Julie Walters and Victoria Wood
Posted: February 2nd, 2008, 4:24 pm
I know many in America admire and respect the work of Julie Walters, but i can't write about her and not Victoria Wood, who is unknown. their joined at the hip just the same as Laurel And Hardy
One of the first things the pair first came to UK tv screens with The Wood And Walters Show. around the same time Julie did the acclaimed series Boys From The Blackstuff, playing the Liverpool wife of a man unemployed in Thatcher's Britain.
In 1983 Julie became an International star with Educating Rita with Michael Caine, as a hairdresser on an open university course with Caine as her tutor.
it was to her credit that after the aclaim she recieved for the film that Julie teamed up with her old pal Vic, who'd just written a sketch show Victoria Wood As Seen On Tv. The series was massively acclaimed and made Vic the top female stand-up comic in Britain which she still is today. one of the regular sketches was Acorn Antiques, which was a send up of soap operas. that was so popular that over 20 yrs later Vic turned it into a acclaimed West-End musical, which both she and Julie starred in. Vic is also a great piano playing singer of comedy songs and is the nearest thing i've seen to Noel Coward. her redition of Let's Do It is on the same lines as the great man singing Cole Porter's Let's Do It.
Julie also did an Alan Bennett Talking Heads, where an actress acts all alone in front of a camera for about an hour. She was moterately successful as June Edward's the wife of Great Train Robber Buster in Buster with Phil Collins
In GBH she played Robert Lindsay's mother even though they were about the same age. Julie went to Hollywood to work with Liza Minnelli in Stepping Out, as a dance pupil being taught by the legendary American singer.
back working with Vic, they did Vic's tv movie Pat And Margaret. Julie plays a Hollywood superstar relucatantly reunited with her ordinary sister played by Victoria. Thora Hird was also in it.
In the sitcom Dinner Ladies Vic plays a dinner lady with Julie cast as her mother.
Playing a danch teacher in a community centre Julie teaches Billy Elliott to be good enough to join The Royal Ballet. in My Beautiful Son a young dying American Paul Reiser comes to the UK to find his natural mother, played by Julie, in the hope of saving his life
Julie and Helen Mirren teamed up and made the accalimed Calander Girls, a story about members of the WI, who pose naked for a calander.
She also joined the cast of Harry Potter, playing Molly Weasley
We in the UK are awaiting Juile's next role in The Mary Whitehouse Story, playing a real life woman who fought against vulgarity and immorality (Till Death To us Part was an example. the show inspired All In The Family in the U.S) on our tv screens from the 60s through to the 90s
not to outdown by her more famous partner, Vic wrote and won a tv BAFTA for her role as a war time volunteer worker in the acclaimed tv movie Housewife 49. it seems like in her 50s Vic is going to write and star in more dramatic films. maybe she'll become as internationally famous as her pal. she certainly deserves it!
One of the first things the pair first came to UK tv screens with The Wood And Walters Show. around the same time Julie did the acclaimed series Boys From The Blackstuff, playing the Liverpool wife of a man unemployed in Thatcher's Britain.
In 1983 Julie became an International star with Educating Rita with Michael Caine, as a hairdresser on an open university course with Caine as her tutor.
it was to her credit that after the aclaim she recieved for the film that Julie teamed up with her old pal Vic, who'd just written a sketch show Victoria Wood As Seen On Tv. The series was massively acclaimed and made Vic the top female stand-up comic in Britain which she still is today. one of the regular sketches was Acorn Antiques, which was a send up of soap operas. that was so popular that over 20 yrs later Vic turned it into a acclaimed West-End musical, which both she and Julie starred in. Vic is also a great piano playing singer of comedy songs and is the nearest thing i've seen to Noel Coward. her redition of Let's Do It is on the same lines as the great man singing Cole Porter's Let's Do It.
Julie also did an Alan Bennett Talking Heads, where an actress acts all alone in front of a camera for about an hour. She was moterately successful as June Edward's the wife of Great Train Robber Buster in Buster with Phil Collins
In GBH she played Robert Lindsay's mother even though they were about the same age. Julie went to Hollywood to work with Liza Minnelli in Stepping Out, as a dance pupil being taught by the legendary American singer.
back working with Vic, they did Vic's tv movie Pat And Margaret. Julie plays a Hollywood superstar relucatantly reunited with her ordinary sister played by Victoria. Thora Hird was also in it.
In the sitcom Dinner Ladies Vic plays a dinner lady with Julie cast as her mother.
Playing a danch teacher in a community centre Julie teaches Billy Elliott to be good enough to join The Royal Ballet. in My Beautiful Son a young dying American Paul Reiser comes to the UK to find his natural mother, played by Julie, in the hope of saving his life
Julie and Helen Mirren teamed up and made the accalimed Calander Girls, a story about members of the WI, who pose naked for a calander.
She also joined the cast of Harry Potter, playing Molly Weasley
We in the UK are awaiting Juile's next role in The Mary Whitehouse Story, playing a real life woman who fought against vulgarity and immorality (Till Death To us Part was an example. the show inspired All In The Family in the U.S) on our tv screens from the 60s through to the 90s
not to outdown by her more famous partner, Vic wrote and won a tv BAFTA for her role as a war time volunteer worker in the acclaimed tv movie Housewife 49. it seems like in her 50s Vic is going to write and star in more dramatic films. maybe she'll become as internationally famous as her pal. she certainly deserves it!