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Julie Walters
Dame Julia Mary Walters, known professionally as Julie Walters, is an English actress and comedian. She is the recipient of four British Academy Television Awards, two British Academy Film Awards, two International Emmy Awards, a Golden Globe Award, and an Olivier Award. Walters has been nominated for two Academy Awards across acting categories—once for Best Actress and once for Best Supporting Ac…
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entertainment · British actress (born 1950) · actor · stage actor · film actor · writer · comedian · also Julie Walters, Dame Julia Mary Walters, Walters
Born 22 February 1950 · Q228747
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2026· 1 entry
2020· 4 entries
The Guardian: Julie Walters' best film performances – ranked!
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The Guardian: Julie Walters reveals bowel cancer diagnosis
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Walters featured as the narrator for ITV documentary For the Love of Britain
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Walters starred with Colin Firth in The Secret Garden (2020)
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2019· 1 entry
The Guardian: Julie Walters: ‘As soon as I saw it, I thought, oh my God, that looks gorgeous’
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2017· 1 entry
And 2024; Brooklyn (2015); Film Stars Don't Die in Liverpool (2017); and Mary Poppins Returns (2018)
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2015· 1 entry
Appeared in the romantic drama film Brooklyn, a film that was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Picture
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2014· 1 entry
That it was "heaven when [she] went to an ordinary grammar school", although she was asked to leave at the end of her lower sixth because of her "high jinks"
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2012· 1 entry
Worked with LV= to promote one of their life insurance products targeted at people over 50
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2009· 1 entry
Received a star in the Birmingham Walk of Stars on Birmingham's Golden Mile, Broad Street
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2007· 1 entry
Walters starred as the mother of author Jane Austen (played by Anne Hathaway) in Becoming Jane
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2006· 3 entries
Came fourth in ITV's poll of the public's 50 Greatest Stars, coming four places above frequent co-star Victoria Wood
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Starred in the film Driving Lessons alongside Rupert Grint (who played her son Ron in Harry Potter), and had a leading role in the BBC's adaptation of Philip Pullman's novel The Ruby in the Smoke
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The British public voted Walters fourth in ITV's poll of TV's 50 Greatest Stars
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2005· 1 entry
Again starred as an inspirational real-life figure, Marie Stubbs in the ITV1 drama Ahead of the Class
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2003· 2 entries
Walters starred as a widow (Annie Clark) determined to make some good come out of her husband's death from cancer in Calendar Girls, which starred Helen Mirren
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The BBC voted her portrayal of Molly as the "second-best screen mother
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2002· 1 entry
Again won a BAFTA Television Award for Best Actress for her performance as Paul Reiser's mother in My Beautiful Son
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2001· 2 entries
Awarded BAFTA Award for Best Actress in a Supporting Role for Billy Elliot (2001).
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Walters won a Laurence Olivier Award for her performance in Arthur Miller's All My Sons
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1998· 1 entry
Starred as the Fairy Godmother in the ITV pantomime Jack and the Beanstalk
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1993· 1 entry
Walters starred in the television film Wide-Eyed and Legless (known as The Wedding Gift outside the UK) alongside Jim Broadbent and Thora Hird
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1991· 1 entry
Walters 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, Alan Bennett, Willy Russell and Alan Bleas
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1988· 1 entry
He was invited to repair Walters' washing machine, a whirlwind romance ensued and the couple became parents to their only child, a daughter, whom they named Maisie Mae Roffey (born 26 April 1988).
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1985· 2 entries
Played Adrian Mole's mother, Pauline, in the television adaptation of The Secret Diary of Adrian Mole
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After a chance meeting in a Fulham pub, where Roffey told her that he voted Labour
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1984· 2 entries
Won Golden Globe Award for Best Actress in a Motion Picture – Musical or Comedy for Educating Rita (1984).
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Awarded BAFTA Award for Best Actress in a Leading Role for Educating Rita (1984).
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1971· 1 entry
When Wood auditioned at the School of Theatre in Manchester
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1950· 1 entry
Born 1950-02-22.
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