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Julie Andrews
Dame Julie Andrews is an English actress, singer and author. Her accolades include an Academy Award, a British Academy Film Award, three Emmy Awards, three Grammy Awards, seven Golden Globe Awards and nominations for three Tony Awards. One of the biggest box office draws of the 1960s, Andrews has been honoured with the Kennedy Center Honors in 2001, the Screen Actors Guild Life Achievement Award i…
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Born 1 October 1935 · Q161819
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2026· 8 entries
“nonstop success in a career is impossible [...] but nobody sets out to make a failure, either”
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“the good man had stripped [her] feelings bare ... moulded, kneaded, and helped [her] become the character of Eliza ... [and made] her part of [her] soul”
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“She had an enormous influence on me”
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Movieguide: Julie Andrews Gets Candid About the Pet That Inspired Her New Picture Book
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Public attention spiked: 18,330 Wikipedia readers in one day, 3.5× the usual 5,228, with 4 article edits. Coverage that week: “Julie Andrews Gets Candid About the Pet That Inspired Her New Picture Book” (Movieguide).
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Public attention spiked: 18,754 Wikipedia readers in one day, 3.6× the usual 5,228, with 0 article edits.
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Public attention spiked: 20,574 Wikipedia readers in one day, 3.9× the usual 5,228, with 1 article edits. Editors noted: Updated short description
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2025· 1 entry
Released album “90 Years: A Celebration of Julie Andrews”.
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2024· 1 entry
Directed a second, sold-out production at Legacy Theatre in Branford, Connecticut
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2022· 1 entry
Andrews narrated the film The King's Daughter for Gravitas Ventures
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2020· 1 entry
Released album “Nobody Does It Better”.
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2019· 1 entry
Won Golden Lion (2019).
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2018· 2 entries
Released album “Remastered Hits Vol. 2”.
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Andrews voiced Karathen, a leviathan, in James Wan's Aquaman
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2017· 1 entry
Andrews also reprised her role as Marlena Gru in the second Despicable Me sequel Despicable Me 3
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2016· 4 entries
Released album “Julie Andrews Sings: 50 Great Recordings”.
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Andrews created the preschool television series Julie's Greenroom with her daughter, Emma, and Judy Rothman
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For Opera Australia at the Sydney Opera House
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Released album “The Voice”.
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2015· 1 entry
Andrews made a surprise appearance at the Oscars, greeting Lady Gaga who paid her homage by singing a medley from The Sound of Music
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2013· 1 entry
Hosted by Nicholas Hammond who was a boy of 14 when they appeared together in The Sound of Music
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2012· 2 entries
Released album “The CBS Television Specials”.
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At Goodspeed Musicals' Norma Terris Theatre in Chester, Connecticut
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2011· 2 entries
Awarded Commandeur des Arts et des Lettres (2011).
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Awarded Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award (2011).
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2010· 3 entries
Released album “Golden Voices (Remastered)”.
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Released album “My Fair Lady”.
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Released album “Four Classic Albums”.
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2009· 1 entry
Andrews received the honorary George and Ira Gershwin Award for Lifetime Musical Achievement
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2008· 1 entry
Released album “Home”.
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2007· 4 entries
Released album “Once Upon a Time”.
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Awarded Screen Actors Guild Life Achievement Award (2007).
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Released album “Best Of...”.
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Narrated Enchanted, a live-action Disney musical comedy that both parodied and paid homage to Disney films
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2006· 2 entries
Released album “At Her Very Best”.
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Released album “Christmas Classics (Live at The Monument Museum 1992)”.
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2005· 3 entries
Awarded Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Documentary or Nonfiction Series for Broadway: The American Musical (2005).
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Snopes rated the claim “Julie Andrews sang an old folks' parody of "My Favorite Things" to celebrate her 69th birthday.” False.
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Released album “Julie Andrews Selects Her Favorite Disney Songs”.
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2004· 1 entry
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)
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2002· 2 entries
Released album “Julie Andrews Sings”.
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Andrews was among the guests at the Queen's Golden Jubilee Hollywood party held at the Beverly Wilshire Hotel
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2001· 6 entries
Released album “Broadway's Fair Julie / Heartrending Ballads & Raucous Ditties”.
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Released album “Classic Julie: Classic Broadway”.
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Awarded Donostia Award (2001).
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Awarded Kennedy Center Honors (2001).
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Andrews received Kennedy Center Honors
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The Screen Actors Guild Life Achievement Award in 2007, and the AFI Life Achievement Award in 2022
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2000· 1 entry
Released album “Greatest Christmas Songs”.
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1999· 3 entries
Awarded Dame Commander of the Order of the British Empire (1999).
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"It's been two years, and [her singing voice] still hasn't returned
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Filed a malpractice suit against the doctors at Mount Sinai Hospital, including Scott Kessler and Jeffrey Libin, who had operated on her throat
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1998· 2 entries
Released album “My Fair Lady (Original 1956 Broadway Cast)”.
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Appeared in a stage production of Dr
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1997· 2 entries
When she developed hoarseness in her voice
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Led to the loss of Andrews's singing voice, occasioning her refusal to sing on camera for several years
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1996· 1 entry
Released album “Broadway: Here I'll Stay: The Words of Alan Jay Lerner”.
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1995· 1 entry
Starred in the stage musical version of Victor/Victoria
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1994· 1 entry
Released album “Broadway: The Music of Richard Rodgers”.
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1993· 2 entries
Awarded Crystal Award (1993).
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Starred in a limited run at the Manhattan Theatre Club in the American premiere of Stephen Sondheim's revue Putting It Together
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1992· 1 entry
Released album “Rodgers & Hammerstein's The King And I”.
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1991· 3 entries
Awarded Disney Legends (1991).
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Andrews made her television dramatic debut in the ABC made-for-TV film Our Sons, co-starring Ann-Margret
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Released album “A Joyous Christmas”.
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1990· 2 entries
Released album “A Christmas Treasure”.
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Released album “The Sounds of Christmas from Around the World”.
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1988· 1 entry
Released album “A Little Bit of Broadway”.
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1987· 2 entries
Released album “The Sound of Christmas”.
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Released album “Love, Julie”.
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1983· 4 entries
Awarded Hasty Pudding Woman of the Year (1983).
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Won Golden Globe Award for Best Actress in a Motion Picture – Musical or Comedy for Victor/Victoria (1983).
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Released ep “Love Me Tender”.
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Andrews was chosen as the Hasty Pudding Woman of the Year by the Harvard University Theatrical Society
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1982· 2 entries
Released album “Christmas With Julie Andrews”.
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Released album “Love Me Tender”.
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1979· 1 entry
Awarded star on Hollywood Walk of Fame (1979).
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1977· 1 entry
And the following year, she appeared again with the Muppets on a CBS television variety special
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1973· 1 entry
Awarded Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Variety, Music or Comedy Series for The Julie Andrews Hour (1973).
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1971· 1 entry
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
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1969· 1 entry
Shared the spotlight with singer Harry Belafonte for an NBC-TV special, An Evening with Julie Andrews and Harry Belafonte
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1968· 1 entry
Released album “Star!”.
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1967· 3 entries
Because their careers and the obligations of parenthood were straining their marriage
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Released album “Thoroughly Modern Millie”.
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Andrews filed for divorce in 1967 because their careers and the obligations of parenthood were straining their marriage.
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1966· 4 entries
Won Golden Globe Award for Best Actress in a Motion Picture – Musical or Comedy for The Sound of Music (1966).
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Starred opposite Paul Newman in Torn Curtain, which was directed by Alfred Hitchcock and shot at Universal Studios Hollywood
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Andrews starred in Hawaii, the highest-grossing film of its year
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Released album “Firestone Presents Your Favorite Christmas Carols, Volume 5”.
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1965· 5 entries
Awarded Grammy Award for Best Children's Music Album for Mary Poppins (1965).
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Won Golden Globe Award for Best Actress in a Motion Picture – Musical or Comedy for Mary Poppins (1965).
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Awarded Academy Award for Best Actress for Mary Poppins (1965).
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Released ep “Mary Poppins: Bande originale du film”.
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Released ep “Mary Poppins”.
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1964· 1 entry
Awarded BAFTA Award for Most Promising Newcomer to Leading Film Roles for Mary Poppins (1964).
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1963· 1 entry
Andrews began work in the titular role of Disney's musical film Mary Poppins
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1962· 3 entries
Released album “Don't Go In The Lion's Cage Tonight And Other Heartrending Ballads And Raucous Ditties”.
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With her winning the role of Mary Poppins
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Their daughter, Emma Walton Hamilton, was born
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1961· 1 entry
Released album “Broadway’s Fair Julie”.
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1960· 1 entry
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
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1958· 1 entry
Released album “The Lass With the Delicate Air”.
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1957· 3 entries
Andrews released her debut solo album, The Lass with the Delicate Air, which harked back to her British music hall days
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“years to realise the enormity”
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Released album “Tell It Again”.
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1955· 2 entries
Awarded Theatre World Award (1955).
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Andrews accepted a role opposite Bing Crosby in the television film, High Tor, which was filmed in November of the same year
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1952· 1 entry
Voiced Princess Zeila in the English dub of the Italian animated movie La Rosa di Bagdad (renamed The Singing Princess), in her first film and first venture into voice-over work
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1948· 2 entries
And from 1950 to 1952 on the radio programme "Educating Archie"
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When Andrews was appearing at the London Casino in the show Humpty Dumpty
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1945· 1 entry
And for the next two years, Andrews performed spontaneously and unbilled on stage with her parents
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1943· 1 entry
And Ted Wells in 1944 to Winifred Maud (Hyde) Birkhead, a war widow and former hairstylist at a war work factory that employed them both in Hinchley Wood, Surrey
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1941· 1 entry
During the Blitz, which Andrews herself had survived
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1940· 1 entry
Wells sent her to live with her mother and stepfather, who Wells thought would be better able to provide for his talented daughter's artistic training
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1935· 1 entry
Born 1935-10-01.
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