Julie Andrews British Actress From Walton-on-Thames

Julie Andrews (1 October 1935, Walton-on-Thames) is a British actress and singer. Her best-known titles on this site are The Princess Diaries (2001) and The Princess Diaries 2: Royal Engagement (2004).

Early life

Her education includes Tring Park School for the Performing Arts and Arts Educational Schools.

Career

Her screen career on record begins in 1957 with Cinderella. The 1960s brought Mary Poppins (1964) and The Sound of Music (1965, as Maria von Trapp). Her 1970s credits include The Pink Panther Strikes Again (1976) and 10 (1979). During the 1980s, she worked on Victor/Victoria (1982) and Trail of the Pink Panther (1982). Work from the 2020s includes Bridgerton (2020) and The King's Daughter (2022).

Julie Andrews’s credits add up to 33 films and 4 TV series from 1957 to 2022. Comedy is the most frequent genre among her listed titles (5), followed by fantasy (2) and romantic comedy (2).

Anne Hathaway appears in two of her listed titles. Other co-stars who recur in her credits are Peter Sellers (two titles) and Omar Sharif (two titles). Blake Edwards directed two of her titles on record. Garry Marshall is credited as director on two of them.

The records also show 27 albums, for example Julie's Greenroom – Music from the Netflix Original Series (2017). The label on record is Columbia Records. Among her other notable work is My Fair Lady.

Recognition

Julie Andrews’s wins include the Academy Award for Best Actress, awarded in 1965 for Mary Poppins. The list of wins also includes the BAFTA Award for Most Promising Newcomer to Leading Film Roles (1964) for Mary Poppins and three Golden Globe Awards (1965, 1966 and 1983). A nomination for the Academy Award for Best Actress in 1966 for The Sound of Music is also listed. In total, she has won 21 awards and earned 6 nominations.

Personal life

Former marriages on record are to Tony Walton (1959 to 1968, widowed) and Blake Edwards (1969 to 2010, widowed). She is the mother of Emma Walton Hamilton.