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a b c d e "Julie Walters' best film performances – ranked!". The Guardian . Retrieved 30 October 2020. Cosmetic surgery is not on the cards. "You get this look with Botox now and you can't move your face." Has she ever been tempted? "I'm not saying I haven't looked at that" - she pulls her cheeks tight - "and thought ... But you can tell if someone's had work done. It's not real. You see these women and it's like a plastic mask. They look odd and lifeless. If someone disapproves of you because you've got wrinkles, I don't want to know them anyway. There are already 30-year-old actresses; having Botox doesn't make you suddenly 30." In March 2023, Walters announced she had withdrawn from appearing in a new Channel 4 drama, Truelove, due to ill health. She was replaced in the show by Lindsay Duncan. [59] Filmography [ edit ] Film [ edit ] Year In May 2022, it was announced that Walters would star in Truelove, an upcoming drama series from Channel 4. [47] That same month, Walters narrated the BBC documentary The Queen: 70 Glorious Years, which took a look at the Queen's life in her seventieth year on the British throne. [48] In March 2023, she pulled out of filming Truelove due to "ill health", according to The Times, [49] and her role was replaced by Lindsay Duncan. [50] [51] Personal life [ edit ] The Last of the Haussmans– Productions". National Theatre. Archived from the original on 5 June 2012 . Retrieved 13 June 2012.

Ellise Shafer (20 June 2020). " 'Mamma Mia!' Producer Teases Third Film: It's 'Meant to Be a Trilogy' ". Variety . Retrieved 15 March 2021. Walters later told interviewer Alison Oddey about her early schooling, "I was never going to be academic, so [my mother] suggested that I try teaching or nursing. [...] I'd been asked to leave school, so I thought I'd better do it." [10] Her first job was in insurance at the age of 15. [11] At the age of 18, she trained as a student nurse at the Queen Elizabeth Hospital in Birmingham; she worked on the ophthalmic, casualty, and coronary care wards during the 18 months she spent there. [12] She decided to leave nursing and went on to study acting at the newly-established Manchester Polytechnic School of Theatre (now Manchester School of Theatre). She worked for the Everyman Theatre Company in Liverpool in the mid-1970s, alongside several other notable performers and writers such as Bill Nighy, Pete Postlethwaite, Jonathan Pryce, Willy Russell, and Alan Bleasdale. [13] Career [ edit ] 1971–1979: Career beginnings [ edit ] Walters played the part of Cynthia Coffin in the ten-part British drama serial Indian Summers aired on Channel 4 in 2015. In 2015, she appeared in the romantic drama film Brooklyn, a film that was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Picture. Her performance in the film earned her a nomination for the BAFTA Award for Best Actress in a Supporting Role. Walters played Molly Weasley, the matriarch of the Weasley family, in the Harry Potter film series (2001–2011). Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire is the only film in the series not to have included Walters. In 2003, the BBC voted her portrayal of Molly as the "second-best screen mother." [21]Cast confirmed for BBC Two's cycle of Shakespeare films" (Press release). BBC Drama Publicity. 24 November 2011. Archived from the original on 1 January 2012 . Retrieved 20 July 2012. Did she plan to include the death of a child? "No, it just emerged," she says. "That's what I found weird. I found it terribly upsetting writing those bits. Stuff about how children deal with death. Because they are pragmatic and they talk about it. They worry about their parents; they worry, 'Will they be all right when I go?' It's an extraordinary thing [to lose a child] and un-get-over-able really." This intense fear of losing her daughter evidently stayed with Walters. Did putting a character in that position allow her to play it out, release it somehow? "I think so. It was about expressing it - put it out there rather than keep it in," she says. Walters played the late MP and Secretary of State for Northern Ireland Mo Mowlam in a drama for Channel 4 broadcast in early 2010. She had misgivings about taking on the role because of the differences in their physical appearance, [30] but the result was highly praised by critics. [31] [32]

verifyErrors }}{{ message }}{{ /verifyErrors }}{{ Julie Walters and Willy Russell: how we made Educating Rita". The Guardian . Retrieved 30 October 2020. Julie Walters remembers her nursing career: 'I used to fall in love with the male patients' ". The Telegraph. Archived from the original on 11 February 2017 . Retrieved 30 October 2020. In 2009, she received a star in the Birmingham Walk of Stars on Birmingham's Golden Mile, Broad Street. She said: "I am very honoured and happy that the people of Birmingham and the West Midlands want to include me in their Walk of Stars and I look forward to receiving my star. Birmingham and the West Midlands is where I'm from; these are my roots and in essence it has played a big part in making me the person I am today". [29] Her other awards include an International Emmy with for A Short Stay in Switzerland.The book took 10 years to write, on and off (some years Walters would only write a few paragraphs). It's not her first book. When she was pregnant with her daughter, she wrote a book about her experience. "It was just gags, really," she says. "I was so terrified of all the pregnancy books I'd read and I felt like, 'I've done this wrong already and she's not even born.' So I wrote a little diary about it." TV tonight: the Abominable Snow Baby is the Christmas telly we deserve". The Guardian. 25 December 2021 . Retrieved 13 November 2022. In 2014, Walters portrayed Mrs. Bird, the Browns' housekeeper, in the critically acclaimed Paddington (2014). [37] Walters reprised her role for the sequel, Paddington 2 (2017), which has also received universal acclaim. [38] [39] Upon the 2014 release of Paddington, Walters designed a "Primrose"-themed Paddington Bear statue, which was located in Primrose Hill (one of 50 placed around London), with the statues auctioned to raise funds for the National Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children (NSPCC). [40] She may be one of Britain's most successful actors - she won Bafta awards for best actress four years running - but this does not make her immune to self-doubt. She thinks the doubts are probably a legacy from her mother, an Irish Catholic who worked as a post office clerk, while her father was a builder. "She had impossibly high standards. Nothing could be good enough. I think that's why I got on in acting, that huge drive. My mother and I clashed because we were very alike. She was a very strong character and was constantly worried for us. Partly it comes from being an immigrant - you have to work hard and not let people discover your weaknesses. You have to be the best at everything." Walters became a nurse before leaving to go to drama school. Her mother, who believed in "proper" jobs, was distraught when Julie opted for acting, and predicted that she would end up in the gutter by the time she was 20. But years later, after her mother's death, Walters found boxes of newspaper clippings that her mother had collected charting her career.

Walters first received notice as the occasional partner of comedian Victoria Wood, whom she had originally met in 1971 when Wood auditioned at the School of Theatre in Manchester. The two first worked together in the 1978 theatre revue In at the Death, followed by the television adaptation of Wood's play Talent. Is she worried about how it will be received? "Nobody wants to be criticised, so it's partly that and partly because I don't know where it has come from. I don't know what it is. With acting, it's like I want to reach everybody with it, but I didn't have any of those feelings with the book. It just felt like it was between me and [her editor] Alan Samson. When he first told me that someone else had read it, I was absolutely stunned. It was like someone had videoed us making love. It felt almost as intimate. [Writing] comes from the subconscious and that makes you feel exposed."Mottram, James (14 May 2001). "Julie Walters: An actress in her prime". The Guardian. London, UK . Retrieved 3 April 2010. Saner, Emine (13 October 2006). "It was like being videoed making love". The Guardian. London, UK . Retrieved 3 April 2010. Walters, Julie (2008). That's Another Story: The Autobiography. Orion Publishing Co. p.1. ISBN 978-0-297-85206-3.