Ellen Terry

The singer, Helen Terry, is one of her descendants. Walters also played Molly Weasley in Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone (2001), Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets (2002) and Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban (2004). Her nephew, Sir John Gielgud, also became an actor. She often plays older women, and in 2002 she won the BAFTA Television Best Actress award for her performance as Paul Reiser's mother in My Beautiful Son. She became a Dame Commander of the British Empire (DBE) in 1925. She received her second BAFTA for her supporting role as the ballet teacher in Billy Elliot (2000). In 1907 she married American actor James Carew. In 2001, she won a Laurence Olivier award for her performance in Arthur Miller's All My Sons.

She struck up a friendship and a famous correspondence with George Bernard Shaw. Julie Walters has won numerous acting awards, and was made an OBE in 1999 for her services to the theatre. In 1903 she formed a theatre management business with her son, abandoning Irving. Her first serious acting role on TV was in the classic Boys from the Blackstuff in 1980, and she broke into films with her sensational Academy Award nominated and BAFTA Best Actress award winning performance opposite Michael Caine in Educating Rita (1983), a role she had created on the West End stage. In 1876 she married Charles Kelly. One of Julie Walters' best-known roles is as "Mrs Overall" in Wood's spoof soap opera, Acorn Antiques. From 1874 she became the leading Shakespearean actress in London, and in partnership with Henry Irving became successful in England and the USA. Their series, Wood and Walters, appeared on television in 1982, and they have continued to perform together frequently over the years.

However, the birth of her son, Gordon Craig, in 1872, was the result of a liaison with Edward Godwin, who later deserted her, having enforced her temporary retirement from acting. Born in Smethwick, England, Walters first became known as the occasional partner of comedienne Victoria Wood. On 20 February 1864, shortly before her 17th birthday, she married the painter George Frederic Watts. She ranked first in a poll to find Britain's most popular actress. She first appeared on stage as a child. Julie Walters (born February 22, 1950) is a British actress, mainly associated with comedy and character roles. Born in Coventry, she came of a theatrical family, her brother Fred Terry and several of her other siblings being actors.

Ellen Alice Terry (February 27, 1847 - July 21, 1928) was an English stage actress.