Julie Eagleton

Julie Eagleton was born in Liverpool, England, and is of English/Irish descent. After initially training in journalism, and working as a writer, she made her professional acting debut in the feature, Century, directed by Stephen Poliakoff, and starring Clive Owen, Charles Dance, and Miranda Richardson, in 1993. Since then she has worked with directors such as Christopher Nolan (Inception), Woody Allen (Cassandra's Dream), Tom Hooper (The King's Speech), Joe Wright (Atonement), Stephen Frears (The Queen) and Paul Greengrass (The Bourne Ultimatum) amongst many others. She has also worked with Tim Burton on three separate occasions: Charlie And The Chocolate Factory in 2005, Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber Of Fleet Street in 2007, and Miss Peregrine's School For Peculiar Children in 2016. Her TV work has included supporting roles in the mini-series, The Line of Beauty in 2006, and TV movies, The Chatterley Affair in 2006, Into The Storm in 2009, and The Special Relationship in 2010. Between 2012 - 2014, she appeared in 8 episodes of Primetime Emmy and Golden Globe award-winning series, Downton Abbey, in seasons 3, 4 and 5. In 2014, she appeared in one episode of political spy thriller, The Honourable Woman. In 2017, Julie worked on a successful Kickstarter campaign to fund the award-winning short film, Perplexed Music, directed by Mark McGann and starring his brother, Paul McGann, becoming one of its producers. The film about love, loss and rebirth, is based on a poem by Elizabeth Barrett Browning of the same name, and was released in 2018. In the same year, she also co-produced the award-winning short film, Designated Caretaker Redux, directed by Frederick Keeve, and starring William Morgan Sheppard as Michael Chekhov. The film centres around a high school drama teacher's obsession with completing a film about Michael Chekhov, and losing touch with his family and his sanity in the process. The film addresses man's eternal struggle to maintain personal balance in life and art. In 2017, Julie acted in the feature, Stan and Ollie, a biographical film directed by Jon S. Baird. The film stars Steve Coogan and John C. Reilly as the comedy double act, Laurel and Hardy. In 2018, she appeared in Season 3 of award-winning historical drama, The Crown, for Netflix, starring Olivia Colman as Queen Elizabeth II. In the same year, she was Executive Producer on the comedy short: Paul Is Dead directed by George Moore, which was inspired by the 1960s bizarre rock & roll theory conspiracy theory surrounding Paul McCartney and The Beatles. In 2018 she also co-produced short film: The Accompanist, a love story which is set in the world of male ballet in Los Angeles. The feature version of The Accompanist, which she also co-produced, is due for release in 2019. As a producer, Julie has several feature films in various stages of development, including Cadillac City, Journey to India, Letters From Heaven, and Vine As a writer, she is working on a screenplay, and is the editor of arts and culture e-Zine: CELLOPHANELAND* - IMDb Mini Biography By: Julie Eagleton