Julie Hesmondhalgh 'lost all ambition' for new acting roles after 16 years on Coronation Street
Julie Hesmondhalgh has revealed how she 'lost all ambition' for new roles after 16 years playing Hayley Cropper on Coronation Street.
Speaking to The Mirror, the mum-of-two said: "It was such a day job, it was something I went and did and then came home to my family, so I hadn’t really thought of myself as an actor. A lot of people think about the way I came and left Coronation Street with the fairly sensational soap storylines, but in the 16 years in between there was a lot of pottering around.
Julie grew up in Accrington before studying at the London Academy of Music and Dramatic Art. She was once told she would always be a character actor and would not get much work until she was middle-aged. But at the age of 27 she landed her Corrie role. Hayley was originally written as a short-term character, but Julie and David Neilson, who played Roy Cropper, had such powerful on-screen chemistry that she was kept in the show.
Julie says: “I’m quite a unique mixture of being quite long in the tooth in the industry, with many years of experience, but also at the same time really new to the world of it and still quite wide-eyed. Generally I’m a very positive person but I do spend time worrying about where I am in the industry, or whether I’m as a far ahead as I want to be.”
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