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Julie Dawn Cole
Julie Dawn Cole (born 26 October 1957) is an English actress and psychotherapist. She began her career as a child performer in the 1971 film Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory, playing Veruca Salt.
Cole was raised in Guildford, Surrey. Cole was 12 when she was cast as Veruca Salt during Willy Wonka’s preproduction 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. The film's other preadolescent "leading lady", American Denise Nickerson (Violet Beauregarde), and she had crushes on Peter Ostrum (Charlie Bucket), also an American, and alternated days spending time with him during 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 which she went on to sell years later and used the money for a vacation in Malaysia with her children. 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 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. The auction itself is shown in BBC Bargain Hunt series 54, Ardingly 19. The auctioneer was Catherine Southon.
Immediately after returning from filming, Cole was cast in a recurring 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.
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Julie Dawn Cole
Julie Dawn Cole (born 26 October 1957) is an English actress and psychotherapist. She began her career as a child performer in the 1971 film Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory, playing Veruca Salt.
Cole was raised in Guildford, Surrey. Cole was 12 when she was cast as Veruca Salt during Willy Wonka’s preproduction 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. The film's other preadolescent "leading lady", American Denise Nickerson (Violet Beauregarde), and she had crushes on Peter Ostrum (Charlie Bucket), also an American, and alternated days spending time with him during 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 which she went on to sell years later and used the money for a vacation in Malaysia with her children. 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 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. The auction itself is shown in BBC Bargain Hunt series 54, Ardingly 19. The auctioneer was Catherine Southon.
Immediately after returning from filming, Cole was cast in a recurring 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.