Julie WALTERS , Chart
Born February 22, 1950 at 3:00 PM in Smethwick
(United Kingdom)
Julie Walters, CBE (born 22 February 1950) is an Academy Award nominated,
Golden Globe- and BAFTA-award winning English actress and novelist.
Early life
Born as Julia Mary Walters, the daughter of Mary Bridget O'Brien, a postal
clerk of Irish Catholic extraction, and Thomas Walters, a builder and
decorator, Walters originally trained as a nurse at the Queen Elizabeth
Hospital, Birmingham, before studying English and Drama at Manchester
Metropolitan University and pursuing a performance career. In an interview
with Alison Oddey, Walters said about her early schooling: "I was
never going to be academic, so suggested that I try teaching or nursing
I'd been asked to leave school, so I thought I'd better do it."
Career
Walters first achieved fame as the occasional partner of comedienne Victoria
Wood, whom she had met in Manchester. First working together in the 1978
theatre revue In At The Death and then the TV version of Wood's play Talent.
They went on to appear in their own Granada Television series Wood and
Walters in 1982. They have continued to perform together frequently over
the years. The Bafta winning BBC follow up Victoria Wood As Seen On TV
featured one of Walters' best-known roles, Mrs Overall in Wood's spoof
soap opera, Acorn Antiques. She also appeared as Petula Gordino in Wood's
sitcom dinnerladies.
Before making her London stage debut in Educating Rita, Walters had worked in regional theatre (including the Everyman Theatre, Liverpool), stand-up comedy and cabaret. Her first serious acting role on TV was in the classic Boys from the Blackstuff in 1982, and she broke into films with her Academy Award nominated, BAFTA Best Actress award-winning and Golden Globe Award Best Actress - Motion Picture Musical/Comedy award- winning performance opposite Michael Caine in Educating Rita (1983), a role she had created on the West End stage. In 1991 she 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 and Alan Bennett.
Walters has won numerous other acting awards, and was appointed Officer of the Order of the British Empire (OBE) in 1999 and Commander of the Order of the British Empire (CBE) in the 2008 New Year Honours for her services to drama. In 2001, she won a Laurence Olivier Award for her performance in Arthur Miller's All My Sons. She received her second Oscar nomination and won a BAFTA for her supporting role as the ballet teacher in Billy Elliot (2000). She often plays older women, and, in 2002, she won the BAFTA Television Best Actress award for her performance as Paul Reiser's mother in My Beautiful Son.
Walters also played Molly Weasley in Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone (2001), Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets (2002), Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban (2004) and Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix (2007).
In 2004 Walters starred as a widow determined to make some good come out of her husband's death from cancer in Calendar Girls, which also starred Helen Mirren and Ciarán Hinds; in 2005, Walters again starred as inspirational real-life figure, Marie Stubbs, in the ITV1 drama Head of the Class.
In 2006, she came fourth in ITV's poll of the public's 50 Greatest Stars, coming four placed above frequent co-star Victoria Wood. Also in 2006, she played the main role in an ITV drama Driving Lessons alongside Rupert Grint (who played her son Ron in the Harry Potter series), and later a leading role in the BBC's adaptation of Phillip Pullman's novel The Ruby in the Smoke. In the summer of 2006, she published her first novel, Maggie's Tree. Walters starred in ASDA Christmas 2007 TV advertising campaign. She also currently appears alongside Patrick Stewart in UK Nintendo DS Brain Training television advertisements, and in a recent Smoke Alarm Public Information Film.
Personal life
Walters met her husband, Grant Roffey, an AA patrol man, in a whirlwind
romance. The couple have a daughter Maisie, but did not marry until 1997,
11 years into their relationship, when they went to New York. The couple
live on an organic farm run by Roffey in Sussex.
Filmography
Boys from the Blackstuff (1982) (miniseries)
Wood and Walters
Educating Rita (1983)
She'll Be Wearing Pink Pyjamas (1984)
Victoria Wood As Seen On TV (1985) (TV series)
Talking Heads (1987) (miniseries)
Personal Services (1987)
Prick Up Your Ears (1987)
Buster (1988)
Killing Dad (1989)
G.B.H. (1991) (TV series)
Sister My Sister (1994)
Pat and Margaret (1994)
Intimate Relations (1996)
Dinnerladies (1998) (TV series)
Titanic Town (film) (1998)
Oliver Twist (1999) (miniseries)
Billy Elliot (2000)
Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone (2001)
Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets (2002)
Calendar Girls (2003)
Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban (2004)
Wah-Wah (2005)
Driving Lessons (2006)
Dawn French's Girls Who Do Comedy Three part factual TV series (2006)
The Ruby in the Smoke (2006)
Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix (2007)
Becoming Jane (2007)
Mamma Mia! (2008)
Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince (in production for 2008)
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows (slated for 2010)
Awards
1983: Academy Award (nominated)
1983: Golden Globes (Best Actress in a Musical or Comedy)
1983: BAFTA (Best Actress)
1999: Officer of the Order of the British Empire (OBE)
2001: Laurence Olivier Award
2001: Academy Awards(nominated)
2001: Golden Globes (nominated)
2001: BAFTA (Best Actress)
2001: SAG Awards (nominated)
2008: Commander of the Order of the British Empire (CBE)
References
^ http://women.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,27870-2328343,00.html
^ http://film.guardian.co.uk/interview/interviewpages/0,,490748,00.html
^ http://www.filmreference.com/film/67/Julie-Walters.html
^ Performing Women: Stand-ups, Strumpets and Itinerants, by Alison Oddey,
Palgrave Macmillan, 2005. p. 305
^ http://film.guardian.co.uk/interview/interviewpages/0,,1921878,00.html
^ http://driving.timesonline.co.uk/tol/life_and_style/driving/articl
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