Julie Walters
Julie Walters
Julia Mary "Julie" Walters, CBEis an English actress and writer. She has won two BAFTA Film Awards, four BAFTA TV Awards and received the BAFTA Fellowship in 2014. Walters first came to international prominence in 1983, for playing the title role in Educating Rita. It was a role she had created on the West End stage and it earned her an Academy Award nomination for Best Actress. It also won her a BAFTA and a Golden Globe. She received a...
NationalityBritish
ProfessionMovie Actress
Date of Birth22 February 1950
CityEdgbaston, England
It's bloody great to get to fifty-five. I've never been bothered about people knowing how old I am.
These kids feel like they've been disrespected all year considering what they've done. We've gone unnoticed.
Debate is so much better than denial.
I was having my teens in my 30s.
Stage is the most exciting. Film is lovely, because it's like a family.
I went through bits of the 60s and thought myself a bit of a hippy.
I can talk myself so much into my part.
That's why I'm an actress - escaping into a world.
Jane Austen was an extraordinary woman; to actually be able to survive as a novelist in those days - unmarried - was just unheard of.
Self worth is everything. Without it life is a misery.
I wanted above all else not to be like my mum.
We played some really strong competition and made a point to do some bonding during the experience. We weren't perfect, but we certainly played a lot better after that tournament.
Oh all the time when Victoria Wood and I did our series. There were people asking 'Can women be funny?' People still ask that. It's like asking: 'Can women breathe in and out?'