Shirley Temple

She received Kennedy Center Honors in 1998. 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). She went on to hold several diplomatic posts, representing the United States in the United Nations in 1969-70 and serving as American ambassador to Ghana (1974) and Czechoslovakia (1989). 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 subsequently became involved in Republican Party politics under her married name, entering a Congressional race in 1967. She received her second BAFTA for her supporting role as the ballet teacher in Billy Elliot (2000). Temple married the California businessman Charles Black in 1950; she may have looked favorably on his admission while dating that he had never seen any of her films. In 2001, she won a Laurence Olivier award for her performance in Arthur Miller's All My Sons.

Later appearances on television did not prove as popular as her films. Julie Walters has won numerous acting awards, and was made an OBE in 1999 for her services to the theatre. Temple retired from film acting in her early twenties. 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. The role of Dorothy in The Wizard of Oz, played by Judy Garland, was originally intended for her. One of Julie Walters' best-known roles is as "Mrs Overall" in Wood's spoof soap opera, Acorn Antiques. By the late 1930s she was the biggest box-office attraction in motion pictures, and the success of her films may have saved more than one major studio from bankruptcy during the Great Depression. Their series, Wood and Walters, appeared on television in 1982, and they have continued to perform together frequently over the years.

She subsequently starred in many films including Heidi, Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm and Susannah of the Mounties. Born in Smethwick, England, Walters first became known as the occasional partner of comedienne Victoria Wood. It was in that film that she sang "On the Good Ship Lollipop"; though she often sang in her films, that was probably her most famous song. She ranked first in a poll to find Britain's most popular actress. One of her first film roles was in Bright Eyes, for which she won a special Academy Award. Julie Walters (born February 22, 1950) is a British actress, mainly associated with comedy and character roles. Shirley Jane Temple (born April 23, 1928 in Santa Monica, California), later known as Shirley Temple Black, is an American film actress and diplomat who is considered by many to be the most famous child actress in history.