He is known for portraying the role of Norris Cole in the ITV soap opera Coronation Street on and off between 1994 and 1997, regularly from 1999 to 2017, and intermittently between 2019 and 2020.

[2] He was involved in amateur dramatics groups, one of which included Richard Moore, called The Highcliffe Players.

[3] When aged 28, he attended the Rose Bruford Drama School in London[1] before beginning a career in theatre.

Hebden first appeared in Coronation Street from 1974 to 1975, as Mavis Riley's (Thelma Barlow) Spanish boyfriend Carlos.

In 1999, Hebden made a brief appearance as a pharmacist in the television film Lost for Words, alongside Pete Postlethwaite, Anne Reid and Thora Hird.