Julie Walters

Julie Walters

Actor (b. 1950)
21
Movies
74.1%
Avg ThumbScore
Comedy
Top Genre

Audiences rate Julie Walters’s films higher than 71% of the 3,467 people with 10 or more films on ThumbScore. See the full ranking

Free to watch now (26 Oct): Prick Up Your Ears (Tubi) · Becoming Jane (Kanopy, Hoopla) · One Chance (Roku Channel, Shout! TV, Prime Video (free), Tubi, Kanopy, Hoopla) · Wild Rose (Kanopy) · The Queen's Corgi (YouTube, Roku Channel, Fandango at Home, Plex, Xumo Play, Tubi, Hoopla, Fawesome) · The Secret Garden (The CW, Plex, Prime Video (free), Kanopy, Hoopla).

Frequent Collaborators

Ben Whishaw (4)Meryl Streep (3)Colin Firth (3)Hugh Bonneville (3)Madeleine Harris (3)
i How is this score calculated?

The ThumbScore for Julie Walters (74.1%) is the average audience approval rating across 21 films. Each movie's ThumbScore represents the percentage of real audiences who rated it positively. A higher score means more of Julie's films are well-received by everyday viewers.

Dame Julia Mary Walters DBE (born February 22, 1950), known professionally as Julie Walters, is an English actress, author, and comedian. She is the recipient of four British Academy Television Awards, two British Academy Film Awards, two International Emmy Awards, a BAFTA Fellowship, and a Golden Globe. Walters has been nominated twice for an Academy Award: once for Best Actress and once for Best Supporting Actress. Walters rose to prominence playing the title role in Educating Rita (1983), a role which she originated in West End theatre.

She has appeared in a number of films, including Personal Services (1987), Stepping Out (1991), Sister My Sister (1994), Billy Elliot (2000), the Harry Potter series (2001–2011) as Molly Weasley, Calendar Girls (2003), Wah-Wah (2005), Driving Lessons (2006), Becoming Jane (2007), Mamma Mia! (2008) and Mamma Mia! Here We Go Again (2018), Brave (2012), Paddington (2014) and its 2017 sequel, Brooklyn (2015), Film Stars Don't Die in Liverpool (2017), and Mary Poppins Returns (2018). On stage, she won a Laurence Olivier Award for Best Actress for the 2001 production of All My Sons. On television, Walters collaborated with Victoria Wood; they appeared together on several television shows, including Wood and Walters (1981), Victoria Wood: As Seen on TV (1985–1987), Pat and Margaret (1994), and Dinnerladies (1998–2000). She has won the British Academy Television Award for Best Actress four times, more than any other actress, for My Beautiful Son (2001), Murder (2002), The Canterbury Tales (2003), and her portrayal of Mo Mowlam in Mo (2010). Walters and Helen Mirren are the only actresses to have won this award three consecutive times, and Walters is tied with Judi Dench for the most nominations in the category with seven.

Born 1950-02-22 in Smethwick, England, UK.

On ThumbScore, Julie Walters appears in 21 films with an average audience score of 74.1%, most frequently in the Comedy genre.

Sources: TMDB

Every Julie Walters movie, ranked by audience score

Billy Elliot
Billy Elliot
2000
👍 90%
Brooklyn
Brooklyn
2015
👍 85%
Paddington
Paddington
2014
👍 84%
Mamma Mia! Here We Go Again
Mamma Mia! Here We Go Again
2018
👍 83%
Paddington 2
Paddington 2
2017
👍 83%
Educating Rita
Educating Rita
1983
👍 83%
Prick Up Your Ears
Prick Up Your Ears
1987
👍 82%
Mamma Mia!
Mamma Mia!
2008
👍 82%
Brave
Brave
2012
👍 81%
Becoming Jane
Becoming Jane
2007
👍 81%
Paddington in Peru
Paddington in Peru
2024
👍 76%
One Chance
One Chance
2013
👍 72%
Calendar Girls
Calendar Girls
2003
👍 70%
Wild Rose
Wild Rose
2019
👍 69%
Gnomeo & Juliet
Gnomeo & Juliet
2011
👍 68%
Driving Lessons
Driving Lessons
2006
👍 66%
Justin and the Knights of Valour
Justin and the Knights of Valour
2013
👍 65%
Mary Poppins Returns
Mary Poppins Returns
2018
👍 63%
The Queen's Corgi
The Queen's Corgi
2019
👍 61%
Effie Gray
Effie Gray
2014
👍 58%
The Secret Garden
The Secret Garden
2020
👍 55%