Julie Walters
Birthday: 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.
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Billy Elliot
County Durham, England, 1984. The miners' strike has started and the police have started coming up f...
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Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone
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Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets
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Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban
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Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix
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Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince
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Becoming Jane
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Girls' Night
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Driving Lessons
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An Audience with Billy Connolly
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Mamma Mia!
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Buster
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Calendar Girls
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Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 1
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Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 2
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Prick Up Your Ears
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Stepping Out
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Wah-Wah
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Brave
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Weasels: Feisty and Fearless
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The Abominable Snow Baby
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Personal Services
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Sister My Sister
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Educating Rita
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Gnomeo & Juliet
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All Forgotten
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Mo
A docudrama about the life of the former UK Secretary of state for Northern Ireland, Mo Mowlam....
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Intimate Relations
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Mack the Knife
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National Theatre Live: The Last of the Haussmans
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There's Something About Romcoms
The inside story of the best modern romcoms with Meg Ryan, Hugh Grant, Richard Curtis, Dermot Mulroo...
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Wide-Eyed and Legless
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Mickybo and Me
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Titanic Town
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The Queen: 70 Glorious Years
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Paddington in Peru
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Ahead of the Class
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Acorn Antiques: The Musical
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The Legend of Mor'du
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Filth: The Mary Whitehouse Story
The story of the rise of morals crusader Mary Whitehouse in the UK in the 1960's....
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She'll Be Wearing Pink Pyjamas
A humorous and revealing tale of a group of eight women from varying walks of life, who have volunte...
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Effie Gray
A look at the mysterious relationship between Victorian art critic John Ruskin and his teenage bride...
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Justin and the Knights of Valour
A heart-warming tale about friendship, honor & courage, which sees a young boy become a man as he em...
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Paddington
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Just Like a Woman
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Master Moley by Royal Invitation
The story of a young Mole and his adventure to pick a rose from the Queen's Garden, not knowing that...
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Parkinson at 50
Sir Michael Parkinson looks back over his 50 years as a broadcaster, revealing some tricks of the in...
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One Chance
This film follows the remarkable and inspirational true story of Paul Potts, a shy, bullied shop ass...
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Pat and Margaret
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Happy Since I Met You
A play by Victoria Wood. Frances is 28, single and happy, despite ritual interrogation from her fami...
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Talent
A play with music by Victoria Wood. Julie (Julie Walters) is a young woman seeking escape, with the...
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Roald Dahl's Most Marvellous Book
In celebration of the 100th anniversary of Roald Dahl’s birth, film and television personalities tak...
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The Harry Hill Movie
Harry Hill embarks on a road trip to Blackpool with his Nan when he discovers that his hamster only ...
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The Return
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Let's Do It: A Tribute to Victoria Wood
Friends and fans pay tribute to a great comic talent in this celebration of the life and work of the...
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An Audience with Mel Brooks
Mel Brooks delivers an enjoyable hour of comic diversion with his lovely actress-wife Anne Bancroft,...
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Birthing Mamma Mia!
This short documentary is about the making of the 2008 film musical "Mamma Mia!"....
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Killing Dad (Or How to Love Your Mother)
A man, always very devoted to his mother, decides to look for his father whom he never met. He meets...
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Acorn Antiques
Starring Victoria Wood, Julie Walters, Celia Imrie, Duncan Preston, with the snobby continuity annou...
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Unfair Exchanges
Julie Walters stars as a single mother seemingly haunted by a sinister telephone system that seems t...
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Days at the Beach
In 1920 a trio of British soldiers have to guard an exploded mine washes up on a beach. Part of the ...
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Bathtime
A man tries to commit suicide for the love of his goldfish, but finds it surprisingly difficult to a...
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When Harry Left Hogwarts
BAFTA award-winning filmmaker Morgan Matthews was given unprecedented access to the behind-the-scene...
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Intensive Care
When Denis Midgley's father is rushed to hospital, Midgley drops everything to be by his side. They'...
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Car Trouble
In the throes of a midlife crisis, a man buys a new Jaguar, and it immediately becomes his new love....
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Paddington 2
Paddington, now happily settled with the Browns, picks up a series of odd jobs to buy the perfect pr...
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Bambino Mio
A woman fights to adopt a war baby from the Third World after becoming unable to conceive....
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Brooklyn
In 1950s Ireland and New York, young Eilis Lacey has to choose between two men and two countries....
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Talking Heads
Six monologues tell the stories of six different repressed souls: a man dominated by his mother, a v...
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Me! I'm Afraid of Virginia Woolf
A repressed night-school teacher, secretly homosexual, struggles to cope with his demanding, eccentr...
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Victoria Wood's Midlife Christmas
This is the time of year when friends and family gather round the television to exchange the traditi...
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Victoria Wood with All the Trimmings
The comedienne stars in this festive sketch show, alongside a host of celebrity guests....
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A Grand Night In: The Story of Aardman
Julie Walters tells the story of how Morph, Shaun the Sheep and that cheese-loving man Wallace and h...
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Dreamchild
Eighty-year-old Alice Hargreaves is about to visit Columbia University to attend a reception in hono...
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Film Stars Don't Die in Liverpool
Liverpool, 1978: What starts as a vibrant affair between a legendary femme-fatale, the eccentric Aca...
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Before You Go
The funny, heart-warming and moving new film, from director Lewis Gilbert. When Violet Heaney's thre...
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The Ruby in the Smoke
Sally Lockhart has struck a man dead with just three words, sent to her in a message from her father...
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The Secret Life of Sue Townsend (Aged 68 3/4)
A warm and witty celebration of Sue Townsend's life and writing, the story is told with the help of ...
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Requiem Apache
Alan Bleasdale's comic crime caper for Channel 4 about a former getaway driver desperate to leave hi...
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A Short Stay in Switzerland
Just after losing her husband to a similar condition, Dr Anne Turner is diagnosed with a fatal neuro...
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Brazen Hussies
After meeting her old school friend Sandra Delaney, who now works as a stripper, pub owner Maureen H...
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Mary Poppins Returns
Mary Poppins returns to the Banks family and helps them evade grave dangers by taking them on magica...
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Victoria Wood's All Day Breakfast
A television comedy special broadcast on BBC One on Christmas Day 1992. Sketches, stand-up comedy an...
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An Audience With Victoria Wood
British comedy legend Victoria Wood entertains a star-studded audience including Julie Walters, Judi...
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Mamma Mia! Here We Go Again
Five years after meeting her three fathers, Sophie Sheridan prepares to open her mother’s hotel. In ...
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Wild Rose
A young Scottish singer, Rose-Lynn Harlan, dreams of making it as a country artist in Nashville afte...
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50 Greatest Harry Potter Moments
To mark the release two weeks ago of the eighth and final movie in the series, Robbie Coltrane narra...
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Nearly a Happy Ending
A play by Victoria Wood. Maureen has been faithfully attending the slimmers' club for months. Now th...
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Sherlock Gnomes
Garden gnomes Gnomeo & Juliet recruit renown detective Sherlock Gnomes to investigate the mysterious...
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The Secret Garden
Mary Lennox is born in India to wealthy British parents who never wanted her. When her parents sudde...
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The Clothes in the Wardrobe
Margaret is a shy, pale, middle-class Englishwoman who is reluctantly engaged to her older, twittish...
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The Queen's Corgi
Since his arrival at Buckingham palace, Rex lives a life of luxury. Top dog, he has superseded his t...
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The Birthday Party
It is Stanley's birthday, but the party he is given is not quite what he expects. [A BBC production ...
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Club Havana
After 12 years away, Mrs Jordan’s son arrives in Birmingham from Jamaica. Writer Barry Reckord retur...
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The National Television Awards Celebrate 25 Years
This one-hour special documentary celebrates 25 star-studded years of the National Television Awards...
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Julie Walters and Friends
Julie Walters stars in new sketches by four accomplished writers who helped make her famous....
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Strange Relations
A NYC psychiatrist is diagnosed with leukaemia - and when he finds out he was adopted, he travels to...
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Soldiers Talking, Cleanly
One man's view of the British Army in Germany - the social life, discipline, drink, women and, occas...
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Jack and the Beanstalk: The ITV Pantomime
A televised pantomime of Jack and the Beanstalk featuring various celebrities....
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Chefs' Burnt Bits
Cookery and food disasters aren't the exclusive domain of home cooks... things famously go wrong for...
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The Vicar of Dibley: Inside Out
Dawn French and Richard Curtis take viewers on a joyful stroll down memory lane as they look back at...
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Victoria Wood In Her Own Words
A look back at the life and work of one of Britain's greatest comediennes, featuring interviews with...
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Occupy!
Bill Nighy, Pete Postlewaite and (briefly) Julie Walters, then all of the Everyman Theatre Company, ...
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Michael Caine: Breaking the Mold
A documentary about actor Michael Caine. Narrated by Caine himself, it includes interviews of his fa...
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Say Something Happened
An inexperienced social worker is sent to interview an elderly couple deemed to be “at risk”, but en...
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The Magical World of Julia Donaldson
This was of course a fitting look into the world of Julia Donaldson, whose books have kept the BBC i...
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Profiles of Andrea Dunbar and Victoria Wood
This 1980 Arena documentary profiles writer and performer Victoria Wood and teenage playwright Andre...
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Thora Hird Tribute
Friends, colleagues and fans, including Julie Walters, Jonathan Ross, Norman Wisdom, Keith Barron an...
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