Julia Mary Walters was born on February 22, 1950 in the quiet town of Smethwick, in the party of West midlands, England.
As a child, Walters had no desire to become a star, initially wanting to become a nurse to help others.
This is partly due to the strong Christianity imposed by her mother of Irish descent, who taught her as a child in the importance of charity.
In this way, Walters, once received from high school, began to do an internship as a nurse at the Queen Elizabeth Hospital, on Birmingham.
Shortly after performing like this, she realized that this was not her vocation and decided to seek new directions that would satisfy her a little more.
That is how he entered and subsequently graduated from the Manchester Metropolitan University with a degree in Literature and Drama.
There he met who was later his partner in various comedy acts, Victoria Wood, with it began to work in the theater in 1978.
It was not long until a producer noticed the good quality of the humor of the two young women and decided to air them on the small screen.
“Wood and Walters“It was an almost immediate hit on television, showing various sketches and jokes that the girls wrote in their spare time around 1982.
His first big role on the big screen was with the well-known and famous actor Michael Caine in the movie “Educating Rita” from 1983.
In this story, Walters develops a character eager to know, filled with a tender innocence that ends up conquering the heart of a bitter literature professor who has stopped believing in life.
For this role and the film itself, Walters was nominated for awards from the Academy and in turn won the award for best actress of the BAFTA.
On 1991 had a stellar role with Liza minelli in the feature film “Stepping out”, Where she played one of the students named Vera.
On 1997 got married with Grant Roffey, with whom he had already had a daughter in a relationship that had been dating for 11 years. They currently live together in Sussex in a farm.
Throughout her career, Walters has participated in countless British television shows and film productions, being awarded as many times.
In the year 2000 his role as co-star of the music drama “Billy elliot”Earned him a new nomination for the Academy Awards.
In this film, she develops as Billy’s ballet teacher, who tries to curb his passion for dance by considering it to be effeminate.
Due to her face of sincerity and good mother, she is always chosen to interpret this kind of loving and understanding roles.
It is precisely these kinds of qualities that earned him the role of Molly weasley in the movie “Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone”.
The role suited him so well and he performed it to such a degree of perfection that he will undoubtedly be this same character until the saga ends with the seventh film.
He shared the set with rising stars Daniel Radcliffe, Emma Watson, Rupert Grint, Tom Felton and the well-known and famed Richard Harris, Maggie Smith, Alan Rickman, Robbie Coltrane and John Hurt.
In the year 2004 Walters starred in a movie with a beautiful message, where her character in question was trying to overcome her husband’s death from cancer.
The film was “Calendar Girls”And was nominated for 11 Golden Globes of which the character of Walters got 2: Annie clarke.
In the 2005 made another inspirational film called “Ahead of Class”. There he tries to separate two enemy camps of students in a true story.
At the moment the film has finished shooting “Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix”And expects its next release at the end of this year.
Filmography:
Educating Rita – 1983
She’ll Be Wearing Pink Pajamas – 1984
Talking Heads – 1987
Personal Services – 1987
Prick Up Your Ears – 1987
Buster – 1988
Killing Dad – 1989
Sister My Sister – 1994
Pat and Margaret – 1994
Intimate Relations – 1996
Titanic Town – 1998
Oliver Twist – 1999
Billy Elliot – 2000
Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone – 2001
Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets – 2002
Calendar Girls – 2003
Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban – 2004
Wah-Wah – 2005
Driving Lessons – 2006
The Ruby in the Smoke – 2006
Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix – 2007