Julia Deakin

Julia Deakin is an English actress born in Gainsborough, Lincolnshire, who trained at Mountview Theatre School after starting teacher training in French and drama. She played Mrs. Sowerberry at the London Palladium in the 1994 West End revival of Oliver! before becoming a familiar face on television in the sitcoms So Haunt Me, Oh, Doctor Beeching!, in which she played May Skinner, and Spaced, where she was the landlady Marsha. Her other television work includes Side by Side, 33 episodes of Holby City as Carole Copeland from 2015 to 2021, I'm Alan Partridge, Doc Martin, Midsomer Murders, Coronation Street, Big Train and House of Anubis. On radio she played Eva Tattle in The Maltby Collection. Her films include a cameo in Shaun of the Dead (2004), the pub landlady Mary Porter in Hot Fuzz (2007), Maggie in Down Terrace (2010) and Jean in High-Rise (2015).