Julie Foy

Julie Foy (born 5 May 1971) is an English actress and producer, best known for The Silent Child which received critical acclaim and won the Academy Award for Best Live Action Short Film.^[1][2]

Julie Foy
Born	(1971-05-05) 5 May 1971 (age 53) Bolton, England
Occupation(s)	Film producer Actress
Years active	1986–present
Notable work	The Silent Child Coronation Street

Julie Foy attended Canon Slade School in Bolton. Julie started to attend workshops at the Octagon Theatre in Bolton before training at the College of the Performing Arts in Salford. Whilst still at school she made her television debut in Jossy's Giants before going on to appear in Press Gang and on stage in Our Day Out.^[3]

She appeared in the Granada Television series How To Be Cool and made appearances in Dramarama and Forever Young. In 1988 she played Sally Seddon's sister Gina Seddon in Coronation Street for a year before taking the role of a nurse in the 1989 movie Strapless.^[4]

Foy then appeared in BBC's Casualty and onstage at The Birmingham Repertory Company as Ruby in When We Are Married. She later played Jo in A Taste of Honey at the York Theatre Royal. Other television work includes Dawn and the Candidate and as Madge in Missing Persons. In 1996 she returned to the Birmingham Rep to play Marigold in Toad of Toad Hall.

Filmography

Year	Film	Role	Director
2019	The Betrayal of Maria Sivan	Producer	Nicholas Connor
2017	The Silent Child	Producer	Chris Overton
1993	Casualty	Sue	George Case
1990	Missing Persons	Madge	Derek Bennet
1990	Press Gang	Ruby	Various
1989	Strapless	Nurse	David Hare
1988–1989	Coronation Street [5]	Gina Seddon	Various
1988	How to be Cool [6]	Deidre	Various
1988	Dramarama	Tina	Gareth Morgan
1986–1987	Jossy's Giants	Tracey	George Case

Awards and nominations

The Silent Child won best short film at the Rhode Island International Film Festival in August 2017. This made it eligible for entry to the Oscars. In December 2017 the film was selected as one of the final ten films in the Live Action Short Film category for the 90th Academy Awards. On 23 January 2018, it was announced that The Silent Child was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Live Action Short Film for the 90th Academy Awards, which it then won.

Award	Date of ceremony	Category	Result
Academy Awards	March 4, 2018	Live Action Short Film	Won

References

1. "Oscars 2018: The list of nominees in full". BBC News. 23 January 2018. Retrieved 23 January 2018.
2. "Award Winner Interview: Chris Overton - Encounters Film Festival". Encounters Film Festival. 15 November 2017. Retrieved 19 February 2018.
3. "Why Bolton's better than Hollywood for Oscar winner Julie Foy".
4. "And the Oscar goes to . . . Julie Foy from Harwood!".
5. "Julie Foy".
6. "Julie Foy". Archived from the original on 12 August 2019.