Julia Mary "Julie" Walters, CBE 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, Prick Up Your Ears, Buster, Stepping Out, Calendar Girls and Mamma Mia!. She has also played Molly Weasley in seven of the eight Harry Potter films. On stage, she won an Olivier Award for Best Actress for the 2001 production of All My Sons. On television, she is well known for her collaborations with Victoria Wood and has appeared with her in several television shows including Wood and Walters, Victoria Wood As Seen on TV, Pat and Margaret and Dinnerladies. 

February 22nd, 1950 in Smethwick (Age 74)