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Dame Julia Elizabeth Andrews , Dame Commander of the Order of the British Empire|DBE (née Wells ;. Reel Classics. born 1 October 1935). 31 December 1999. Retrieved 29 January 2007. is an English people|English film and stage actress, singer, and author. She is the recipient of Golden Globe , Emmy , Grammy , BAFTA , People's Choice Award , Theatre World Award , Screen Actors Guild and Academy Awards|Academy Award honors. In 1996, she famously declined the Tony Award nomination for Tony Award for Best Actress in a Musical|Best Actress in a Musical , an award she was favourite to win. Andrews is a former British child actress and singer who made her Broadway debut in 1954 with The Boy Friend , and rose to prominence starring in other musicals such as My Fair Lady and Camelot (musical)|Camelot , and in musical film s such as Mary Poppins (film)|Mary Poppins (1964), for which she won the Academy Award for Best Actress , and The Sound of Music (film)|The Sound of Music (1965): the roles for which she is still best-known. Her voice, which originally spanned four octaves, was damaged by a throat operation in 1997.

Andrews had a revival of her film career in the 2000s in family films such as The Princess Diaries (film)|The Princess Diaries (2001), its sequel The Princess Diaries 2: Royal Engagement (2004), the Shrek animated films (2004–2010), and Despicable Me (2010). In 2003 Andrews revisited her first Broadway success, this time as a stage director, with a revival of The Boy Friend at the Bay Street Theatre, Sag Harbor, New York (and later at the Goodspeed Opera House , in East Haddam, Connecticut in 2005).

Andrews is also an author of children's books, and in 2008 published an autobiography, Home: A Memoir of My Early Years .

Early life

Julia Elizabeth Wells was born on 1 October 1935 in Walton-on-Thames , Surrey, England . Her mother, Barbara Ward Wells (née Morris), was married to Edward Charles "Ted" Wells, a teacher of metal and woodworking, but Andrews was conceived as a result of an affair her mother had with a family friend., Daily Express 10 March 2008. Greenwood Press (1989) ISBN 0313262233. pp. 1–2.

With the outbreak of World War II , Barbara and Ted Wells went their separate ways. Ted Wells assisted with evacuating children to Surrey during the Blitz , while Barbara joined Ted Andrews in entertaining the troops through the good offices of the Entertainments National Service Association (ENSA). Barbara and Ted Wells were soon divorced. They both remarried: Barbara to Ted Andrews, in 1939; and Ted Wells to a former hairstylist working a lathe at a war factory that employed them both in Hinchley Wood , Surrey.Windeler (1970), pp 20–21

Andrews lived briefly with Ted Wells and her brother John in Surrey. In about 1940, Ted Wells sent her to live with her mother and stepfather, who, the elder Wells thought, would be better able to provide for his talented daughter's artistic training. According to her 2008 autobiography Home , while Julie had been used to calling Ted Andrews "Uncle Ted", her mother suggested it would be more appropriate to refer to her stepfather as "Pop", while her father remained "Dad" or "Daddy" to her. Julie disliked this change.

The Andrews family was "very poor and we lived in a bad slum area of London," Andrews recalled, adding, "That was a very black period in my life." In addition, according to Andrews' 2008 memoir, her stepfather was an alcoholic. Ted Andrews twice, while drunk, tried to get into bed with his stepdaughter, resulting in Andrews putting a lock on her door. But, as the stage career of Ted and Barbara Andrews improved, they were able to afford to move to better surroundings, first to Beckenham and then, as the war ended, back to the Andrews' home town of Hersham. The Andrews family took up residence at The Old Meuse, in West Grove; Hersham (now demolished) a house where Andrews' maternal grandmother happened to have served as a maid.

Julie Andrews' stepfather sponsored lessons for her, first at the Cone-Ripman School , an independent arts educational school in London, then with the famous concert soprano and voice instructor Madame Lilian Stiles-Allen . "She had an enormous influence on me", Andrews said of Stiles-Allen, adding, "She was my third mother& nbsp;– I've got more mothers and fathers than anyone in the world." In her memoir Julie Andrews – My Star Pupil , Stiles-Allen records: "The range, accuracy and tone of Julie's voice amazed me ... she had possessed the rare gift of absolute pitch "Stirling, Richard; Julie Andrews: An Intimate Biography; Portrait, 2007; ISBN 987-0-7499-5135-1; p22 (though Andrews herself refutes this in her 2008 autobiography Home ).Windeler (1970), pp 22–23 According to Andrews: "Madame was sure that I could do Mozart and Rossini, but, to be honest, I never was".Stirling, p.24 Of her own voice, she says "I had a very pure, white, thin voice, a four-octave range – dogs would come for miles around." After Cone-Ripman School, Andrews continued her academic education at the nearby Woodbrook School, a local state school in Beckenham .Timothy White (1998) The entertainers p.111. Billboard Books , 1998

Career

Early career in the United Kingdom

Julie Andrews performed spontaneously and unbilled on stage with her parents for about two years beginning in 1945. "Then came the day when I was told I must go to bed in the afternoon because I was going to be allowed to sing with Mummy and Pop in the evening," Andrews explained. She would stand on a beer crate to reach the mic and sing,sometimes a solo or as a duet with her stepfather, while her mother played piano. "It must have been ghastly, but it seemed to go down all right."Windeler (1970), pp 23–24Spindle, p. 2, suggests that Andrews began a few years of stage work with her parents in 1946.

Julie Andrews got her big break when her stepfather introduced her to Val Parnell , whose Moss Empires controlled prominent venues in London. Andrews made her professional solo debut at the London Hippodrome singing the difficult aria "Je Suis Titania" from Mignon as part of a musical revue called "Starlight Roof" on 22 October 1947. She played the Hippodrome for one year.Windeler (1970), pp 24–26 Andrews recalled "Starlight Roof" saying, "There was this wonderful American person and comedian, Wally Boag , who made balloon animals. He would say, 'Is there any little girl or boy in the audience who would like one of these? ' And I would rush up onstage and say, 'I'd like one, please.' And then he would chat to me and I'd tell him I sang... I was fortunate in that I absolutely stopped the show cold. I mean, the audience went crazy."Boag, Wally and Sands, Gene. Wally Boag, Clown Prince of Disneyland , Disney Enterprises, Inc. 2009, p.39

On 1 November 1948, Julie Andrews became the youngest solo performer ever to be seen in a Royal Variety Performance|Royal Command Variety Performance , at the London Palladium , where she performed along with Danny Kaye , the Nicholas Brothers and the comedy team George and Bert Bernard for members of King George VI 's family.Windeler (1970), p. 26. "Julie, who was described in the official announcement 14 October as 'A 13-year-old coloratura soprano with the voice of an adult,' was the youngest solo performer ever chosen to perform before royalty at the Palladium."Spindle, p. 3

Julie Andrews followed her parents into radio and television.Windeler (1970), pp 26–27. She reportedly made her television debut on the BBC program RadiOlympia Showtime on 8 October 1949.. All-Music Guide article from Legacy Recordings. She garnered considerable fame throughout the United Kingdom for her work on the BBC radio comedy show Educating Archie ; she was a cast member from 1950 to 1952.

Andrews appeared on West End Theatre at the London Casino , where she played one year each as Princess Badroulbadour in Aladdin (musical)|Aladdin and the egg in Humpty Dumpty . She also appeared on provincial stages across United Kingdom in Jack and the Beanstalk and Little Red Riding Hood , as well as starring as the lead role in Cinderella .

In 1950 at the age of 14, Andrews was asked to sing at a party of a family friend, Katherine Norwalk, and it was then that she learned that Ted Wells was not her biological father.

Early career in the United States

On 30 September 1954 on the eve of her 19th birthday, Julie Andrews made her Broadway debut portraying "Polly Browne" in the already highly successful London musical The Boy Friend . To the critics, Andrews was the stand-out performer in the show.Spindle, pp. 4–5. Near the end of her Boy Friend contract, Andrews was asked to audition for My Fair Lady on Broadway and got the part. In November 1955 Andrews was signed to appear with Bing Crosby in what is regarded as the first made-for-television movie, High Tor .Windeler, pp. 41–42.

Andrews auditioned for a part in the Richard Rodgers musical Pipe Dream (musical)|Pipe Dream . Although Rodgers wanted her for Pipe Dream , he advised her to take the part in the Frederick Loewe and Alan Jay Lerner musical My Fair Lady if it were offered to her. In 1956, she appeared on stage in My Fair Lady as Eliza Doolittle to Rex Harrison 's Henry Higgins. Rodgers was so impressed with Andrews' talent that concurrent with her run in My Fair Lady , she was featured in the Rodgers and Hammerstein television musical, Cinderella (TV)|Cinderella . Cinderella was broadcast live on CBS on 31 March 1957 under the musical direction of Alfredo Antonini and attracted an estimated 107& nbsp;million viewers.. Playbill News. 6 October 2004.Haberman, Irving. "The Theatre World Brings A Few Musical and a Stage Success to Television This Week". The New York Times , 31 March 1957.

Andrews married set design er Tony Walton on 10 May 1959 in Weybridge , Surrey. They had first met in 1948 when Andrews was appearing at the London Casino in the show Humpty Dumpty . The couple filed for a divorce on 14 November 1967.Spindle, p. 14.

Between 1958 and 1962, Andrews appeared on such specials as CBS-TV's The Fabulous Fifties and NBC-TV's The Broadway of Lerner & Loewe . In addition to guest starring on The Ed Sullivan Show , she also appeared on The Dinah Shore Chevy Show , '' What's My Line? , The Jack Benny Program , The Bell Telephone Hour , and The Garry Moore Show . In June 1962 Andrews co-starred in Julie and Carol at Carnegie Hall , a CBS special with Carol Burnett .

In 1960 Lerner and Loewe again cast her in a period musical as Guinevere|Queen Guinevere in Camelot (musical)|Camelot , with Richard Burton and newcomer Robert Goulet . However movie studio head Jack Warner decided Andrews lacked sufficient name recognition for her casting in the film version of My Fair Lady (film)|My Fair Lady ; Eliza was played by the established film actress Audrey Hepburn instead. As Warner later recalled, the decision was easy, "In my business I have to know who brings people and their money to a movie theatre box office. Audrey Hepburn had never made a financial flop."

Career peak

Andrews and her husband headed back to Britain in September 1962 to await the birth of daughter Emma Walton Hamilton|Emma Katherine Walton , who was born in London two months later.Robert Windeler Julie Andrews: a life on stage and screen p.149. Thorndike Press, 1998 The family returned to the United States in 1963 and Andrews began her work in the title role of Walt Disney Pictures|Disney 's musical film Mary Poppins (film)|Mary Poppins . Walt Disney had seen a performance of Camelot (musical)|Camelot and thought Andrews would be perfect for the role of the British nanny who is "practically perfect in every way!" Andrews initially declined because of pregnancy, but Disney politely insisted, saying, "We'll wait for you." Mary Poppins 40th Anniversary Edition DVD.

As a result of her performance in Mary Poppins , Andrews won the 1964 Academy Award for Best Actress and the 1965 Golden Globe Award for Best Actress& nbsp;– Motion Picture Musical or Comedy . She and her Mary Poppins co-stars also won the 1965 Grammy Award for Best Album for Children . As a measure of "sweet revenge," as Poppins songwriter Sherman Brothers|Richard M. Sherman put it, Andrews closed her acceptance speech at the Golden Globes by saying, "And, finally, my thanks to a man who made a wonderful movie and who made all this possible in the first place, Mr. Jack Warner." Warner passed over Andrews in favor of Audrey Hepburn for the starring role of Eliza Doolittle in My Fair Lady (film)|My Fair Lady .

In 1964 she appeared opposite James Garner in The Americanization of Emily (1964), which she has described as her favourite film.Blank, Ed. . Pittsburgh Tribune-Review. 17 November 2005. In 1966, Andrews won her second Golden Globe Award for Best Actress& nbsp;– Motion Picture Musical or Comedy and was also nominated for the 1965 Academy Award for Best Actress#1960s|Academy Award for Best Actress for her role as Maria von Trapp in The Sound of Music (film)|The Sound of Music .

After completing The Sound Of Music , Andrews appeared as a guest star on the NBC-TV variety series The Andy Williams Show , which gained her an Emmy nomination . She followed this television appearance with an Emmy Award-winning color special, The Julie Andrews Show , which featured Gene Kelly and The New Christy Minstrels as guests. It aired on NBC-TV in November 1965.

In 1966 Andrews starred with Max von Sydow in the epic Hawaii (film)|Hawaii , with Paul Newman in the Alfred Hitchcock|Hitchcock thriller Torn Curtain , and as the title character of the 1920s spoof musical Thoroughly Modern Millie , her last big cinema hit for the next fifteen years.

By the end of 1967, Andrews was the world's most successful film star. She had appeared in the most-watched television special Cinderella (telefilms)|Cinderella ; the biggest Broadway musical of its time, My Fair Lady ; the largest-selling long-playing album, the original cast recording of My Fair Lady ; the biggest hit in Disney's history, Mary Poppins (film)|Mary Poppins ; the highest grossing movie of 1966, Hawaii (film)|Hawaii ; the biggest and second biggest hits in Universal's history, Thoroughly Modern Millie and Torn Curtain ; and the biggest in 20th Century Fox's history, The Sound of Music (film)|The Sound of Music .

Mid-career

Andrews next appeared in two of Hollywood's most expensive and infamous flops: Star& #33; (film)|Star! , a 1968 biopic of Gertrude Lawrence , and Darling Lili (1970), co-starring Rock Hudson and directed by her soon-to-be second husband, Blake Edwards (they married in 1969). The couple stayed married for 41 years until Edwards' death in 2010. She made only two other films in the 1970s, The Tamarind Seed (film)|The Tamarind Seed and 10 (film)|10 .

In the 1970s, Edwards and Andrews adopted two daughters; Amy in 1974 and Joanna in 1975.Wilkins, Barbara. People , 14 March 1977 tcmdb.com, Retrieved 15 August 2010 Edwards' children from a previous marriage, Jennifer and Geoffrey, were 3 and 5 years older than Emma, Andrews' daughter with Tony Walton. Current biography yearbook, Volume 44 p.127. H. W. Wilson Co., 1983

Andrews continued working in television. In 1969, she shared the spotlight with singer Harry Belafonte for an NBC-TV special, An Evening with Julie Andrews and Harry Belafonte . In 1971 she appeared as a guest for the Grand Opening Special of Walt Disney World, and that same year she and Carol Burnett headlined a CBS special, Julie and Carol At Lincoln Center .

In 1972–1973, Andrews starred in her own television variety series, The Julie Andrews Hour , on the American Broadcasting Company|ABC network. The show won seven Emmy Award s, but was cancelled after one season. Between 1973 and 1975, Andrews continued her association with ABC by headlining five variety specials for the network. She guest-starred on The Muppet Show in 1977, and the following year, she appeared again with the Muppets on a CBS television variety special. The program, Julie Andrews: One Step Into Spring , aired in March 1978, to mixed reviews and mediocre ratings. In February 1980, Andrews headlined "Because We Care", a CBS-TV special with 30 major stars raising funds for Cambodian Famine victims.

In 1981, she appeared in Blake Edwards' S.O.B. (1981 film)|S.O.B. (1981) in which she played Sally Miles, a character who agrees to "show my boobies" in a scene in the film-within-a-film. That was Andrews's first on-screen nude scene and got much attention as she poked fun at her own squeaky clean image.

In 1983, Andrews was chosen as the Hasty Pudding Woman of the Year by the Harvard University theatrical society. The roles of Victoria Grant and Count Victor Grezhinski in the film Victor Victoria earned Andrews the 1983 Golden Globe Award for Best Actress& nbsp;– Motion Picture Musical or Comedy , as well as a nomination for the 1982 Academy Award for Best Actress , her third Oscar nomination.. CBS News . 26 January 2007. Retrieved 29 January 2007.

In December 1987, Andrews starred in an ABC Christmas special, Julie Andrews: The Sound Of Christmas , which went on to win five Emmy Awards. Two years later, she was reunited for the third time with Carol Burnett for a variety special which aired on ABC in December 1989.

In 1991, Andrews made her television dramatic debut in the ABC made-for-TV movie, Our Sons , co-starring Ann-Margret . Andrews was named a Disney Legend within the year.

In the summer of 1992 Andrews starred in her first television sitcom, Julie , which aired on American Broadcasting Company|ABC and co-starred James Farentino . In December 1992 she hosted the NBC holiday special, Christmas In Washington .

In 1993, she starred in a limited run at the Manhattan Theatre Club in the American premiere of Stephen Sondheim|Stephen Sondheim's revue, Putting It Together . Between 1994 and 1995 Andrews recorded two solo albums& nbsp;– the first saluted the music of Richard Rodgers and the second paid tribute to the words of Alan Jay Lerner. In 1995, she starred in the stage musical version of Victor/Victoria (musical)|Victor/Victoria . It was her first appearance in a Broadway show in 35 years. Opening on Broadway on 25 October 1995 at the Marquis Theatre , it later went on the road on a world tour. When she was the only Tony Award nominee for the production, she declined the nomination saying that she could not accept because she felt the entire production was snubbed.

Andrews was forced to quit the show towards the end of the Broadway run in 1997 when she developed vocal problems. She subsequently underwent surgery to remove non-cancerous Vocal_fold_nodule|nodules from her throat and was left unable to sing. In 1999 she filed a malpractice suit against the doctors at New York's Mount Sinai Hospital, New York|Mount Sinai Hospital , including Dr. Scott Kessler and Dr. Jeffrey Libin, who had operated on her throat. Originally, the doctors assured Andrews that she should regain her voice within six weeks, but Andrews' stepdaughter Jennifer Edwards said in 1999 "it's been two years, and it still hasn't returned.". BBC News . 15 December 1999. Retrieved 29 January 2007. The lawsuit was settled in September 2000., The Chicago Sun-Times, 9 September 2000

Despite the loss of her singing voice, she kept busy with many projects. In 1998, she appeared in a stage production of Dr. Dolittle in London. As recounted on the Julie Andrews website, she performed the voice of Polynesia the parrot and "recorded some 700 sentences and sounds, which were placed on a computer chip that sat in the mechanical bird's mouth. In the song "Talk To The Animals," Polynesia the parrot even sings."

The next year Andrews was reunited with James Garner for the CBS made-for-TV movie, One Special Night , which aired in November 1999.

In the 2000 New Year's Millennium Honours List, Andrews was made a Dame Commander of the Order of the British Empire (DBE) for services to the performing arts. She also appears at #59 on the 2002 List of " 100 Greatest Britons " sponsored by the BBC and chosen by the public.

In 2001, Andrews received Kennedy Center Honors . The same year she reunited with Sound of Music co-star Christopher Plummer in a live television performance of On Golden Pond (2001 film)|On Golden Pond (an adaptation of On Golden Pond (play)|the 1979 play ).

Career revival

In 2001, Andrews appeared in The Princess Diaries (film)|The Princess Diaries , her first Disney film since 1964's Mary Poppins . She starred as Queen Clarisse Marie Renaldi and reprised the role in a sequel, The Princess Diaries 2: Royal Engagement (2004). In The Princess Diaries 2 , Andrews sang on film for the first time since having throat surgery. The song, "Your Crowning Glory" (a duet with Teen idol Raven-Symoné ), was set in a limited range of an octave to accommodate her recovering voice.. 19 March 2004. Retrieved 10 February 2008. The film's music supervisor, Dawn Soler, recalled that Andrews, "nailed the song on the first take. I looked around and I saw grip (job)|grips with tears in their eyes."

Andrews continued her association with Disney when she appeared as the nanny in two 2003 made-for-television movies based on the Eloise (books)|Eloise books , a series of children's books by Kay Thompson about a child who lives in the Plaza Hotel in New York City. Eloise at the Plaza premiered in April 2003, and Eloise at Christmastime was broadcast in November 2003. The same year she made her debut as a theatre director, directing a revival of The Boy Friend , the musical in which she made her 1954 Broadway debut, at the Bay Street Theatre in Sag Harbor, New York. Her production, which featured costume and scenic design by her former husband Tony Walton , was remounted at the Goodspeed Opera House in 2005 and went on a national tour in 2006.

From 2005 to 2006 Andrews served as the Official Ambassador for Disneyland 's 18-month-long, 50th anniversary celebration, the " Happiest Homecoming on Earth ", travelling to promote the celebration, and recording narration and appearing at several events at the park.

In 2004 Andrews performed the voice of Queen Lillian (Shrek)|Queen Lillian in the animated blockbuster Shrek 2 (2004), reprising the role for its sequels, Shrek the Third (2007) and Shrek Forever After (2010). Later, in 2007, she narrated Enchanted (film)|Enchanted , a live-action Disney musical comedy that both poked fun and paid homage to classic Disney films such as Mary Poppins .

In January 2007 Andrews was honoured with the Lifetime Achievement Award at the Screen Actors Guild 's awards and stated that her goals included continuing to direct for the stage and possibly to produce her own Broadway musical . She published Home: A Memoir of My Early Years , which she characterised as "part one" of her autobiography, on 1 April 2008.. Retrieved on 2007-12-16. Home chronicles her early years in Britain's music hall circuit and ends in 1962 with her winning the role of Mary Poppins. For a Walt Disney video release she again portrayed Mary Poppins and narrated the story of The Cat That Looked at a King in 2004.

In July through early August 2008, Andrews hosted ''Julie Andrews' The Gift of Music , a short tour of the United States where she sang various Rodgers and Hammerstein songs and symphonised her recently published book, Simeon's Gift . These were her first public singing performances in a dozen years, due to her failed vocal cord surgery.

On 8 May 2009, Andrews received the honorary George and Ira Gershwin Award for Lifetime Achievement in Music at the annual UCLA Spring Sing competition in Pauley Pavilion . Receiving the award she remarked, "Go Bruins. Beat SC ... strike up the band to celebrate every one of those victories."

2010& ndash;present

In January 2010, for the second consecutive time, Andrews was the official USA presenter of the New Year's Day Vienna concert. Andrews also had a supporting role in the film Tooth Fairy (film)|Tooth Fairy , which opened to unfavourable reviews although the box office receipts were successful. On her promotion tour for the film, she also spoke of Operation USA and the aid campaign to the Haiti disaster.

On 8 May 2010, Andrews made her London comeback after a 21-year absence (her last performance there was a Christmas concert at the Royal Festival Hall in 1989). She performed at The O2 Arena (London)|the O2 Arena , accompanied by the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra and an ensemble of five performers. Previous to it she appeared on British television (on 15 December 2009 and on many other occasions), and said that rumours that she would be singing were not true. Instead, she said she would be doing a form of " Sprechgesang|speak singing ".Paul Clements (9 May 2010) The Daily Telegraph However in the concert she actually sang two solos and several duets and ensemble pieces. The evening, though well received by the 20,000 fans present, who gave her standing ovation after standing ovation, did not convince the critics.

On 18 May 2010, Andrews' 23rd book (this one also written with her daughter Emma) was published. In June 2010 the book, entitled The Very Fairy Princess , reached number 1 on the New York Times Best Seller List for Children's Books.

On 21 May 2010, her film Shrek Forever After was released; in it Andrews reprises her role as the Queen. Box Office Mojo. 24 May 2010.

On 9 July 2010, Despicable Me , an animated movie in which Andrews lent her voice to Marlena, the evil mother of the main character Gru, voiced by Steve Carell ), opened to rave reviews and strong box office.

On 28 October 2010, Andrews appeared, along with the actors who portrayed the cinematic Von Trapp family members, on Oprah Winfrey Show|Oprah to commemorate the film's 45th anniversary. (29 October 2010) Broadway.com (29 October 2010) BBC News A few days later, her 24th book, Little Bo in Italy , was published.Jill Serjeant Reuters

On 15 December 2010, Andrews' husband Blake Edwards died of complications of pneumonia at the Saint John's Health Center in Santa Monica, California. Andrews was by her husband's side when he died.Emily Sheridan (16 December 2010) Daily Mail Joe Neumair (16 December 2010) New York Daily News

In February 2011, Andrews received a Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award and, with her daughter Emma Walton Hamilton|Emma , a Grammy for best spoken word album for children (for A Collection of Poems, Songs and Lullabies ), at the 53rd Grammy Awards ceremony. BBC News 22 December 2010 ABC News Thursday 23 December 2010

Filmography

Film

Year	Title	Role	Notes
1949	La Rosa di Bagdad	Princess Zeila	dubbed voice for the 1952 English-language version
1964	Mary Poppins	Mary Poppins	Academy Award for Best Actress Golden Globe Award for Best Actress& nbsp;– Motion Picture Musical or Comedy BAFTA Award for Best Newcomer
1965	sortname>The	Emily Barham
1965	Salzburg Sight and Sound	Herself	short subject
1965	sortname>The	Maria von Trapp	Golden Globe Award for Best Actress& nbsp;– Motion Picture Musical or Comedy Nominated — Academy Award for Best Actress
1966	Torn Curtain	Dr. Sarah Louise Sherman
1966	Hawaii	Jerusha Bromley
1967	Think Twentieth	Herself	short subject
1967	Thoroughly Modern Millie	Millie Dillmount	Nominated — Golden Globe Award for Best Actress& nbsp;– Motion Picture Musical or Comedy
1968	Star!	Gertrude Lawrence	Nominated — Golden Globe Award for Best Actress& nbsp;– Motion Picture Musical or Comedy
1970	Darling Lili	Lili Smith (Schmidt)	Nominated — Golden Globe Award for Best Actress& nbsp;– Motion Picture Musical or Comedy
1971	sortname>The	Herself (uncredited)	short subject
1972	Julie	Herself	documentary
1974	sortname>The	Judith Farrow
1979	10	Samantha Taylor	Nominated — Golden Globe Award for Best Actress& nbsp;– Motion Picture Musical or Comedy
1980	Little Miss Marker	Amanda Worthington
1981	S.O.B.	Sally Miles
1982	Victor Victoria	Victor/ Victoria	Golden Globe Award for Best Actress& nbsp;– Motion Picture Musical or Comedy Nominated— Academy Award for Best Actress
1982	Trail of the Pink Panther	Charwoman (uncredited)
1983	sortname>The	Marianna
1986	That's Life!	Gillian Fairchild	Nominated — Golden Globe Award for Best Actress& nbsp;– Motion Picture Musical or Comedy
1986	Duet for One	Stephanie Anderson	Nominated — Golden Globe Award for Best Actress& nbsp;– Motion Picture Drama
1991	sortname>A	Mrs. Pamela Piquet	Cin cin & nbsp;– USA title
2000	Relative Values	Felicity Marshwood
2001	sortname>The	Queen Clarisse Renaldi
2002	Unconditional Love	Herself (uncredited)	performer: Getting to Know You
2003	Eloise at the Plaza	Nanny
2003	Eloise at Christmastime	Nanny
2004	Shrek 2	Queen Lillian	voice
2004	sortname>The	Queen Clarisse Renaldi
2007	Shrek the Third	Queen Lillian	voice
2007	Enchanted	Narrator	voice
2010	Tooth Fairy	Lily
2010	Shrek Forever After	Queen Lillian	voice
2010	Despicable Me	Gru's Mom (Marlena)	voice

Television

Year	Title	Role	Notes
1956	Ford Star Jubilee	Lise	High Tor
1957	'' Rodgers and Hammerstein's Cinderella	Cinderella	Original live broadcast, 31 March
1959	'' Hans Christian Andersen 's The Gentle Flame	Trissa	BBC broadcast 25 December
1962	Julie and Carol at Carnegie Hall	Herself
1965	sortname>The	Host
1969	sortname>A	Herself	"An Evening with Julie Andrews and Harry Belafonte"
1971	Julie and Carol at Lincoln Center	Herself
1972–73	sortname>The	Host
1973	Julie on Sesame Street	Herself
1974	Julie and Dick at Covent Garden	Herself
1974	Julie and Jackie: How Sweet It Is	Herself
1975	Julie: My Favorite Things	Herself
1978	Julie Andrews: One Step Into Spring	Herself& nbsp;– host
1987	Julie Andrews: The Sound of Christmas	Herself
1989	Julie & Carol: Together Again	Herself
1990	Julie Andrews in Concert	Herself
1991	Our Sons	Audrey Grant	aka Too Little, Too Late
1992	Julie	Julie Carlisle	Series cancelled after 3 months
1993	Sound of Orchestra
1999	One Special Night	Catherine
2001	On Golden Pond	Ethel Thayer
2003	Eloise at the Plaza	Nanny
2003	Eloise at Christmastime	Nanny
2009	Great Performances: "From Vienna: The New Year's Celebration 2009"	Herself	Narrator / Host, succeeding Walter Cronkite
2010	Todos contra Juan	Herself	Argentinian TV sitcom

Stage

Year	Title	Role	Notes
1954	sortname>The	Polly Brown
1956	My Fair Lady	Eliza Doolittle	Nominated — Tony Award for Best Actress in a Musical
1961	Camelot	Queen Guinevere	Nominated — Tony Award for Best Actress in a Musical
1993	Putting It Together	Amy
1995	Victor/ Victoria	Victor/ Victoria	Nominated — Tony Award for Best Actress in a Musical (nomination declined)

Honors

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Year	Award	Category	Result	For
1955	Theatre World Award	Outstanding Broadway Debut	Won	sortname>The
1957	Tony Award	Best Actress in a Musical	Nominated	My Fair Lady
1957	Emmy Award	Best Actress in a Single Performance& nbsp;– Lead or Support	Nominated	Rodgers and Hammerstein's Cinderella (CBS)
1961	Tony Award	Best Actress in a Musical	Nominated	Camelot
1964	Academy Award	Best Actress	Won	Mary Poppins
	Golden Globe	Best Actress& nbsp;– Musical or Comedy	Won	Mary Poppins
	BAFTA	Most Promising Newcomer	Won	Mary Poppins
	Laurel Awards	Musical Performance, Female	Won	Mary Poppins
	Grammy Awards	Best Recording For Children	Won	Mary Poppins (Album)
1965	Emmy Award	Outstanding Individual Achievements in Entertainment (Actors and Performers)	Nominated	sortname>The
	Academy Award	Best Actress	Nominated	sortname>The
	Golden Globe	Best Actress& nbsp;– Musical or Comedy	Won	sortname>The
	BAFTA	Best British Actress	Nominated	sortname>The
	Laurel Awards	Musical Performance, Female	Won	sortname>The
1966	BAFTA	Best British Actress	Nominated	sortname>The
1967	Golden Globe	Best Actress& nbsp;– Musical or Comedy	Nominated	Thoroughly Modern Millie
	Golden Globe	Henrietta Award& nbsp;– World Film Favorite& nbsp;– Female	Won
	Laurel Awards	Female Comedy Performance	Won	Thoroughly Modern Millie
	Laurel Awards	Female Star	Won
1968	Golden Globe	Best Actress& nbsp;– Musical or Comedy	Nominated	Star!
1968	Golden Globe	Henrietta Award& nbsp;– World Film Favorite& nbsp;– Female	Won
1970	Golden Globe	Best Actress& nbsp;– Musical or comedy	Nominated	Darling Lili
1972	Emmy Award	Outstanding Single Program& nbsp;– Variety or Musical& nbsp;– Variety and Popular Music	Nominated	Julie and Carol at Lincoln Center
1973	Golden Globes	Best Motion Picture Actress& nbsp;– Musical/ Comedy	Nominated	sortname>The
1973	Emmy Awards	Outstanding Variety Musical Series	Won	sortname>The
1979	Golden Globe	Best actress& nbsp;– Musical or Comedy	Nominated	10
1981	Emmy Award	Outstanding Individual Achievement in Children's Programming - Performers	Nominated	''Julie Andrews' Invitation to the Dance with Rudolph Nureyev (The CBS Festival of Lively Arts For Young People)
1982	Academy Award	Best Actress	Nominated	Victor Victoria
1982	Golden Globe	Best Actress& nbsp;– Musical or Comedy	Won	Victor Victoria
1983	Hasty Pudding Theatricals	Woman of the Year	Won
1983	People's Choice Award	Film Acting	Won
1986	Golden Globe	Best Actress& nbsp;– Musical or Comedy	Nominated	'' That's Life!
1986	Golden Globe	Best Actress& nbsp;– Drama	Nominated	Duet for One
1991	Disney Legend	In Film	Won
1993	Women in Film	Crystal Award
1995	Emmy Awards	Outstanding Individual Performance in a Variety or Music Program	Nominated	sortname>The
1996	Tony Award	Best Actress in a Musical	Nominated	Victor/ Victoria
1996	Grammy Award	Best Traditional Pop Vocal Performance	Nominated	"Broadway: The Music Of Richard Rodgers"
2001	Kennedy Center Honors	Kennedy Center Honoree	Won
	Society of Singers	Society of Singers Life Achievement	Won	Lifetime Achievement
	Donostia Award	San Sebastian International Film Festival	Won	Lifetime Achievement
2004	Emmy Awards	Supporting Actress, Miniseries or a Movie	Nominated	Eloise at Christmastime
2004	Golden Plate Award	Academy of Achievement	Won
2005	Emmy Awards	Outstanding Nonfiction Series	Won	Broadway: The American Musical
2006	Screen Actors Guild	Life Achievement Award	Won	Lifetime Achievement
2009	UCLA George and Ira Gershwin Award	Lifetime Musical Achievement	Won	Lifetime Musical Achievement
2011	Prince Rainier Award	Outstanding contribution to motion picture, television and theater arts Probst, Andy. theatermania.com, October 3, 2011	Recipient
	Grammy Awards	Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award	Won	Lifetime Achievement
	Grammy Awards	Best Spoken Word Album For Children	Won	''Julie Andrews' Collection Of Poems, Songs, And Lullabies

Bibliography

Andrews has published books under her name as well as the pen names Julie Andrews Edwards and Julie Edwards.

Andrews, Julie. Home: A Memoir of My Early Years (2008) Hyperion ISBN 0786865652

Andrews, Julie and Emma Walton Hamilton (Authors) and Christine Davenier (Illustrator). . Little Brown 2010. ISBN 9780316040501.

Andrews, Julie and Emma Walton Hamilton (Authors) and James McMullan (Illustrator). . Little Brown 2009. ISBN 9780316040495.

Edwards, Julie Andrews (Author) and Johanna Westerman (Illustrator). . HarperTrophy 1989. ISBN 0064402967.

Edwards, Julie. The Last of the Really Great Whangdoodles . New York: Harper and Row. 1974. ISBN 000184461X.

Edwards, Julie Andrews. . Hyperion, 1999. ISBN 0-7868-0514-5. (several others in this series.)

Edwards, Julie Andrews and Emma Walton Hamilton. . Hyperion, 2000. ISBN 0-7868-0609-5. (several others in the Dumpy series.)

Edwards, Julie Andrews and Emma Walton Hamilton, (Authors). Gennady Spirin (Illustrator). . 2003. ISBN 0-06-008914-8.

Edwards, Julie Andrews and Emma Walton Hamilton. . HarperTrophy, 2005. ISBN 0-06-057121-7.

Edwards, Julie Andrews and Emma Walton Hamilton (Authors) and Tony Walton (Illustrator). . HarperTrophy, 2006. ISBN 0-06-057918-8.

Edwards, Julie Andrews and Emma Walton Hamilton.. Julie Andrews Collection, 2007. ISBN 0061240028.

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