She wants to immediately put you at your ease and she seems – thanks to an unbelievably broad range of parts, from Mrs Overall in Acorn Antiques to the Oscar-nominated Rita in Educating Rita to Mrs Weasley in the Harry Potter films, not to mention Calendar Girls, Billy Elliot, National Treasure and of course Mamma Mia! Worldwide fame and critical respect - really, she has it all. She received her second Oscar nomination and won a BAFTA for her supporting role as the ballet teacher in Billy Elliot (2000). I’ve always had a dodgy gut and a year before I’d had a pain, which I thought was gallstones because my mother had hers taken out around the same age. Walters’ performance as the severe, unflinchingly loyal servant is – of course – as masterful and compelling as every role she has ever played. I ask her if Maisie was upset after she realised what her mother had been through. The youngest of three children (she has two brothers), she hails from an Irish Catholic family, her parents being Thomas and Mary Bridget (nee O'Brien). Find out more, The latest offers and discount codes from popular brands on Telegraph Voucher Codes, Julie Walters shot exclusively for the Telegraph Magazine at Chelsea Physic Garden, London, From left to right: Walters in the 1980s and Walters as Mrs Overall, with Victoria Wood in 1987, Walters receiving her damehood, alongside fellow actor She has said she may consider acting projects in the summer, but as each day passes she feels more and more settled in the home she loves with the man she loves. I’m the same but different. But he did tell me that he was going to sort it. It seems unreal now, it seemed unreal at the time, but it was very real. The downstairs bar was funky, too, serving such exotic delights as chilli con carne, Newcastle Brown ale and Italian ice cream. I’m not rushing about all the time, getting up at 5am and coming home at midnight. ‘I think it would be letting myself down,’ she says. We rely on advertising to help fund our award-winning journalism. [citation needed]. Worldwide fame and critical respect - really, she has it all. In an interview with Alison Oddey, Walters said 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". Do what you have to do [in her case it involved an operation to remove the two tumours and 30cm of her colon, followed by a course of chemo, which left her hair intact and, in her words, ‘fine’] and push on. I saw a doctor about what food I should and shouldn’t eat. I don’t want the esteemed Telegraph readers thinking I’m foul-mouthed and common... which I am.’ She pauses. She has worked for five decades to have her home in the country with Roffey, whom she met in 1986 when he was an AA patrolman and she was a fiery young actor who had drunk one too many in a bar in west London. ‘Bloody hell,’ she frowns, then looks at me and switches into a theatrically posh voice. Of course it was frightening, but Grant was with me every step. I try not to eat sugar because it’s cancer’s best friend, but that’s hard. I haven’t done a bloody workout. She shakes her head. She fell madly in love with her first proper boyfriend who then left to study Sociology in Manchester. In 2003, Walters starred as a widow determined to make some good come out of her husband's death from cancer in Calendar Girls, which also starred Helen Mirren and Ciarán Hinds; in 2005, Walters again starred as inspirational real-life figure Marie Stubbs in the ITV1 drama Head of the Class. Thomas and his sons would have to step in to prevent Mary from attacking her wayward child. I’ve gone from thinking of my cancer as a shock and something terrible that happened to me, to thinking in a way it was a gift.’ She stops. Her Irish mother told her when she jacked in her job as a trainee nurse to go to drama school that she would ‘end up in the gutter’. Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix, Harry Potter Page to Screen: The Complete Filmmaking Journey, LEGO Harry Potter: Building the Magical World, LEGO Harry Potter: Characters of the Magical World, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 1, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 2, Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes of Grindelwald, Magic Beyond Words: The J.K. Rowling Story, Creator: Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets, Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets actors, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 1 actors, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 2 actors, Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince actors, Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix actors, Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone actors, Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban actors, https://harrypotter.fandom.com/wiki/Julie_Walters?oldid=1359205, Articles with information from Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows. ‘I’ve let a lot of noise go and now a year and a half has passed. Please review our, You need to be a subscriber to join the conversation. She plays Molly Weasley in the Harry Potter films. She was born Julia Mary Walters in Smethwick, Birmingham, on the 22nd of February, 1950. Take your favorite fandoms with you and never miss a beat. Julie's path through Poly was smooth, she'd found her path. By the time she reached Holly Lodge Grammar School she was an habitual truant, her misbehaviour made easier by the fact that both Thomas and Mary worked full-time. I have no idea what it was for, but I felt it was a message from her. Julie Walters 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.

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