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Julie Walters

Actress / Stage Actress / Film Actress / Penwoman / Comedian | * 02/22/1950 (74) | Smethwick, England (United Kingdom (UK))
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Dame Julia Mary Walters (born 22 February 1950), known professionally as Julie Walters, is an English actress. 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 Actress. She was honoured with the BAFTA Fellowship for lifetime achievement in 2014. She was made a Dame (DBE) by Queen Elizabeth II in 2017 for services to drama. Walters rose to prominence playing the title role in Educating Rita (1983), a part she originated in the West End production of the stage play upon which the film was based. She has appeared in many other films, including Personal Services (1987), Prick Up Your Ears (1987), Buster (1988), Stepping Out (1991), ... ()
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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.

Most frequent genres for this person: Drama | Comedies | Documentaries

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Awards & Nominations for Julie Walters

Laurence Olivier Awards Commander of The Order of The British Empire Golden Globe Awards Empire Awards BAFTA Award for Best Actress in a Leading Role Dame Commander of The Order of The British Empire Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress Academy Award for Best Actress European Film Award for Best Actress European Film Academy Lux Award Bafta's Children & Young People Award - Performer
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Movies with Julie Walters as Actress(91)

as Mrs. Bird2024 Paddington in Peru
as Mrs. Medlock2020 The Secret Garden
as Mrs. Elizabeth Moley / Queen (voice)2020 Master Moley By Royal Invitation
as Marion2019 Wild Rose
as The Queen (voice)2019 The Queen's Corgi
as Mrs. Montague (voice)2018 Sherlock Gnomes
as Mrs. Bird2017 Paddington 2
as Self - Narrator (voice)2015 A Grand Night In: The Story of Aardman
as Madge Kehoe2015 Brooklyn
as Margaret Cox Ruskin2014 Effie Gray
as Mrs. Bird2014 Paddington
as Yvonne2013 One Chance
as The Witch (voice)2012 The Legend of Mor'du
as The Witch (voice)2012 Brave
as Lady Montague (voice)2011 Gnomeo & Juliet
as Mo Mowlam2010 Mo
as Dr. Anne Turner2009 A Short Stay in Switzerland
as Mary Whitehouse2008 Filth: The Mary Whitehouse Story
as Rosie Mulligan2008 Mamma Mia!
as herself2008 Birthing Mamma Mia!
as Mrs. Austen2007 Becoming Jane
as Evie Walton2006 Driving Lessons
as Bo Beaumont / Mrs Overall (Not Bingo Nights)2006 Acorn Antiques: The Musical
as Mrs. Holland2006 The Ruby in the Smoke
as Mickybo's Ma2005 Mickybo and Me
as Marie Stubbs2005 Ahead of the Class
as Gwen Traherne2005 Wah-Wah
as Izzie2003 The Return
as Annie Clarke2003 Calendar Girls
as Teresa2002 Before You Go
as Angela Maurer2002 Murder
as Princess Zasyekin2001 All Forgotten
as Sheila Fitzpatrick2001 My Beautiful Son
as Mrs Wilkinson2000 Billy Elliot
as Jackie Simpson1998 Girls' Night
as Bernie McPhelimy1998 Titanic Town
as Miss Gideon1997 Bathtime
as Maureen Hardcastle1996 Brazen Hussies
as Marjorie1996 Intimate Relations
as Madame Danzard1994 Sister My Sister
as Mrs. Capstan1994 Requiem Apache
as Pat1994 Pat and Margaret
as Monica1993 The Summer House
as Diana Longden1993 Wide-Eyed and Legless
as Monica1992 Just Like a Woman
as Vera1991 Stepping Out
as Mrs. Peachum1989 Mack the Knife
as June Edwards1988 Buster
as Herself, questioner1988 An Audience With Victoria Wood
as Lulu1987 The Birthday Party
as Elsie Orton1987 Prick Up Your Ears
as Christine Painter1987 Personal Services
as Jacqueline1986 Car Trouble
as Self - Audience Member (uncredited)1985 An Audience with Billy Connolly
as Dormouse (voice)1985 Dreamchild
as Self (uncredited)1984 An Audience with Mel Brooks
as Rita Susan White1983 Educating Rita
as Valery1982 Intensive Care
as Frances1981 Happy Since I Met You
as Julie1979 Talent
as Woman in waiting room1978 Me! I'm Afraid of Virginia Woolf
as Player in Everyman Theatre Company, Liverpool1976 Occupy!
as Terry1975 Club Havana

TV Shows/Series with Julie Walters as Actress(38)

as Mrs. Moley (voice)2021 Moley
as Herself - Presenter2017 Coastal Railways with Julie Walters
as Marie Finchley2016 National Treasure
as Cynthia Coffin2015 Indian Summers
as Narrator (voice)2015 Very British Problems
as herself2015 Artsnight
as Nell Quickly2012 The Hollow Crown
as herself2007 The Graham Norton Show
as Self - Guest2006 The One Show
as Beth2003 Canterbury Tales
as Emma Watts Q.C.2002 The Jury
as Petula1998 Dinnerladies
as Paula Hepburn1997 Melissa
as Julie Diadoni1995 Jake's Progress
as herself1993 GMTV
as Mrs. Murray1991 G.B.H.
as Nicola1989 Victoria Wood
as Pam1989 Victoria Wood
as Joy-Ann1989 Victoria Wood
as Self - Guest1988 This Morning
as Self (archival footage)1985 The Glass Box
as Narrator1983 Natural World
as June Potter1982 Objects of Affection
as Angie Todd1982 Boys from the Blackstuff
as herself1982 Wogan
as herself1978 An Audience with...
as Jean Watson1978 Empire Road
as Mrs. Morgan1974 Playhouse

Full Name: Julia Mary Walters
Citizenship: United Kingdom (UK)
Born: Wednesday, 02/22 1950 (February) in Smethwick, England (United Kingdom (UK)) (current age: 74 years + 35 days)
Zodiac sign: Pisces (Chinese zodiac sign: Tiger)
Languages: English (EN)
Educated at: Manchester Metropolitan University, St Paul's School for Girls, Manchester School of Theatre
Other names for Julie Walters (nicknames, foreign languages etc.):
"Джули Уолтерс"
"Julia Mary Walters"
Julie Walters frequently works together with these people:
Victoria Wood (42x, Actress)
Alan Bleasdale (13x, Crew)
David Heyman (13x, Crew)
Robbie Coltrane (11x, Actor)
David Attenborough (10x, Actor)
J.K. Rowling (10x, Crew)
Maggie Smith (10x, Actress)
Alan Bennett (10x, Actor)
David Holmes (10x, Crew)
Peter Burgis (9x, Crew)
Tolga Kenan (9x, Cast)
Tim Lewis (9x, Crew)
WatchPlayStream ID: PEOPLE:752, Added: 03/23/2018, Last updated: 03/14/2024