There is this idea that appealing to youth is the only way forward. But that is no longer the case. Youth is not everything. Now we have all the baby-boomers in their 60s, like me, who are actively engaged in life - we're not retiring, we're not just being put out to grass once we hit 60.

They went on to appear in their own Granada Television series Wood and Walters in 1982. Peachum in the 1989 film version of The Threepenny Opera which was renamed Mack the Knife for the screen. Walters decided to leave nursing and studied English and Drama at Manchester Polytechnic (now Manchester Metropolitan University) and pursued a career in the performing arts.

In 2006 Julie Walters came fourth in ITV's poll of the public's 50 Greatest Stars in the UK. Julia Mary "Julie" Walters CBE (born 22 February 1950) is an English actress and novelist.