Julie Walters
Biography
Dame Julia Mary Walters DBE, known professionally as Julie Walters, is an English actress, author, and comedian. She is the recipient of four British Academy Television Awards, two British Academy Film Awards, two International Emmy Awards, a BAFTA Fellowship, and a Golden Globe. Walters has been nominated twice for an Academy Award: once for Best Actress and once for Best Supporting Actress.
Walters rose to prominence playing the title role in Educating Rita (1983), a role which she originated in West End theatre. She has appeared in a number of films, including Personal Services (1987), Stepping Out (1991), Sister My Sister (1994), Billy Elliot (2000), the Harry Potter series (2001–2011) as Molly Weasley, Calendar Girls (2003), Wah-Wah (2005), Driving Lessons (2006), Becoming Jane (2007), Mamma Mia! (2008) and Mamma Mia! Here We Go Again (2018), Brave (2012), Paddington (2014) and its 2017 sequel, Brooklyn (2015), Film Stars Don't Die in Liverpool (2017), and Mary Poppins Returns (2018). On stage, she won a Laurence Olivier Award for Best Actress for the 2001 production of All My Sons.
On television, Walters collaborated with Victoria Wood; they appeared together on several television shows, including Wood and Walters (1981), Victoria Wood: As Seen on TV (1985–1987), Pat and Margaret (1994), and Dinnerladies (1998–2000). She has won the British Academy Television Award for Best Actress four times, more than any other actress, for My Beautiful Son (2001), Murder (2002), The Canterbury Tales (2003), and her portrayal of Mo Mowlam in Mo (2010). Walters and Helen Mirren are the only actresses to have won this award three consecutive times, and Walters is tied with Judi Dench for the most nominations in the category with seven. In 2006, the British public voted Walters fourth in ITV's poll of TV's 50 Greatest Stars as part of ITV's 50th anniversary celebrations. She starred in A Short Stay in Switzerland (2009), which won her an International Emmy for Best Actress. Walters was made a Dame (DBE) in the 2017 Birthday Honours for services to drama.
Personal info
Gender
Female
Birthday
1950-02-22
Place of birth
Smethwick, England, UK
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Cast
Billy Elliot
2000
7.59
Becoming Jane
2007
7.30
Girls' Night
1998
6.80
Driving Lessons
2006
6.10
An Audience with Billy Connolly
1985
8.40
Mamma Mia!
2008
6.98
Buster
1988
5.57
Calendar Girls
2003
6.55
Prick Up Your Ears
1987
6.70
Stepping Out
1991
5.85
Wah-Wah
2005
6.00
Brave
2012
7.02
Weasels: Feisty and Fearless
2019
8.00
The Abominable Snow Baby
2021
6.30
Personal Services
1987
6.10
Sister My Sister
1994
5.84
Educating Rita
1983
6.83
Gnomeo & Juliet
2011
5.87
All Forgotten
2001
4.20
Mo
2010
5.67
Intimate Relations
1996
5.33
Mack the Knife
1989
6.60
There's Something About Romcoms
2016
6.00
Wide-Eyed and Legless
1993
6.00
Mickybo and Me
2005
6.96
Titanic Town
1998
5.20
The Queen: 70 Glorious Years
2022
0.00
Paddington in Peru
2024
6.90
Ahead of the Class
2005
6.80
Acorn Antiques: The Musical
2006
7.00
The Legend of Mor'du
2012
5.95
Filth: The Mary Whitehouse Story
2008
6.33
She'll Be Wearing Pink Pyjamas
1984
5.20
Effie Gray
2014
5.89
Justin and the Knights of Valour
2013
5.90
Paddington
2014
7.11
Just Like a Woman
1992
6.20
Master Moley by Royal Invitation
2019
5.80
Parkinson at 50
2021
10.00
One Chance
2013
6.65
Pat and Margaret
1994
7.50
Happy Since I Met You
1981
6.00
Talent
1979
0.00
The Harry Hill Movie
2013
4.80
The Return
2003
6.80
An Audience with Mel Brooks
1984
6.50
Birthing Mamma Mia!
2008
0.00
Little Red Riding Hood
1995
0.00
Acorn Antiques
1987
7.50
Unfair Exchanges
1985
0.00
Days at the Beach
1981
0.00
Bathtime
1997
5.80
When Harry Left Hogwarts
2011
7.00
Intensive Care
1982
0.00
Car Trouble
1986
4.50
Paddington 2
2017
7.46
Bambino Mio
1994
0.00
Brooklyn
2015
7.31
Talking Heads
1988
5.00
Talking Heads 2
1998
7.00
Me! I'm Afraid of Virginia Woolf
1978
0.00
Dreamchild
1985
6.70
Before You Go
2002
5.00
The Ruby in the Smoke
2006
6.30
Requiem Apache
1994
7.00
A Short Stay in Switzerland
2009
6.90
Brazen Hussies
1996
3.30
Mary Poppins Returns
2018
6.51
An Audience With Victoria Wood
1988
5.20
Mamma Mia! Here We Go Again
2018
7.09
Wild Rose
2019
6.80
50 Greatest Harry Potter Moments
2011
7.41
Nearly a Happy Ending
1980
0.00
Sherlock Gnomes
2018
5.69
The Secret Garden
2020
6.30
The Summer House
1993
5.40
The Queen's Corgi
2019
5.90
The Birthday Party
1987
6.70
Club Havana
1975
0.00
Julie Walters and Friends
1991
0.00
My Beautiful Son
2001
0.00
Soldiers Talking, Cleanly
1978
0.00
Chefs' Burnt Bits
2020
0.00
The Vicar of Dibley: Inside Out
2021
0.00
Victoria Wood In Her Own Words
2020
0.00
Occupy!
1976
0.00
Michael Caine: Breaking the Mold
1994
0.00
Mamma Mia! 3
0.00
Say Something Happened
1982
0.00
