• Julie Andrews is a British actress who has been in film, screen, and stage productions. She has won three of the four major awards: winning Academy Award for Best Actress in the 1964 film Mary Poppins; a Primetime Emmy Award for her performance in the 1957 television version of Cinderella; and a Grammy Award in the category "Best Recording for Children" for Mary Poppins as well. Though she has never won a Tony Award, she first made a name for herself by starring in Broadway productions of Camelot and My Fair Lady, for which she was nominated for a Tony Award. After starring in Mary Poppins, she starred in the timeless classic The Sound of Music. In 1969 she married her second and current husband, film director Blake Edwards, and though she would continue to perform on variety series, she would team with Edwards to star in several of his films such as [[Star!]], S.O.B., and Victor/Victoria, for which she would receive another Academy Award nomination. More recently, she appeared in both the Princess Diaries and Princess Diaries 2, performed voiceovers for Shrek 2 and Shrek the Third, and narrated the live-action Disney film Enchanted.

• Fast Facts:

  1. Title: Dame Julie Andrews
  2. Birth name: Julia Elizabeth Wells
  3. Born: October 1, 1935
  4. Birthplace: Surrey, England
  5. Current Spouse: Blake Edwards since 1969
  6. Mother of Emma Walton
  7. 4 Octave Soprano voice until 1998
  8. 1995 had throat surgery
  9. Pen name: Julie Edwards
  10. Possessed a five-octave coloratura soprano range
  11. Won malpractice suit from botched surgery
  12. Has perfect pitch
  13. Rose named after her
  14. Recipient of Kennedy Center Honors in 2001
  15. 2007 Received the Screen Actors Guild Lifetime Achievement Award

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