Julie Walters was born as Julia Mary Walters in Birmingham. She attended Holly Lodge Grammar School for Girls on Holly Lane in Smethwick, though was asked to leave at the end of her sixth year due to her ‘high jinks’.|Starred in ‘Educating Rita’ alongside Michael Caine, in Billy Elliot, Calendar Girls and Mamma Mia as well as in several ‘Harry Potter’ films. She has been awarded the OBE and CBE in the Queen’s honours.
Walters met her husband, Grant Roffey, an AA patrol man, in a whirlwind romance. The couple have a daughter, Maisie Mae Roffey (born 1988, City of Westminster, London), but did not marry until 1997, 11 years into their relationship, when they went to New York. The couple live on an organic farm in south England | |
