Dame Julia Elizabeth Andrews, DBE (née Wells; born 1 October 1935) is an 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 Award. In 1996, she famously declined the Tony Award nomination for Best Actress in a Musical, an award she was favourite to win. Andrews was 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, and in musical films such as Mary Poppins (1964), for which she won the Academy Award for Best Actress, and 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 (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.
Aww ! Ellen i was looking through your video's to put one in my Christmas playlist and this will do very nicely... Fantastic job as always. Sending you christmas cheer *****
chrishayrider68 3 months ago
@chrishayrider68 This year I have made two Christmas videos so far. I might make another later. Julie does sing this beautifully! Thank you for your nice comments. Later I will showcase the Christmas videos on my channel page.
---------Ellen
Shabannie 3 months ago
The angelic voice of Julie Andrews is simply gorgeous and perfect for Christmas Carols!
andreinagarban 4 months ago
@andreinagarban Thank you for your nice comment!
-------Ellen
Shabannie 4 months ago
Beautiful! Thank you. :)
countrychloe 4 months ago
@countrychloe Thank you for your thoughtful remarks!
------Ellen
Shabannie 4 months ago