmondhalgh was named the Best Studio Performance Award at Manchester Theatre Festival.

She returned to the Royal Exchange Theatre for her first appearance since leaving Coronation Street in the Simon Stephens play Blindsided, which ran until February 15th. She appeared in God Bless The Child at the Royal Court Theatre in London, directed by Vicky Featherstone, playing Mrs Bradley with Amanda Abbington from 12 November to December 20, 2014.

Hesmondhalgh's first one-woman performance, These I Love, at Gulliver's in Manchester, in June 2015.

In Margaret Edson's Wit in January 2016, she starred Vivian Bearing, an American Professor of Poetry dying of ovarian cancer, for which she was nominated for a TMA and received a Manchester Theatre Award for Best Female Performance.

She is a founding member of a Manchester-based grassroots theatre group focusing on social issues, including Rebekah Harrison and Grant Archer, and to which she has contributed as a writer and actor. She is a member of The Gap collective, a new writing company in Manchester, and they performed their first gala performance at Halle St Peters in September 2015, in a piece by her husband Ian Kershaw.

Hesmondhalgh appeared in a one-off performance at Lemn Sissay's The Report, directed by John E. McGrath on April 30, 2017.

Renee starred in Kendall Feaver's The Almighty Sometimes in February 2018. Katy Rudd of the Royal Exchange steered it.

Bertolt Brecht's Mother Courage and Her Children, adapted by Anna Jordan, appeared in February 2019. Amy Hodge, a Royal Exchange in Manchester, created it.

She is both a promoter of Arts Emergency and a mentor with the National Youth Theatre.

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