Julie T. Wallace

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Julie T. Wallace
Born
Julie Therese Keir

(1961-05-28) 28 May 1961 (age 63)
OccupationActress
Years active1986–present

Julie Therese Wallace (born 28 May 1961) is an English actress.

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Biography

Julie T. Wallace is the daughter of Scottish actor Andrew Keir and Julia Wallace. She is 6 feet 2 inches (188 cm) tall.

Raised in Wales, she adopted her mother's maiden name professionally after attending the Webber Douglas Drama School. She was active in theatre starting in the late 1970s, including a leading role in Edward Bond's The Worlds, directed by Bond, in a youth theatre production.[ citation needed ]

She made her television debut in the title role in the BBC dramatisation of Fay Weldon's The Life and Loves of a She-Devil (1986). [1] She was nominated for the British Academy Television Award for Best Actress for her performance. She later played Rosika Miklos in the James Bond film The Living Daylights (1987), and starred in The Comic Strip Presents... episodes "Les Dogs" (1990) and "Queen of the Wild Frontier" (1993). In 1996, Wallace was featured as Serpentine in Neil Gaiman's BBC miniseries Neverwhere , and played Major Iceborg in The Fifth Element .

In the 2000s, she continued to make regular film and television appearances in supporting roles, including recurring roles as Mrs Avery from 2000-01 on Last of the Summer Wine [2] and Tony's Mum on Catterick (2004). She appeared in the short film Rita (2008), the 2013 BBC comedy series Big School , and more recently in The Spiritualist (2016). [3]

Film roles

Television roles

Other work

Wallace provided the spoken narration for Marc Almond's 1990 single "A Lover Spurned" from the album Enchanted .

She also appeared in the video for the Adrian Belew and David Bowie song "Pretty Pink Rose" from the album Young Lions . [4]

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References

  1. Interview: Julie T. Wallace, bbc.co.uk. Accessed 1 October 2022.
  2. Last of the Summer Wine, bbc.co.uk. Accessed 1 October 2022.
  3. "Ciaran Brown meets actress Julie T. Wallace" . Retrieved 1 October 2022.
  4. Pegg, Nicholas. The Complete David Bowie (2016 ed.). p. 319.