Julie Andrews

Dame Julie Andrews DBE (born Julia Elizabeth Wells, 1 October 1935) is an English actress, singer and author.[1] Andrews, a child actress and singer, appeared in the West End in 1948 and made her Broadway debut in The Boy Friend (1954). Billed as "Britain's youngest prima donna",[2] she rose to prominence starring in Broadway musicals such as My Fair Lady (1956) playing Eliza Doolittle and Camelot (1960) playing Queen Guinevere. In 1957, Andrews starred in the premiere of Rodgers and Hammerstein's written-for-television musical Cinderella, a live, network broadcast seen by over 100 million viewers. Andrews made her feature film debut in Mary Poppins (1964) and won the Academy Award for Best Actress for her performance in the title role. She starred in The Sound of Music (1965), playing Maria von Trapp and won the Golden Globe Award for Best Actress – Motion Picture Comedy or Musical.

Dame

Julie Andrews

DBE
Andrews in 2001
Born
Julia Elizabeth Wells

(1935-10-01) 1 October 1935
Walton-on-Thames, Surrey, England
Occupation
  • Actress
  • singer
  • dancer
  • author
Years active1945–present
Spouse(s)
Children3, including Emma Walton Hamilton

Between 1964 and 1986, she starred in The Americanization of Emily (1964), Hawaii (1966), Torn Curtain (1966), Thoroughly Modern Millie (1967), Star! (1968), The Tamarind Seed (1974), 10 (1979), S.O.B. (1981), Victor/Victoria (1982), That's Life! (1986) and Duet for One (1986). After 1986, her workload decreased, appearing in two films in 1991 and not again until 2000. Since the turn of the new millennium, however, her career has had a revival, with central roles in the Shrek series as Queen Lillian, in The Princess Diaries and its sequel as Queen Clarisse Renaldi and in the Despicable Me series as Gru's mother Marlena. She has also worked hosting performance shows such as Great Performances and narrating documentaries such as the 2004 Emmy-winning series Broadway: The American Musical.

In 2000, Andrews was made a Dame by Queen Elizabeth II for services to the performing arts. In 2002, she was ranked #59 in the BBC's poll of the 100 Greatest Britons. In 2003, she revisited her first Broadway success, this time as a stage director, with a revival of The Boy Friend. From 2001 to 2004, Andrews starred in The Princess Diaries (2001) and The Princess Diaries 2: Royal Engagement (2004). From 2004 to 2018, she lent her voice to the Shrek animated films, Despicable Me (2010) and Aquaman (2018).

Andrews has won an Academy Award, a BAFTA, five Golden Globes, three Grammys, two Emmys, the AFI Life Achievement Award, the Screen Actors Guild Life Achievement Award, the Kennedy Center Honors Award, and the Disney Legends Award. Apart from her musical career, she is also an author of children's books and has published two autobiographies, Home: A Memoir of My Early Years (2008) and Home Work: A Memoir of My Hollywood Years (2019).

Early life

Julia Elizabeth Wells[3] was born on 1 October 1935 in Walton-on-Thames, Surrey, England.[4][5] Her mother, Barbara Ward Wells (née Morris; 1910–1984) was born in Chertsey[6] and married Edward Charles "Ted" Wells (1908–1990), a teacher of metalwork and woodwork, in 1932.[7] Andrews was conceived as a result of an affair her mother had with a family friend. Andrews discovered her true parentage from her mother in 1950,[8][9] although it was not publicly disclosed until her 2008 autobiography.[10]

With the outbreak of World War II, Barbara and Ted Wells went their separate ways and were soon divorced. Each remarried: Barbara to Ted Andrews, in 1943,[11] and Ted Wells in 1944[12] to Winifred Maud (Hyde) Birkhead, a war widow and former hairstylist working a lathe at a war work factory that employed them both in Hinchley Wood, Surrey.[8][9][13] Ted Wells assisted with evacuating children to Surrey during the Blitz, while Barbara joined Ted Andrews in entertaining the troops through the Entertainments National Service Association (ENSA).

Andrews lived briefly with Ted Wells and her brother John[14] in Surrey. In 1940, Ted Wells sent young Julia 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 Julie Andrews' 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 they "lived in a bad slum area of London," Andrews recalled, adding, "That was a very black period in my life." According to Andrews, her stepfather was violent and an alcoholic.[10] Ted Andrews twice, while drunk, tried to get into bed with his stepdaughter, resulting in Andrews fitting a lock on her door.[10] As the stage career of Ted and Barbara Andrews improved, they were able to afford better surroundings, first to Beckenham and then, as the war ended, back to the Andrews' hometown of Hersham. The Andrews family took up residence at the Old Meuse, in West Grove, Hersham, a house (now demolished) where Andrews' maternal grandmother had served as a maid.[9]

Andrews' stepfather sponsored lessons for her, first at the independent arts educational school Cone-Ripman School (now known commonly as ArtsEd) in London, and thereafter with 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 – 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",[15]:22 though Andrews herself refutes this in her 2008 autobiography Home.[8][16] According to Andrews, "Madame was sure that I could do Mozart and Rossini, but, to be honest, I never was".[15]:24 Of her own voice, she says, "I had a very pure, white, thin voice, a four-octave range – dogs would come from miles around."[15]:24 After Cone-Ripman School, Andrews continued her academic education at the nearby Woodbrook School, a local state school in Beckenham.[17]

Career

Early career in Britain

Beginning in 1945, and for the next two years, Julie Andrews performed spontaneously and unbilled on stage with her parents. "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 sing into the microphone, 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."[18][19]

Petula Clark recalls touring round Britain by train to sing for the troops with Andrews, who was three years younger; they slept in the luggage racks. Clark said "It was fun—and not a lot of kids were having fun".[20]

Julie Andrews gained 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.[8][21] Of "Starlight Roof," Andrews recalled: "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."[22]

On 1 November 1948, Julie Andrews (aged 13) became the youngest solo performer ever to be seen in a Royal Command Variety Performance before King George VI and Queen Elizabeth at the London Palladium, where she performed along with Danny Kaye, the Nicholas Brothers, and the comedy team George and Bert Bernard.[23][24]

Julie Andrews followed her parents into radio and television.[25] She performed in musical interludes of the BBC Light Programme comedy show Up the Pole and later Educating Archie, of which she was a cast member from 1950 to 1952.[24] She reportedly made her television début on the BBC programme RadiOlympia Showtime on 8 October 1949.[26]

Andrews appeared on West End theatre at the London Casino, where she played one year each as Princess Badroulbadour in Aladdin and the egg in Humpty Dumpty. She also appeared on provincial stages in Jack and the Beanstalk and Little Red Riding Hood, as well as starring as the lead role in Cinderella.[25]

In 1952, she voiced Princess Zeila in the English dub of the Italian animated movie The Singing Princess (La Rosa di Bagdad, 1949), in her first film and first venture into voice-over work.[27]

Early career in the United States
Andrews as Eliza Doolittle meets Rex Harrison as Professor Henry Higgins in the musical adaptation of Pygmalion, My Fair Lady

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.[1] To the critics, Andrews was the stand-out performer in the show.[28] Near the end of her Boy Friend contract, as a Londoner Andrews was asked to audition for the role of Cockney flower girl Eliza Doolittle in My Fair Lady on Broadway and got the part.[29] In November 1955, Andrews was signed to appear with Bing Crosby in what one source calls the first made-for-television film, High Tor, which aired on the Ford Star Jubilee in March 1956.[30]

Andrews auditioned for a part in the Richard Rodgers 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.[28]

Andrews as Queen Guinevere with Richard Burton as King Arthur in the musical Camelot

Cinderella was broadcast live on CBS on 31 March 1957 under the musical direction of Alfredo Antonini and had an estimated 107 million viewers.[31][32] The show was broadcast in colour from CBS Studio 72, at 2248 Broadway in New York City. Only a black-and-white kinescope remains, which has been released on DVD. Andrews was nominated for an Emmy Award for her performance.[33]

In 1957, Andrews released her debut solo album, The Lass with the Delicate Air, which harked back to her British music hall days.[34] The album includes performances of English folk songs as well as the World War II anthem, "London Pride", a patriotic song written by Noël Coward in 1941 during the Blitz, which Andrews herself had survived.[34][35]

Between 1956 and 1962, Andrews guest-starred on The Ed Sullivan Show (15 July 1956), and 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 Queen Guinevere in Camelot, along with Richard Burton (as King Arthur) and newcomer Robert Goulet. However, because film studio head Jack L. Warner decided Andrews lacked sufficient name recognition for her casting in the film version of My Fair Lady, Eliza was instead played by the established film actress Audrey Hepburn. As Warner later recalled, the decision was easy, "In my business, I have to know who brings people and their money to a cinema box office. Audrey Hepburn had never made a financial flop."[36]

Film stardom
Andrews in Mary Poppins (1964)

In 1963, Andrews began her work in the title role of Disney's musical film Mary Poppins. Walt Disney had seen her performance as Queen Guinevere and thought she would be perfect for the role of the British nanny who is "practically perfect in every way!" Andrews initially declined because of pregnancy, returning to London to give birth, but Disney firmly insisted, saying, "We'll wait for you."[37]

Mary Poppins became the biggest box-office draw in Disney history. Andrews won the 1964 Academy Award for Best Actress and the Golden Globe Award for Best Actress – Motion Picture Comedy or Musical for her performance. She and her co-stars also won the 1965 Grammy Award for Best Album for Children. As a measure of "sweet revenge," as Poppins songwriter 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."[37][38] My Fair Lady was in direct competition for the awards.

Andrews' "Maria" dress and Goya guitar from The Sound of Music (1965)

Andrews starred opposite James Garner in The Americanization of Emily (1964), for which she was nominated for the BAFTA Award for Best British Actress in a Leading Role. A comedy-drama war film set in London during World War II, Andrews has described it as her favourite film, a sentiment shared by her co-star Garner.[39]

Andrews starred in The Sound of Music (1965), which was the highest-grossing film of its year.[40] In 2018, it remains the third highest-grossing film of all time in the US, adjusted for inflation.[41] For her performance as Maria von Trapp, Andrews won her second Golden Globe Award for Best Actress – Motion Picture Comedy or Musical. She was nominated a second time for the Academy Award for Best Actress and the BAFTA Award for Best British Actress in a Leading Role, though in both awards she lost to Julie Christie, for Darling.

After completing The Sound of Music, Andrews appeared as a guest star on the NBC-TV variety series The Andy Williams Show. She followed this television appearance with an Emmy Award-winning 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 in Hawaii, the second highest-grossing film of its year. Also in 1966, she starred opposite Paul Newman in Torn Curtain, which was directed by Alfred Hitchcock. The following year, she played the title character in Thoroughly Modern Millie (1967), for which she received a Golden Globe nomination. At the time, Thoroughly Modern Millie and Torn Curtain were the biggest and second biggest hits in Universal Pictures history, respectively.

Mid-career
Rock Hudson and Andrews kissing in Darling Lili (1970)

Andrews next appeared in two of Hollywood's most expensive flops: Star! (1968), a biopic of Gertrude Lawrence; and Darling Lili (1970), co-starring Rock Hudson and directed by her second husband, Blake Edwards. Andrews was the first choice to play the English witch Eglantine Price in Disney's Bedknobs and Broomsticks (1971); Angela Lansbury was cast.[42]

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 1972–73, Andrews starred in her own television variety series, The Julie Andrews Hour, on the ABC network. The show won seven Emmy Awards 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,[43] and the following year, she appeared again with the Muppets on a CBS television variety special. The programme, Julie Andrews: One Step Into Spring, aired in March 1978, to mixed reviews and mediocre ratings. She made only two other films in the 1970s, The Tamarind Seed (1974) and 10 (1979), both successful at the box office and by critics reviews.

In February 1980, Andrews headlined "Because We Care", a CBS-TV special with 30 major stars raising funds for Cambodian Famine victims through Operation California (now Operation USA, on whose Board she serves). Later that year, she starred in Little Miss Marker as English rose Amanda Worthington (a label she had first been given in the 1960s).[44] In Blake Edwards' S.O.B. (1981), she played Sally Miles, a character who agrees to "show my boobies" in a scene in the film-within-a-film.

A dual role of Victoria Grant and Count Victor Grezhinski in the film Victor/Victoria (1982), meant she performed with James Garner once again. Her performance earned her a Golden Globe Award for Best Actress – Motion Picture Comedy or Musical, as well as a nomination for the 1982 Academy Award for Best Actress, her third Oscar nomination.[1][45] In 1983, Andrews was chosen as the Hasty Pudding Woman of the Year by the Harvard University Theatrical Society.[46] That year, she co-starred with Burt Reynolds in The Man Who Loved Women. Her next two films were That's Life! and Duet for One (both 1986), which earned her Golden Globe nominations.

Julie Andrews' star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame

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 film, 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, the short-lived Julie aired on ABC for only seven episodes and co-starred James Farentino. In December 1992, she hosted the NBC holiday special, Christmas In Washington.

Having played a Cockney flower seller in My Fair Lady, Andrews had an orangey-salmon pink rose named after her at London’s Chelsea Flower Show in 1992. Stating she was "ever so flattered", portions of the sales of the "Julie Andrews Rose" were donated to charity.[47]

In 1993, she starred in a limited run at the Manhattan Theatre Club in the American premiere of Stephen Sondheim's revue, Putting It Together. Between 1994 and 1995, Andrews recorded two solo albums – 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. 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 for 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.[48]

Loss of singing voice

Andrews was forced to quit the show towards the end of the Broadway run in 1997 when she developed hoarseness in her voice. She subsequently underwent surgery at New York's Mount Sinai Hospital, reportedly to remove non-cancerous nodules from her throat,[1] though she later stated the hoarseness was due to "a certain kind of muscular striation [that] happens on the vocal cords"—itself the result of a strain from Victor/Victoria (she added "I didn't have cancer, I didn't have nodules, I didn't have anything.")[49] She emerged from the surgery with permanent damage that destroyed the purity of her singing and gave a rasp to her speaking voice. In 1999, she filed a malpractice suit against the doctors at Mount Sinai Hospital, including Scott Kessler and 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 [her singing voice] still hasn't returned."[50] The lawsuit was settled in September 2000 for an undisclosed amount.[51]

Andrews admits that she has never recovered from the botched attempt to remove nodules from her vocal cords back in 1997. Her famous, four-octave soprano was then reduced to a fragile alto – she was quoted at the time as saying "I can sing the hell out of "Old Man River."[52]

Subsequently, from 2000 onwards, Steven M. Zeitels, director of the Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH) Center for Laryngeal Surgery and Voice Rehabilitation, operated on her four times and while able to improve her speaking voice, was unable to restore her singing.[53]

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 film, One Special Night, which aired in November 1999.

In the 2000 New Year Honours List, Andrews was made a Dame Commander of the Order of the British Empire (DBE) for services to the performing arts and received the award from Queen Elizabeth II at Buckingham Palace.[54][55] In 2002, Andrews was among the guests at the Queen's Golden Jubilee Hollywood party held at the Beverly Wilshire Hotel.[56] She also appears at No.59 on the 2002 poll of the "100 Greatest Britons" sponsored by the BBC and chosen by the British public.[57]

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 (an adaptation of the 1979 play).

Career revival

In 2001, Andrews appeared in The Princess Diaries, her first Disney film since Mary Poppins. She starred as Queen Clarisse Marie Renaldi and reprised the role in the 2004 sequel, The Princess Diaries 2: Royal Engagement. In the film, Andrews sang on film for the first time since having throat surgery. The song, "Your Crowning Glory", a duet with Raven-Symoné, was set in a limited range of an octave to accommodate her recovering voice.[58] The film's music supervisor, Dawn Soler, recalled that Andrews "nailed the song on the first take. I looked around and I saw grips with tears in their eyes."[58]

Andrews continued her association with Disney when she appeared as the nanny in two television films based on the 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; Andrews was nominated for an Emmy Award.[33] 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.

Andrews in 2003

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. On 17 March 2005, Andrews appeared onstage during the curtain calls for the musical of Mary Poppins at the Prince Edward Theatre in London's West End, where she gave a speech recalling her own memories from making the film and praised the cast for their new interpretation.[59]

In 2004, Andrews voiced Queen Lillian in the animated blockbuster Shrek 2 (2004), reprising the role for its sequels, Shrek the Third (2007) and Shrek Forever After (2010). Also in 2007, she narrated Enchanted, a live-action Disney musical comedy that both parodied and paid homage to Disney films such as Mary Poppins.

On 1 May 2005, Disneyland debuted a new fireworks show, Remember... Dreams Come True, for Disneyland's 50th anniversary, with Andrews being the host and narrator of the show.

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.[45] She published Home: A Memoir of My Early Years, which she characterised as "part one" of her autobiography, on 1 April 2008. 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.

From July until early August 2008, Andrews hosted Julie Andrews' The Gift of Music, a short tour of the United States[60] where she sang various Rodgers and Hammerstein songs and symphonised her recently published book, Simeon's Gift. Appearances included the Hollywood Bowl in Los Angeles, the Mann Center for the Performing Arts in Philadelphia, and a performance with the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra.[61][62][63] These were her first public singing performances in a dozen years, due to her failed vocal cord surgery.[64]

In January 2009, Andrews was named on The Times' list of the top 10 British Actresses of all time. The list included Helen Mirren, Helena Bonham Carter, Judi Dench, and Audrey Hepburn.[65] 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.

2010–present
Andrews's handprints in front of Grauman's Chinese Theatre

In January 2010, Andrews was the official United States presenter for the Great Performances From Vienna: The New Year's Celebration 2010 concert.[66] This was her second appearance in this role, after presenting the previous year's concert.[67] Andrews also had a supporting role in the film Tooth Fairy, which opened to unfavourable reviews[68] although the box office receipts were successful.[69] On her promotion tour for the film, she also spoke of Operation USA and the aid campaign to the Haiti disaster.[70]

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, accompanied by the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra and an ensemble of five performers.[71] Earlier (on 15 December 2009 and on many other occasions), she appeared on British television saying that rumours that she would be singing at the performance were not true and that she would be doing a form of "speak singing".[72] Yet 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,[73] did not convince the critics.[74]

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.[75] On 21 May 2010, her film Shrek Forever After was released; in it Andrews reprises her role as the Queen.[76] On 9 July 2010, Despicable Me, an animated film in which Andrews lent her voice to Marlena Gru, the thoughtless and soul-crushing mother of the main character Gru (voiced by Steve Carell), opened to rave reviews[77] and strong box office.[78]

On 28 October 2010, Andrews appeared, along with the actors who portrayed the cinematic von Trapp family members, on Oprah to commemorate the film's 45th anniversary.[79][80] A few days later, her 24th book, Little Bo in Italy, was published.[81] On 15 December 2010, Andrews' husband Blake Edwards died at the age of 88, 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.[82]

An Evening with Julie Andrews in Sydney, Australia, 16 May 2013

In February 2011, Andrews received a Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award and, with her daughter Emma, a Grammy for best spoken-word album for children (for A Collection of Poems, Songs and Lullabies), at the 53rd Grammy Awards.[83][84]

In her memoir, Home Work (2019), Andrews discussed being offered the role of Aunt Emma by Martin Scorsese for his film The Wolf of Wall Street (2013). Unfortunately, she declined citing a recent surgery and she wasn't "ready to go back to work" but "would've loved to have done it".[85]

At the age of 77, Andrews undertook her first tour of Australia and New Zealand in 2013, hosted by Nicholas Hammond[86] who was a boy of 14 when they appeared together in The Sound of Music.[52] In place of singing, she planned a series of speaking engagements in Australia's five mainland state capitals.[87] The following year she took the show on a tour of England, which was hosted by Aled Jones. The tour began with a May date at the National Indoor Arena in Birmingham and included an appearance at the Echo Arena in Liverpool.[88]

In 2015, Andrews made a surprise appearance at the Oscars, greeting Lady Gaga who paid her homage by singing a medley from The Sound of Music.[89] This became a social media sensation, trending all over the world.[90] Lyndon Terracini announced in August 2015 that Andrews would direct My Fair Lady in 2016 for Opera Australia at the Sydney Opera House.[91]

In 2016, Andrews created the preschool television series Julie's Greenroom with her daughter, Emma Walton Hamilton and Judy Rothman. Andrews is joined by her assistant Gus (Giullian Yao Gioiello) and “Greenies,” a cast of original puppets built by The Jim Henson Company. The series premiered on Netflix in 2017.[92] In 2017, Andrews also reprised her role as Marlena Gru in the second Despicable Me sequel Despicable Me 3.[93] In 2018, Andrews voiced Karathen, a leviathan, in James Wan's Aquaman.[94] That same year, she declined a cameo appearance in Mary Poppins Returns to avoid stealing the limelight now belonging to star Emily Blunt.[95]

Personal life

Andrews has been married twice, first to set designer Tony Walton from 1959 until 1967, then to director Blake Edwards from 1969[96][97][98] until his death in 2010.[24][99][100]

Andrews married 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. In September 1962, Andrews and Walton returned to London, where their daughter Emma Katherine Walton was born two months later.[101]

Andrews married Edwards in 1969;[97] his children from a previous marriage, Jennifer and Geoffrey, were 3 and 5 years older than Emma.[102] In the 1970s, Edwards and Andrews adopted two daughters; Amy in 1974 and Joanna in 1975.[103][104] Andrews is a grandmother to nine[105] and great-grandmother to three.[106]

Voice
Andrews as Cockney flower girl Eliza Doolittle singing "Wouldn't It Be Loverly" in My Fair Lady

Termed "Britain's youngest prima donna",[107][108] Andrews' classically trained soprano voice,[109] lauded for its "pure and clear" sound,[110] has been described as light, bright and operatic in tone. When a young Andrews was taken by her parents to be examined by a throat specialist, the doctor concluded that she had "an almost adult larynx."[111] In spite of her voice teacher, English soprano Lilian Stiles-Allen, having continually encouraged her to pursue opera, Andrews herself felt that her voice was unsuited for the genre and "too big a stretch". At the time, Andrews described her own voice as "extremely high and thin", feeling that it lacked "the necessary guts and weight for opera", preferring musical theatre instead. As she aged, so did her voice, which began to naturally deepen. Losing her vast upper register, her "top notes" became increasingly difficult to sing while "her middle register matured into the warm golden tone" for which she has become known, according to Tim Wong of The Daily Telegraph.[111]

Musically, Andrews had always preferred singing music that was "bright and sunny", choosing to avoid songs that were sad, depressing, upsetting, or written in a minor key, for fear of losing her voice "in a mess of emotion". She cited this as another reason for avoiding opera.[111]

Filmography

Film
Year Title Role Notes
1949 La Rosa di Bagdad Princess Zeila
(voice)		 1952 English dub
1964 Mary Poppins Mary Poppins
The Americanization of Emily Emily Barham
1965 Salzburg Sight and Sound Herself Short subject
The Sound of Music Maria von Trapp
1966 Torn Curtain Dr. Sarah Louise Sherman
Hawaii Jerusha Bromley
1967 Think Twentieth Herself Short subject
Thoroughly Modern Millie Millie Dillmount
1968 Star! Gertrude Lawrence
1970 Darling Lili Lili Smith (Schmidt)
1971 The Moviemakers Herself (uncredited) Short subject
1972 Julie Herself Documentary
1974 The Tamarind Seed Judith Farrow
1975 The Return of the Pink Panther Maid Scene cut[112]
1976 The Pink Panther Strikes Again Ainsley Jarvis (singing voice, uncredited)
1979 10 Samantha Taylor
1980 Little Miss Marker Amanda Worthington
1981 S.O.B. Sally Miles
1982 Victor/Victoria Victoria Grant / Count Victor Grezhinski
Trail of the Pink Panther Charwoman (uncredited)
1983 The Man Who Loved Women Marianna
1986 That's Life! Gillian Fairchild
Duet for One Stephanie Anderson
1991 A Fine Romance Mrs. Pamela Piquet Cin cin – United States title
Our Sons Audrey
1997 The Postman Maria (Archive Footage) (Uncredited)
2000 Relative Values Felicity Marshwood
2001 The Princess Diaries Queen Clarisse Renaldi
2003 Eloise at the Plaza Nanny
Eloise at Christmastime
2004 Shrek 2 Queen Lillian Voice
The Princess Diaries 2: Royal Engagement Queen Clarisse Renaldi
2007 Shrek the Third Queen Lillian Voice
Enchanted Narrator Voice
2010 Tooth Fairy Lily the Head Fairy
Shrek Forever After Queen Lillian Voice
Despicable Me Marlena Voice
2017 Despicable Me 3 Voice
2018 Aquaman Karathen Voice[94]
2021 Minions: The Rise of Gru Marlena Gru Voice

Box Office Ranking
See also: Top Ten Money Making Stars Poll
  • 1965 - 4th (US), 3rd (UK)
  • 1966 - 1st (US), 8th (UK)
  • 1967 - 1st (US)
  • 1968 - 3rd (US), 8th (UK)
  • 1969 - 19th (US), 8th (UK)
  • 1970 - 19th (US)
  • 1982 - 25th (US)

Television
Year Title Role Notes
1956 Ford Star Jubilee Lise Episode: High Tor with Bing Crosby
1957 Rodgers and Hammerstein's Cinderella Cinderella Television Special
Original live broadcast, 31 March
1959 The Gentle Flame Trissa Television Movie, BBC
1961 The Ed Sullivan Show Herself CBS special tribute to Alan Jay Lerner and Frederick Loewe
performed songs from Brigadoon, My Fair Lady and Camelot
1962 The Garry Moore Show Season 5 - Episode 1
1962 Julie and Carol at Carnegie Hall Television Special
1964 The Andy Williams Show
1965 The Julie Andrews Show Host
1969 A World in Music Herself Episode: "An Evening with Julie Andrews and Harry Belafonte"
1971 Julie and Carol at Lincoln Center
1972–73 The Julie Andrews Hour Host
1973 Julie on Sesame Street Herself
1974 The Dick Cavett Show
Julie and Dick at Covent Garden
Julie and Jackie: How Sweet It Is
1975 Julie: My Favorite Things
1977 The Muppet Show
1978 Julie Andrews: One Step Into Spring Herself – host
1981 The CBS Festival of Lively Arts for Young People Herself
1987 Julie Andrews: The Sound of Christmas
1989 Julie & Carol: Together Again
1990 Julie Andrews in Concert
1991 Our Sons Audrey Grant TV movie
1992 Julie Julie Carlisle TV series (7 episodes)
The King & I Anna TV musical
1993 Sound of Orchestra Host
1995 The Sound of Julie Andrews
Victor/Victoria Victoria Grant
Count Victor Grezhinski		 TV movie
1999 One Special Night Catherine
2001 On Golden Pond Ethel Thayer
2003 Eloise at the Plaza Nanny TV movie
Eloise at Christmastime TV movie
2004 Broadway: The American Musical Narrator/Host Six-part PBS documentary series about Musical Theatre
2009–10
2012–17		 Great Performances Narrator/Host Episode "From Vienna: The New Year's Celebration,"
2012 The Colbert Report Guest
2014-17 The Graham Norton Show Guest 2 episodes
2017 Julie's Greenroom Miss Julie Co-creator; Netflix series
2020 Bridgerton Lady Whistledown Voice; 8 episodes - Netflix series

Stage
Year Title Role Notes
1954–55 The Boy Friend Polly Brown
1956–59 My Fair Lady Eliza Doolittle
1960–62 Camelot Queen Guinevere
1993 Putting It Together Amy
1995–97 Victor/Victoria Victoria Grant / Count Victor Grezhinski

Accolades

Academy Awards

Note: The year given is the year of the ceremony

Year Award Performance Result
1965 Best Actress Mary Poppins Won
1966 The Sound of Music Nominated
1983 Victor/Victoria Nominated

Golden Globe Awards

Note: The year given is the year of the ceremony

Year Award Performance Result
1965 Best Actress – Motion Picture Comedy or Musical Mary Poppins Won
1966 The Sound of Music Won
1967 Henrietta Award — World Film Favorite — Female — Won
1968 Best Actress – Motion Picture Comedy or Musical Thoroughly Modern Millie Nominated
Henrietta Award — World Film Favorite — Female — Won
1969 Nominated
Best Actress – Motion Picture Comedy or Musical Star! Nominated
1970 Henrietta Award — World Film Favorite — Female — Won
1971 Best Actress – Motion Picture Comedy or Musical Darling Lili Nominated
1973 Best Actress – Television Series Musical or Comedy The Julie Andrews Hour Nominated
1980 Best Actress – Motion Picture Comedy or Musical 10 Nominated
1983 Victor/Victoria Won
1987 That's Life! Nominated
Best Actress in a Motion Picture – Drama Duet for One Nominated

Grammy Awards

Note: The year given is the year of the ceremony

Year Award Performance Result
1965 Best Recording for Children Mary Poppins Won
1996 Best Traditional Pop Vocal Album Broadway: The Music of Richard Rodgers Nominated
1998 Here I'll Stay Nominated
2011 Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award — Won
Best Spoken Word Album for Children Julie Andrews' Collection of Poems, Songs and Lullabies Won

Emmy Award

Note: The year given is the year of the ceremony

Year Award Performance Result
Daytime Emmy Award
1981 Outstanding Individual Achievement in Children's Programming – Performers The CBS Festival of Lively Arts for Young People Nominated
Primetime Emmy Award
1958 Actress – Best Single Performance – Lead or Support Cinderella Nominated
1965 Outstanding Individual Achievements in Entertainment – Actors and Performers The Andy Williams Show Nominated
1972 Outstanding Single Program – Variety or Musical – Variety and Popular Music Julie and Carol at Lincoln Center Nominated
1973 Outstanding New Series The Julie Andrews Hour Nominated
Outstanding Variety Musical Series Won
1995 Outstanding Individual Performance in a Variety or Music Program The Sound of Julie Andrews Nominated
2004 Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Miniseries or a Movie Eloise at Christmastime Nominated
2005 Outstanding Nonfiction Series Broadway: The American Musical Won

Tony Awards

Note: The year given is the year of the ceremony

Year Award Performance Result
1957 Best Actress in a Musical My Fair Lady Nominated
1961 Camelot Nominated
1996 Victor/Victoria Nominated †
† Andrews declined the nomination for her role in Victor/Victoria, citing that she felt that the rest of the company had been overlooked.[113]

BAFTA Awards
Year Award Performance Result
1965 Most Promising Newcomer to Leading Film Roles Mary Poppins Won
1966 Best British Actress The Sound of Music Nominated
The Americanization of Emily [A] Nominated
A ^ The Americanization of Emily was released in 1965 in the UK (1964 in the US).

Screen Actors Guild Awards

Note: The year given is the year of the ceremony

Year Award Performance Result
2007 Life Achievement Award — Won

Drama Desk Awards

Note: The year given is the year of the ceremony

Year Award Performance Result
1996 Outstanding Actress in a Musical Victor/Victoria Won

Hollywood Walk of Fame

Note: The year given is the year of the ceremony

Year Award Performance Result
1979 Star on Hollywood Walk of Fame (Motion Pictures Category) — Inducted

Kennedy Center Honors

Note: The year given is the year of the ceremony

Year Award Performance Result
2001 Kennedy Center Honoree — Won

Other awards
Year Award Category Performance Result
1955 Theatre World Award Outstanding Broadway Debut The Boy Friend Won[114]
1964 New York Film Critics Circle Awards Best Actress (2nd Place) Mary Poppins Nominated
1965 Laurel Awards Best Female Musical Performance Won
Female Star (3rd Place) — Nominated
New York Film Critics Circle Awards Best Actress (2nd Place) The Sound of Music Nominated
1966 David di Donatello Awards Best Foreign Actress (Migliore Attrice Straniera) Won
Laurel Awards Best Female Musical Performance Won
Female Star (2nd Place) — Nominated
1967 Laurel Awards Female Star — Won
1968 Best Female Comedy Performance Thoroughly Modern Millie Won
1970 Laurel Awards Female Star (6th Place) — Nominated
1971 Laurel Awards Female Star (10th Place) — Nominated
1982 Kansas City Film Critics Circle Awards Best Actress Victor/Victoria Won
1983 David di Donatello Awards Best Foreign Actress (Migliore Attrice Straniera) Won
Sant Jordi Awards Best Performance in a Foreign Film (Mejor Interpretación en Película Extranjera) Nominated
Hasty Pudding Theatricals Woman of the Year — Won
People's Choice Awards Favorite Movie Actress — Won
1991 Disney Legends In Film — Won
1993 Women in Film Crystal Award — Won[115]
2001 Society of Singers Society of Singers Life Achievement — Won
San Sebastián International Film Festival Donostia Award — Won
2002 Nickelodeon Kids' Choice Awards Favorite Movie Actress The Princess Diaries Nominated
2004 Golden Plate Award The Arts — Won
2005 Las Vegas Film Critics Society Awards The William Holden Lifetime Achievement Award — Won
2009 UCLA George and Ira Gershwin Award Lifetime Musical Achievement — Won
2011 Prince Rainier Award Outstanding contribution to motion picture, television and theatre arts[116] — Won
2017 Hamptons International Film Festival Lifetime Achievement Award — Won
Helpmann Awards Best Direction of a Musical My Fair Lady
(Opera Australia & John Frost)		 Nominated
2019 Venice Film Festival Golden Lion Honorary Award — Won

Honorary degrees

Andrews has received many honorary degrees in recognition of her distinguished career in entertainment. These include:

Bibliography

Andrews has published several books (mainly children's books and autobiographies) under her name, as well as the pen names Julie Andrews Edwards and Julie Edwards.

  • Andrews, Julie. Home: A Memoir of My Early Years. Hyperion, 2008. ISBN 0-7868-6565-2.
  • Andrews, Julie and Emma Walton Hamilton (authors). Home Work: A Memoir of My Hollywood Years. Hachette, 2019. ISBN 9780316349253.
  • Andrews, Julie and Emma Walton Hamilton (authors) and Christine Davenier (Illustrator). Very Fairy Princess. Little Brown, 2010. ISBN 978-0-316-04050-1.
  • Andrews, Julie and Emma Walton Hamilton (authors) and James McMullan (Illustrator). Julie Andrews' Collection of Poems, Songs, and Lullabies. Little Brown, 2009. ISBN 978-0-316-04049-5.
  • Edwards, Julie Andrews (author) and Judith Gwyn Brown (illustrator). Mandy. Harper & Row, 1971. ISBN 0-06-440296-7.
  • Edwards, Julie Andrews (author) and Johanna Westerman (illustrator). Mandy: 35th Anniversary Edition. HarperCollins, 2006. ISBN 0-06-113162-8.
  • Edwards, Julie. The Last of the Really Great Whangdoodles. New York: Harper and Row. 1974. ISBN 0-00-184461-X.
  • Edwards, Julie Andrews. Little Bo: The Story of Bonnie Boadicea. Hyperion, 1999. ISBN 0-7868-0514-5. (several others in this series)
  • Edwards, Julie Andrews and Emma Walton Hamilton. Dumpy the Dumptruck]. Hyperion, 2000. ISBN 0-7868-0609-5. (several others in the Dumpy series)
  • Edwards, Julie Andrews and Emma Walton Hamilton, (authors). Gennady Spirin (illustrator). Simeon's Gift. 2003. ISBN 0-06-008914-8.
  • Edwards, Julie Andrews and Emma Walton Hamilton. Dragon: Hound of Honor. HarperTrophy, 2005. ISBN 0-06-057121-7.
  • Edwards, Julie Andrews and Emma Walton Hamilton (authors) and Tony Walton (illustrator). The Great American Mousical. HarperTrophy, 2006. ISBN 0-06-057918-8.
  • Edwards, Julie Andrews and Emma Walton Hamilton. Thanks to You: Wisdom from Mother and Child. Julie Andrews Collection, 2007. ISBN 0-06-124002-8.

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