Julie Walters
Acting
Born February 22, 1950 · 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 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 (110)
Becoming Victoria Wood
2026
Paddington in Peru
2024
The Queen: 70 Glorious Years
2022
The Abominable Snow Baby
2021
Parkinson at 50
2021
The Vicar of Dibley: Inside Out
2021
Chefs' Burnt Bits
2020
The Magical World of Julia Donaldson
2020
Victoria Wood In Her Own Words
2020
The Secret Garden
2020
The National Television Awards Celebrate 25 Years
2020
Master Moley by Royal Invitation
2019
Weasels: Feisty and Fearless
2019
Wild Rose
2019
The Queen's Corgi
2019
Mary Poppins Returns
2018
Mamma Mia! Here We Go Again
2018
Sherlock Gnomes
2018
Film Stars Don't Die in Liverpool
2017
Paddington 2
2017
The Secret Life of Sue Townsend (Aged 68 3/4)
2016
Roald Dahl's Most Marvellous Book
2016
There's Something About Romcoms
2016
Let's Do It: A Tribute to Victoria Wood
2016
A Grand Night In: The Story of Aardman
2015
Brooklyn
2015
Paddington
2014
Effie Gray
2014
The Harry Hill Movie
2013
One Chance
2013
Justin and the Knights of Valour
2013
The Legend of Mor'du
2012
National Theatre Live: The Last of the Haussmans
2012
Brave
2012
When Harry Left Hogwarts
2011
50 Greatest Harry Potter Moments
2011
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 2
2011
Gnomeo & Juliet
2011
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 1
2010
Mo
2010
Victoria Wood's Midlife Christmas
2009
Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince
2009
A Short Stay in Switzerland
2009
Mamma Mia!
2008
Filth: The Mary Whitehouse Story
2008
Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix
2007
Becoming Jane
2007
The Ruby in the Smoke
2006
Driving Lessons
2006
Acorn Antiques: The Musical
2006
Wah-Wah
2005
Ahead of the Class
2005
Mickybo and Me
2005
Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban
2004
The Return
2003
Calendar Girls
2003
Thora Hird Tribute
2003
Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets
2002
Before You Go
2002
Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone
2001
Strange Relations
2001
All Forgotten
2001
Victoria Wood with All the Trimmings
2000
Billy Elliot
2000
Jack and the Beanstalk: The ITV Pantomime
1998
Talking Heads 2
1998
Titanic Town
1998
Girls' Night
1998
Bathtime
1997
Brazen Hussies
1996
Intimate Relations
1996
Little Red Riding Hood
1995
Sister My Sister
1994
Requiem Apache
1994
Pat and Margaret
1994
Bambino Mio
1994
Michael Caine: Breaking the Mold
1994
The Clothes in the Wardrobe
1993
Wide-Eyed and Legless
1993
Victoria Wood's All Day Breakfast
1992
Just Like a Woman
1992
Julie Walters and Friends
1991
Stepping Out
1991
Mack the Knife
1989
Killing Dad (Or How to Love Your Mother)
1989
An Audience With Victoria Wood
1988
Buster
1988
Talking Heads
1988
Acorn Antiques
1987
The Birthday Party
1987
Prick Up Your Ears
1987
Personal Services
1987
Car Trouble
1986
An Audience with Billy Connolly
1985
Dreamchild
1985
Unfair Exchanges
1985
An Audience with Mel Brooks
1984
She'll Be Wearing Pink Pyjamas
1984
Educating Rita
1983
Say Something Happened
1982
Intensive Care
1982
Happy Since I Met You
1981
Days at the Beach
1981
Nearly a Happy Ending
1980
Profiles of Andrea Dunbar and Victoria Wood
1980
Talent
1979
Soldiers Talking, Cleanly
1978
Me! I'm Afraid of Virginia Woolf
1978
Occupy!
1976
Club Havana
1975