Jessica Walter

Supporting actress Jessica Walter was born January 31, 1940. She is best known for her roles in Play Misty for Me, in which she played a psychotic stalker, Lilith, Grand Prix, The Group, Bye Bye Braverman, and Number One. These films were all made in the sixties and since then Jessica has done extensive television work. As of 2004, she now stars as the socialite mother Lucille Bluth in FOX's comedic series Arrested Development. She is married to actor Ron Leibman.


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She is married to actor Ron Leibman. 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). As of 2004, she now stars as the socialite mother Lucille Bluth in FOX's comedic series Arrested Development. 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. These films were all made in the sixties and since then Jessica has done extensive television work. She received her second BAFTA for her supporting role as the ballet teacher in Billy Elliot (2000). She is best known for her roles in Play Misty for Me, in which she played a psychotic stalker, Lilith, Grand Prix, The Group, Bye Bye Braverman, and Number One. In 2001, she won a Laurence Olivier award for her performance in Arthur Miller's All My Sons.

Supporting actress Jessica Walter was born January 31, 1940. Julie Walters has won numerous acting awards, and was made an OBE in 1999 for her services to the theatre. 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. One of Julie Walters' best-known roles is as "Mrs Overall" in Wood's spoof soap opera, Acorn Antiques. Their series, Wood and Walters, appeared on television in 1982, and they have continued to perform together frequently over the years.

Born in Smethwick, England, Walters first became known as the occasional partner of comedienne Victoria Wood. She ranked first in a poll to find Britain's most popular actress. Julie Walters (born February 22, 1950) is a British actress, mainly associated with comedy and character roles.