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 innate Julia Elizabeth Wells inside Walton-on-Thames, Surrey, England, the girl of an actor & the piano player. She experienced the uncommon, quaternary octave coloratura soprano talent, and her parents enrolled her around voice lessons to prepare her abilities. Her earliest public performances were when you took World War II, entertaining troops throughout the UK by having fellow infant star Petula Clark. She processed her stage debut at an early age, appearing inside London's West End in 1947. She graduated across radio (on the indicate Educating Archie), appeared in the London West End (Cinderella), and mass produced her Our contries debut starring in the Broadway production of The Boy Friend in 1954. Late within her career, she directed productions of The Boy Friend at the Bay Street Theatre inside Sag Harbor, Up to date York (2003), & at Goodspeed Opera Home within Connecticut (2005).

Within 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). A indicate became a blockbuster of the month & Andrews an all-night sensation. When you took her start around the musical theater, she starred in 2 television musical theater, High Tor with Bing Crosby, and Rodgers & Hammerstein's adaptation of Cinderella.

Around 1961, Lerner & Loewe again cast her in a period musical: as Guenevere in Camelot opposite Richard Burton and newcomer Robert Goulet. When the slow run, cast appearances in Ed Sullivan's television indicate ensured that the show would in the end turn into a hit.

While she misused a stellar role in the film of My Fair Lady to Audrey Hepburn, she received the consolation of the leading role around Walt Disney's Mary Poppins (1964), winning the Academy Award for Best Actress as a result. Studio chief Jack Warner got told Andrews he didn't sense she packed a devices to play inside Our Fair Lady. Fallowing beating Hepburn for the Oscar, Andrews had the measure of "sweet revenge." Inside her acceptance speech, she said "I would like to thank Jack Warner for his faith in me." At a Grammy Awards of 1965 she and her co-stars won a Grammy Award for Best Album for Children for Mary Poppins. She wwhen nominated for an Oscar once again, a charted month, for her role as Maria von Trapp in The Sound of Music (1965), and so became, briefly, one of a virtually all sought-when stars around Hollywood. Following, she appeared in the tierce-hour larger-than-life Hawaii, co-starring with Max von Sydow, and Alfred Hitchcock's Torn Curtain with Paul Newman (both inside 1966), and Thoroughly Modern Millie (1967), with Mary Tyler Moore and Carol Channing.

Star!, a 1968 biography of Gertrude Lawrence, and Darling Lili, with Rock Hudson (1970), are typically cited by critics when major contributors to the decline of the moving-picture show musical theater. Two were damaging to Andrews' subsequent career &, despite many starring roles around musical comedy & non-musical films - including a few directed by her 2nd hubby, 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 around her have kind series (for 1 year, on the ABC in 1972-1973 winning 7 Emmy Awards), but a greatest critical plaudits accorded her TV function was for her variety show specials with Carol Burnett. Inside 1983, she was chosen as a 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 become major pack professional hits. She has likewise starred within 2 mass produced-for-television flick according to a character of Eloise, a moppet world health organization resides at a Plaza Hotel in New York City. Around 2004, she lent her voice to the role as Queen Lilian to the extremely successful alive hit Shrek 2, the sequel to the 2001 smash.

In the 2000 New Year's Honours she was processed the DBE, becoming Dame Julie Andrews. Since so she has been struggling to recoup her singing voice, as the result the throat operation, however got a short tour of the USA at the end of 2002 with Christopher Plummer, Charlotte Church, Max Howard, and a Royal Philharmonic Orchestra. Around 2005 she agreed to direct a Toronto revival of The Boy Friend, a Broadway musical theater where she processed her debut around Us.

Dame Julie's career is said to keep close at hand suffered from either typecasting, as her deuce best known roles around Mary Poppins and The Healthy of Music cemented her image as a "sugary sweet" personality better known for working gravid. Her roles within Blake Edwards's films can be seen as an attempt to break out of this image: inside X her character occurs as there is no-nonsense career woman; within Victor/Victoria she plays the woman pretending to become the male, &, mayhap virtually all notoriously, inside S.O.B. she plays the character super similar to herself, world health organization agrees (by having a few pharmaceutical persuasion) to "show my boobies" around a scene in the film-in-the-film. For this survive performance, late nighttime king Johnny Carson thanked Andrews for "showing us that the hills were still alive", alluding to her best known line from either a title song of The Healthy of Music.

Andrews received Kennedy Center Honors in 2001. She as well 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 the star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame at 6901 Hollywood Blvd.

Andrews has written many youngsters's books, under a title Julie Andrews Edwards. Among a virtually all easily-known come Mandy and The Last of the Really Great Whangdoodles (ISBN 0064403149). She likewise has collaborated sustaining her girl, Emma Walton, on the Dumpy tykes series, illustrated by Tony Walton.

By her 1959-1967 marriage to Tony Walton, the British director, she got a single girl, Emma Kate Walton. By having her todays married man, director Blake Edwards, she adopted two girl from either Vietnam, Amy Leigh & Joanna Lynne. Andrews has septenary grandchildren.

Although she was raised using virtually there is no religious affiliation, Andrews became the "zealous convert" to Freudian analysis as an adult; it became her de facto religion. She spent several years within 5-years-the-week depth psychology &, when initial secrecy just about her participation, became the vocal exponent of the practice.

She has got the rose named after her.

In a fall of 2005, the production of "The Boy Friend" that Andrews directed at A Goodspeed Opera Home (around Connecticut), by using sets & costumes designed by Tony Walton, begins a tour.

Julie when well served inside 2005 as a honorary ambassador for the Fiftieth day of remembrance celebration of Disneyland. She hosted a ceremony before of Sleeping Beauty Castle at a park in Could Five, 2005 to inaugurate 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 (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 Three 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)