Julia Winter is a Swedish actress. She became famous at the age of twelve due to her role in a large-scale film by the legendary director Tim Burton based on the famous children's book Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, where the famous Hollywood actor Johnny Depp became her screen partner. After the release of the film on screens, it ceased to be shot.
Childhood and youth
Julia Winter was born March 17, 1993 in the capital of Sweden - Stockholm. There is a younger brother and sister. In childhood, she moved to London with her family, she is fluent in both English and Swedish. In addition to studying at a regular school, she studied once a week in a theater studio.
Charlie and the Chocolate Factory
At the age of twelve, Julia Winter received one of the main roles in the film "Charlie and the Chocolate Factory." The film with a budget of 150 million was in development for more than ten years, replaced by many directors and leading actors.
Julia got the role, having gone through a difficult casting and bypassing several hundred other applicants for the role. On the screen, she embodied one of the main antagonists of the picture, Veruku Salt. On the set, she met a young actress Anna Sophia Robb, with whom she is friends to this day.
Julia Winter herself voiced her role in the Swedish version. She also voiced the heroine in a video game based on the film and appeared in the role of herself in several entertaining shows as part of a picture promotion campaign.
Life after the role
The cast of the film "Charlie and the Chocolate Factory" was filled with talented young actors, many of them, for example, Freddie Highmore and Anna-Sophia Robb, continued to act successfully and develop their career. However, Julia Winter disappeared from press radars and has not appeared since in any project.
By the anniversary of the release of the film, journalists from several entertainment publications decided to write articles about the young actors of the film and their fate after the shooting, but could not find reliable information about Julia. A special site was even created where people speculated on what happened to the girl and asked those who know about her fate to share information.
According to one user, the only movie with Julia Winter remained "Charlie and the Chocolate Factory." After that, she realized that the acting profession did not suit her, returned to London, and after some time she completely moved to her homeland, Sweden, where she is now studying at the university and preparing to become a doctor. Still in contact with Anna-Sophia Robb.