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Dame Julia Mary Walters DBE (born 22 February 1950), known professionally as Julie Walters, is an English actress, comedian, and author. She is the recipient of four British Academy Television Awards, two British Academy Film Awards, two International Emmy Awards, a BAFTA Fellowship, and a Golden Globe. Walters has been nominated twice for an Academy Award, once for Best Actress and once for Best Supporting Actress.

Walters rose to prominence for playing the title role in Educating Rita (1983), a role which she had originated on the West End. She has appeared in a number of movies, including Personal Services (1987), Stepping Out (1991), Sister My Sister (1994), Billy Elliot (2000), Calendar Girls (2003), Wah-Wah (2005), Driving Lessons (2006), Becoming Jane (2007), Mamma Mia! (2008) and its 2018 sequel, Brave (2012), Paddington (2014) and its 2017 sequel, Brooklyn (2015), Film Stars Don’t Die in Liverpool (2017), and Mary Poppins Returns (2018). Walters also played Molly Weasley in the Harry Potter film series (2001–2011). On stage, she won an Olivier Award for Best Actress for the 2001 production of All My Sons.

Walters was diagnosed with stage III bowel cancer in 2018. Having had surgery and chemotherapy, she entered remission. This meant that she had to be cut from certain scenes in The Secret Garden and also had to miss the premiere of Mamma Mia! Here We Go Again