1. Julie Peasgood is best known for her role as Fran Pearson in the television soap Brookside.
17 Facts About Julie Peasgood
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Julie Peasgood later played Jo Steadman in Emmerdale in 1997 and Jacqui Hudson in Hollyoaks from 2001 to 2002.
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Julie Peasgood's mother had started work as a tightrope walker and juggler in Bertram Mills Circus.
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Julie Peasgood is the mother of the actress Kate McEnery by her first marriage to Peter McEnery, whom she acted opposite in Ron Daniel's Royal Shakespeare Company production of Pericles in 1979.
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Julie Peasgood has been married since 1998 to actor Patrick Pearson.
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Julie Peasgood's niece, Emily Peasgood, is an Ivors Composers Awards winning composer and sound artist.
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Julie Peasgood was with the RSC for five years, where she played the role of Tilda Price in the original production of Nicholas Nickleby directed by Trevor Nunn.
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Julie Peasgood was in the production of Inadmissible Evidence, directed by John Osborne at the Royal Court, and has performed at the Old Vic, the Royal Exchange Theatre, Manchester, the Orange Tree and the West End.
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Julie Peasgood appeared in the 1983 horror film House of the Long Shadows, which starred Peter Cushing, Vincent Price and Christopher Lee.
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Julie Peasgood started to do voice overs in the 1980s, and has voiced several hundred television and radio commercials.
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Julie Peasgood is perhaps most well known in this role for a 1990s advert for Bird's Eye Frozen Peas.
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In 2003, Julie Peasgood was known as the "queen of the ad voice overs".
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Julie Peasgood played the leading role of Shirley in Venus to Go on BBC Radio 4.
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Julie Peasgood is a TV presenter, and won the Royal Television Society's TV Personality of the Year Award in 2004, for her series Great Little Breaks.
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Julie Peasgood contributed a vocal performance to Creative Reality's survival horror videogame Martian Gothic: Unification which was released in 2000.
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Julie Peasgood later spoke out against violent video games, emphasising their negative effects, and attracted some criticism due to her contribution to Martian Gothic.
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Julie Peasgood currently has two regular magazine columns, is Contributing Editor of Cruise International magazine and writes about travel for a number of newspapers, magazines and websites.