Julie Foy (born 5 May 1971) is an English actress and producer, best known for ''

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'' which received critical acclaim and won the

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. 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. She appeared in the Granada Television series How To Be Cool and made appearances in Dramarama and Forever Young. In 1988 she played

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's sister Gina Seddon in ''

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'' for a year before taking the role of a nurse in the 1989 movie ''Strapless''. Foy then appeared in BBC's ''

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'' 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

Awards and nominations

''The Silent Child'' won best short film at the

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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

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. 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

, which it then won.

References

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