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Dame Julie Andrews, DBE (born October 1, 1935) is
a British actress, singer, and author, best known
for her starring roles in the musical films Mary
Poppins (1964) and The Sound of Music (1965).

She was born Julia Elizabeth Wells in
Walton-on-Thames, Surrey, England, the daughter of
an actor and a pianist. Early on, her father
recognized her rare, four octave coloratura
soprano talent and enrolled her in voice lessons
to develop her abilities. Her earliest public
performances were during World War II,
entertaining troops throughout the UK with fellow
child star Petula Clark. She made her stage debut
at an early age, appearing in London's West End
in 1947. She graduated through radio (on the show
Educating Archie) and to the production of The Boy
Friend in 1953 (which transferred to Broadway the
same year, giving Andrews her American debut).

In 1956, composers Frederick Loewe and Alan Jay
Lerner cast Andrews as Eliza Doolittle opposite
Rex Harrison's Henry Higgins in My Fair Lady (a
musical adaptation of George Bernard Shaw's
Pygmalion). The show became the smash hit of the
year and Andrews an overnight sensation. During
her run in the musical, she starred in two
television musicals, High Tor with Bing Crosby,
and Rodgers & Hammerstein's adaptation of
Cinderella.

In 1961, the composers again cast her in a period
musical: as Guenevere in Camelot opposite Richard
Burton and newcomer Robert Goulet. After a slow
start, cast appearances on Ed Sullivan's
television show ensured that the show would
ultimately become a smash hit.

When she lost the starring role in the film of My
Fair Lady to Audrey Hepburn, she received the
consolation of the starring role in Walt Disney's
Mary Poppins (1964), winning the Academy Award for
Best Actress as a result. Studio chief Jack Warner
had told Andrews he didn't feel she packed the
gear to play in My Fair Lady. After beating
Hepburn for the Oscar, Andrews got a measure of
"sweet revenge". In her acceptance speech, she
said "I would like to thank Jack Warner for his
faith in me". At the Grammy Awards of 1965 she
and her co-stars won the Grammy Award for Best
Album for Children for Mary Poppins. She was
nominated for an Academy Award again, the
following year, for her role as Maria von Trapp in
The Sound of Music (1965), and thus became,
briefly, one of the most sought-after stars in
Hollywood. As a result, she appeared in the
three-hour epic Hawaii, co-starring with Max von
Sydow, and Alfred Hitchcock's Torn Curtain with
Paul Newman (both in 1966), and Thoroughly Modern
Millie (1967), with Mary Tyler Moore and Carol
Channing.
With Dick van Dyke in a scene from the film Mary
Poppins
With Dick van Dyke in a scene from the film Mary
Poppins

Star!, a 1968 biography of Gertrude Lawrence, and
Darling Lili, with Rock Hudson (1970), are often
cited by critics as major contributors to the
decline of the movie musical. Both were damaging
to Andrews' subsequent career and, despite
several starring roles in musical and non-musical
films - including some directed by her second
husband, Blake Edwards, such as 10,
Victor/Victoria, and S.O.B., in which she appeared
topless, she was seen very rarely on screen during
the 1980s and '90s. She starred in her own
variety series (for one season, on the ABC in
1972-1973, but the greatest critical acclaim
accorded her TV work was for her variety show
specials with Carol Burnett. In 1983, she was
chosen as the Hasty Pudding Woman of the Year by
the Harvard University theatrical society.

Her film career was revived by director Garry
Marshall, who cast her in The Princess Diaries and
its sequel, both of which proved to be major box
office hits. She has also starred in two
made-for-television movies based on the character
of Eloise, the moppet who lives at the Plaza Hotel
in New York City. In 2004, she lent her voice to
the role as Queen Lilian to the highly successful
animated hit Shrek 2, the sequel to the 2001
smash.

In the 2000 New Year's Honours she was made a
DBE, becoming Dame Julie Andrews. Since then she
has been struggling to recover her singing voice,
following a throat operation, but had a short tour
of the USA at the end of 2002 with Christopher
Plummer, Charlotte Church, Max Howard, and the
Royal Philharmonic Orchestra. In 2005 she agreed
to direct a Toronto revival of The Boy Friend, the
Broadway musical in which she made her debut in
America.

Dame Julie's career is said to have suffered from
typecasting, as her two most famous roles in Mary
Poppins and The Sound of Music cemented her image
as a "sugary sweet" personality best known for
working with children. Her roles in Blake
Edwards's films could be seen as an attempt to
break away from this image: in 10 her character is
a no-nonsense career woman; in Victor/Victoria she
plays a woman pretending to be a male, and,
perhaps most notoriously, in S.O.B. she plays a
character very similar to herself, who agrees
(with some pharmaceutical persuasion) to "show my
boobies" in a scene in the film-within-the-film.
For this last performance, late night king Johnny
Carson thanked Andrews for "showing us that the
hills were still alive", alluding to her most
famous line from the title song of The Sound of
Music.

Julie received Kennedy Center Honors in 2001. She
also appears in the 2002 List of "100 Great
Britons" sponsored by the BBC and voted for by
the public. For her contribution to the motion
picture industry, Julie Andrews has a star on the
Hollywood Walk of Fame at 6901 Hollywood Blvd.

Julie has written several children's books, under
the name Julie Andrews Edwards. Perhaps the most
well-known is The Last of the Really Great
Whangdoodles (ISBN 0064403149).

By her 1959-1967 marriage to Tony Walton, the
British director, she had one daughter, Emma Kate
Walton.

Filmography

    * Mary Poppins (1964)
    * The Americanization of Emily (1964)
    * Salzburg Sight and Sound (1965) (short
subject)
    * The Sound of Music (1965)
    * Torn Curtain (1966)
    * Hawaii (1966)
    * Think Twentieth (1967) (short subject)
    * Thoroughly Modern Millie (1967)
    * The Singing Princess (1967) (voice)
    * Star! (1968)
    * Darling Lili (1970)
    * The Moviemakers (1971) (short subject)
    * The Tamarind Seed (1974)
    * 10 (1979)
    * Little Miss Marker (1980)
    * S.O.B. (1981)
    * Victor/Victoria (1982)
    * Trail of the Pink Panther (1982) (Cameo)
    * The Man Who Loved Women (1983)
    * That's Life! (1986)
    * Duet for One (1986)
    * A Fine Romance (1991)
    * Relative Values (2000)
    * The Princess Diaries (2001)
    * Unconditional Love (2002) (Cameo)
    * Shrek 2 (2004) (voice)
    * The Princess Diaries 2: Royal Engagement
(2004)



TV Work

    * Cinderella (1957)
    * Julie and Carol at Carnegie Hall (1962)
    * The Julie Andrews Show (1965)
    * A World in Music with Julie Andrews and
Harry Belafonte (1969)
    * Julie and Carol at Lincoln Center (1971)
    * The Julie Andrews Hour (1972-1973)
    * Julie on Sesame Street (1973)
    * Julie and Dick at Convent Garden (1974)
    * Julie and Jackie: How Sweet It Is (1974)
    * Julie Andrews: One Step Into Spring (1978)
    * Julie Andrews: The Sound of Christmas
(1987)
    * Julie & Carol: Together Again (1989)
    * Julie Andrews in Concert (1990)
    * Our Sons (1991)
    * Julie (1992) (canceled after 3 months)
    * Victor/Victoria (1995)
    * One Special Night (1999)
    * On Golden Pond (2001)
    * Eloise at the Plaza (2003)
    * Eloise at Christmastime (2003)



Stage Appearances

    * The Boy Friend (1954)
    * My Fair Lady (1956)
    * Camelot (1961)
    * Putting It Together (1993)
    * Victor/Victoria (1995)

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Dame Julie Andrews, DBE (born October 1, 1935) is
a United Kingdom|British actress, singer, and
author, best known for her starring roles in the
musical films Mary Poppins (1964) and The Sound of
Music (1965).

She was born Julia Elizabeth Wells in
Walton-on-Thames, Surrey, England, the daughter of
an actor and a pianist.  Early on, her father
recognized her rare, four octave coloratura
soprano talent and enrolled her in voice lessons
to develop her abilities.  Her earliest public
performances were during World War II,
entertaining troops throughout the UK with fellow
child star Petula Clark.  She made her stage debut
at an early age, appearing in London's West End in
1947.  She graduated through radio (on the show
Educating Archie), appeared in the London West End
(Cinderella), and made her American debut starring
in the Broadway production of The Boy Friend in
1954.  Late in her career, she directed
productions of The Boy Friend at the Bay Street
Theatre in Sag Harbor, New York (2003), and at
Goodspeed Opera House in Connecticut (2005).   

In 1956, composers Frederick Loewe and Alan Jay
Lerner cast Andrews as Eliza Doolittle opposite
Rex Harrison's Henry Higgins in My Fair Lady (a
musical adaptation of George Bernard Shaw's
Pygmalion (play)|Pygmalion). The show became the
smash hit of the year and Andrews an overnight
sensation. During her run in the musical, she
starred in two television musicals, High Tor with
Bing Crosby, and Rodgers & Hammerstein's
adaptation of Cinderella.

In 1961, the composers again cast her in a period
musical: as Guenevere in Camelot opposite Richard
Burton and newcomer Robert Goulet. After a slow
start, cast appearances on Ed Sullivan's
television show ensured that the show would
ultimately become a hit.

When she lost the starring role in the film of My
Fair Lady to Audrey Hepburn, she received the
consolation of the starring role in Walt Disney's
Mary Poppins (1964), winning the Academy Award for
Best Actress as a result. Studio chief Jack Warner
had told Andrews he didn't feel she packed the
gear to play in My Fair Lady. After beating
Hepburn for the Oscar, Andrews got a measure of
"sweet revenge." In her acceptance speech, she
said "I would like to thank Jack Warner for his
faith in me." At the Grammy Awards of 1965 she and
her co-stars won the Grammy Award for Best Album
for Children for Mary Poppins. She was nominated
for an Academy Award again, the following year,
for her role as Maria von Trapp in The Sound of
Music (1965), and thus became, briefly, one of the
most sought-after stars in Hollywood. As a result,
she appeared in the three-hour epic Hawaii (1966
movie)|Hawaii, co-starring with Max von Sydow, and
Alfred Hitchcock's Torn Curtain with Paul Newman
(both in 1966), and Thoroughly Modern Millie
(1967), with Mary Tyler Moore and Carol Channing.

Her film career was revived by director Garry
Marshall, who cast her in The Princess Diaries and
its sequel, both of which proved to be major box
office hits.  She has also starred in two
made-for-television movies based on the character
of Eloise, the moppet who lives at the Plaza Hotel
in New York City. In 2004, she lent her voice to
the role as Queen Lilian to the highly successful
animated hit Shrek 2, the sequel to the 2001
smash.

In the 2000 New Year's Honours she was made a
Order of the British Empire|DBE, becoming Dame
Julie Andrews. Since then she has been struggling
to recover her singing voice, following a throat
operation, but had a short tour of the United
States|USA at the end of 2002 with Christopher
Plummer, Charlotte Church, Max Howard, and the
Royal Philharmonic Orchestra. In 2005 she agreed
to direct a Toronto revival of The Boy Friend, the
Broadway musical in which she made her debut in
America.

Dame Julie's career is said to have suffered from
typecasting (acting)|typecasting, as her two most
famous roles in Mary Poppins and The Sound of
Music cemented her image as a "sugary sweet"
personality best known for working with children. 
Her roles in Blake Edwards's films could be seen
as an attempt to break away from this image: in 10
her character is a no-nonsense career woman; in
Victor/Victoria she plays a woman pretending to be
a male, and, perhaps most notoriously, in S.O.B.
she plays a character very similar to herself, who
agrees (with some pharmaceutical persuasion) to
"show my boobies" in a scene in the
film-within-the-film. For this last performance,
late night king Johnny Carson thanked Andrews for
"showing us that the hills were still alive",
alluding to her most famous line from the title
song of The Sound of Music.

Julie received Kennedy Center Honors in 2001.  She
also appears in the 2002 List of "100 Greatest
Britons" sponsored by the BBC and voted for by the
public. For her contribution to the motion picture
industry, Julie Andrews has a star on the
Hollywood Walk of Fame at 6901 Hollywood Blvd.

Julie has written several children's books, under
the name Julie Andrews Edwards.  Among the most
well-known are Mandy and The Last of the Really
Great Whangdoodles (ISBN 0064403149). She also has
collaborated with her daughter, Emma Walton, on
the Dumpy children series, illustrated by Tony
Walton.

By her 1959-1967 marriage to Tony Walton, the
British director, she had one daughter, Emma Kate
Walton.

She has had a rose named after her.

In the fall of 2005, the production of "The Boy
Friend" that Andrews directed at The Goodspeed
Opera House (in Connecticut), with sets and
costumes designed by Tony Walton, begins a tour.  

Julie also served in 2005 as the honorary
ambassador for the 50th anniversary celebration of
Disneyland. She hosted the ceremony in front of
Sleeping Beauty Castle at the park on May 5, 2005
to kick off the celebration.

==Filmography==
*Mary Poppins (1964)
*The Americanization of Emily (1964)
*Salzburg Sight and Sound (1965) (short subject)
*The Sound of Music (1965)
*Torn Curtain (1966)
*Hawaii_(Movie)|Hawaii (1966)
*Think Twentieth (1967) (short subject)
*Thoroughly Modern Millie (1967)
*The Singing Princess (1967) (voice)
*Star! (1968)
*Darling Lili (1970)
*The Moviemakers (1971) (short subject)
*The Tamarind Seed (1974)
*10 (1979)
*Little Miss Marker (1980)
*S.O.B. (1981)
*Victor/Victoria (1982)
*Trail of the Pink Panther (1982) (Cameo)
*The Man Who Loved Women (1983)
*That's Life! (1986)
*Duet for One (1986)
*A Fine Romance aka Tchin-Tchin (1991)
*Our Sons (1991)
*Relative Values (2000)
*The Princess Diaries (2001)
*Unconditional Love (2002) (Cameo)
*Shrek 2 (2004) (voice)
*The Princess Diaries 2: Royal Engagement (2004)

==TV Work==
*High Tor (1956)
*Cinderella (1957)
*Julie and Carol at Carnegie Hall (1962)
*The Julie Andrews Show (1965)
*A World in Music with Julie Andrews and Harry
Belafonte (1969)
*Julie and Carol at Lincoln Center (1971)
*The Julie Andrews Hour (1972-1973)
*Julie on Sesame Street (1973)
*Julie and Dick at Convent Garden (1974)
*Julie and Jackie: How Sweet It Is (1974)
*Julie Andrews: One Step Into Spring (1978)
*Julie Andrews: The Sound of Christmas (1987)
*Julie & Carol: Together Again (1989)
*Julie Andrews in Concert (1990)
*Our Sons (1991)
*Julie (1992) (canceled after 3 months)
*One Special Night (1999)
*On Golden Pond (2001)
*Eloise at the Plaza (2003)
*Eloise at Christmastime (2003)

==Stage Appearances==
*The Boy Friend (1954)
*My Fair Lady (1956)
*Camelot (1961)
*Putting It Together (1993)
*Victor/Victoria (1995)


==External links==
*imdb name|id=0000267|name=Julie Andrews