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Louise Plowright (born 1956 in Cheshire) is a British actress who trained at the Bristol Old Vic Theatre School where she studied alongside Mark Strong and Cathryn Bradshaw and first came to prominence playing abrasive hairdresser Julie Cooper in the television soap opera EastEnders from 1989 to 1990.Subsequent major roles on TV include Linda Harvey in Families and Michelle Thorn in Footballers’ Wives: Extra Time.As a stage singer-actress she has appeared in a number of regional and touring productions of musicals where her roles have included: April in Hot Shoe Shuffle Julie Johnston in Bad Girls – The Musical and Phyllis Rogers Stone in Follies and most recently Chitty Chitty Bang Bang amongst others.