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The book took 10 years to write, on and off (some years Walters would only write a few paragraphs). It's not her first book. When she was pregnant with her daughter, she wrote a book about her experience. "It was just gags, really," she says. "I was so terrified of all the pregnancy books I'd read and I felt like, 'I've done this wrong already and she's not even born.' So I wrote a little diary about it." They went on to appear in their own Granada Television series, Wood and Walters, in 1982. They continued to perform together frequently over the years. The BAFTA-winning BBC follow-up, Victoria Wood: As Seen on TV, featured one of Walters's best-known roles, Mrs Overall, in Wood's parodic soap opera, Acorn Antiques (she later appeared in the musical version, and received an Olivier Award nomination for her efforts). Walters, Julie (2008). That's Another Story: The Autobiography. Weidenfeld & Nicolson, London. p.2. ISBN 978-0-297-85206-3. Farber, Alex (1 March 2023). "Julie Walters pulls out of Channel 4 drama Truelove due to ill health". The Times . Retrieved 11 March 2023. Over 50 Life Insurance TV advert". Lv.com. Archived from the original on 26 November 2012 . Retrieved 15 January 2016.

Julie Walters remembers her nursing career: 'I used to fall in love with the male patients' ". The Telegraph. Archived from the original on 11 February 2017 . Retrieved 30 October 2020.She may be one of Britain's most successful actors - she won Bafta awards for best actress four years running - but this does not make her immune to self-doubt. She thinks the doubts are probably a legacy from her mother, an Irish Catholic who worked as a post office clerk, while her father was a builder. "She had impossibly high standards. Nothing could be good enough. I think that's why I got on in acting, that huge drive. My mother and I clashed because we were very alike. She was a very strong character and was constantly worried for us. Partly it comes from being an immigrant - you have to work hard and not let people discover your weaknesses. You have to be the best at everything." Walters says she was "a bit wild" when she became famous: "I was a bit of a drinker. I think I did my teens when I was in my 20s and 30s." She says it never became a problem. "Just partying, really. It was a way of dealing with it, sudden fame, that's what I think the drinking was. Then I met my husband and it was obviously meant to be. And when I had Maisie, that changed everything." She says she would have liked to have had more children - "for Maisie's sake" - but she was 40 when Maisie became ill, and that's "just the way it was".

The basic premise – that education means choice – still matters today, the world over. And not just for women, but for all of us." In May 2022, it was announced that Walters would star in Truelove, an upcoming drama series from Channel 4. [47] That same month, Walters narrated the BBC documentary The Queen: 70 Glorious Years, which took a look at the Queen's life in her seventieth year on the British throne. [48] In March 2023, she pulled out of filming Truelove due to "ill health", according to The Times, [49] and her role was replaced by Lindsay Duncan. [50] [51] Personal life [ edit ] Walters played the late MP and Secretary of State for Northern Ireland Mo Mowlam in a drama for Channel 4 broadcast in early 2010. She had misgivings about taking on the role because of the differences in their physical appearance, [30] but the result was highly praised by critics. [31] [32] Lodge, Guy (26 October 2017). "Film Review: 'Paddington 2' ". Variety. Archived from the original on 26 October 2017 . Retrieved 27 October 2017. TV tonight: the Abominable Snow Baby is the Christmas telly we deserve". The Guardian. 25 December 2021 . Retrieved 13 November 2022.Walters has won eight BAFTAs, six competitive awards plus two honorary awards. The first honorary award was a special BAFTA that she received at a tribute evening in 2003, before receiving the BAFTA Fellowship in 2014. [67] Walters, Julie (2008). That's Another Story: The Autobiography. Orion Publishing Co. p.1. ISBN 978-0-297-85206-3.

In 2003, Walters starred as a widow (Annie Clark) determined to make some good come out of her husband's death from cancer in Calendar Girls, which starred Helen Mirren. In 2005, she again starred as an inspirational real-life figure, Marie Stubbs in the ITV1 drama Ahead of the Class. In 2006, she came fourth in ITV's poll of the public's 50 Greatest Stars, coming four places above frequent co-star Victoria Wood. [22] In 2006, she starred in the film Driving Lessons alongside Rupert Grint (who played her son Ron in Harry Potter), and had a leading role in the BBC's adaptation of Philip Pullman's novel The Ruby in the Smoke. Maher, Kevin (19 October 2020). "Julie Walters: 'I don't want to work again . . . unless there's a Mamma Mia 3' | Times2". The Times . Retrieved 15 March 2021.In 2009, she received a star in the Birmingham Walk of Stars on Birmingham's Golden Mile, Broad Street. She said: "I am very honoured and happy that the people of Birmingham and the West Midlands want to include me in their Walk of Stars and I look forward to receiving my star. Birmingham and the West Midlands is where I'm from; these are my roots and in essence it has played a big part in making me the person I am today". [29] Her other awards include an International Emmy with for A Short Stay in Switzerland. Walters became a nurse before leaving to go to drama school. Her mother, who believed in "proper" jobs, was distraught when Julie opted for acting, and predicted that she would end up in the gutter by the time she was 20. But years later, after her mother's death, Walters found boxes of newspaper clippings that her mother had collected charting her career. Starkey, Adam (2 March 2023). "Julie Walters pulls out of Channel 4 show due to ill health". NME . Retrieved 11 March 2023. After studying at Manchester Poly, she was absorbed into a group of actors and writers in Liverpool, including Alan Bleasdale, Willy Russell and Victoria Wood. Then came Educating Rita - first the play, then the film that would bring her an Oscar nomination. Offers from Hollywood came, but Walters never wanted to move to LA. "I'm not right for it. It's about glamour, and that's just superficial." Is she worried about how it will be received? "Nobody wants to be criticised, so it's partly that and partly because I don't know where it has come from. I don't know what it is. With acting, it's like I want to reach everybody with it, but I didn't have any of those feelings with the book. It just felt like it was between me and [her editor] Alan Samson. When he first told me that someone else had read it, I was absolutely stunned. It was like someone had videoed us making love. It felt almost as intimate. [Writing] comes from the subconscious and that makes you feel exposed."

Moscow International Film Festival (2006)". moscowfilmfestival.ru. Archived from the original on 21 April 2013 . Retrieved 21 April 2013. She met her husband, Grant Roffey, in a bar in Fulham. She was drunk and shouted above the braying of the toffs, "I bet there's nobody in here that votes Labour, is there?" - or so the story goes. Roffey turned around and said, "I do, actually." She took him home and he never left. Roffey was an AA man eight years her junior; she was already successful and wealthy. Did he ever resent her? "No, he's always been completely supportive. And gradually he's built a proper business [an organic farm in Sussex] and made a success of it. We have been able to support each other's dreams." Walters played the part of Cynthia Coffin in the ten-part British drama serial Indian Summers aired on Channel 4 in 2015. In 2015, she appeared in the romantic drama film Brooklyn, a film that was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Picture. Her performance in the film earned her a nomination for the BAFTA Award for Best Actress in a Supporting Role. Allen, Ben (27 April 2018). "Colin Firth and Julie Walters to star in classic children's adaptation The Secret Garden". Radio Times . Retrieved 26 March 2019.In 2001, Walters won a Laurence Olivier Award for her performance in Arthur Miller's All My Sons. She received her second Oscar nomination and won a BAFTA for her supporting role as the ballet teacher in Billy Elliot (2000). [15] In 2002, she again won a BAFTA Television Award for Best Actress for her performance as Paul Reiser's mother in My Beautiful Son. [20]