Like young Eilis in Brooklyn, Walters admits to often feeling torn between her home and her work. She’s lived on a farm in West Sussex with her husband Grant Roffey for more than 20 years.

Julie Walters says sharing screen space with young actress Dixie Egerickx in The Secret Garden was not like working with another child.

Julie Walters is sporting her au naturel hair colour. It’s a dappled grey, and there’s a farcical saga about how she came by it.

EXCLUSIVE: Julie Walters has pulled out of Clarke Peters-starring Channel 4 drama Truelove due to ill health and is being replaced by Lindsay Duncan. Truelove creators Charlie Covell (The End of ...

And the two best-known young film actresses, Keira Knightley and Emma Watson, are both from well-off backgrounds. Julie grew up in Birmingham as the daughter of a builder and postal clerk.

When the young Julie Walters gave up nursing to become an actress, her horrified mother, Mary, confidently predicted she would be ‘in the gutter’ within a year.

EXCLUSIVE: Julie Walters has pulled out of Clarke Peters -starring Channel 4 drama Truelove due to ill health and is being replaced by Lindsay Duncan. Truelove creators Charlie Covell (The End of ...

Legendary actress Julie Walters is worried that acting is becoming a career only for the wealthy. The 64-year-old Mamma Mia! star revealed concerns that budding actors may not be able to afford to ...

Julie Walters will reprise her BAFTA-nominated supporting role as the landlady Ma Kehoe in a TV version of the feature film “Brooklyn.” ...

Julie Walters’ generation was inspired by working class heroes on film and stage. She hopes that the FilmClub charity may open more young minds to the wider world through the power of cinema.

She is one of Britain’s best-loved TV and film stars, an ordinary girl whose talent and tenacity transformed her into acting royalty. Julie Walters is still in constant demand, from a brief but ...