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Julie Dawn Cole (born 26 October 1957) is an English actress. She began her career as a child performer in the 1971 film ''
Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory ''Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory'' is a 1971 American musical fantasy film directed by Mel Stuart and starring Gene Wilder as Willy Wonka. It is an adaptation of the 1964 novel ''Charlie and the Chocolate Factory'' by Roald Dahl. The film ...
'', playing
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.


Career


''Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory''

Raised in
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,
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, 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
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. The film debuted in
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on 30 June 1971 and in
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the following week, and Cole was chosen to present a bouquet of flowers to
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at the Royal Premiere. She and ''
Willy Wonka Willy Wonka is a fictional character appearing in British author Roald Dahl's 1964 children's novel ''Charlie and the Chocolate Factory'' and its 1972 sequel ''Charlie and the Great Glass Elevator''. He is the eccentric founder and proprietor ...
''s other pre-adolescent "leading lady", American
Denise Nickerson Denise Marie Nickerson (April 1, 1957 – July 10, 2019) was an American child actress. She is best known for her role as Violet Beauregarde in the 1971 film ''Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory''. She later played Allison on ''The Electric Co ...
(
Violet Beauregarde This is a list of characters in the 1964 Roald Dahl book ''Charlie and the Chocolate Factory'', his 1972 sequel ''Charlie and the Great Glass Elevator'', and the former's film adaptations, ''Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory'' (1971) and ' ...
), both had crushes on
Peter Ostrum Peter Gardner Ostrum (; born November 1, 1957) is an American veterinarian and former child actor, whose only film role was as Charlie Bucket in the 1971 motion picture ''Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory''. Ostrum was 12 years old when sel ...
(Charlie Bucket), also an American, and alternated days spending time with him while there were breaks in filming.. IMDb 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 film 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.


After ''Willy Wonka''

Immediately after returning from ''Willy Wonka'', Cole was cast in a re-occurring role on the
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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 ''
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'' she played a delinquent who broke into a house; and a
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in an episode of prison drama series ''
Within These Walls ''Within These Walls'' is a British television drama programme made by London Weekend Television for ITV and shown between 1974 and 1978. It portrayed life in HMP Stone Park, a fictional women's prison. Unlike later women-in-prison TV series, ...
''. 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 ''
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'', opposite
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. In this film she played the daughter of the characters played by
Shelley Winters Shelley Winters (born Shirley Schrift; August 18, 1920 – January 14, 2006) was an American actress whose career spanned seven decades. She appeared in numerous films. She won Academy Awards for ''The Diary of Anne Frank'' (1959) and ''A Patch o ...
and
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. Julie also found recognition playing Alice (from ''
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'') in a two-minute Christmas commercial for Woolworths. In 1975, Cole got her breakout role being cast as one of the leading characters in
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medical drama ''
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''. 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 ''
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'' for its second season. Reverting to her bad-girl mould, Cole played the salacious and lecherous Rowella Chynoweth, who engages in an
affair An affair is a sexual relationship, romantic friendship, or passionate attachment in which at least one of its participants has a formal or informal commitment to a third person who may neither agree to such relationship nor even be aware of i ...
with her brother-in-law (played by
Christopher Biggins Christopher Kenneth Biggins (born 16 December 1948) is an English actor and television presenter. Early life Biggins was born in Oldham, Lancashire, the son of William and Pamela Biggins. He was brought up in Salisbury, Wiltshire, attended St P ...
). ''Poldark'' was immensely popular and garnered much attention for its romantic, and at times racy, plot lines. Her other credits include the
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film ''Paganini Strikes Again'' (1973), a 1982 episode of '' Tales of the Unexpected'' ("The Skeleton Key"), and the 1984 TV film of '' Camille'', starring
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and
Colin Firth Colin Andrew Firth (born 10 September 1960) is an English actor and producer. He was identified in the mid-1980s with the " Brit Pack" of rising young British actors, undertaking a challenging series of roles, including leading roles in '' A M ...
. She featured as 'Robot 35' in the
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comedy '' Galloping Galaxies!''. She has a number of theatrical credits as well as
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and voice-over work. Cole has appeared on radio in
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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
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series ''Fat Families'' as fitness advisor to one of the title families. In 2006, she was seen on the soap opera ''
Emmerdale ''Emmerdale'' (known as ''Emmerdale Farm'' until 1989) is a British soap opera that is broadcast on ITV1. The show is set in Emmerdale (known as Beckindale until 1994), a fictional village in the Yorkshire Dales. Created by Kevin Laffan, '' ...
''. In 2004, Cole guest-starred in a
Melbourne Comedy Festival The Melbourne International Comedy Festival (MICF) is the largest stand-alone comedy festival and the second-largest international comedy festival in the world. Established in 1987, it takes place annually in Melbourne over four weeks, typicall ...
show, ''Willy Wonka Explained (The Search for Veruca Salt)''. This led to Cole co-starring in the 2010
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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''.


Personal life

Cole met actor
Nick Wilton Nicholas Wilton is an English actor and scriptwriter. He has appeared as Mr Lister in the BBC soap opera ''EastEnders'' as a recurring character; he has also appeared in ''Carrott's Lib'' and ''Jackanory''. Early life Wilton studied English ...
in 1988, at the revival of the Whitehall farce ''Dry Rot''. They married in 1991 and have two children together; they divorced in 2002.


Filmography


References


External links

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Julie Dawn Cole filmography as compiled by the British Film InstituteJulie Dawn Cole interviewed for the 40th anniversary of the Willie Wonka film (CNN)Julie Dawn Cole's autobiography, I Want It Now!
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