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She shakes her head. Bar a handful of people, it was a secret she had kept from everyone.The smile lingers on her face, but her eyes are still and her voice is without any hint of artifice or inflection. Before making her London stage debut in Educating Rita, Walters had worked in regional theatre (including the Everyman Theatre, Liverpool), stand-up comedy and cabaret. I haven’t done a bloody workout. Her smartwatch is driving her crazy. ‘I’ve been so driven,’ she says. In 2009, it was announced that Walters would play the late MP Also in 2009, Walters reprised her role as Bo Beaumont, the actress behind Fandom may earn an affiliate commission on sales made from links on this page.Fandom may earn an affiliate commission on sales made from links on this page. I try not to eat sugar because it’s cancer’s best friend, but that’s hard. Dame Julie Walters, known better to fans of the Harry Potter series as Molly Weasley has revealed that she was diagnosed with bowel cancer in …

She trained as a nurse at the age of 18 at the Queen Elizabeth Hospital, Birmingham after working for a year. https://www.tvguide.com/celebrities/julie-walters/credits/159393

In 2003, Walters starred as a widow determined to make some good come out of her husband's death from cancer in Calendar Girls, which also starred Helen Mirren and Ciarán Hinds; in 2005, Walters again starred as inspirational real-life figure Marie Stubbs in the ITV1 drama Head of the Class. 30 October, 1949) was a pure-blood witch and the matriarch of the Weasley family, married to Arthur Weasley. ‘But I still talk to her all the time. They never really leave.’Right now Walters is coming to terms with leaving behind another of her loves – her career. She was unable to complete filming due to her operation and chemotherapy, and was replaced by a stand-in for some of the last scenes. Her latest performance, as a fearsome housekeeper in a wonderful new adaptation of the Frances Hodgson Burnett classic The Secret Garden, is yet another tour de force.She has won seven Baftas, two Emmys, a Laurence Olivier Award and a Golden Globe, yet she lives on a working farm in Sussex with Roffey, and has been known to turn up to award ceremonies with a bit of Sussex mud on her ballgown. Molly and Arthur had seven children: Bill, …

‘The bowel cancer.’ In an interview on the BBC’s Victoria Derbyshire Show just over a month ago, Walters made the shocking revelation that she has recently recovered after an operation to remove two tumours from her lower intestine. She peers at the words that have appeared in its dark digital face. The two first worked together in the 1978 theatre revue In At The Death, followed by the television adaptation of Wood's play Talent. It seems unreal now, it seemed unreal at the time, but it was very real. I was checked and told I was fine. She fell madly in love with her first proper boyfriend who then left to study Sociology in Manchester. husband Grant Roffey and daughter Maisie in 2002

She is extremely proud of The Secret Garden. Also in 2006, she played the main role in an ITV drama Driving Lessons alongside Julie alongside Meryl Streep and Christine Baranski Singing Dancing QueenWalters also played Mary Whitehouse in the BBC Drama Filth: The Mary Whitehouse Story, an adaptation of the real-life story of Mrs Whitehouse, who campaigned for "taste and decency on television". A sign to say goodbye. ‘We had such a laugh, he’d sit telling unrepeatable stories about all the people he’s worked with and then say, “But I can’t possibly name names.” And I would sit there begging him to tell me.’Yet of all the films she has made, The Secret Garden is the hardest one for her to watch.