Josie Walker
☼ Born on (day unknown) (month unknown) 1970, in Belfast, Northern Ireland, UK
BiographyBorn in Belfast. Recent film work includes, Sundance smash Rich Peppiats 'Kneecap' as Detecitve Ellis, Naqqash Khalid's debut feature 'In Camera' as Joanna. Kenneth Branaghs 'Belfast' as Auntie Violet and 'The Wonder' for Netflix as Sister Michael.
She plays Irish midwife Non Reasurring Trace in Adam Kay's BBC TV adaptation of his best selling book 'This is Going to Hurt'
As a theatre actress, Josie has been nominated for 3 Laurence Olivier awards across 3 decades working at The Royal National Theatre the RSC as well as many West End productions.
She can be heard on the original cast recordings of 'The Beautiful Game' as Mary Maguire. 'Matilda the Musical' as Mrs Wormwood and 'Everybody's Talking About Jamie' as Margaret New.
In the role of actor
Kneecap (01/08/2024)
Belfast hoodlums form an Irish Gaelic rap group in Kneecap. Liam Óg “Mo Chara” Ó Hannaidh and Naoise “Móglaà Bap” Ó Cairealláin are two Belfast drug dealers, who insist on speaking the Irish language as taught to them by Naoise’s Irish Republican father Arlo (Michael Fassbender). While Liam is detained and questioned by Detective Ellis […]
Belfast (11/11/2021)
The beginning of The Troubles in Northern Ireland is shown from the point of view of a young child living with his middle-class Protestant family in Belfast. Nine-year-old Buddy (Jude Hill) lives in a working-class neighbourhood in North Belfast with his Ma (Caitriona Balfe), older brother Will (Lewis McAskie), and grandparents Granny (Judi Dench) and […]