Julie Peasgood

Julie Peasgood is an English actress and presenter who has also written books and worked as a voiceover artist. Born in 1956 in Grimsby, she trained at the Arts Educational School in London before leaving early to take the title part in Cherryripe and the Lugworm Digger, the opening installment of ITV's Seven Faces of Woman. She acted with the RSC for five years, playing Tilda Price in its original Nicholas Nickleby under Trevor Nunn, and John Osborne directed her in Inadmissible Evidence at the Royal Court. On television, she is best known as Fran Pearson in Brookside, and she later played Jo Steadman in Emmerdale and Jacqui Hudson in Hollyoaks. Her film credits include House of the Long Shadows (1983). From the 1980s she did voiceover work, including a well-known Bird's Eye Frozen Peas advertisement, and in 2004 the Royal Television Society named her TV Personality of the Year for Great Little Breaks.