Julia Mary Walters, better known as Julie Walters, was born on February 22, 1950, in Edgbaston, Birmingham, England, at St Chad’s Hospital. Her parents were Mary Bridget and Thomas Walters.
Mary, an Irish Catholic postal clerk from County Mayo, and Thomas, an English builder and decorator, came from quite different backgrounds. Julia’s maternal grandparents were major participants in the 19th-century Irish Land War, according to the BBC genealogy documentary “Who Do You Think You Are?”
Her grandpa Thomas Walters participated in the Second Boer War and tragically died in World War I while fighting with the 2nd Battalion of the Royal Warwickshire Regiment in June 1915.
In France, he is remembered at the Le Touret Memorial. The Walters family lived at 69 Bishopton Road in Smethwick’s Bearwood neighborhood.
Julie Walters was the eldest of five children and the third to live to adulthood. She began her schooling at St Paul’s School for Girls in Edgbaston before moving on to Holly Lodge Grammar School for Girls in Smethwick.
Her tenure at Holly Lodge, however, came to an end when she was asked to leave at the end of her lower sixth year due to her “high jinks,” as she stated in a 2014 interview with Alison Oddey.
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