Dame Julie Elizabeth Andrews,
DBE (born
Julia Elizabeth Wells[Julie Andrews. Reel Classics.] on 1 October 1935
[Dame Julie: The sound of music. 31 December 1999. Retrieved 29 January 2007.]) is an award-winning British actress, singer, author and
icon. She is the recipient of
Golden Globe,
Emmy,
Grammy,
BAFTA,
People's Choice Award,
Theatre World Award,
Screen Actors Guild and
Academy Award honors. Andrews was a former British child actress and singer who first came to
Broadway 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) and
The Sound of Music (1965): the roles for which she is still best known.
Andrews had a major 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), and the
Shrek animated films (2004-2007). In 2005 Andrews revisited her first Broadway success, this time as a stage director, with a revival of
The Boy Friend at a theatre in
Connecticut.
