Julie Walters
Julie Walters
Julia Mary "Julie" Walters, CBEis an English actress and writer. She has won two BAFTA Film Awards, four BAFTA TV Awards and received the BAFTA Fellowship in 2014. Walters first came to international prominence in 1983, for playing the title role in Educating Rita. It was a role she had created on the West End stage and it earned her an Academy Award nomination for Best Actress. It also won her a BAFTA and a Golden Globe. She received a...
NationalityBritish
ProfessionMovie Actress
Date of Birth22 February 1950
CityEdgbaston, England
Some of the most interesting questions needing to be asked today can best be asked on television, or on stage, and they can be wonderful, great dramas, but they won't necessarily be blockbusters.
I went through bits of the 60s and thought myself a bit of a hippy.
In order to be creative you have to be allowed to fail.
I'd like to think there'll be too much of real life going on for me to want to do much acting.
Suddenly, you are very much in the present, and you learn it's really the place where you should always live.
It's getting better generally, daily, especially in TV, for women in acting and age and looks count less. As more women come into the business. Change of any sort takes a long time to happen.
I was feeling very irritable. It was that difficult time of the month when the credit card statement arrives.
We have to take risks with art. If we don't, it all becomes a bit boring
There were people asking 'Can women be funny?' People still ask that. It's like asking: 'Can women breathe in and out?'
I was having my teens in my 30s.
I'm interested in politics, what's going on in the world, how people behave and how your life is often in the hands of other people.
I'm massively talented, and very, very beautiful in person; the public don't really realise that.
I do find it therapeutic, writing about stuff that was frightening and painful as a child, and managing to see it from an adult's point of view. To get it out of the closet onto paper, metaphorically speaking, is therapeutic.
It's very strong after the birth. It's extraordinary. You can't watch anything to do with kids being harmed.