Julia Mary "Julie" Walters,
CBE (born 22 February 1950) is 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 second Academy Award nomination, this time for
Best Supporting Actress, for her role in the 2000 film
Billy Elliot, which also won her a BAFTA. Her other film roles include
Personal Services (1987),
Prick Up Your Ears (1987),
Buster (1988),
Stepping Out (1991),
Calendar Girls (2003) and
Mamma Mia! (2008). She has also played
Molly Weasley in seven of the eight
Harry Potter films (2001–2011). On stage, she won an
Olivier Award for
Best Actress for the 2001 production of
All My Sons.