Julie Goodyear, an accomplished English actress who was born Julie Kemp on March 29, 1942, rose to fame for her depiction of Bet Lynch in the enduring ITV soap opera Coronation Street. She made her acting debut as Bet in 1966 for a brief nine-episode stint before joining the company permanently in 1970 and remaining there until 1995.
Additional episodes in which Goodyear played Bet included eight in 2002 and seven in 2003. She received the Special Recognition Award at the 1995 National Television Awards in appreciation of her outstanding performance in Coronation Street.
In the 1996 New Year Honors, she was named a Member of the Order of the British Empire (MBE). Parents George and Alice Kemp welcomed Goodyear into the world in Bury, Lancashire. When she was six years old, her parents got divorced, and her mother later remarried William Goodyear, whom she looked up to.
Goodyear was raised by her grandma Elizabeth Duckworth after the tragic drowning of her grandmother when she was thirteen. She was a student at Middleton’s St Anne’s Academy.
Goodyear’s career in the show has its ups and downs, but she is most known for playing the spunky barmaid Bet Lynch in the British soap opera Coronation Street.
She was initially cast in 1966 but left the program briefly at Pat Phoenix’s advice (who portrayed Elsie Tanner) on the condition that she pursue more training. She joined Oldham’s Repertory Theatre at this time.
Julie Goodyear husband
Is Julie Goodyear still married? Yes, after eleven years of dating her fourth spouse, Scott Brand, who is 26 years her junior, they got married in 2007. There are three grandkids for Goodyear.