The Rose: Perhaps the most treasured of England’s treasures, Walters is adored the world over thanks to her quick wit, unflinching assaults on intriguing material and generally likeability that makes you wish she was your aunt/mum/mate.

The Awesome: Raucously entertaining in Educating Rita (the original Legally Blonde), movingly measured in Billy Elliot, just the right side of fussy mum in the Harry Potter franchise. Not forgetting that ballsy appearance in TV's Dinnerladies. The list goes on…

American Equivalent: Sally Field has mined similar filmic depths, poving equally adept at drama as comedy, and even straying into award-winning TV terrain (with Brothers & Sisters).