She plays the harsh, dictatorial housekeeper, Mrs Medlock, alongside the psychotically depressed widower Lord Archibald Craven, played by Colin Firth. Do what you have to do [in her case it involved an operation to remove the two tumours and 30cm of her colon, followed by a course of chemo, which left her hair intact and, in her words, ‘fine’] and push on. Julie Walters Celebrity Profile - Check out the latest Julie Walters photo gallery, biography, pics, pictures, interviews, news, forums and blogs at Rotten Tomatoes! Community content is available under Take your favorite fandoms with you and never miss a beat. But he did tell me that he was going to sort it. I carried on getting up, pushing myself, working all the time, and then this cancer came and it stopped me, which is why I now think of it as a gift. The trailblazing female authors whose identities were kept secret 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".

Molly and Arthur had seven children: Bill, … Julie Walters. ‘I didn’t want to upset people around me. Her Irish mother told her when she jacked in her job as a trainee nurse to go to drama school that she would ‘end up in the gutter’.

And I’ve been at home ever since.’That was more than a year ago. She plays Molly Weasley in the Harry Potter films. I was told not to go vegetarian [because she would miss out on certain types of omegas that she needs], but I avoid red meat and I have lots of greens.

‘You just get through it. ‘But I still talk to her all the time. Then I went home and told my agent I didn’t think I could do anything any more. I’m not rushing about all the time, getting up at 5am and coming home at midnight.‘I’ve let a lot of noise go and now a year and a half has passed. I have no idea what it was for, but I felt it was a message from her. From Rita to Mrs Overall to Mrs Weasley, Julie Walters is a national treasure. ‘I couldn’t bear the thought of everyone worrying – particularly my daughter. ‘Does that seem crazy or does that make sense?’We need to rewind. The latest offers and discount codes from popular brands on Telegraph Voucher Codes Walters has won numerous other acting awards, and was appointed Officer of the Order of the British Empire (OBE) in 1999 and Commander of the Order of the British Empire (CBE) in the 2008 New Year Honours for her services to drama. ‘Oh, it’s just reminded me that I’m with The Telegraph Magazine. Instead she has become a national treasure with an OBE, a CBE – and three years ago she was made a Dame.‘Well I’m 70 now and I’ve been hanging around for ever, so you all have to put up with me,’ she says with a grin. I was told that I had had it for four years before I was diagnosed. Walters was born as Julia Mary Walters in Smethwick, West Midlands, the daughter of Mary Bridget (née O'Brien), a postal clerk of Irish Catholic extraction, and Thomas Walters, a builder and decorator. The guy asked me if I wanted to be an actress and I looked back at him and just said, “I am an actress.” I knew I could do it. ‘Well, it’s gone… I’m here. And now I’m good.‘I’ve made changes. She also appeared as Petula Gordino in Wood's sitcom dinnerladies. She was born Julia Mary Walters in Smethwick, Birmingham, on the 22nd of February, 1950. Worldwide fame and critical respect - really, she has it all. She’s never had a facelift or Botox because she doesn’t want to. I escaped my abuser - but other women trapped during lockdown might not be so lucky  She trained as a nurse at the age of 18 at the Queen Elizabeth Hospital, Birmingham after working for a year. Who does it think I am?’ ‘Lorraine Kelly?’ I respond, and she hoots with laughter.She has been in the room for a matter of minutes and already it feels like we have been enveloped into some sort of embryonic Wood and Walters comedy sketch.

It’s changed me because it’s changed the way I live my life. 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 … They have continued to perform together frequently over the years. She likes to have a laugh. Apart from that I just think I was lucky that I had bowel cancer because it is one that there can be very good results with. In 2003, Walters starred as a widow determined to make some good come out of her husband's death from cancer in Calendar Girls, which also starred Helen Mirren and Ciarán Hinds; in 2005, Walters again starred as inspirational real-life figure Marie Stubbs in the ITV1 drama Head of the Class. Her smartwatch is driving her crazy. I messed up my audition to do drama [at Manchester Polytechnic] because I had no clue about the plays or the playwrights I’d taken my speeches from, but I knew I’d done a good job with my performance. ‘I did return to the set a month after my operation. ‘People deal with it in different ways,’ she says. A kiss. She also took part in one of the most successful franchises in screen history, playing Mrs Weasley in the Harry Potter movies. Join the conversation, log in or register to comment I didn’t know the driver so I couldn’t react.

But really I didn’t want to have to talk about it until I’d processed it myself. She was unable to complete filming due to her operation and chemotherapy, and was replaced by a stand-in for some of the last scenes. If people fussed I’d shout I was fine, if they treated me like I was fine I’d complain I still wasn’t totally better. In 1991 she starred opposite Liza Minnelli in "Stepping Out" and had a one-off television special, Julie Walters and Friends, which featured writing contributions from Victoria Wood and Alan Bennett. I knew I could act. She talks about visiting Victoria Wood in hospital just before she passed away from cancer in 2016.

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