Julie Walters, CBE (born February 22, 1950) is an English actress and novelist. She came to international prominence in 1983 for Educating Rita, performing in the title role opposite Michael Caine. It was a role she had created on the West End stage and it won her BAFTA and Golden Globe awards for Best Actress. She is, perhaps, best known internationally for her on-screen characterisation of Molly Weasley, the matriarch of the Weasley family, in the acclaimed Harry Potter motion picture octalogy, which includes the soon-to-be-released Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part II. In 2006, she she came fourth in ITV's poll of the public's 50 Greatest Stars in the UK.
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