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Julie Walters, CBE (born 22 February 1950 in Smethwick (near Birmingham), Staffordshire) is an English actress and novelist. She came to international prominence in 1983 for Educating Rita, performing in the title role opposite Michael Caine. It was a role she had created on the West End stage and it won her BAFTA and Golden Globe awards for Best Actress. She is best known internationally for her on-screen characterisation of Molly Weasley in seven of the eight Harry Potter films. In 2006, she came fourth in ITV's poll of the public's 50 Greatest Stars in the UK. She is also well known for her collaborations with Victoria Wood, such as appearing in and co-writing with her the award-winning sitcoms Victoria Wood As Seen On TV and Dinnerladies.
Julia Mary Walters was born in Smethwick, West Midlands, very close to Birmingham, to parents Mary Bridget (née O'Brien), a postal clerk of Irish Catholic extraction, and Thomas Walters, a builder and decorator. The youngest of three children and only girl, Walters had an early education at a convent school and later at Holly Lodge Grammar School for Girls on Holly Lane in Smethwick, although she was asked to leave at the end of her lower sixth due to her "high jinks". In an interview with Alison Oddey, Walters said about her early schooling: "I was never going to be academic, so [my mother] suggested that I try teaching or nursing [...] I'd been asked to leave school, so I thought I'd better do it."
Actors: Rupert Grint (actor), Ricky Gervais (actor), Simon Cowell (actor), Alan Carr (actor), Henry Fonda (actor), James Corden (actor), Rob Brydon (actor), Jack Dee (actor), Declan Donnelly (actor), Kirk Douglas (actor), Ronnie Corbett (actor), Harry Enfield (actor), Harry Enfield (actor), Noel Fielding (actor), Lenny Henry (actor),
Genres: Comedy,Actors: Don Beddoe (actor), Bobby Barber (actor), Sidney D'Albrook (actor), John Dilson (actor), Lester Dorr (actor), Matty Fain (actor), Eddie Fetherston (actor), William Gould (actor), Eddie Gribbon (actor), Weldon Heyburn (actor), Robert Homans (actor), Selmer Jackson (actor), Robert Kent (actor), Lafe McKee (actor), Jack Mower (actor),
Plot: A tough district attorney has been cleaning up the town, and has already imprisoned twelve dangerous criminals. As he is about to name the target for his next investigation, he is murdered in the midst of a crowd. The police have many suspects and hardly any clues, so two reporters decide to investigate for themselves.
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