Dimensions
130 x 194 x 17mm
Julie Walters is one of Britains finest actresses. From her television work opposite Victoria Wood to her big-screen debut alongside Michael Cain in Education Rita, her starring role in Billy Elliot (both of which earned her Oscar nominations) and her captivation of a whole new generation of fans with her portrayal of Mrs Weasley in the Harry Potter films, Walters has worked with some of the greatest and most diverse actors and directors in the world today.
Born in 1950, Walters was raised in a strict Catholic family in working-class Birmingham. She abandoned a nursing course to study drama at Manchester Polytechnic and went on to join the Liverpool Everyman Theatre where she cut her teeth as an actress.
Over the next decade, Walters experienced three marriage proposals, two long-term romances and a period of heavy drinking. At the end of 1984 she met sociology student Grant Roffey and had a daughter, Maisie, who was tragically diagnosed with leukaemia and had to undergo years of painful chemotherapy.
