Julie Walters – Birmingham, 71

Tell us how many performers receive an Oscar nomination and a BAFTA Award for their very first big-screen role; we’ll wait! The British comedy-drama Educating Rita was the film that made Julie Walters a superstar. Other smash successes like Sister My Sister, Personal Services, Billie Elliot, and Stepping Out followed quickly after.

Walters, who is a lifelong fan of West Bromwich Albion Football Club, is also a heavy fan of her husband, who she married in 1997. Her achievements as an actress in her seventies went even further up with the 2020 British fantasy drama, The Secret Garden, where Walters starred alongside Colin Firth.