Julie Walters Bio Wiki Age Height Husband Movies Harry Potter Illness and Net Worth
Julie Walters is a renowned English actress and recipient of four British Academy Television Awards, two British Academy Film Awards, two International Emmy Awards, a BAFTA Fellowship, and a Golden Globe. She has also been nominated for an Academy Award: once for Best Actress and once for Best Supporting Actress. In 2017, she was made a Dame (DBE) for services to drama.
She is known for her role in Educating Rita and appeared in films like Prick Up Your Ears, Stepping Out, Sister My Sister, Girls’ Night, Titanic Town, and Billy Elliot to mention a few. Walters also appeared in The Harry Hill Movie, Paddington and its 2017 sequel, Brooklyn, Film Stars Don’t Die in Liverpool, and Mary Poppins Returns. Further, she collaborated regularly with Victoria Wood on Wood and Walters, Victoria Wood: As Seen on TV, Pat and Margaret, and dinner ladies.
Four times, she won the British Academy Television Award for Best Actress for her roles in My Beautiful Son, Murder, The Canterbury Tales, and Mo. Also, she received the International Emmy Award for Best Actress for her role in A Short Stay in Switzerland. In addition, the British public voted Walters fourth in ITV’s poll of TV’s 50 Greatest Stars in 2006.
She was born on February 22, 1950, in Edgbaston, Birmingham, England. Walters is73 years old.
She is a woman of below-average stature. Walters stands at a height of5 ft 3 in(Approx 1.60 m).
She was born in Edgbaston, Birmingham, England to supportive parents. Walters holds British nationality and her parents areThomas Walters, an English builder and decorator, andMary Bridget, an Irish Catholic postal clerk from County Mayo.Thomas Walters, her paternal grandfather was a veteran of the Second Boer War and was killed in action in World War I in June 1915 while serving with the 2nd Battalion of the Royal Warwickshire Regiment. She is the third to survive birth out of five children.
She married her loving partnerGrant Roffeyin 1997. She began her relationship with Grant a patrolman for the AA, began in 1985 after a chance meeting in a Fulham pub. Grant was later invited to repair Walters’ washing machine. The two became parents of their only all-grown daughter Maisie Mae Roffey born on April 26, 1988. The two reside on an organic farm operated by Roffey near Plaistow, West Sussex. Additionally, she is a lifelong supporter of West Bromwich Albion Football Club and patron of the domestic violence survivors’ charity Women’s Aid.
She studied at St Paul’s School for Girls in Edgbaston and later at Holly Lodge Grammar School for Girls in Smethwick. Walters trained as a student nurse at the Queen Elizabeth Hospital in Birmingham when she was 18. However, she left nursing and went on to study acting at the newly-established Manchester Polytechnic School of Theatre. Further, she worked for the Everyman Theatre Company in Liverpool in the mid-1970s.
Walters has appeared in numerous movies, some of which include:
Walters appeared in the Harry Potter series from 2001 to 2011. She played the role of Molly Weasley, the matriarch of the Weasley family. Molly is the mother of seven children, including Ron Weasley, who becomes Harry Potter’s best friend. She is introduced in Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone when she kindly tells Harry how to cross the barrier through Platform Nine and Three-Quarters. Additionally, she has appeared in The Philosopher’s Stone, the Chamber of Secrets, the Prisoner of Azkaban, the Order of the Phoenix, the Half-Blood Prince, the Deathly Hallows – Part 1, and The Deathly Hallows – Part 2.
She starred in a 2000 British coming-of-age comedy-drama film, Billy Elliot as Sandra Wilkinson. The movie is about a working-class boy who discovers a passion for ballet while his father objects, based on negative stereotypes of male ballet dancers.
Walters appeared in the film version of Mamma Mia!, playing Rosie Mulligan in June 2008. Rosie is Donna’s other former bandmate, an unmarried, and fun-loving author. Moreover, the film is based on the songs of the pop group ABBA, with additional music composed by ABBA member Benny Andersson.
In 2018, she was diagnosed with stage III bowel cancer and had surgery and chemotherapy. Walters then entered remission and had to be cut from certain scenes in The Secret Garden and also had to miss the premiere of Mamma Mia! Here We Go Again. However, she did not announce her illness to the public until February 2020.
As an actress, she has attained decent fortune from acting. Walters’s net worth is$4 Million.
Walters is 73 years old born on February 22, 1950, in Edgbaston, Birmingham, England.
Walters and Grant Roffey has a daughter Maisie Mae Roffey, born on April 26, 1988.
Walters has an estimated net worth of $4 Million attained from her acting career.
Walters is married toGrant Roffeyin 1997. The two reside on an organic farm operated by Roffey near Plaistow, West Sussex. They have a daughter, Maisie Mae Roffey.
