Julia Goulding (born 27 March 1985) is an English actress who has played Shona Platt on the ITV

soap opera A soap opera, or ''soap'' for short, is a typically long-running radio or television serial, frequently characterized by melodrama, ensemble casts, and sentimentality. The term "soap opera" originated from radio dramas originally being sponsored ...

, ''

Coronation Street ''Coronation Street'' is an English soap opera created by ITV Granada, Granada Television and shown on ITV (TV network), ITV since 9 December 1960. The programme centres around a cobbled, terraced street in Weatherfield, a fictional town based ...

'', since 2016.

Career

Goulding attended the

Royal Academy of Dramatic Art The Royal Academy of Dramatic Art (RADA; ) is a drama school in London, England, that provides vocational conservatoire training for theatre, film, television, and radio. It is based in the Bloomsbury area of Central London, close to the Sena ...

. She has starred in theatre productions including ''The Crucible'', ''The Canterbury Tales'', ''Othello'', ''Merchant of Venice'' and ''The Notorious Mrs Ebbsmith''. Goulding's first television role was on the long-running ITV soap opera, ''

'', beginning in December 2016 as

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, the new love interest of David Platt, (played by

Jack P. Shepherd Jack Peter Shepherd (born 14 January 1988) is a British actor. He is best known for his role as David Platt in the ITV soap opera ''Coronation Street''. He won the award for Best Young Actor in 2001 at The ''Inside Soap'' Awards and Best Bad B ...

Personal life

She is married to Ben Silver. The pair married at Manchester Albert Hall in December 2018 after dating for three years. Goulding revealed that she was expecting her first child with Silver via an Instagram post on 30 May 2019. She gave birth to a boy on 30 November 2019. On 11 June 2022, she announced her second pregnancy. In November 2022, she gave birth to a girl.

References

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