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  Julie Walters - Biography
Julie was honored with an OBE for her services to drama in 1999.
Julie's strong-minded mother, who wished a nursing career for her daughter, was openly upset by Julie's switch of professions to acting.
Julie's own birth was complicated, the umbilical cord was wrapped round her neck and a priest was actually called to give both mother and baby the Last Rites.
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  Kids.Net.Au - Encyclopedia > Julie Walters
Julie Walters (born February 22, 1950) is a British actress, mainly associated with comedy and character roles.
One of Julie Walters' best-known roles is as "Mrs Overall" in Wood's spoof soap opera, Acorn Antiques[?].
Julie Walters has won numerous acting awards, and was made an OBE in 1999 for her services to the theatre.
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 Julie Walters biography
Walters' last stage appearance of the decade would be in 1989's Frankie And Johnny At The Clair De Lune, where she'd play a down-at-heel waitress in a sweet romance with Brian Cox's cook.
Walters is brash, opinionated and sexually ferocious, while Blethyn is meek, a slave to her family.
Walters was awarded an OBE for services to drama in 1999, quite rightly as she has been on the cutting-edge of British drama for 30 years, breaking barriers in film, on TV and onstage.
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 BBC NEWS | Entertainment | Film | Julie Walters: British acting treasure
Walters' was nominated for best supporting actress Oscar in 2001 for her role as the dance teacher in Billy Elliot.
Walters' career almost ended in 1991 when she discovered her three-year-old daughter Maisie was suffering from leukaemia.
Walters starred alongside British stalwart Helen Mirren in the film Calendar Girls, a comedy about a group of 11 Women's Institute members who strip for a cancer-charity calendar after one of their husbands dies from Non-Hodgkins Lymphoma.
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 Julie Walters
Born in Smethwick, England, Walters first became known as the occasional partner of comedienne Victoria Wood.
Her first serious acting role on TV was in the classic Boys from the Blackstuff in 1980, and she broke into films with her sensational Academy Award nominated and BAFTA Best Actress award winning performance opposite Michael Caine in Educating Rita (1983), a role she had created on the West End stage.
Walters also played Molly Weasley in Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone (2001), Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets (2002) and Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban (2004).
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 Julie Walters: 'Why I'm obsessed with the dark side of life' | the Mail on Sunday   (Site not responding. Last check: )
Julie almost died at birth and spent every single night for the first 40 years of her life haunted by nightmares.
Julie was by Maisie's side night and day during her shattering chemotherapy.
Julie Walters is a great actor who has never succumbed to the self obsessed celebrity diva images of some of her contemporaries.
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 Julie Walters: 'Why I'm obsessed with the dark side of life' | the Daily Mail
Julie almost died at birth and spent every single night for the first 40 years of her life haunted by nightmares.
Julie was by Maisie's side night and day during her shattering chemotherapy.
Julie Walters is a great actor who has never succumbed to the self obsessed celebrity diva images of some of her contemporaries.
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 Gossip på Julie Walters
Julie Walters är en brittisk actress som förbinds huvud med comedy- och teckenroller.
Walters lekte dessutom mollyen Weasley i den Harry potteren och filosofstenen (2001), den Harry potteren och kammaren av hemligheter (2002), den Harry potteren och fången av Azkaban (2004) och i den upcoming Harry potteren och beställningen av Phoenixen (2007).
I 2004 Walters starred såsom en widow som bestämmdes till fabrikatet någon nytta som koms ut ur her makedöd alltifrån cancer i kalenderflickor som var vilkna starred dessutom, Helen Mirren och Ciaran Hinds; i 2005 Walters starred igen såsom en reell inspirational - livfiguren i framöver av klassen.
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 Julie Walters: An actress in her prime | Interviews | Guardian Unlimited Film
Julie Walters: He's a lovely boy because he hasn't come from one of those stage schools.
Julie Walters: I don't know if you can change things, but it's a drop in the ocean of change.
Julie Walters: I met her at the Bush Theatre in London, where we did this thing called In at the Death.
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 Julie Walters at Hollywood.com
Walters also appeared in "Pat and Margaret", a comedy about a woman who returns to Britain after starring in an American soap opera, which was later filmed for British TV.
In the latter, Walters was particularly praised for one characterization, an actress playing a hump-backed charwoman who constantly missed cues and bumped into the scenery in a recurring spoof of soap operas.
Walters also had an acclaimed stint as the Wife of Bath in a British miniseries production of "The Canterbury Tales" (2003), for which she won a third consecutive BAFTA TV award as Best Actress.
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 Julie Walters - News
British actress JULIE WALTERS is set to show off her literary talents when she publishes her first fictional novel next year (06).
Two-times OSCAR-nominee Walters has enjoyed both small and big screen hits in her long career, but admits she is tiring of films.
Walters, 55, says, "Television is better because it's not governed by Hollywood, not governed by America.
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 MPR: Julie Walters gives "Driving Lessons"
In "Driving Lessons" a retired actor Evie (Julie Walters) teaches a sheltered young man called Ben (Rupert Grint) about the ways of the world.
Walters is also in the Potter films as Ron's mom, Mrs Weasley.
Julie Walters told Minnesota Public Radio's Euan Kerr she fell in love the script as soon as she read it.
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 Julie Walters. Molly Weasley, Billy Elliot
When her mother died, in 1989, Walters was deeply moved to find amongst her possessions a box stuffed with newspaper clippings recording Julie's many successes.
Julie Walters made a sensational debut as the working class heroine in Educating Rita (1983, recreating a part she had played on the stage) and earned a Best Actress Oscar nomination in the process.
Julie Walters was appointed an OBE (Officer of the Order of the British Empire) for services to drama on 2 December 1999.
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 Julie Walters Photos - Julie Walters News - Julie Walters Information
Julie Mary Walters was born in Smethwick, Birmingham.
Julie has sold her life story for a record-breaking $4 million.
In her new autobiography, Julie writes about the turbulent relationship with her mother, after she quit a nursing qualification for acting.
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Born in Birmingham, England, Walters was an obedient daughter who trained to be a nurse at Queen Elizabeth Hospital to please her mother.
Walter's next triumph was the film version of the play Personal Services (1987), in which she played a character based on a real-life madame.
Walters received BAFTA nominations for her work in Boys from the Black Stuff and Say Something Funny, as well as roles in the popular television series, The Secret Diary of Adrian Mol and the TV movie, Pat and Margaret.
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 Julie Walters News - Page 2   (Site not responding. Last check: )
British actress JULIE WALTERS' is grateful publishers forced her to complete her debut novel after she spent 10 years slowly working on the book.
JewReview.net recently sat down with Julie Walters to talk about her new film "Driving Lessons", and of course talk about her work in the "Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix" film adaptation came up.
JULIE WALTERS had better clear a space on her mantelpiece because a BAFTA is all but guaranteed for this foul-mouthed performance.
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 Honestly! Julie Walters Is A Genuine Article - washingtonpost.com
Walters, 56, is well known to American film buffs for such efforts as "Educating Rita" (1983), "Billy Elliot" (2000) -- each of which brought her an Oscar nomination -- and "Calendar Girls" (2003).
At home in England, where she also does a lot of stage and television work -- three of her five BAFTAs are for TV -- she's both a critical and a popular favorite across the spectrum, from comedy to drama to tragedy.
Not surprisingly, all that made her "just heaven" to play, Walters says, and a worthy addition to the gallery of characters she's compiled over the last quarter-century.
www.washingtonpost.com /wp-dyn/content/article/2006/10/27/AR2006102700313.html   (766 words)

  
 Amazon.co.uk: Calendar Girls [2003]: Video: Helen Mirren,Julie Walters,John Alderton,Linda Bassett,Annette ...   (Site not responding. Last check: )
When her best friend Annie (Walters) loses her husband, Chris (Mirren) cooks up a scheme to commemorate him: they and their friends--all fiftysomething women--will make a nude calendar to raise money for the hospital where he died.
Julie Walters plays Annie, whose husband dies of leukaemia and Helen Mirren plays her best friend Chris, the genius and driving force behind the calendar.
The movie is a touching story of a woman's attempt's (Julie Walters) with the help of her friend (Helen Mirren) to overcome the loss of her husband (Brilliantly acted by John Alderton) to cancer and raise some cash for the local hospital.
www.amazon.co.uk /Calendar-Girls-Helen-Mirren/dp/B0000X7KB4   (1070 words)

  
 Julie Walters News
A film starring Julie Walters is always worth a look, and Driving Lessons is definitely worth the money.
HARRY Potter star Rupert Grint and comedy genius Julie Walters feature in this comedy drama, which was only in cinemas in September.
Billie Piper stars alongside Julie Walters in The Ruby in the Smoke Adaptations of novels The Ruby in the Smoke and Wind in the Willows are among the BBC's Christmas TV highlights.
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 HeraldNet: Julie Walters' appeal drives 'Driving Lessons'   (Site not responding. Last check: )
The stars are Rupert Grint, the redheaded kid who plays sidekick Ron Weasley in the "Potter" films, and Julie Walters, the veteran trouper who plays Ron's mother in the "Potter" films.
He takes a summer job as an assistant to a semi-famous actress named Evie Walton (Walters), who long ago performed the classics but is best known for a role on a silly TV soap opera.
If you're a Julie Walters fan, you will get some yoks out of her performance, which is one of her juiciest since "Educating Rita." Walters' comedy has sometimes been a little too much for movies - she's probably a great stage comic - but here her style fits the grandiose character.
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 BBC - Drama Faces - Julie Walters
One of Britain’s most accomplished and diverse actresses, Julie Walters' work ranges from comedy with Victoria Wood to films such as Educating Rita and Billy Elliot, both of which earned her Oscar nominations and BAFTA awards.
Murder was Julie's third role about the loss of children, following My Beautiful Son, for which she won a best actress BAFTA, and the stage production All My Sons, which earned her an Olivier award.
Julie is married to organic farmer Grant Roffey.
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 Julie Walters News, Pictures, Videos and Interviews
As we told you last night, both Rupert Grint and Julie Walters from the "Harry Potter" movies attended a screening of their recent movie, "Driving Lessons," at the Edinburgh International Film Festival.
Walters discusses writing her first non-fiction book, working on "Driving Lessons" with Rupert Grint and how she found out who died in the most recent "Potter" book.
Julie Walters attended the event and participated in a 40-minute interview session.
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Driving Lessons, which stars Rupert Grint (Ron Weasley) and Julie Walters (Molly Weasley), will air on ITV today at 9:00PM GMT.
Julie Walters Could be in Order of the Phoenix
Stefan over at The Snitch saw Julie Walters (Molly Weasley in the Harry Potter films) on the UK show Parkison, where she stated that although she is not in Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire, there is a possibility that she could be in Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenxi.
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 Julie Walters: Calendar Girls - Movie
Julie Walters is especially good in her role here, although Helen Mirren (just as in the story itself) will get most of the attention and accolades.
The story of the WI in a sleepy Yorkshire village trying to raise money for their local hospital's oncology unit, intially to buy a sofa for the visitor's room, following the death by cancer of one their flock's husband.
Walters, the bereaved woman, is exquiste in her expression of deep seated pain and she is uncharacteristicly not playing the funny lady.
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 MuggleNet | The ULTIMATE Harry Potter Site - Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, Harry Potter and the Order of the ...
Julie Walters also made an appearance on the show where she spoke a little about Driving Lessons and the trio, saying that she found it surprising that they were still so normal and down to earth.
Rupert Grint and Julie Walters did a photocall this morning to promote their new film, Driving Lessons, which will premiere tonight in London.
BoxOfficeMojo.com is reporting that Driving Lessons, starring Potter actors Rupert Grint and Julie Walters, will be released in the United States on October 13th, 2006.
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 Julie Walters - The Huffington Post
Now she gets to sing nine ABBA songs." Streep also plays disco diva with pals Julie Walters as fun-loving Rosie and Christine Baranski as naughty divorcée Tanya, who used to perform as Donna and the Dynamos.
Supporting performances by Julie Walters and James Cromwell as Austen’s parents are particularly noteworthy and Maggie Smith as a wealthy patroness (who brings to mind...
British actress Julie Walters arrives for the World Premiere of her movie 'Becoming Jane', in London, Sunday, March 4, 2007.
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