Julia Margaret Deakin, (20 May 1952), is a British actress best known for playing May Skinner in Oh, Doctor Beeching! and Marsha Klein in Spaced.
After a period of training to be a drama teacher, she attended Mountview Theatre School. Her first on-screen role was in the 1979 Made-for-TV Movie Follow the Star playing both an angel and a villager. The '80s were full of small roles for Deakin, but her luck began to change in The '90s.
The decade began with her playing Carole (with an "e") Dawlish in So Haunt Me and following this she played Mrs. Sowerberry in the 1994 West End revival of Oliver!, railway station buffet manager May Skinner in Oh, Doctor Beeching! (taking over from Sherrie Hewson after the Pilot), and divorced landlady Marsha Klein in Spaced.
After working with Simon Pegg in Spaced, she was cast in all the films in the Three Flavours Cornetto Trilogy, playing Yvonne's mum in Shaun of the Dead, Mary Porter in Hot Fuzz, and a landlady in The World's End. She also played Daphne Andrews in the first two series of House of Anubis and Carole Copeland in Holby City from Series 17 to 23.
Works on TV Tropes she appeared in:
Films- Shaun of the Dead (2004) — Yvonne's Mum
- Scoop (2006) — Sid's Co-Passenger
- Hot Fuzz (2007) — Mary Porter
- The First Men in the Moon (2010) — Mrs. Fitt
- The Sweeney (2012) — Older Woman
- The World's End (2013) — Bed & Breakfast Landlady
- High-Rise (2015) — Jean
- Rebecca (2020) — Lady Crowan
- Clarence, 1 episode (1988) — Angela
- CASUAL+Y, episode "Welcome to Casualty" (1988) — Jill
- Coronation Street, 22 episodes:
- 1 episode (1989) — DP's Secretary
- 21 episodes (2003-04) — Brenda Fearns
- The Bill, 3 episodes:
- "Friday... and Counting" (1991) — Manageress
- "The Three Sergeants" (1999) — Mrs. Brigazzi
- "Old Wounds" (2007) — Annie Thomas
- So Haunt Me, 8 episodes (1992-94) — Carole Dawlish
- Oh, Doctor Beeching!, 19 episodes (1996-97) — May Skinner
- I'm Alan Partridge, episode "Alan Attraction" (1997) — Jill
- Big Train, 1 episode (1998) — Various
- The Canterbury Tales, 1 episode (1998) — Prioress
- Spaced, 14 episodes (1999-2001) — Marsha Klein
- Holby City, 36 episodes:
- "Private Lives, Public Faces" (2001) — Annabelle Garston
- "While the Cat's Away..." (2004) — Lynn Joseph
- "Damned If You Do" (2007) — Molly Mackie
- 33 episodes (2015-21) — Carole Copeland
- Dalziel and Pascoe, episode "Mens Sana" (2002) — Chloe Miles
- Animated Tales of the World , episode "The Magic Gourd" (2004) — Wang Bao's Mother
- Midsomer Murders, episode "Midsomer Rhapsody" (2005) — Valerie Smeerton
- Doc Martin, episode "Old Dogs" (2005) — Gloria Rix
- Doctors, 5 episodes:
- "Trust" (2006) — Margaret Wheeler
- "The Human Touch" (2007) — Lynne Spice
- "Intensity" (2009) — Sandra Millard
- "Prestige" (2011) — Laura Maidment
- "Difficulty" (2013) — Janette Treadwell
- The Peter Serafinowicz Show, 1 episode (2007) — Various
- The Wrong Door, episode "The Smutty Alien" (2008) — Various
- No Heroics, episode "Origin, Tonic" (2008) — Lynda
- Hounded, episode "Queen Mu" (2010) — Queen Gertrude
- Whites, 1 episode (2010) — Heather Critch
- House of Anubis, 54 episodes (2011-12) — Mrs. Daphne Andrews
- Scott & Bailey, episode "Mould" (2012) — Scary Mary Jackson
- BACK, 1 episode (2017) — Ellen (Uncredited Role)
- Shakespeare & Hathaway - Private Investigators, 2 episodesshow list (2018-19) — Genevieve Shakespeare
- The Windsors, 1 episode (2020) — Carole Middleton
- H/JACK, 5 episodesshow list (2023) — Claire Paxton
