Julie Walters Net Worth

Julie Walters's Quotes

• When I think of the future, I think of doing my washing so I've something to wear tomorrow.
• Self worth is everything. Without it life is a misery.
• It's bloody great to get to fifty-five. I've never been bothered about people knowing how old I am.
• I was asked about doing a nude shoot for men's magazine GQ. I thought it was the funniest thing I'd ever heard.
• I don't like the future sewn up. I like an open book - the feeling that anything can happen.

Interesting Facts about Julie Walters

1. Granddaughter of Patrick Walters. Niece of Martin John and Joseph John.
2. She ranked first in the 2001 Orange Film Survey of Greatest British Films actresses.
3. She was awarded the OBE (Officer of the Order of the British Empire) in the 1999 Queen's Birthday Honours List for her services to drama.
4. She was awarded the Laurence Olivier Theatre Award in 2001 (2001 season) for Best Actress for her performance in "All My Sons" at the Royal National Theatre, Cottesloe.
5. Julie's strong-minded mother, who wished a nursing career for her daughter, was openly upset by Julie's switch of professions to acting. When her mother died in 1989, Walters found among her possessions a box stuffed with newspaper clippings that had recorded Julie's many successes.
6. Julie's child Maisie was stricken with leukemia at the age of two. The girl miraculously recovered and inspired Walters to write the book "Baby Talk" (1990).
7. Julie's birth was complicated, the umbilical cord was wrapped round her neck and a priest was actually called to give both mother and baby the Last Rites. Miraculously, she was delivered safely and survived.
8. A former boyfriend of Julie's noticed her acting ability and encouraged her to pursue an acting career. He later proposed marriage to her but she turned him down, having finally discovered her vocation in life and realising that marriage at that point would have held her back.
9. She was awarded the CBE (Commander of the Order of the British Empire) in the 2008 Queen's New Years Honours List for her services to drama.
10. Confessed in a British magazine interview that the worst job she ever had was testing sick people's stools.
11. Former girlfriend of Pete Postlethwaite.
12. Despite playing her mother on Dinnerladies (1998), Walters was only three years older than Victoria Wood.
13. Mother, with husband Grant Roffey, of daughter Maisie Mae Roffey (b. April 26, 1988).
14. Sister of Tom Walters and Kevin Walters.
15. Sister-in-law of Jill Walters and Sarah V. Roffey.
16. Shaved her head for her role in Mo (2010). She never went out in public with a shaven head: the costume department made her a wig so that she could look like herself again.
17. In 2009, she received a star in the Birmingham Walk of Stars on Birmingham's Golden Mile, Broad Street.
18. Auditioned for a role in Dance with a Stranger (1985), but Miranda Richardson was cast instead.
19. Injured herself whilst filming the "Dancing Queen" musical sequence in Mamma Mia! (2008), by tripping over some rocks on a cobbled street. According to Meryl Streep, Walters "soldiered on" and completed the scene.
20. Peter Morgan wrote the female barrister role in The Jury (2002) with Walters in mind.