Julie Walters
Personal Info
Known for
Acting
Gender
Female
Birthday
1950-02-22 (75 years old)
Place of Birth
Smethwick, England, UK
Julie Walters
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.
Known For
Acting
What Would Julie Do?
as Julie
Mamma Mia! 3
as Rosie Mulligan
(2024)
Paddington in Peru
as Mrs. Bird
(2022)
The Queen: 70 Glorious Years
as Narrator (voice)
(2021)
Parkinson at 50
as Self (archive footage)
(2021)
The Vicar of Dibley: Inside Out
as Narrator (voice)
(2021)
The Abominable Snow Baby
as Granny
(2020)
The Secret Garden
as Mrs. Medlock
(2020)
The Magical World of Julia Donaldson
as Self - Narrator
(2020)
The National Television Awards Celebrate 25 Years
as Narrator (voice)
(2020)
Chefs' Burnt Bits
as Narrator (voice)
(2020)
(2019)
The Queen's Corgi
as The Queen (voice)
(2019)
Wild Rose
as Marion
(2019)
Master Moley by Royal Invitation
as Mrs. Elizabeth Moley / Queen (voice)
(2019)
Weasels: Feisty and Fearless
as Narrator (voice)
(2018)
Mamma Mia! Here We Go Again
as Rosie Mulligan
(2018)
Mary Poppins Returns
as Ellen
(2018)
Sherlock Gnomes
as Mrs. Montague (voice)
(2017)
Film Stars Don't Die in Liverpool
as Bella Turner
(2017)
Paddington 2
as Mrs. Bird
(2016)
There's Something About Romcoms
as Narrator (voice)
(2016)
(2016)
The Secret Life of Sue Townsend (Aged 68 3/4)
as Narrator (voice)
(2016)
(2015)
A Grand Night In: The Story of Aardman
as Narrator (voice)
(2015)
Brooklyn
as Madge Kehoe
(2014)
Paddington
as Mrs. Bird
(2014)
Effie Gray
as Margaret Cox Ruskin
(2013)
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)
(2012)
National Theatre Live: The Last of the Haussmans
as Judy Haussman
(2011)
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 2
as Molly Weasley
(2011)
Gnomeo & Juliet
as Lady Montague (voice)
(2011)
50 Greatest Harry Potter Moments
as Molly Weasley (archive footage)
(2011)
When Harry Left Hogwarts
as Self
(2010)
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 1
as Molly Weasley
(2010)
Mo
as Mo Mowlam
(2009)
Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince
as Molly Weasley
(2009)
(2009)
A Short Stay in Switzerland
as Dr. Anne Turner
(2008)
Mamma Mia!
as Rosie Mulligan
(2008)
Filth: The Mary Whitehouse Story
as Mary Whitehouse
(2008)
Birthing Mamma Mia!
as Self
(2007)
Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix
as Molly Weasley
(2007)
Becoming Jane
as Mrs. Austen
(2006)
Acorn Antiques: The Musical
as Bo Beaumont / Mrs Overall (Not Bingo Nights)
(2006)
The Ruby in the Smoke
as Mrs. Holland
(2006)
Driving Lessons
as Evie Walton
(2005)
Ahead of the Class
as Marie Stubbs
(2005)
Mickybo and Me
as Mickybo's Ma
(2005)
Wah-Wah
as Gwen Traherne
(2004)
Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban
as Molly Weasley
(2003)
The Return
as Izzie
(2003)
Calendar Girls
as Annie Clarke
(2003)
Thora Hird Tribute
as Self, June Potter
(2002)
Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets
as Molly Weasley
(2002)
Before You Go
as Teresa
(2001)
Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone
as Molly Weasley
(2001)
All Forgotten
as Princess Zasyekin
(2001)
Strange Relations
as Sheila Fitzpatrick
(2000)
Billy Elliot
as Mrs Wilkinson
(2000)
Victoria Wood with All the Trimmings
as Various Characters
(1998)
Titanic Town
as Bernie McPhelimy
(1998)
Jack and the Beanstalk: The ITV Pantomime
as Fairy Godmother
(1998)
Girls' Night
as Jackie Simpson
(1998)
(1997)
Bathtime
as Miss Gideon
(1996)
Intimate Relations
as Marjorie
(1996)
Brazen Hussies
as Maureen Hardcastle
(1995)
Little Red Riding Hood
as Little Red Riding Hood
(1994)
Pat and Margaret
as Pat
(1994)
Sister My Sister
as Madame Danzard
(1994)
Requiem Apache
as Mrs. Capstan
(1994)
(1994)
Bambino Mio
as Alice
(1993)
The Clothes in the Wardrobe
as Monica
(1993)
Wide-Eyed and Legless
as Diana Longden
(1992)
Just Like a Woman
as Monica
(1992)
(1991)
Stepping Out
as Vera
(1991)
(1989)
Mack the Knife
as Mrs. Peachum
(1989)
(1988)
Buster
as June Edwards
(1988)
An Audience With Victoria Wood
as Self - Questioner
(1988)
(1987)
Prick Up Your Ears
as Elsie Orton
(1987)
The Birthday Party
as Lulu
(1987)
Personal Services
as Christine Painter
(1987)
Acorn Antiques
as Mrs. Overall
(1986)
Car Trouble
as Jacqueline
(1985)
An Audience with Billy Connolly
as Self - Audience Member (uncredited)
(1985)
Dreamchild
as Dormouse (voice)
(1985)
Unfair Exchanges
as Mavis
(1984)
An Audience with Mel Brooks
as Self (uncredited)
(1984)
(1983)
Educating Rita
as Rita Susan White
(1982)
Intensive Care
as Valery
(1982)
Say Something Happened
as June Potter
(1981)
Days at the Beach
as Mrs Morgan
(1981)
Happy Since I Met You
as Frances
(1980)
Nearly a Happy Ending
as Julie
(1980)
Profiles of Andrea Dunbar and Victoria Wood
as Self - Good Fun Cast Member
(1979)
Talent
as Julie
(1978)
Soldiers Talking, Cleanly
as Debbie
(1978)
Me! I'm Afraid of Virginia Woolf
as Woman in waiting room
(1976)
Occupy!
as Player in Everyman Theatre Company, Liverpool
(1975)
Club Havana
as Terry