Julie Graham

Julie Graham (born 24 July 1965) is a Scottish actress from Irvine, Ayrshire. Her credits include Taggart (1986), The Fruit Machine (1988), Nuns on the Run (1990), Harry (1993–1995), The Near Room (1995), Preaching to the Perverted (1997), Bedrooms and Hallways (1998), Some Voices (2000), At Home with the Braithwaites (2000–2003), William and Mary (2003–2005), Bonekickers (2008), Doc Martin (2011), Tower Block (2012), The Bletchley Circle (2013), Shetland (2014–2022), Benidorm (2016–2018), Doctor Who (2020), Queens of Mystery (2019–2021), Midsomer Murders (2013,2023), Ridley (2023), and This City Is Ours (2025).
Graham was born on 24 July 1965, in Irvine, Ayrshire, Scotland. Raised by her mother Betty who died from lung cancer at age 50 when Julie was a teenager.
Graham has appeared in the Channel 4 Blood Red Roses (1986, filmed in East Kilbride). She appeared as Kathleen Kelly in 3 episodes of Taggart (1986), and had roles as Alison McGrellis in Casualty (1988), Alice in Harry (1993–1995), Megan Hartnoll in At Home with the Braithwaites (2000–2003), 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 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 as Abby Grant in the BBC drama Survivors. 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 appeared as Maggie Reid in the fifth series of the popular ITV drama Doc Martin (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.
In 2016, Graham began portraying Sheron Dawson in the eight series of the ITV sitcom Benidorm, until the end of the show in 2018. 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".
From 2019, she played a main role as Cat Stone in series 1 & 2 of the Acorn TV British murder-mystery comedy-drama television series Queens of Mystery (2019–2021). She played Annie Marling in the miniseries Ridley (2023).
In 2025, she played the main role of Elaine Phelan, wife of Ronnie Phelan (played by Sean Bean), and their son Jamie (played by Jack McMullen), alongside James Nelson-Joyce, in the BBC One Liverpool based gangster television series, This City Is Ours (2025).
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 by 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.