Editing Julie Walters (section)

==Early life==
Julia Mary Walters was born on 22 February 1950 at St Chad's Hospital in [[Edgbaston]], [[Birmingham]], England,<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.bhamb14.co.uk/index_files/StChadsHospital.htm|title=St Chads Hospital|website=Bhamb14.co.uk|access-date=15 January 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160303230228/http://www.bhamb14.co.uk/index_files/StChadsHospital.htm|archive-date=3 March 2016|url-status=dead}}</ref><ref>{{cite book|title=That's Another Story: The Autobiography|last=Walters|first=Julie|year=2008|publisher=Weidenfeld & Nicolson, London|isbn=978-0-297-85206-3|page=2}}</ref> the daughter of Mary Bridget (née O'Brien), an Irish Catholic postal clerk from [[County Mayo]], and Thomas Walters, an English builder and decorator. According to the BBC genealogy series ''[[Who Do You Think You Are? (British TV series)|Who Do You Think You Are?]]'', her maternal ancestors played an active part in the 19th-century [[Land War|Irish Land War]].<ref>{{cite web|author=9.00pm-10.00pm|url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/mediacentre/proginfo/2014/31/who-do-you-think-you-are-ep-one|title=Who Do You Think You Are? Julie Walters&nbsp;— Media Centre|publisher=BBC|date=1 January 1970|access-date=15 January 2016}}</ref> Her paternal grandfather Thomas Walters was a veteran of the [[Second Boer War]], and was killed in action in [[World War I]] in June 1915 while serving with the 2nd Battalion of the [[Royal Warwickshire Regiment]]; he is commemorated at the [[Le Touret Memorial]] in France.<ref name="wdytyam">{{cite web|url=https://www.whodoyouthinkyouaremagazine.com/episode/julie-walters/|title=Julie Waters|publisher=Who Do You Think You Are? Magazine|access-date=2 December 2021}}</ref> Walters and her family lived at 69 Bishopton Road in the [[Bearwood, West Midlands|Bearwood]] area of [[Smethwick]].<ref>{{cite news|url=http://women.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,27870-2328343,00.html|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20060929211626/http://women.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,27870-2328343,00.html|url-status=dead|archive-date=29 September 2006|work=The Times|location=London, UK|title=Julia Walter|date=3 September 2006|access-date=3 April 2010|first=Danny|last=Scott}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|url=http://film.guardian.co.uk/interview/interviewpages/0,,490748,00.html|work=The Guardian|location=London, UK|title=Julie Walters: An actress in her prime|date=14 May 2001|access-date=3 April 2010|first=James|last=Mottram}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.filmreference.com/film/67/Julie-Walters.html|title=Julie Walters Biography|website=Filmreference.com|access-date=18 June 2017}}</ref> The youngest of five children and the third to survive birth,<ref>{{cite book|title=That's Another Story: The Autobiography|last=Walters|first=Julie|year=2008|publisher=Orion Publishing Co.|isbn=978-0-297-85206-3|page=1}}</ref> Walters had an early education at [[St Paul's School for Girls (Birmingham)|St Paul's School for Girls]] in Edgbaston and later at [[Holly Lodge High School|Holly Lodge Grammar School for Girls]] in Smethwick. She said in 2014 that it was "heaven when [she] went to an ordinary grammar school", although she was asked to leave at the end of her [[lower sixth]] because of her "high jinks".<ref>Radio Times, 29 November-5 December 2014, p. 33</ref>

Walters later told interviewer Alison Oddey about her early schooling, "I was never going to be academic, so [my mother] suggested that I try teaching or nursing. [...] I'd been asked to leave school, so I thought I'd better do it."<ref>''Performing Women: Stand-ups, Strumpets and Itinerants'', by Alison Oddey, Palgrave Macmillan, 2005, p. 305<!--ISSN/ISBN needed--></ref> Her first job was in insurance at the age of 15.<ref>{{cite book|title=That's Another Story: The Autobiography|last=Walters|first=Julie|year=2008|publisher=Orion Publishing Co.|isbn=978-0-297-85206-3|page=100}}</ref> At the age of 18, she trained as a student nurse at the [[Queen Elizabeth Hospital Birmingham|Queen Elizabeth Hospital]] in Birmingham; she worked on the ophthalmic, casualty, and coronary care wards during the 18 months she spent there.<ref>{{cite book|title=That's Another Story: The Autobiography|last=Walters|first=Julie|year=2008|publisher=Orion Publishing Co.|isbn=978-0-297-85206-3|pages=102–23}}</ref> She decided to leave nursing and went on to study acting at the newly established Manchester Polytechnic School of Theatre (now [[Manchester School of Theatre]]). She worked for the [[Everyman Theatre, Liverpool|Everyman Theatre Company]] in [[Liverpool]] in the mid-1970s, alongside several other notable performers and writers such as [[Bill Nighy]], [[Pete Postlethwaite]], [[Jonathan Pryce]], [[Willy Russell]], and [[Alan Bleasdale]].<ref>{{cite news|title=Bill Nighy interview for The Boat That Rocked|url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/film/5038817/Bill-Nighy-interview-for-The-Boat-That-Rocked.html |archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/archive/20220110/https://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/film/5038817/Bill-Nighy-interview-for-The-Boat-That-Rocked.html |archive-date=10 January 2022 |url-access=subscription |url-status=live|author=Nigel Farndale|work=The Daily Telegraph|location=UK|date=25 March 2009}}{{cbignore}}</ref>