Julie Walters Filmography

Mamma Mia!

Actors: Meryl Streep, Pierce Brosnan, Amanda Seyfried, Christine Baranski, Julie Walters

Synopsis: Longing to discover the identity of her true father before she exchanges her wedding vows, the daughter of a once-rebellious single mother secretly invites a trio of paternal candidates to her upcoming wedding in this feature adaptation of the beloved stage musical. Independent-minded single Read More

Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix

Actors: Daniel Radcliffe, Rupert Grint, Emma Watson, Michael Gambon, Ralph Fiennes

Synopsis: Young wizard-in-training Harry Potter (Daniel Radcliffe) returns to Hogwarts for his fifth year of studies, only to find that the magical community seems to be in a curious state of denial about his recent encounter with the sinister Lord Voldemort (Ralph Fiennes) in the fifth installment of the Read More

Becoming Jane

Actors: Anne Hathaway, James McAvoy, Julie Walters, James Cromwell, Maggie Smith

Synopsis: Events from the life of the author Jane Austen inspired this romantic historical drama, which speculates of a romance that may have had a significant impact on her life and work. Twenty-year-old Jane Austen (Anne Hathaway) is the daughter of Rev. Austen (James Cromwell), a minister who looks after Read More

Driving Lessons

Actors: Julie Walters, Rupert Grint, Nicholas Farrell, Laura Linney, Jim Norton, Michelle Duncan

Synopsis: Two strong-willed women wield their influence on a shy teenaged boy in this coming-of-age comedy from the United Kingdom. Seventeen-year-old Ben (Rupert Grint) is the son of a soft-spoken vicar (Nicholas Farrell), but it's his mother, Laura (Laura Linney), who rules the household, and she has put Read More

Wah-Wah

Actors: Nicholas Hoult, Emily Watson, Gabriel Byrne, Miranda Richardson, Julie Walters

Synopsis: Actor and author Richard E. Grant made his directorial debut with this period comedy drama inspired by his own experiences growing up in colonial Africa in the sixties. Ralph Compton (Zachary Fox) is the 11-year old son of Harry (Gabriel Byrne), the minister of education in the British-controlled Read More

The Ruby in the Smoke

Actors: Billie Piper

Synopsis: As directed by Brian Percival and adapted by scenarist Adrian Hodges from the bestselling period novel by Philip Pullman, the BBC production The Ruby in the Smoke recounts the 19th Century adventures of Sally Lockhart (Billie Piper), an aggressive and determined young Brit. Wielding a loaded Read More

Jonjo & Mickybo

Actors: Adrian Dunbar, Ciarán Hinds, Gina McKee, Susan Lynch, Julie Walters

Synopsis: Terry Loane's period comedy-drama Jonjo and Mickybo (also released under the title Mickybo and Me) unravels in Belfast, Ireland circa 1970, at the outset of the violence that began to erupt at that time and plagued the country for decades. It observes the allegorical friendship that develops Read More

Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban

Actors: Daniel Radcliffe, Rupert Grint, Emma Watson, Gary Oldman, David Thewlis, Michael Gambon, Alan Rickman, Robbie Coltrane

Synopsis: After directing the first two movies in the Harry Potter franchise, Chris Columbus opted to serve as producer for Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban, and passed the baton to Y Tu Mamá También director Alfonso Cuarón. Though "immensely popular" is an understatement when it comes to Harry Potter Read More

Calendar Girls

Actors: Helen Mirren, Julie Walters, John Alderton, Linda Bassett, Annette Crosbie

Synopsis: Nigel Cole directs the feel-good comedy Calendar Girls, based on the true story of a group of working-class British housewives who became overnight celebrities by posing for a nude calendar in order to raise more than 500-thousand pounds for a new leukemia unit. The film follows the adventures of Read More

The Return

Actors: Julie Walters

Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets

Actors: Daniel Radcliffe, Rupert Grint, Emma Watson, Kenneth Branagh, Robbie Coltrane, Richard Harris

Synopsis: Youthful wizard Harry Potter returns to the screen in this, the second film adaptation of J.K. Rowling's wildly popular series of novels for young people. Harry Potter (Daniel Radcliffe) and his friends Ron Weasley (Rupert Grint) and Hermione Granger (Emma Watson) return for a second year at Read More

Before You Go

Actors: Julie Walters, Tom Wilkinson, John Hannah, Joanne Whalley

Synopsis: Also known as The Memory of Water, director Lewis Gilbert's low-key drama (based on a play by Shelagh Stephenson) centers on three sisters who return home following their mother's death, and the memories that bind them. Desperate to discover who remembers which events with the most clarity Read More

Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone

Actors: Daniel Radcliffe, Emma Watson, Rupert Grint, Maggie Smith, Robbie Coltrane, Alan Rickman, Richard Harris

Synopsis: The best-selling novel by J.K. Rowling (titled Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone in England, as was this film adaptation) becomes this hotly anticipated fantasy adventure from Chris Columbus, the winner of a high-stakes search for a director to bring the first in a hoped-for franchise of Read More

Strange Relations

Actors: Paul Reiser, Julie Walters, Olympia Dukakis

Synopsis: Originally filmed in 2001 under the title "My Beautiful Son," the made-for-cable Strange Relations stars comedian Paul Reiser in the largely noncomic role of 39-year-old Manhattan psychiatrist Dr. Jerry Lipman. Diagnosed with leukemia, Lipman desperately seeks out a close relative -- any close Read More

Billy Elliot

Actors: Julie Walters, Jamie Bell, Gary Lewis, Jean Heywood

Synopsis: Brassed Off meets My Name Is Joe in this gritty coming-of-age drama about a young son of a poor English coal miner who dreams of being a ballet dancer. The film is set during a 1984 miners' strike in Durham county, where angry clashes between picketers and cops in riot gear are nearly daily Read More

Titanic Town

Actors: Julie Walters, Ciarán Hinds, Nuala O'Neill, James Loughran, Barry Loughran

Synopsis: Roger Michell directed this British drama based on Mary Costello's autobiographical novel about a Belfast housewife and peace activist. During early '70s conflicts in Northern Ireland, Bernie McPhelimy (Julie Walters) and her family move into a Catholic neighborhood in a West Belfast town famed as Read More

Lover's Prayer

Actors: Kirsten Dunst, Nick Stahl, Julie Walters

Synopsis: A boy learns a painful lesson about the ways of the heart in this period drama set in the 19th century. Vladimir (Nick Stahl) is a naive young man whose family is neither poor nor especially well off. While spending the summer in the country before going away to college, Vladimir is hired as a Read More

Oliver Twist

Actors: Alex Crowley, Andy Serkis, Sam Smith, David Ross, Julie Walters, Roger Lloyd Pack, Michael Kitchen, Robert Lindsay

Synopsis: This 2000 television adaptation of Charles Dickens' Victorian classic was originally released as a six-hour, three-part miniseries on PBS. Adapted by Alan Bleasdale, this version of Oliver Twist gives viewers a new look at an old story, waiting 90 minutes to even introduce its eponymous hero Read More

Girls' Night

Actors: Brenda Blethyn, Julie Walters, Kris Kristofferson, James Gaddas, George Costigan

Synopsis: In the British North Country, in-laws Jackie (Julie Walters) and Dawn (Brenda Blethyn) work together on an assembly line at an electronics firm. Dawn is married to Jackie's brother Steve (George Costigan). Jackie's marriage is collapsing, and she has a secret affair with a bingo club run by Paul (James Gaddas Read More

Melissa

Actors: Tim Dutton, Jennifer Ehle, Julie Walters, Adrian Dunbar

Synopsis: Originally adapted for German television in 1966, Francis Durbridge's mystery novel Melissa was remade as a British miniseries in 1974. That version was sufficiently famous to warrant an expensive four-part reworking nearly a quarter of a century later. Expanding considerably upon the original Read More

Intimate Relations

Actors: Julie Walters, Rupert Graves, Matthew Walker, Laura Sadler, Holly Aird

Synopsis: In 1954, all of England was rocked by a shocking crime that took place in a quiet coastal town and involved a socially upstanding landlady, her smart, newly blossomed teenage daughter, and a handsome but troubled Australian in search of family he had never known. In retelling this true story Read More

The Wedding Gift

Actors: Julie Walters, Jim Broadbent, Andrew Lancel, Anastasia Mulrooney, Thora Hird, Sian Thomas

Synopsis: This British drama was originally created for British television but was later released in the U.S. It is based on a true story and chronicles the struggles of Deric and Diana Longden, a happily married couple who try to cope with Diana's inexplicable degenerative disease which causes occasional Read More

Bambino Mio

Synopsis: Two years after losing both her husband and an unborn baby in a single week, Alice (Julie Walters) hopes to satisfy her maternal urges by adopting a baby. Unfortunately, the adoption agencies in Britain and the Continent are unable to match up Alice with her much-coveted newborn child. Dragging Read More

Sister My Sister

Actors: Julie Walters, Joely Richardson, Jodhi May, Sophie Thursfield

Synopsis: In this stark drama based on actual events in a small French town in the early '30s, a pair of repressed sisters slowly lose their grip on reality, leading to horrific consequences at the home where they're employed as maids. Christine (Joely Richardson), a domestic servant in the home of haughty Read More

The Summer House

Actors: Jeanne Moreau, Joan Plowright, Julie Walters, Lena Headey, David Threlfall

Synopsis: Martin Sherman adapted Alice Thomas Ellis' novel for this comedy about a suburban Englishwoman who's about to settle on marriage with her mother-dominated next door neighbor until everyone's comfortable life is disrupted by a visit from her exotic and flamboyant friend Lili (Jeanne Moreau, in a Read More

Just Like a Woman

Actors: Julie Walters, Adrian Pasdar, Paul Freeman, Ian Redford

Synopsis: Just Like a Woman is a contemporary cross-dressing farce played as if it were a romantic comedy. But still, in the deep recesses of the celluloid, the narrator from Ed Wood's Glen Or Glenda can be heard intoning, "Remember, transvestites are not homosexuals." The story begins when businessman Read More

Stepping Out

Actors: Liza Minnelli, Shelley Winters, Ellen Greene, Julie Walters

Synopsis: Stepping Out might be considered a textbook exercise in screenwriting cliche: take Mavis Turner (Liza Minnelli), a woman who "coulda been a contenda" had she pursued her dreams of appearing on Broadway; give her an evening job at a converted church teaching tap; mix in a motley crew of left-footed Read More

G.B.H.

Mack the Knife

Actors: Raul Julia, Richard Harris, Julia Migenes, Roger Daltrey, Julie Walters

Synopsis: This film adaptation of Kurt Weill and Bertolt Brecht's musical play The Threepenny Opera portrays the engagement of a gangster (Raul Julia) to an innocent girl (Rachel Robertson) in Victorian-era London. The girl's family attempts to thwart the marriage by catching the thief in the act. ~ John Read More

Killing Dad

Actors: Denholm Elliott, Julie Walters, Richard E. Grant, Anna Massey, Laura del Sol

Synopsis: When a father attempts to return to his abandoned family after 23 years his grown son tries to murder his drunk, unemployed father. ~ All Movie Guide Read More

Victoria Wood [TV Series]

Actors: Victoria Wood, Celia Imrie, Julie Walters, Duncan Preston, Lill Roughley

Synopsis: Having previously headlined a series of short TV skits and monologues, British comedienne-composer Victoria Wood graduated to the anthology format in this six-episode offering. Individual episode titles included "Mens Sana in Thingummy Doodah," "The Library," "Over to Pam," "We'd Quite Like to Read More

Buster

Actors: Phil Collins, Julie Walters, Larry Lamb, Stephanie Lawrence, Ellen Beaven

Synopsis: On August 8, 1963, the Royal Mail train, on its nighttime run from London to Glasgow, was robbed by 15 men who got away with 2.6 million pounds (today the equivalent of $35 million). Buster tells the story of one of the junior robbers, Buster Edwards (played by pop singer Phil Collins), in a crime Read More

Personal Services

Actors: Julie Walters, Alec McCowen, Shirley Stelfox, Danny Schiller, Victoria Hardcastle, Tim Woodward

Synopsis: This comedy was inspired by the true story of Cynthia Payne, a former waitress who gained fame as England's best-known (and best-liked) madame. Christine Painter (Julie Walters) is a working-class single mother who sub-leases a few inexpensive flats as a way of bringing in extra money. Christine Read More

Prick Up Your Ears

Actors: Gary Oldman, Alfred Molina, Vanessa Redgrave, Wallace Shawn, Julie Walters

Synopsis: This unadorned biography of playwright Joe Orton (Gary Oldman) charts his bawdy, dangerous relationships. Alfred Molina plays Orton's brutish lover, Kenneth Halliwell, a pathetic figure who becomes horrific and then tragic before the film is over. The hilarity of scenes from such Orton plays as Read More

Car Trouble

Actors: Julie Walters, Ian Charleson, Stratford Johns, Vincenzo Ricotta

Synopsis: In this comedy, Julie Walters and Ian Charleson play a married couple, Jacqueline and Gerald, who somehow endure a fractious relationship that would have sent others running to divorce court in a second. One point of contention is Gerald's new Jaguar, a car he would take over Jacqueline any day. Read More

Happy Since I Met You

Synopsis: Written for television by Victoria Wood, Happy Since I Met You is an excellent showcase for the talents of Educating Rita star Julie Walters. Cast as a ditsy dramatics teacher, Julie tries to help aspiring actor Duncan Preston. Though both resist the inevitable as long as possible, love inevitably Read More

Dreamchild

Actors: Coral Browne, Ian Holm, Peter Gallagher, Nicola Cowper, Caris Corfman, Amelia Shankley

Synopsis: Irreverent British writer Dennis Potter speaks aloud what many literary historians have only postulated in whispers in Dreamchild. The film is set in 1932, on the 100th anniversary of the birth of Alice in Wonderland creator Lewis Carroll. The guest of honor at the New York-based celebration is Read More

Victoria Wood: As Seen on TV [TV Series]

Actors: Duncan Preston, Celia Imrie, Susie Blake

Synopsis: This weekly British sketch-comedy series represented the first major TV vehicle for that irrepressible comedienne, monologist, playwright, and singer-pianist Victoria Wood. Regular features included Shakespearean versions of popular British television programs, and the ongoing soap opera lampoon Read More

Unfair Exchanges

Actors: Julie Walters, David Rappaport, Rosalind March

Synopsis: Vacillating between the suspense of a thriller and the absurdity of a farce, this uneven story about a demonized telephone company intent on controlling everyone's lives ends up in cinematic limbo -- neither farce nor thriller. When Mavis (Julie Walters) leaves her gay husband to go live in an Read More

She'll Be Wearing Pink Pajamas

Actors: Julie Walters, Anthony Higgins, Jane Evers, Janet Henfrey, Paula Jacobs

Synopsis: Eight British women sign up for a week-long survival course. They hope to counter their boredom with life by sweating through a regimen of cliff-climbing and rope-pulling in Britain's Lake district. In between, the ladies discuss their sex lives, with the best lines going to Julie Walters as she Read More

Educating Rita

Actors: Michael Caine, Julie Walters, Michael Williams, Maureen Lipman, Jeananne Crowley

Synopsis: A trio of Oscar nominations and a pair of Golden Globes went to this acclaimed romantic comedy-drama based on the play by Willy Russell. Julie Walters stars as Rita, a witty, 26-year-old working class British hairdresser who decides to seek an education at Open University. Rita needs a tutor, and Read More

Wood and Walters [TV Series]

Actors: Victoria Wood, Julie Walters

Synopsis: Having worked her way up the guest-star ranks to headline her own occasional TV specials, British comedienne/writer/singer Victoria Wood scored one of her biggest successes in the 1979 one-off drama Talent, in which she was teamed with actress Julie Walters. Two years later, Wood and Walters were Read More