Julie Walters
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Julie Walters

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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.

Films Featuring Julie Walters

Billy Elliot

20007.6

Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone

20017.9

Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets

20027.7

Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban

20048.0

Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix

20077.7

Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince

20097.7

Becoming Jane

20077.3

Girls' Night

19986.8

Driving Lessons

20066.1

An Audience with Billy Connolly

19858.4

Mamma Mia!

20087.0

Buster

19885.6

Calendar Girls

20036.5

Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 1

20107.7

Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 2

20118.1

Prick Up Your Ears

19876.7

Stepping Out

19915.9

Wah-Wah

20055.9

Brave

20127.0

Weasels: Feisty and Fearless

20198.0

The Abominable Snow Baby

20216.5

Personal Services

19876.0

Sister My Sister

19945.9

Educating Rita

19836.9

Gnomeo & Juliet

20115.9

All Forgotten

20014.3

Mo

20105.7

Intimate Relations

19965.4

Mack the Knife

19896.6

National Theatre Live: The Last of the Haussmans

20121.0

There's Something About Romcoms

20166.0

Wide-Eyed and Legless

19936.5

Mickybo and Me

20057.1

Titanic Town

19985.3

The Queen: 70 Glorious Years

2022

Paddington in Peru

20246.8

Ahead of the Class

20057.4

Acorn Antiques: The Musical

20068.0

The Legend of Mor'du

20126.0

Filth: The Mary Whitehouse Story

20086.3

She'll Be Wearing Pink Pyjamas

19845.2

Effie Gray

20146.0

Justin and the Knights of Valour

20135.9

Paddington

20147.1

Just Like a Woman

19926.2

Master Moley by Royal Invitation

20195.8

Parkinson at 50

202110.0

One Chance

20136.7

Pat and Margaret

19947.7

Happy Since I Met You

19818.0

Talent

19797.0

Roald Dahl's Most Marvellous Book

20168.0

The Harry Hill Movie

20134.7

The Return

20036.8

Let's Do It: A Tribute to Victoria Wood

2016

An Audience with Mel Brooks

19847.0

Killing Dad (Or How to Love Your Mother)

19894.5

Little Red Riding Hood

19956.0

Acorn Antiques

19877.5

Unfair Exchanges

1985

Days at the Beach

1981

Bathtime

19975.8

When Harry Left Hogwarts

20117.2

Intensive Care

19829.0

Car Trouble

19866.3

Paddington 2

20177.5

Bambino Mio

1994

Brooklyn

20157.3

Talking Heads

19885.0

Talking Heads 2

19988.5

Me! I'm Afraid of Virginia Woolf

197810.0

Victoria Wood's Midlife Christmas

20094.0

Victoria Wood with All the Trimmings

20007.0

A Grand Night In: The Story of Aardman

20157.1

Dreamchild

19856.6

Film Stars Don't Die in Liverpool

20176.4

Before You Go

20025.8

The Ruby in the Smoke

20066.4

What Would Julie Do?

The Secret Life of Sue Townsend (Aged 68 3/4)

20167.0

Requiem Apache

19947.5

A Short Stay in Switzerland

20096.9

Brazen Hussies

19963.8

Mary Poppins Returns

20186.5

Victoria Wood's All Day Breakfast

19926.0

An Audience With Victoria Wood

19885.3

Mamma Mia! Here We Go Again

20187.1

Wild Rose

20196.8

50 Greatest Harry Potter Moments

20117.5

Nearly a Happy Ending

19809.0

Sherlock Gnomes

20185.7

The Secret Garden

20206.3

The Clothes in the Wardrobe

19936.0

The Queen's Corgi

20195.9

The Birthday Party

19876.8

Club Havana

1975

The National Television Awards Celebrate 25 Years

2020

Julie Walters and Friends

1991

Strange Relations

2001

Soldiers Talking, Cleanly

1978

Jack and the Beanstalk: The ITV Pantomime

19987.0

Chefs' Burnt Bits

2020

The Vicar of Dibley: Inside Out

2021

Victoria Wood In Her Own Words

2020

Occupy!

197610.0

Michael Caine: Breaking the Mold

199410.0

Say Something Happened

1982

The Magical World of Julia Donaldson

The Magical World of Julia Donaldson

20206.0

Profiles of Andrea Dunbar and Victoria Wood

1980

Thora Hird Tribute

2003

Becoming Victoria Wood

20266.0

Eyes Behind the Lens

2026