Julie Peasgood

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Julie May Peasgood (born 28 May 1956 in Grimsby, North East Lincolnshire) is an English actress. She attended Grimsby's Wintringham School as a student. She is best known for her role as Fran Pearson in the television soap opera Brookside.

She later played Jo Steadman on the soap opera Emmerdale.

Other numerous TV credits include First Born, September Song, Hollyoaks, Taggart, A Woman's Guide to Adultery, Luv, Doctors, The Bill, Dancers, Holby City, Chains of Love, This Year, Next Year, Cherryripe and the Lugworm Digger, and Survivors.

She is the mother of the actress Kate McEnery by her marriage to Peter McEnery. She acted opposite Peter McEnery in Ron Daniel's Royal Shakespeare Company production of Pericles, Prince of Tyre in 1989, and was with the RSC for five years, starring in the original production of Nicholas Nickleby directed by Trevor Nunn. She was also in the production of Inadmissible Evidence, directed by John Osborne at the Royal Court, and has performed at The Old Vic, The Manchester Royal Exchange, and in the West End.

Julie Peasgood is also an accomplished TV presenter, and won the Royal Television Society's TV Personality of the Year Award in 2004, for her series Great Little Breaks. Other credits include Bootsale Challenge, Loose Women, This Morning, Wish You Were Here...?, and she is currently hosting Turf Wars on UKTV Style, and A Buyer's Guide to Spain on Real Estate TV which she wrote, directed and presented with her husband Patrick Pearson.

Her first book, The Greatest Sex Tips in the World, was published in 2007. It was launched at the London Book Fair on 16 April 2007, published by Public Eye Publications.^[1]

Peasgood is also a public speaker and Events host, and the voice of several hundred television and radio commercials.