Dame Julia Mary Walters DBE (born February 22, 1950), known professionally as Julie Walters, is an English actress, author, and comedian. She is the recipient of four British Academy Television Awards, two British Academy Film Awards, two International Emmy Awards, a BAFTA Fellowship, and a Golden Globe. Walters has been nominated twice for an Academy Award: once for Best Actress and once for Best Supporting Actress. Walters rose to prominence playing the title role in Educating Rita (1983), a role which she originated in West End theatre. She has appeared in a number of films, including Personal Services (1987), Stepping Out (1991), Sister My Sister (1994), Billy Elliot (2000), the Harry Potter series (2001–2011) as Molly Weasley, Calendar Girls (2003), Wah-Wah (2005), Driving Lessons (2006), Becoming Jane (2007), Mamma Mia! (2008) and Mamma Mia! Here We Go Again (2018), Brave (2012), Paddington (2014) and its 2017 sequel, Brooklyn (2015), Film Stars Don't Die in Liverpool (2017), and Mary Poppins Returns (2018). On stage, she won a Laurence Olivier Award for Best Actress for the 2001 production of All My Sons. On television, Walters collaborated with Victoria Wood; they appeared together on several television shows, including Wood and Walters (1981), Victoria Wood: As Seen on TV (1985–1987), Pat and Margaret (1994), and Dinnerladies (1998–2000). She has won the British Academy Television Award for Best Actress four times, more than any other actress, for My Beautiful Son (2001), Murder (2002), The Canterbury Tales (2003), and her portrayal of Mo Mowlam in Mo (2010). Walters and Helen Mirren are the only actresses to have won this award three consecutive times, and Walters is tied with Judi Dench for the most nominations in the category with seven. In 2006, the British public voted Walters fourth in ITV's poll of TV's 50 Greatest Stars as part of ITV's 50th anniversary celebrations. She starred in A Short Stay in Switzerland (2009), which won her an International Emmy for Best Actress. Walters was made a Dame (DBE) in the 2017 Birthday Honours for services to drama.
111 movies · 61 shows
Eyes Behind the Lens
2026·0.0
Becoming Victoria Wood
2026·6.0
Paddington in Peru
2024·6.8
The Queen: 70 Glorious Years
2022·0.0
The Abominable Snow Baby
2021·6.5
Parkinson at 50
2021·10.0
The Vicar of Dibley: Inside Out
2021·0.0
Chefs' Burnt Bits
2020·0.0
The Magical World of Julia Donaldson
2020·6.0
Victoria Wood In Her Own Words
2020·0.0
The Secret Garden
2020·6.3
The National Television Awards Celebrate 25 Years
2020·0.0
Master Moley by Royal Invitation
2019·5.8
Weasels: Feisty and Fearless
2019·8.0
Wild Rose
2019·6.8
The Queen's Corgi
2019·5.9
Mary Poppins Returns
2018·6.5
Mamma Mia! Here We Go Again
2018·7.1
Sherlock Gnomes
2018·5.7
Film Stars Don't Die in Liverpool
2017·6.4
Paddington 2
2017·7.5
The Secret Life of Sue Townsend (Aged 68 3/4)
2016·7.0
Roald Dahl's Most Marvellous Book
2016·8.0
There's Something About Romcoms
2016·6.0
Let's Do It: A Tribute to Victoria Wood
2016·0.0
A Grand Night In: The Story of Aardman
2015·7.1
Brooklyn
2015·7.3
Paddington
2014·7.1
Effie Gray
2014·6.0
The Harry Hill Movie
2013·4.8
One Chance
2013·6.7
Justin and the Knights of Valour
2013·5.9
The Legend of Mor'du
2012·6.0
National Theatre Live: The Last of the Haussmans
2012·1.0
Brave
2012·7.0
When Harry Left Hogwarts
2011·7.2
50 Greatest Harry Potter Moments
2011·7.5
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 2
2011·8.1
Gnomeo & Juliet
2011·5.9
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 1
2010·7.7
Mo
2010·5.7
Victoria Wood's Midlife Christmas
2009·4.0
Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince
2009·7.7
A Short Stay in Switzerland
2009·6.9
Mamma Mia!
2008·7.0
Filth: The Mary Whitehouse Story
2008·6.3
Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix
2007·7.7
Becoming Jane
2007·7.3
The Ruby in the Smoke
2006·6.4
Driving Lessons
2006·6.1
Acorn Antiques: The Musical
2006·8.0
Wah-Wah
2005·5.9
Ahead of the Class
2005·7.4
Mickybo and Me
2005·7.1
Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban
2004·8.0
The Return
2003·6.8
Calendar Girls
2003·6.5
Thora Hird Tribute
2003·0.0
Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets
2002·7.7
Before You Go
2002·5.8
Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone
2001·7.9
Strange Relations
2001·0.0
All Forgotten
2001·4.3
Victoria Wood with All the Trimmings
2000·7.0
Billy Elliot
2000·7.6
Jack and the Beanstalk: The ITV Pantomime
1998·7.0
Talking Heads 2
1998·8.5
Titanic Town
1998·5.3
Girls' Night
1998·6.8
Bathtime
1997·5.8
Brazen Hussies
1996·3.8
Intimate Relations
1996·5.4
Little Red Riding Hood
1995·6.0
Sister My Sister
1994·5.9
Requiem Apache
1994·7.5
Pat and Margaret
1994·7.7
Bambino Mio
1994·0.0
Michael Caine: Breaking the Mold
1994·10.0
The Clothes in the Wardrobe
1993·6.0
Wide-Eyed and Legless
1993·6.5
Victoria Wood's All Day Breakfast
1992·6.0
Just Like a Woman
1992·6.0
Julie Walters and Friends
1991·0.0
Stepping Out
1991·5.9
Mack the Knife
1989·6.6
Killing Dad (Or How to Love Your Mother)
1989·4.6
An Audience With Victoria Wood
1988·5.3
Buster
1988·5.7
Talking Heads
1988·5.0
Acorn Antiques
1987·7.5
The Birthday Party
1987·6.8
Prick Up Your Ears
1987·6.7
Personal Services
1987·6.1
Car Trouble
1986·6.3
An Audience with Billy Connolly
1985·8.4
Dreamchild
1985·6.6
Unfair Exchanges
1985·0.0
An Audience with Mel Brooks
1984·7.0
She'll Be Wearing Pink Pyjamas
1984·5.2
Educating Rita
1983·6.9
Say Something Happened
1982·0.0
Intensive Care
1982·9.0
Happy Since I Met You
1981·8.0
Days at the Beach
1981·0.0
Nearly a Happy Ending
1980·9.0
Profiles of Andrea Dunbar and Victoria Wood
1980·0.0
Talent
1979·7.0
Soldiers Talking, Cleanly
1978·0.0
Me! I'm Afraid of Virginia Woolf
1978·10.0
Occupy!
1976·10.0
Club Havana
1975·0.0