Julie Walters

Preview of 2012 - Brave

Pixar’s highland fling has a lot of heart

6 Jan 2012

After dropping the ball with Cars 2 last summer – the only one of their 12 feature-length releases so far to have been deemed a bit lacklustre – the award-winning animation house will be looking to score big again with Brave. Set in the misty and…

New Pixar film Brave set in Scottish highlands

Stars Kelly MacDonald, Billy Connolly, Emma Thompson and Robbie Coltrane

17 Nov 2011

Pixar – the CG animation powerhouse behind hits such as Finding Nemo, Up and Wall-E – are turning their attention to Scottish shores for their next feature, Brave. Due to be released on Fri 22 Jun 2012, it stars Kelly Macdonald as the voice of Merida, a…

Julie Walters' QC caper

TV Gossip

27 Oct 2011

Julie Walters bumped into a QC she once enlisted the services of while she was researching her role in 'The Jury'. The 61-year-old actress - who portrays Emma Watts QC in the upcoming five-part ITV1 drama series - explained she was shocked to…

Paul O'Grady's comedy heroine

TV Gossip

28 Dec 2010

Paul O'Grady's comedy heroine is Julie Walters. The 55-year-old chat show host explained the veteran actress "can't put a foot wrong" in his eyes, as she has played such a wide variety of different characters. He said: "Julie Walters is my comedy…

Julie Walters wants Corrie role

TV Gossip

8 Jun 2010

Julie Walters is desperate to star in 'Coronation Street'. The actress - who won a BAFTA for her portrayal of late politician Mo Mowlam in Channel 4 drama 'Mo' - says she would love a guest role in the ITV1 soap and currently working on ideas for…

Julie Walters leads TV BAFTAs

TV Gossip

10 May 2010

Julie Walters has been nominated for two Leading Actress television BAFTAs. The screen legend has been shortlisted for her work on two-part drama programme 'Mo', where she played late MP Mo Molam, and TV film 'A Short Stay in Switzerland', for which…

Also Published - 5 Celebrity Memoirs

18 Sep 2008

Roger Moore - My Word is My Bond Seems like it’s 007 memoir season as Alan Partridge’s favourite Bond suavely knocks out his story, an all-true tale of a childhood in WW2 London and hanging out with the stars in Tinseltown. Michael O’Mara. Julie…

Becoming Jane

(PG) 120min

27 Feb 2007

BIOPIC/DRAMA/ROMANCE As the occasionally inspired Boston Globe film critic Mark Feeney pointed out: ‘Once the implicit aim of biography was to uplift now it is to unveil.’ And so it is that we reach the point where it seems OK to release a film about…