Sawalha was innate around London into an acting family: her father Nadim is also an actor world health organization appeared in the James Attach pic The Spy Who Loved Me while her sister Nadia starred in the soap EastEnders and is now the talk show hikers. Julia Sawalha number one gained public attention for her starring role in the ITV teenage comedy/drama Press Gang, which ran from 1989 to 1993.

She starred in the 1995 BBC adaptation of Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice as Lydia Bennett. Her co-stars involved Colin Firth. Sawalha besides voiced "Ginger" in the claymation pic Chicken Run.

In January 1 2004 it was reported that she had married Alan Davies, her co-star in the television series Jonathan Creek. Two Davies & Sawalha denied this.

TV
Absolutely Fabulous Bottom Casualty Doctor Who and the Curse of Fatal Death El CID Faith in the Future A Flint Street Nativity French and Saunders Inspector Morse Jonathan Creek Lovejoy Martin Chuzzlewit Press Gang Pride and Prejudice 2nd Thoughts Tales from either a Crypt Time Gentlemen Please

Films
''Buddy's Song Chicken Run (2000) In the Bleak Midwinter (aka The Midwinter's Tale) The Wind in the Willows''