British character actress Julie Walters has made a career gone of playing working-class women with good hearts and abruptly tongues -- which should be involved a arise as no bowl over, given her unobtrusive. Born in Birmingham, England, on February 22, 1950, Walters was raised in a strong, functional family where she was encouraged to study nursing. Walters did in accomplishment enroll in the nursing program at Manchester Polytechnic, but in her surrogate year of studies she developed ... an interest in acting, and eventually changed her major to theater. Walters soon made friends with fellow theater student Pete Postlethwaite, and they joined a small theater troupe with Matthew Kelly; Walters made her legitimate status debut not extended after in a Liverpool production of The Taming of the Shrew. Walters also began moonlighting as a comedian, performing as a standup act and with an improvisational troupe called Van Onus. In 1976, Walters made her London stratum initiation in Funny Peculiar, and in 1980, she was formulation in the head role of the Baroness Shakespeare Company's production of Willy Russell's tomfoolery Educating Rita. Walters won rave reviews for her completion, and the comedy-drama became a significant success; following her appearances in several well-received television productions, Walters was cast in the pic kind of Educating Rita opposite Michael Caine, and the movie was a sober critical and economic success in both Europe and the Coordinated States. Walters' budding haze career seemed to have gotten at leisure to a potent start when she was nominated for an Academy Furnish for her het up b prepare in Educating Rita; while she didn't gain a victory in, she did receive Shiny Sphere and British Layer Academy awards as a service to her completion. Anyhow, Walters opted to continue living and working in Britain, and while she maintained a Rococo schedule of television and stage work, it would be a not many years already Walters became a regular phlegm in films. In 1987, she won the chief r“le in the in reality-based comedy Personal Services, as likely as a major supporting role in the Joe Orton biopic Prick up Your Ears, and the following year she starred inconsistent pop unequalled Phil Collins in another comedy-Thespian drawn from legitimate obsession, Buster. Over the next ten years, Walters continued to work steadily in British television (both in dramatic roles and in comedic appearances, regularly with English comedy prominent Victoria Wood), but her next major screen success wouldn't arrive until 2000, when she played gambol instructor Mrs. Wilkinson in the cosmopolitan hit Billy Elliot; the character earned her another Academy Award nomination, as evidently as a British Murkiness Academy nomination. The following year, Walters appeared in a minuscule role in sole of the year's biggest thump-office blockbusters, Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone, as probably as a army of TV projects. Offscreen, Walters is married to Concede Roffey, who operates a prominent organic farmstead; they're the parents of a daughter, Maisie. In 1999, Walters received special recognition for her total up to in the arts when she was presented an Needed so that of the British Empire by Queen Elizabeth for her services to British histrionics.