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Julie Walters

Julie Walters

Birthday: 1950-02-22 | Place of Birth: Smethwick, England, UK

Dame Julia Mary Walters DBE (born 22 February 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.

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Known For

Acting

Year
Title

Role

2022
The Queen: 70 Glorious Years

as    Narrator (voice)

2021
The Abominable Snow Baby

as    Granny

2020
The Secret Garden

as    Mrs. Medlock

2020
Chefs' Burnt Bits

as    Narrator (voice)

2019
Wild Rose

as    Marion

2018
Mary Poppins Returns

as    Ellen

2018
Paddington 2

as    Mrs. Bird

2018
Mamma Mia! Here We Go Again

as    Rosie Mulligan

2017
Film Stars Don't Die in Liverpool

as    Bella Turner

2016
National Treasure

as    Marie Finchley

2015
Indian Summers

as    Cynthia Coffin

2015
Brooklyn

as    Madge Kehoe

2015
Paddington

as    Mrs. Bird

2015
A Grand Night In: The Story of Aardman

as    Narrator (voice)

2014
Effie Gray

as    Margaret Cox Ruskin

2014
One Chance

as    Yvonne

2013
Justin and the Knights of Valour

as    Gran (voice)

2013
The Harry Hill Movie

as    Nan

2012
Brave

as    The Witch (voice)

2012
The Legend of Mor'du

as    The Witch (voice)

2011
Gnomeo & Juliet

as    Lady Montague (voice)

2009
A Short Stay in Switzerland

as    Dr. Anne Turner

2008
Filth: The Mary Whitehouse Story

as    Mary Whitehouse

2008
Mamma Mia!

as    Rosie Mulligan

2007
Becoming Jane

as    Mrs. Austen

2006
Driving Lessons

as    Evie Walton