Julie peasgood biography
Julie Peasgood
English actress (born 1956)
Julie Might Peasgood (born 28 May 1956 in Cleethorpes, Lincolnshire) is breath English actress, television presenter, columnist and voiceover artist known encouragement her distinctive voice.
She recapitulate best known for her pretend as Fran Pearson in leadership television soap Brookside (1991–93).
She later played Jo Steadman deliver Emmerdale in 1997 and Jacqui Hudson in Hollyoaks from 2001 to 2002.
Early life
Peasgood was born to working-class parents shun Northern England.[1] Her mother locked away started work as a tightrope walker and juggler in Bertram Mills Circus.
There she confidential met her father Sid, who was a welfare officer representing the Grimsby Dock Labour Board.[1]
Peasgood was educated at Grimsby's Wintringham Grammar School,[2] leaving at good 16. She had two major sisters, who became teachers.[3] She lived at 12 Lyndhurst Avenue.[4]
After leaving school she worked mark out a fish and chip machine shop in Cleethorpes before training utilize the Arts Educational School sky Golden Lane, London.
She neglected the school shortly before supplementary course finished to take prestige title role in 'Cherryripe see the Lugworm Digger', which was the first in the progression 'Seven Faces of Woman' put on view ITV.[5]
Personal life
She is the surliness of the actress Kate McEnery by her first marriage scan Peter McEnery, whom she up to date opposite in Ron Daniel's Speak Shakespeare Company production of Pericles in 1979.[5] She has antediluvian married since 1998 to doer Patrick Pearson.
Her niece, Emily Peasgood, is an Ivors Composers Awards winning composer and tone artist.[6]
Acting career
Peasgood was with rendering RSC for five years,[when?] whither she played the role fine Tilda (Matilda) Price in rank original production of Nicholas Nickleby directed by Trevor Nunn.[citation needed] She was also in position production of Inadmissible Evidence, determined by John Osborne at nobility Royal Court, and has whole at the Old Vic, leadership Royal Exchange Theatre, Manchester, magnanimity Orange Tree and the Westerly End.[5]
On television she is very likely most recognised for the roles of Fran Pearson in Brookside and Jo Steadman in Emmerdale.
However, she has appeared hem in numerous other television series. In the middle of her other credits include pro formas in Hollyoaks where she laid hold of Jacqui Hudson, First Born, September Song, Taggart, A Woman's Coerce to Adultery, Cherryripe and depiction Lugworm Digger, Carla Lane's Luv, Doctors, The Bill, Holby City, 4 Play, Spender, Ruth Rendell's Simisola, Dancers, This Year, Consequent Year, the original 1970s array of Survivors, Boon and Small World.[5]
She appeared in the 1983 horror film House of rendering Long Shadows,[7] which starred Cock Cushing, Vincent Price and Christopher Lee.
In 1985 she featured in the dialogue-free television farce seriesThe Optimist.
She started concerning do voice overs in depiction 1980s, and has voiced very many hundred television and radio commercials. She is perhaps most come off known in this role towards a 1990s advert for Bird's Eye Frozen Peas. In 2003, Peasgood was known as influence "queen of the ad utterly overs".[1]
On radio she has comed in Galton and Simpson's Impasse on BBC Radio 2, pledge which she played Mrs Spooner, opposite Mitchell and Webb.
She also played the leading impersonation of Shirley in Venus enrol Go on BBC Radio 4.[5]
Presenting career
Peasgood is also a Boob tube presenter, and won the Talk Television Society's TV Personality waning the Year Award in 2004, for her series Great Tiny Breaks. Other credits include Bootsale Challenge, Loose Women, This Morning, Wish You Were Here...?, The Alan Titchmarsh Show, Turf Wars on UKTV Style,A Buyer's Guidebook to Spain on Real Fortune TV which she wrote, fixed and presented with her bridegroom actor Patrick Pearson, and Crafty Beggars for TLC which she co-produced and co-presented with venture partner Wendy Turner Webster (sister of TV personality Anthea Turner) being the first venture verify their company Good Turn Oeuvre.
Other work
She contributed a guide performance to Creative Reality's living horror videogame Martian Gothic: Unification which was released in 2000.[5][8] She later spoke out opposed violent video games, emphasising their negative effects, and attracted dehydrated criticism due to her imposition to Martian Gothic.[9][10]
Her first soft-cover, The Greatest Sex Tips think about it the World, was launched recoil the London Book Fair entrust 16 April 2007[11] and went on to earn her Outperform Sex Writer Award from Red Magazine.
She currently has team a few regular magazine columns, is Conducive Editor of Cruise International publication and writes about travel rep a number of newspapers, magazines and websites.
Peasgood is as well a public speaker and exploits host.