Julie Walters Pics

Julie

Walters

22 February 1950

68

Slim

Brown - Dark

Brown - Dark

Birmingham, West Midlands, England

Pisces

White

Roman Catholic

Educating Rita, Dinnerladies, Harry Potter, Mamma Mia

English

Female

Julie Walters, CBE (born February 22, 1950) is an English actress and novelist. She came to international prominence in 1983 for Educating Rita, performing in the title role opposite Michael Caine. It was a role she had created on the West End stage and it won her BAFTA and Golden Globe awards for Best Actress. She is, perhaps, best known internationally for her on-screen characterisation of Molly Weasley in the Harry Potter motion picture octalogy. In 2006, she came fourth in ITV's poll of the public's 50 Greatest Stars in the UK. She is also well-known for her collaborations with Victoria Wood, such as appearing in and co-writing with her the award-winning sitcoms Victoria Wood As Seen On TV and Dinnerladies.

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Julie Walters, CBE (born February 22, 1950) is an award-winning English actress and novelist. Walters first received notice as the occasional partner of comedienne Victoria Wood, whom she had briefly met in Manchester. The two first worked together in the 1978 theatre revue In At The Death, followed by the television adaptation of Wood`s play Talent. They went on to appear in their own Granada Television series, Wood and Walters, in 1982. They have continued to perform together frequently over the years. The Bafta-winning BBC follow-up, Victoria Wood As Seen On TV, featured one of Walters` best-known roles, Mrs. Overall in Wood`s parodic soap opera, Acorn Antiques (she later appeared in the musical version, and received an Olivier Award nomination for her efforts). She also appeared as Petula Gordino in Wood`s sitcom dinnerladies. Before making her London stage debut in Educating Rita, Walters had worked in regional theatre, stand-up comedy and cabaret. Her first serious acting role on TV was in the classic Boys from the Blackstuff in 1982, and she broke into films with her Academy Award-nominated, BAFTA Best Actress award-winning and Golden Globe Award Best Actress – Motion Picture Musical/Comedy award-winning performance opposite Michael Caine in Educating Rita (1983), a role she had created on the West End stage. In 1985, she played Adrian Mole`s mother Pauline in the TV adaptation of The Secret Diary of Adrian Mole. In 1991 she starred opposite Liza Minnelli in Stepping Out and had a one-off television special, Julie Walters and Friends, which featured writing contributions from Victoria Wood and Alan Bennett. Walters played the lead character`s wife, June, in the film Buster, released in 1988. She also appeared as Mrs. Peachum in the 1989 film version of The Threepenny Opera, which was renamed Mack the Knife for the screen. In 1998 she starred as the Fairy Godmother in the ITV Pantomime – Jack and the Beanstalk, alongside actors Neil Morrissey, Adrian Edmondson, Paul Merton, Denise van Outen and Julian Clary. The show was first broadcast 25 December 1998 on ITV1 and continues to be shown every year around Christmas on ITV2. Walters also played Molly Weasley in Harry Potter and the Sorcerer`s Stone (US title) Harry Potter and the Philosopher`s Stone (film) (UK Title) (2001), Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets (2002), Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban (2004), Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix (2007) and Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince (2009). Walters met her husband, Grant Roffey, an AA patrol man, in a whirlwind romance. The couple have a daughter, Maisie Mae Roffey (born 1988, City of Westminster, London), but did not marry until 1997, 11 years into their relationship, when they went to New York. The couple live on an organic farm run by Roffey in West Sussex.

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School of Theatre, Manchester Polytechnic

Julia Mary Walters

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Meryl Street, Mark Williams, Pierce Brosnan, Colin Firth, Bonnie Wright, Daniel Radcliffe, Amanda Seyfried, Rupert Grint, Dominic Cooper, Christine Baranski

Harry Potter, Driving Lessons, Mama Mia

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