Julie Dawn Cole

Movie Actress

Julie Dawn Cole was born in Guildford, England, United Kingdom on October 26th, 1957 and is the Movie Actress. At the age of 67, Julie Dawn Cole biography, profession, age, height, weight, eye color, hair color, build, measurements, education, career, dating/affair, family, news updates, movies, and networth are available.

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Date of Birth
October 26, 1957
Nationality
United Kingdom
Place of Birth
Guildford, England, United Kingdom
Age
67 years old
Zodiac Sign
Scorpio
Networth
$1 Million
Profession
Actor, Film Actor
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Nick Wilton, ​ ​(m. 1991; div. 2002)​
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2
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Julie Dawn Cole Career

Raised in Guildford, Surrey, Cole was twelve when she was cast in the supporting role during the project's pre-production phase in the first half of 1970, which was filmed at the Bavaria Film Studios.

The film debuted in New York City on 30 June 1971 and in London the following week, and Cole was chosen to present a bouquet of flowers to Princess Margaret at the Royal Premiere. She and Willy Wonka's other pre-adolescent "leading lady", American Denise Nickerson (Violet Beauregarde), both had crushes on Peter Ostrum (Charlie Bucket), also an American, and alternated days spending time with him while there were breaks in filming. The "I Want It Now" sequence was filmed on her 13th birthday and Cole was given three film props: a golden egg prop, a golden ticket, and an Everlasting Gobstopper. Although Cole actually sang the song "I Want It Now", she recorded her vocals in a music studio on a separate session and mimed to the track during filming. Cole has stated that her character in the movie was based on a girl who attended the same boarding school she did.

Following the filming of the movie, Cole kept the Golden Ticket prop, along with the accompanying Wonka bar prop. She later gave it to her friend Linda Carr. On 17 July 2019, both props were sold at auction for upwards of £15,000.

Immediately after returning from Willy Wonka, Cole was cast in a re-occurring role on the ITV sitcom, And Mother Makes Three, in which she played Arabella, a stuck up and snobbish teenaged girl. After the success of the show, Cole continued to have a series of steady job offers.

From 1971 to 1974 she acted in several TV series, and was often cast as a 'bad girl': in an episode of ITV series Saturday Night Theatre she played a delinquent who broke into a house; and a juvenile offender in an episode of prison drama series Within These Walls. Occasionally she was cast in other moulds, on an episode of the Orson Welles' Great Mysteries series, she played a murder victim.

She made her next theatrical appearance in British-German comedy film That Lucky Touch, opposite Roger Moore. In this film she played the daughter of the characters played by Shelley Winters and Lee J. Cobb. Julie also found recognition playing Alice (from Alice In Wonderland) in a two-minute Christmas commercial for Woolworths.

In 1975, Cole got her breakout role being cast as one of the leading characters in BBC medical drama Angels. Breaking the bad-girl mould, she played Jo Longhurst, a second-year student nurse. Her character was known for her compassion, kind nature, advocacy for patients, and challenging authority when it was questionable. Production of the show began in February 1975, and episodes started to air in September of that same year. Cole's run on the show lasted three years.

In 1976, Cole joined the cast of the costume drama Poldark for its second season. Reverting to her bad-girl mould, Cole played the salacious and lecherous Rowella Chynoweth, who engages in an affair with her brother-in-law (played by Christopher Biggins). Poldark was immensely popular and garnered much attention for its romantic, and at times racy, plot lines.

Her other credits include the Children's Film Foundation movie Paganini Strikes Again (1973), a 1982 episode of Tales of the Unexpected ("The Skeleton Key"), and the 1984 TV film of Camille, starring Greta Scacchi and Colin Firth. She featured as 'Robot 35' in the CBBC comedy Galloping Galaxies!.

She has a number of theatrical credits as well as pantomime and voice-over work. Cole has appeared on radio in BBC Radio 2 broadcasts of British panto, including the 26 December 1979 broadcast of Puss in Boots as "Princess Rosepetal", as "Jill" in the 25 December 1981 broadcast of Mother Goose, and as "Alice" in the 27 December 1982 broadcast of Dick Whittington.

As of 2001, Cole works as a psychotherapist.

After qualifying in 1998 as a fitness instructor, she worked in the 2000s on various projects, including the 2005 ITV series Fat Families as fitness advisor to one of the title families. In 2006, she was seen on the soap opera Emmerdale.

In 2004, Cole guest-starred in a Melbourne Comedy Festival show, Willy Wonka Explained (The Search for Veruca Salt). This led to Cole co-starring in the 2010 Edinburgh Fringe show, Willy Wonka Revisited: The Veruca Salt Sessions, where she plays a semi-fictional version of herself discussing Veruca, life, and obsessive fans with her unseen therapist, while her co-star plays an Australian fan describing his obsession with Veruca to his unseen therapist.

In 2016, Cole released the book I Want It Now!, a memoir about her time filming Willy Wonka.

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Where are the cast of Willy Wonka & The Chocolate Factory now? As actors who played Veruca Salt and Mike Teavee perform in Edinburgh Fringe musical, how stars of the 1971 hit film followed very different career paths

www.dailymail.co.uk, July 16, 2024
Julie Dawn Cole and Paris Themmen will co-narrate the Willy's Candy Spectacular: A Musical Parody' at the Edinburgh Fringe in August. The duo played Veruca Salt and Mike Teavee in the classic 1971 film, which starred Gene Wilder as the wacky ever-lasting gobstopper inventor Willy Wonka. The family favourite, based on Roald Dahl 's 1964 book, tells the story of five schoolchildren who win the chance to tour the magical factory belonging to candy man Wonka after finding golden tickets hidden inside chocolate bars. For some of the child stars it helped propel them into successful showbusiness careers, while others shied away from the limelight in favour of a life as an accountant or vet. With Wonka back in the news today, MailOnline has taken a look at where the stars of the hit film are now.

Edinburgh Fringe musical comedy about infamous £35-a-head Willy Wonka experience in Glasgow will feature original Veruca Salt and Mike Teavee from hit 1971 film

www.dailymail.co.uk, July 16, 2024
Julie Dawn Cole and Paris Themmen played the original Veruca Salt and Mike Teavee in Mel Stuart's 1971 Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory which starred Gene Wilder. The pair will now be returning to narrate 'Willy's Candy Spectacular: A Musical Parody' at the Edinburgh Fringe in August. The musical comedy is based on an 'immersive' Willy Wonka experience in Glasgow earlier this year which descended into chaos after parents paid £35-a-head to turn up at a near empty warehouse. 'Willy's Chocolate Experience' promised to transport children into a 'magical realm' full of sweet treats and 'enchanting experiences' but left them in tears after they were offered just two jelly beans, a quarter can of limeade, and a small, uninspiring bouncy castle.