Julie Walters

Also known as Julia Mary Walters, Dame Julia Mary Walters

British actress

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Julie Walters is a British person whose professional career spanned from 1972 to 2020. Born on 22 February 1950, she has one child. Her musical output is associated with pop, British, and musical genres, often linked to soundtracks and the work *Mamma mia*.

As an author, Walters has thirteen works listed, including *Maggie's Tree 36-Copy Dumpbin*, *Maggie's Tree 18-Copy Empty Dumpbin*, *God Is Like*, *Gingerbread Man*, and *Family Talk*. Crossref records five additional works under her name. On Last.fm, her music has accumulated 802,997 plays from 173,206 listeners. Her profile is referenced by 944 other encyclopedia articles.

Synthesized by Vinony from 16 facts across 6 sources: Wikidata, Open Library, Last.fm, Crossref, MusicBrainz, Vinony graph. Generated from structured data (not the Wikipedia text) and checked against those facts — may still contain errors.

Wikidata facts

Instance of: human
Given name: Mary
Family name: Walters
Gender: female
Citizenship: United Kingdom
Place of birth: Edgbaston
Occupation: comedian
Languages spoken: English language
Award: BAFTA Award for Best Actress in a Supporting Role
Image: Julie Walters at the Paddington Premiere.jpg
Number of children: 1
Residence: Plaistow

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nickname: Dame Julie Walters
end of work period: 2020-00-00
date of birth: 1950-02-22
Commons category: Julie Walters
name in native language: Julie Walters
start of work period: 1972-00-00
birth name: Julia Mary Walters

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Encyclopedic overview

Dame Julia Mary Walters (born 22 February 1950), known professionally as Julie Walters, is an English actress and comedian. She is the recipient of four British Academy Television Awards, two British Academy Film Awards, two International Emmy Awards, a Golden Globe Award, and an Olivier Award. Walters has been nominated for two Academy Awards across acting categories—once for Best Actress and once for Best Supporting Actress. She was honoured with the BAFTA Fellowship for lifetime achievement in 2014. She was made a Dame (DBE) by Queen Elizabeth II in 2017 for services to drama.

Walters rose to prominence playing the title role in Educating Rita (1983), a part she originated in the West End production of the stage play upon which the film was based. She has appeared in many other films, including Personal Services (1987), Prick Up Your Ears (1987), Buster (1988), Stepping Out (1991), Sister My Sister (1994), Girls' Night (1998), Titanic Town (1998), Billy Elliot (2000), seven out of eight Harry Potter films (2001–2011), Calendar Girls (2003), Becoming Jane (2007), Mamma Mia! (2008) and its 2018 sequel, Paddington (2014) and its sequels in 2017 and 2024, Brooklyn (2015), Film Stars Don't Die in Liverpool (2017), and Mary Poppins Returns (2018). On stage, she won an Olivier Award for Best Actress for the 2001 revival of All My Sons.

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