Julie Walters : Seriously Funny - The Unauthorised Biography

by Lucy Ellis

From her BAFTA-winning television work, such as My Beautiful Son, to her big screen debut alongside Michael Caine in Educating Rita, her starring in Billy Elliot (both of which earned her Oscar nominations) and her portrayal of Mrs Weasley in the Harry Potter films, Julie Walters has worked with some of the greatest and most diverse actors and directors in the world today. In December 2005, at the British Comedy Awards, Walters - alongside longtime friend and television comedy partner Victoria Wood - picked up the Outstanding Contribution to Comedy Award.Raised in a strict Catholic family in working class Birmingham, Julie Walters abandoned a nursing course to study drama at Manchester Polytechnic and went on to join the Liverpool Everyman Theatre where she cut her teeth as an actress. Over the next decade, she experienced three marriage proposals, two long-term romances and a period of heavy drinking. At the end of 1984 she met sociology student Grant Roffey and had a daughter Maisie, who was traically diagnosed with luekaemia and had to undergo years of painful chemotherapy.the authors have interviewed friends, teachers and colleagues to skilfully compile the first-ever biography of one of Britain's finest and best-loved actresses.

Genres: Biography

Paperback

First published September 25, 2003

Reviews

[Deborah · Rating 2 out of 5]

I tend to not like people who don't like Victoria Wood. These two clearly didn't. Though the way they speak about women in general is 'off'.

[Sheri · Rating 2 out of 5]

Julie Walters is great - I'm so glad I now know more about her, and want to see more of her work. But this biography was so disappointing. "Julie did this... Them she did that". All biographies need to be entertaining as well as informative, especially one about such a lively person and such a great comedian. What a shame!

[Issi · Rating 3 out of 5]

Quite an interesting read. You feel you know Julie a bit better afterwards -poor background; great friendship with Victoria Wood. Her daughter's fight with leukemia very humbling.