Julie Graham

Julie Graham (born 24 July 1965) is a Scottish television and film actress. She is best known for her multiple roles in The Bill, as Sheron Dawson in Benidorm, and Gail in Two Doors Down.

Graham has appeared in the Channel 4 Blood Red Roses (1986, filmed in East Kilbride). She also appeared in a 1986 episode of Taggart, “Death Call”, as Kathleen Kelly, and the BBC TV series The Houseman's Tale (1987). She has also had roles as Alison McGrellis in Casualty (1988), Alice in Harry (1993–1995), Alison McIntyre in Life Support (1999), Lisa Kennedy in The Bill (2010), Megan Hartnoll in At Home with the Braithwaites (2000–2003), Alona Cunningham in Between the Sheets (2003), and Mary Gilcrest in William and Mary (2003–2005).

Her film credits include The Fruit Machine (1988), Silent Scream (1990), Nuns on the Run (1990), The Big Man (1990), The Near Room (1995), Preaching to the Perverted (1997), Bedrooms and Hallways (1998), and Some Voices (2000). In 1991, she starred in the short film Rosebud with UK painter Sadie Lee.

She also appeared as Rosie in the Leave It All Behind series of British television commercials for the Peugeot 106 car, alongside Annie Dunkley and Michael McKell in the mid-1990s.

In 2006, she appeared in episode 2 of Sharman as Kylie/Patricia.

In 2007, she appeared as Donna Doig in the three-part ITV drama series Mobile. In 2008, she played the role of Dr. Gillian Magwilde, an archaeologist, in the BBC television drama Bonekickers. She then starred in the BBC drama Survivors as Abby Grant. In 2010, she took on the role of Commander Lisa Kennedy in a seven-episode story arc of The Bill, as well as guest-starring in the final story of the fourth series of the Doctor Who spinoff show The Sarah Jane Adventures, playing the villainous alien Ruby White in the story Goodbye, Sarah Jane Smith. In 2008, The Times described Graham as "the small screen's resident raver, a one-woman festival of naturism". She also appeared as Maggie Reid in the fifth series of the popular ITV drama Doc Martin aired in the autumn of 2011. She portrayed Jean in the 2012 series The Bletchley Circle. Graham reprised her role of Jean in 2018 show, The Bletchley Circle: San Francisco.

In 2011, Graham starred in the one-off BBC Christmas show Lapland, a role which she returned to for a series titled Being Eileen airing from February 2013.

In 2012, Graham appeared in the film Tower Block. In 2013, Graham appeared in episode 8 of series two of the BBC series Death in Paradise.

From 2014 to 2022, Graham appeared in the recurring role of Rhona Kelly, the procurator fiscal, in the Scottish television crime drama, Shetland made by ITV Studios for the BBC.

In 2016, Graham began portraying Sheron Dawson in ITV sitcom Benidorm. In 2020, Graham portrayed Ravio in the Doctor Who episodes "Ascension of the Cybermen" and "The Timeless Children".

Graham has made two appearances in the ITV mystery-crime series Midsomer Murders: as Dr. Laura Parr in 2013 in series 15, episode 5: "The Sicilian Defense", and as Dixie Havergal in 2023 in series 24, episode 4: "A Climate of Death".

In 2000, she appeared in Dusty Hughes' Helpless at the Donmar Warehouse.

Graham was married to actor Joseph A. Bennett from 2002 until he died of suicide on 13 April 2015. On 5 February 2004, she gave birth to a daughter, Edie May, six weeks prematurely. On 3 March 2006, she gave birth to a second daughter, at home, named Cyd Betty.

On 11 October 2019, Graham married Belgian skydiving instructor Davy Croket.[10]