Julie Andrews

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.http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000267/awards Though she has never won a Tony Award, she was nominated for her performance in My Fair Lady on Broadway.http://www.edsullivan.com/artists/julie-andrews/

After starring in Mary Poppins, she starred in The Sound of Music.http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0059742/ In 1969 she married her second husband, film director Blake Edwards. 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. 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.http://www.zvents.com/performers/show/5781-julie-andrews

Andrews' long time husband, Blake Edwards, passed away on December 15, 2010. He died due to complications from pneumonia. He was 88 years old and had been married to Andrews for 41 years. He was a film maker who wrote his first film in 1948. In 2004, he received a lifetime achievement award from the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences.http://www.monstersandcritics.com/people/news/article_1606289.php/Julie-Andrews-pays-tribute-to-one-of-a-kind-husband

As a child, Julie Andrews discovered that she had a 4 octave singing voice. She performed throughout her childhood and officially launched her stage career at age 20 with her performance of Cinderella. Andrews starred in a variety of high grossing plays, movies and TV specials in the mid 1950s and 1960s. She continued appearing in many rolls throughout the following decades before a throat operation in 1998 damaged her singing voice.http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000267/bio

• 1964: Mary Poppins
• 1964: The Americanization of Emily
• 1965: The Sound of Music
• 1967: Throughly Modern Millie
• 1982: Victor Victora
• 2001: On Golden Pond
• 2001: The Princess Diaries
• 2004: Shrek 2
• 2004: The Princess Diaries 2: Royal Engagement
• 2007: Shrek The Third
• 2007: Enchanted
• 2010: Shrek Forever After (Voice)
• 2010: Despicable Me (Voice)

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"Does Mary Poppins have an orgasm? Does she go to the bathroom? I assure you, she does."—Julie Andrewshttp://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000267/bio#quotes

"I've learned things about myself through singing. I used to have a certain dislike of the audience, not as individual people, but as a giant body who was judging me. Of course, it wasn't really them judging me. It was me judging me. Once I got past that fear, it freed me up, not just when I was performing but in other parts of my life."—Julie Andrewshttp://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000267/bio#quotes