Julie Walters
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.
168 acting credits
Acting · 168
The Graham Norton Show
2007
Golden Globe Awards
1944
Play for Today
1970
The One Show
2006
Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone
2001
Wogan
1982
Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets
2002
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 1
2010
Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban
2004
Playhouse
1974
Natural World
1983
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 2
2011
Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix
2007
Omnibus
1967
Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince
2009
Brave
2012
Screen Two
1985
The Oscars
1953
An Audience with...
1978
GMTV
1993
Who Do You Think You Are?
2004
Parkinson
1998
Mamma Mia!
2008
Screen One
1989
The Hollow Crown
2012
Paddington in Peru
2024
Paddington
2014
Paddington 2
2017
Mary Poppins Returns
2018
Mamma Mia! Here We Go Again
2018
The Jury
2002
dinnerladies
1998
Indian Summers
2015
Gnomeo & Juliet
2011
Brooklyn
2015
Theatre Night
1985
National Treasure
2016
Moley
2021
Billy Elliot
2000
Becoming Jane
2007
Oliver Twist
1999
The Secret Garden
2020
Boys from the Blackstuff
1982
Canterbury Tales
2003
Friday People
1985
Melissa
1997
G.B.H.
1991
Comedy Connections
2003
Britain's Busiest Airport: Heathrow
2015
Victoria Wood
1989
Victoria Wood: As Seen on TV
1985
Murder
2002
Talking Heads
1988
Film Stars Don't Die in Liverpool
2017
A Life on Screen
2014
Sherlock Gnomes
2018
This Morning
1988
Love and Marriage
1984
Artsnight
2015
The Queen's Corgi
2019
Empire Road
1978
There's Something About Romcoms
2016
The Secret Diary of Adrian Mole Aged 13¾
1985
Sister My Sister
1994
Objects of Affection
1982
Calendar Girls
2003
Effie Gray
2014
Educating Rita
1983
When Harry Left Hogwarts
2011
A Grand Night In: The Story of Aardman
2015
Wild Rose
2019
Justin and the Knights of Valour
2013
National Theatre Live: The Last of the Haussmans
2012
One Chance
2013
Driving Lessons
2006
Buster
1988
Jake's Progress
1995
Prick Up Your Ears
1987
Wood and Walters
1982
Girls' Night
1998
50 Greatest Harry Potter Moments
2011
Dawn French's Girls Who Do Comedy
2002
Personal Services
1987
The Legend of Mor'du
2012
Wah-Wah
2005
An Audience with Mel Brooks
1984
The Queen and Us
2022
A Short Stay in Switzerland
2009
Before You Go
2002
Intimate Relations
1996
The Harry Hill Movie
2013
An Audience with Billy Connolly
1985
The Clothes in the Wardrobe
1993
The Ruby in the Smoke
2006
Acorn Antiques
1985
Victoria Wood with All the Trimmings
2000
For The Love Of Britain
2020
Dreamchild
1985
Stepping Out
1991
Mickybo and Me
2005
Victoria Wood's Short Term Memories
2012
The Secret Life of Sue Townsend (Aged 68 3/4)
2016
Coastal Railways with Julie Walters
2017
All Forgotten
2001
Brazen Hussies
1996
Victoria Wood Screenplays
1979
Open Space
1983
Requiem Apache
1994
More Dawn French's Girls Who Do: Comedy
2006
The Glass Box
1985
Very British Problems
2015
The National Television Awards Celebrate 25 Years
2020
Titanic Town
1998
Julie Walters and Friends
1991
The Vicar of Dibley: Inside Out
2021
Dinnerladies Diaries
2018
Ahead of the Class
2005
Jack and the Beanstalk: The ITV Pantomime
1998
Michael Caine: Breaking the Mold
1994
An Audience With Victoria Wood
1988
Master Moley by Royal Invitation
2019
Mo
2010
Intensive Care
1982
Acorn Antiques: The Musical
2006
Parkinson at 50
2021
Filth: The Mary Whitehouse Story
2008
Profiles of Andrea Dunbar and Victoria Wood
1980
Roald Dahl's Most Marvellous Book
2016
The Return
2003
Killing Dad (Or How to Love Your Mother)
1989
Wide-Eyed and Legless
1993
New Zealand by Train
2022
Unfair Exchanges
1985
The Abominable Snow Baby
2021
Days at the Beach
1981
Acorn Antiques
1987
Talent
1979
She'll Be Wearing Pink Pyjamas
1984
Mack the Knife
1989
The Birthday Party
1987
The Magical World of Julia Donaldson
2020
Bambino Mio
1994
Strange Relations
2001
Just Like a Woman
1992
The Queen: 70 Glorious Years
2022
Bathtime
1997
Occupy!
1976
Nearly a Happy Ending
1980
Victoria Wood's Midlife Christmas
2009
Car Trouble
1986
Pat and Margaret
1994
Victoria Wood In Her Own Words
2020
Becoming Victoria Wood
2026
Soldiers Talking, Cleanly
1978
Thora Hird Tribute
2003
Me! I'm Afraid of Virginia Woolf
1978
Say Something Happened
1982
Happy Since I Met You
1981
Julie Walters and Friends
1991
Talking Heads
1988
Club Havana
1975
Let's Do It: A Tribute to Victoria Wood
2016
Little Red Riding Hood
1995
Talking Heads 2
1998
Victoria Wood's All Day Breakfast
1992
Weasels: Feisty and Fearless
2019
What Would Julie Do?
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Chefs' Burnt Bits
2020