Yahoo Web Search

Sign In

Search results

  1. www.biography.com › actors › julie-andrewsJulie Andrews: Biography, Actor, Singer, Academy Award Winner

    Feb 5, 2021 · BORN: October 1, 1935. BIRTHPLACE: Walton-on-Thames, England. SPOUSES: Tony Walton and Blake Edwards. CHILDREN: Emma, Joanna, and Amelia. ASTROLOGICAL SIGN: Libra. Early Life and Stage...

    • editor@biography.com
    • Staff Editorial Team And Contributors

  2. Videos

    View all

  3. www.hollywoodsmagazine.com › julie-andrews-husbandHow old was Julie Andrews in Mary Poppins? husband, children, age

    Jan 25, 2024 · When Julie Andrews played Mary Poppins, she was very young! She was only 29 years old in 1963 when the movie was filmed. Her genuine age lends a fresh wonder to her performance, even though it may be a surprise given that she played such an experienced and skilled role.

  4. en.wikipedia.org › wiki › Julie_AndrewsJulie Andrews - Wikipedia

    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.

  5. www.britannica.com › biography › Julie-AndrewsJulie Andrews | Biography, Movies, & Facts | Britannica

    Sep 27, 2024 · After seeing her performance in Camelot, Walt Disney went backstage and offered Andrews the title role of the magical proper English nanny in his Mary Poppins (1964). The picture became one of Disney’s biggest moneymakers, and Andrews won both a Grammy and an Academy Award for her performance.

    • The Editors of Encyclopaedia Britannica

  6. www.imdb.com › name › nm0000267Julie Andrews - Biography - IMDb

    • Early life and career
    • Acting career
    • Film
    • Later career

    Julia Elizabeth Wells was born on October 1, 1935, in England. Her mother, Barbara Ward (Morris), and stepfather, both vaudeville performers, discovered her freakish but undeniably lovely four-octave singing voice and immediately got her a singing career. She performed in music halls throughout her childhood and teens, and at age 20, she launched h...

    See full list on imdb.com

    Andrew came to Broadway in 1954 with \"The Boy Friend\", and became a bona fide star two years later in 1956, in the role of Eliza Doolittle in the unprecedented hit \"My Fair Lady\". Her star status continued in 1957, when she starred in the TV-production of Cinderella (1957) and through 1960, when she played \"Guenevere\" in \"Camelot\".

    See full list on imdb.com

    In 1963, Walt Disney asked Andrews if she would like to star in his upcoming production, a lavish musical fantasy that combined live-action and animation. She agreed on the condition if she didn't get the role of Doolittle in the pending film production of My Fair Lady (1964). After Audrey Hepburn was cast in My Fair Lady, Andrews made an auspiciou...

    See full list on imdb.com

    Andrews continued to work on Broadway, until the release of The Sound of Music (1965), the highest-grossing movie of its day and one of the highest-grossing of all time. She soon found that audiences identified her only with singing, sugary-sweet nannies and governesses, and were reluctant to accept her in dramatic roles in The Americanization of E...

    See full list on imdb.com

    • Actress, Writer, Producer
    • October 1, 1935

  7. variety.com › 2020 › filmHow Julie Andrews Shot to Stardom in 'Mary Poppins,' Her ...

    Oct 1, 2020 · Filming started in mid-1963, when Andrews’ infant daughter Emma was about six months old. Andrews went on to win the Oscar for best actress for her role as the famously eccentric governess.

  8. People also ask

  9. www.vanityfair.com › hollywood › 2019Julie Andrews Remembers Becoming Mary Poppins - Vanity Fair

    Oct 7, 2019 · October 7, 2019. Julie Andrews as Mary Poppins in 1964.From Disney/Kobal/Shutterstock. In her 2008 memoir Home, Academy Award winner Julie Andrews wrote about her early years—growing up in a...