Julie Nihill (born 1955 in Melbourne, Australia) is an Australian actress.

After early roles in 1980s soap operas such as The Young Doctors, Prisoner and Sons and Daughters and the miniseries Bodyline (in which she appeared as Jessie Bradman, Donald Bradman's wife).

Nihill was cast in the role for which she became a household face: as bartender and local council member Christine 'Chris' Reilly on the police drama Blue Heelers.

Nihill was one of only two actors (the other being John Wood) to star on Blue Heelers from its premiere in 1994 to its finale in 2006.

Ten years before they began working together on Blue Heelers (1994), she appeared in two episodes of A Country Practice (Unemployment, a Health Hazard: Parts 1 & 2) with Martin Sacks, in which she played Martin's girlfriend.