Julie Peasgood

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name = Julie Peasgood
birthname = Julie May Peasgood
birthdate = birth date and age|1956|05|28|df=yes
birthplace = Grimsby, North East Lincolnshire, England
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occupation = Actress, television presenter, author
yearsactive = 1970s-present
spouse = Peter McEnery (date unknown) (divorced) 1 child,
Dallas Smith (1987 - 1997), (divorced),
Patrick Pearson (1998 - present)
website = http://www.juliepeasgood.com
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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","Survivors" & the 1983 Horror- parody film "House of the long shadows" with "Peter Cushing" ,"Vincent Price" & "Christopher Lee".

She 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, Prince of Tyre" in 1989. She 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.

Peasgood is also a 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...?", 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 actor Patrick Pearson.

Her first book, "The Greatest Sex Tips in the World", was launched at the London Book Fair on 16 April 2007 [cite web|url= http://www.amazon.co.uk/Greatest-Sex-Tips-World/dp/190515125X|title= Amazon.co.uk] and went on to earn her Best Sex Writer Award from Scarlet Magazine. Peasgood is also a public speaker and events host, the voice of several hundred television and radio commercials and writes three regular magazine columns, including "Now". She is the regular sex expert on "The Alan Titchmarsh Show" whilst continuing to work as an actress, most recently in "Doctors".

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External links

* [http://www.juliepeasgood.com Julie Peasgood's official website]
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