Julie Eagleton was born in the UK, and is of English/Irish descent. After initially training in journalism, Julie worked as an actor with directors such as Christopher Nolan (Inception), Woody Allen (Cassandra's Dream), Tom Hooper (The King's Speech), Joe Wright (Atonement), Stephen Frears (The Queen), Paul Greengrass (The Bourne Ultimatum), and Jon S. Baird (Stan and Ollie) amongst others. She has also worked with Tim Burton on three separate occasions: Charlie And The Chocolate Factory, Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber Of Fleet Street, and Miss Peregrine's School For Peculiar Children. Her TV work has included supporting roles in various mini-series, including Primetime Emmy and Golden Globe award-winning series, Downton Abbey.
Julie began her film producing career in 2017 when she spearheaded a successful Kickstarter campaign to fund the award-winning short film, Perplexed Music, directed by Mark McGann and starring his brother, Paul McGann. The film about love, loss and rebirth, is based on a poem by Elizabeth Barrett Browning of the same name, and was released in 2018. In the same year, she also produced the award-winning short film, Designated Caretaker Redux, directed by Frederick Keeve, and starring William Morgan Sheppard as Michael Chekhov. The film centres around a high school drama teacher's obsession with completing a film about Michael Chekhov, and losing touch with his family and his sanity in the process.
In 2018, she was Executive Producer on the award-winning short comedy-drama Paul Is Dead, directed by George Moore, which was inspired by the 1960s bizarre rock & roll theory conspiracy theory surrounding Paul McCartney and The Beatles. In 2019 she produced her first feature film, The Accompanist, directed by Frederick Keeve. A love story set in the world of male ballet in Los Angeles, the multi-award-winning feature was released in 2020 by Dark Star Pictures.
In 2021, Julie was Executive Producer and cast member on the short drama, Night and Day. Directed by Tim Fywell (The English Game), the film follows two sisters, one a doctor and one an actress living in London in April 2020, a month into lockdown during the Covid-19 pandemic.
In 2022, she was Executive Producer on the Short Comedy film, Free Spirits, directed by George Moore. Starring BAFTA nominee, Spencer Jones, who plays a bashful vicar called upon to save a haunted nudist community from a prudish poltergeist. In the same year, Julie played the role of Sarah Madden in feature film, The Godfather Buck, directed by Thomas J Churchill, and distributed by Gravitas Ventures. Two brothers who meet once a year at a cabin in Big Bear, uncover family secrets and lies which changes their lives forever.
In 2023, she produced the short film, Jimmy Comes Marching Home, directed by Frederick Keeve. Director Frank Capra does his best to try and persuade WWII war hero Jimmy Stewart, badly damaged by the horrors of aerial combat in wartime service, to return to acting and star in It’s a Wonderful Life.
Julie's second feature film as a producer, The Accompanist Awakening, is currently in pre-production and is scheduled to shoot in 2024.
She is a proud member of WIF (Women in Film, LA), and PGGB (The Production Guild of Great Britain), and divides her time between the Cotwolds, London and Los Angeles.
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As a writer, Julie’s work has appeared in publications such as Elle, Harpers Bazaar, The Independent, The Telegraph, The Times and Vogue. She is the founder of arts and culture magazine: CELLOPHANELAND* and is currently writing her first non-fiction book about Elizabeth Taylor and Richard Burton.