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![]() Avg.User Rating: Rate this person: Actor Born: February 22, 1950 in Birmingham, England Biography:British character actress "Julie Walters" has made a career out of playing working-class women with good hearts and sharp tongues -- which should come as no surprise, given her background. Born in Birmingham, England, on February 22, 1950, "Walters" was raised in a strong, practical family where she was encouraged to study nursing. "Walters" did in fact enroll in the nursing program at Manchester Polytechnic, but in her second year of studies she developed an interest in acting, and eventually changed her major to theater. "Walters" soon made friends with fellow theater student "Pete Postlethwaite", and they joined a small theater troupe with Matthew Kelly; "Walters" made her legitimate stage debut not long after in a Liverpool production of The Taming of the Shrew. "Walters" also began moonlighting as a comedian, performing as a standup act and with an improvisational troupe called Van Load. In 1976,... Full Biography
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