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Julie Walters
Smethwick, England, UK
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 Acad…
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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.
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2026
Becoming Victoria Wood
Movie Self (Archive Interview) (Voice)
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2024
Paddington in Peru
Movie Mrs. Bird
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2022
The Queen and Us
TV show Narrator (voice)
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2022
New Zealand by Train
TV show Narrator (voice)
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2022
The Queen: 70 Glorious Years
Movie Narrator (voice)
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2021
The Abominable Snow Baby
Movie Granny
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2021
Moley
TV show Mrs. Moley (voice)
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2021
Parkinson at 50
Movie Self (archive footage)
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2021
The Vicar of Dibley: Inside Out
Movie Narrator (voice)
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2020
The Magical World of Julia Donaldson
Movie Self - Narrator
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2020
Chefs' Burnt Bits
Movie Narrator (voice)
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2020
For The Love Of Britain
TV show Narrator (voice)
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2020
Victoria Wood In Her Own Words
Movie Self
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2020
The Secret Garden
Movie Mrs. Medlock
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2020
The National Television Awards Celebrate 25 Years
Movie Narrator (voice)
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2019
Master Moley by Royal Invitation
Movie Mrs. Elizabeth Moley / Queen (voice)
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2019
Weasels: Feisty and Fearless
Movie Narrator (voice)
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2019
Wild Rose
Movie Marion
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2019
The Queen's Corgi
Movie The Queen (voice)
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2018
Mary Poppins Returns
Movie Ellen
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2018
Mamma Mia! Here We Go Again
Movie Rosie
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2018
Sherlock Gnomes
Movie Mrs. Montague (voice)
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2018
Dinnerladies Diaries
TV show Self
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2017
Coastal Railways with Julie Walters
TV show Self - Host
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2017
Film Stars Don't Die in Liverpool
Movie Bella Turner
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2017
Paddington 2
Movie Mrs. Bird
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2016
The Secret Life of Sue Townsend (Aged 68 3/4)
Movie Narrator (voice)
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2016
National Treasure
TV show Marie Finchley
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2016
Roald Dahl's Most Marvellous Book
Movie Self
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2016
There's Something About Romcoms
Movie Narrator (voice)
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2016
Let's Do It: A Tribute to Victoria Wood
Movie Self
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2015
A Grand Night In: The Story of Aardman
Movie Narrator (voice)
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2015
Brooklyn
Movie Madge Kehoe
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2015
Very British Problems
TV show Narrator (voice)
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2015
Britain's Busiest Airport: Heathrow
TV show Narrator (voice)
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2015
Artsnight
TV show Self
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2015
Indian Summers
TV show Cynthia Coffin
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2014
A Life on Screen
TV show Self
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2014
Paddington
Movie Mrs. Bird
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2014
Effie Gray
Movie Margaret Cox Ruskin
