Product Description
Julie Walters has worked with some of the greatest and most diverse actors and directors of our time. From her Oscar-nominated film debut alongside Michael Caine in "Educating Rita", to her role as London madam Cynthia Payne in "Personal Services" and her appearance in the internationally acclaimed "Billy Elliot", she is one of Britain's finest actresses. She is also famed for her enduring collaboration with comedienne and close friend Victoria Wood in sketches such as "Acorn Antiques". This biography traces her life from a poor Catholic upbringing in Birmingham and her decision to leave a secure job as a nurse to pursue a career in the arts, through a romance with fellow actor Pete Postlethwaite, a period of heavy drinking and her marriage, to the tragic diagnosis of her daughter's leukaemia, when she put her career on hold to nurse her. She has now returned to both the small and big screens and has been introduced to a new generation of fans as Mrs Weasley in the Harry Potter films.
From the Back Cover
From her BAFTA-winning television work, such as My Beautiful Son, to her big screen debut alongside Michael Caine in Educating Rita, her starring in Billy Elliot (both of which earned her Oscar nominations) and her portrayal of Mrs Weasley in the Harry Potter films, Julie Walters has worked with some of the greatest and most diverse actors and directors in the world today. In December 2005, at the British Comedy Awards, Walters - alongside longtime friend and television comedy partner Victoria Wood - picked up the Outstanding Contribution to Comedy Award.
Raised in a strict Catholic family in working class Birmingham, Julie Walters abandoned a nursing course to study drama at Manchester Polytechnic and went on to join the Liverpool Everyman Theatre where she cut her teeth as an actress. Over the next decade, she experienced three marriage proposals, two long-term romances and a period of heavy drinking. At the end of 1984 she met sociology student Grant Roffey and had a daughter Maisie, who was traically diagnosed with luekaemia and had to undergo years of painful chemotherapy.
the authors have interviewed friends, teachers and colleagues to skilfully compile the first-ever biography of one of Britain's finest and best-loved actresses.
--This text refers to the Paperback edition.
Raised in a strict Catholic family in working class Birmingham, Julie Walters abandoned a nursing course to study drama at Manchester Polytechnic and went on to join the Liverpool Everyman Theatre where she cut her teeth as an actress. Over the next decade, she experienced three marriage proposals, two long-term romances and a period of heavy drinking. At the end of 1984 she met sociology student Grant Roffey and had a daughter Maisie, who was traically diagnosed with luekaemia and had to undergo years of painful chemotherapy.
the authors have interviewed friends, teachers and colleagues to skilfully compile the first-ever biography of one of Britain's finest and best-loved actresses.
--This text refers to the Paperback edition.
About the Author
Lucy Ellis and Bryony Sutherland are freelance journalists who have co-written biographies on prominent celebrities including Nicole Kidman, Kylie Minogue, Tom Jones and Annie Lennox.
