Julia Ford is a British

United Kingdom

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 actress who has appeared in a variety of theatre, film, radio and television productions, including Waking the Dead

Waking the Dead (TV series)

Waking the Dead is a British television police procedural crime drama series produced by the BBC featuring a fictional Cold Case Unit comprising CID police officers, a psychological profiler and a forensic scientist. A pilot episode aired in September 2000 and there have been a total of nine series...

, Silent Witness

Silent Witness

Silent Witness is a BBC crime thriller series focusing on a team of forensic pathology experts and their investigations into various crimes. First broadcast in February 1996, the series is still airing to the present day, with a fifteenth series expected to air in January 2012. The series was...

, Midsomer Murders

Midsomer Murders

Midsomer Murders is a British television detective drama that has aired on ITV since 1997. The show is based on the books by Caroline Graham, as originally adapted by Anthony Horowitz. The lead character is DCI Tom Barnaby who works for Causton CID. When Nettles left the show in 2011 he was...

 and All About George, The Street, Red Riding, Coming Down The Mountain, In A Land of Plenty, Insiders, Island at War. In 2009 she played the part of Fleur in Being Human

Being Human (TV series)

Being Human is a British supernatural drama television series. It was created and written by Toby Whithouse and is currently broadcast on BBC Three. The show blends elements of flatshare comedy and horror drama...

 and Jean in an episode of Moving On

Moving On (TV series)

Moving On is a British television series consisting of standalone contemporary dramas first shown on daytime BBC One. Although originally broadcast in an early-afternoon slot, less than a month after the initial airing the first series was repeated to an evening audience...

 called Bully.

In theatre she has played Sandra in A Room For Romeo Brass. In The Weir

The Weir

The Weir is a play written by Conor McPherson in 1997. It was first produced at The Royal Court Theatre Upstairs in London, England, on 4 July 1997. It first appeared on Broadway at the Walter Kerr Theatre on 1 April 1999. It has since been performed in Toronto, Dublin, Belfast, Boston,...

 she played Valerie at the Royal Court

Royal court

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. She recently starred as Amanda in Vivienne Franzmann

Vivienne Franzmann

Vivienne Franzman is a British playwright from Walthamstow, whose debut play Mogadishu was critically acclaimed in its premiere at the Royal Exchange in Manchester and in its transference to the Lyric Theatre in London in 2011. With Dominic Cavendish of The Telegraph calling it 'the play of the...

's debut play Mogadishu

Mogadishu (play)

Mogadishu is the debut play by ex-school teacher Vivienne Franzmann concerning a white teacher who tries to protect her black student from expulsion after he pushes her to the ground, but in order to protect himself the student lies and drags her into a vortex of lies in which victim becomes...

 at the Royal Exchange

Royal Exchange, Manchester

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 in Manchester

Manchester

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 and then at the Lyric Theatre in London

London

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in 2011.

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