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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]

In 2014, Walters portrayed Mrs. Bird, the Browns' housekeeper, in the critically acclaimed Paddington (2014). [37] Walters reprised her role for the sequel, Paddington 2 (2017), which has also received universal acclaim. [38] [39] Upon the 2014 release of Paddington, Walters designed a "Primrose"-themed Paddington Bear statue, which was located in Primrose Hill (one of 50 placed around London), with the statues auctioned to raise funds for the National Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children (NSPCC). [40] Bradshaw, Peter (27 November 2014). " Paddington review – charming and cheeky". The Guardian . Retrieved 25 March 2015. Saner, Emine (13 October 2006). "It was like being videoed making love". The Guardian. London, UK . Retrieved 3 April 2010. In 1993, Walters starred in the television film Wide-Eyed and Legless (known as The Wedding Gift outside the UK) alongside Jim Broadbent and Thora Hird. The film was based on the book by the author Deric Longden and tells the story of the final years of his marriage to his wife, Diana, who contracted a degenerative illness that medical officials were unable to understand at the time, though now believed to be a form of chronic fatigue syndrome or myalgic encephalomyelitis.

In March 2023, Walters announced she had withdrawn from appearing in a new Channel 4 drama, Truelove, due to ill health. She was replaced in the show by Lindsay Duncan. [59] Filmography [ edit ] Film [ edit ] Year Over 50 Life Insurance TV advert". Lv.com. Archived from the original on 26 November 2012 . Retrieved 15 January 2016.

verifyErrors }}{{ message }}{{ /verifyErrors }}{{ 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.

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]The basic premise – that education means choice – still matters today, the world over. And not just for women, but for all of us."

Walters has been nominated for two Academy Awards in both acting categories—once for Best Actress and once for Best Supporting Actress. She was honoured with the BAFTA Fellowship for lifetime achievement in 2014. She was made a Dame (DBE) by Queen Elizabeth II in 2017 for services to drama. Mottram, James (14 May 2001). "Julie Walters: An actress in her prime". The Guardian. London, UK . Retrieved 3 April 2010. Performing Women: Stand-ups, Strumpets and Itinerants, by Alison Oddey, Palgrave Macmillan, 2005, p. 305 Hugh Grant at world premiere of 'Paddington 2' (VIDEO)". Malay Mail. 7 November 2017. Archived from the original on 2 December 2017 . Retrieved 2 December 2017. 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".

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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 appeared in The Last of the Haussmans at the Royal National Theatre in June 2012. The production was broadcast to cinemas around the world through the National Theatre Live programme. [35] On 18 November 2012, Walters appeared on stage at St Martin's Theatre in the West End for a 60th anniversary performance of Agatha Christie's The Mousetrap, the world's longest-running play. [36] Walters' Paddington Bear designed "Primrose" themed statue in Primrose Hill, London, auctioned to raise funds for the NSPCC 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). The novel is her current dream, but I can tell she is nervous about this new departure. Is she happy with it? "I don't know. I'm not sure what it is. I'm happy with it in a sense, I'm happy with individual chapters, but I don't know, it's really weird. But I loved writing it, and I'm glad I did it." She pauses. "That's it really. Now I'm going to lie down for a very long time". Previous Winners— International Academy of Television Arts & Sciences". International Emmy Award. Archived from the original on 5 December 2013 . Retrieved 19 June 2017. {{ cite web}}: CS1 maint: bot: original URL status unknown ( link)