Julie Walters
Acting
- Born:
- 1950-02-22
- Place of birth:
- Smethwick, England, UK
Biography
Dame Julia Mary Walters DBE (born February 22, 1950), 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.
Known For
Filmography
Becoming Victoria Wood
Paddington in Peru
The Queen and Us
New Zealand by Train
The Queen: 70 Glorious Years
The Abominable Snow Baby
Moley
The Vicar of Dibley: Inside Out
Chefs' Burnt Bits
The Magical World of Julia Donaldson
For The Love Of Britain
Victoria Wood In Her Own Words
The Secret Garden
The National Television Awards Celebrate 25 Years
Master Moley by Royal Invitation
Weasels: Feisty and Fearless
Wild Rose
The Queen's Corgi
Mary Poppins Returns
Mamma Mia! Here We Go Again
Sherlock Gnomes
Dinnerladies Diaries
Coastal Railways with Julie Walters
Film Stars Don't Die in Liverpool
Paddington 2
The Secret Life of Sue Townsend (Aged 68 3/4)
National Treasure
Roald Dahl's Most Marvellous Book
There's Something About Romcoms
Let's Do It: A Tribute to Victoria Wood
A Grand Night In: The Story of Aardman
Brooklyn
Very British Problems
Britain's Busiest Airport: Heathrow
Artsnight
Indian Summers
A Life on Screen
Paddington
Effie Gray
The Harry Hill Movie
One Chance
Justin and the Knights of Valour
The Legend of Mor'du
National Theatre Live: The Last of the Haussmans
Victoria Wood's Short Term Memories
The Hollow Crown
Brave
When Harry Left Hogwarts
50 Greatest Harry Potter Moments
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 2
Gnomeo & Juliet
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 1
Mo
Victoria Wood's Midlife Christmas
Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince
A Short Stay in Switzerland
Mamma Mia!
Filth: The Mary Whitehouse Story
Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix
Becoming Jane
The Graham Norton Show
The Ruby in the Smoke
More Dawn French's Girls Who Do: Comedy
Driving Lessons
The One Show
Acorn Antiques: The Musical
Wah-Wah
Ahead of the Class
Mickybo and Me
Who Do You Think You Are?
Parkinson
Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban
The Return
Canterbury Tales
Calendar Girls
Comedy Connections
More Great Comedy Moments
Thora Hird Tribute
Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets
Dawn French's Girls Who Do Comedy
Before You Go
Murder
The Jury
Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone
Strange Relations
All Forgotten
We Know Where You Live. Live!
Victoria Wood with All the Trimmings
Billy Elliot
Oliver Twist
Jack and the Beanstalk: The ITV Pantomime
dinnerladies
Talking Heads 2
Titanic Town
Girls' Night
Parkinson
Melissa
Bathtime
Brazen Hussies
Intimate Relations
Little Red Riding Hood
Jake's Progress
Sister My Sister
Requiem Apache
Pat and Margaret
Bambino Mio
Michael Caine: Breaking the Mold
The Clothes in the Wardrobe
Wide-Eyed and Legless
GMTV
Victoria Wood's All Day Breakfast
Just Like a Woman
Julie Walters and Friends
Julie Walters and Friends
Stepping Out
G.B.H.
Victoria Wood
Mack the Knife
Screen One
Killing Dad
An Audience With Victoria Wood
This Morning
Buster
Talking Heads
Talking Heads
Acorn Antiques
The Birthday Party
Prick Up Your Ears
Personal Services
Split Screen
Car Trouble
An Audience with Billy Connolly
Dreamchild
The Secret Diary of Adrian Mole, Aged 13¾
Theatre Night
The Glass Box
Victoria Wood: As Seen on TV
Acorn Antiques
Screen Two
Friday People
Unfair Exchanges
An Audience with Mel Brooks
Love and Marriage
She'll Be Wearing Pink Pyjamas
Natural World
Open Space
Educating Rita
Say Something Happened
Objects of Affection
Intensive Care
Boys from the Blackstuff
Wogan
Wood and Walters
Happy Since I Met You
Days at the Beach
Nearly a Happy Ending
Profiles of Andrea Dunbar and Victoria Wood
Victoria Wood Screenplays
Talent
Screenplay
Soldiers Talking, Cleanly
Me! I'm Afraid of Virginia Woolf
Empire Road
An Audience with...
Occupy!
Club Havana
Playhouse
Second City Firsts
Film '72
Play for Today
Omnibus
The Oscars
Golden Globe Awards
What Would Julie Do?