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Julie Andrews

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Julie Andrews

Born October 1, 1935 in Walton-on-Thames, Surrey, England, UK48 films

Dame Julia Elizabeth Andrews, DBE (born Julia Elizabeth Wells; 1 October 1935) is a British film and stage actress, singer, and author. She is the recipient of Golden Globe, Emmy, Grammy, BAFTA, People's Choice Award, Theatre World Award, Screen Actors Guild and Academy Award honours. Andrews was a former British child actress and singer who made her Broadway debut 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), for which she won the Academy Award for Best Actress, and The Sound of Music (1965): the roles for which she is still best-known. Her voice, which originally spanned four octaves, was damaged by a throat operation in 1997.

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Andrews had a revival of her film career in 2000s in family films such as The Princess Diaries (2001), its sequel The Princess Diaries 2: Royal Engagement (2004), the Shrek animated films (2004–2010), and Despicable Me (2010). In 2003 Andrews revisited her first Broadway success, this time as a stage director, with a revival of The Boy Friend at the Bay Street Theatre, Sag Harbor, New York (and later at the Goodspeed Opera House, in East Haddam, Connecticut in 2005).

Andrews is also an author of children's books, and in 2008 published an autobiography, Home: A Memoir of My Early Years.

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Shrek 2 posterFirst watchShrek 220047.3as Queen Lillian (voice)Happily ever after never seemed so far far away when a trip to meet the in-laws turns into a hilariously twisted adventure for Shrek and Fiona.View film

Essential films

Ranked by acclaim and reach
Despicable Me poster7.3Despicable Me2010Aquaman poster6.9Aquaman2018Mary Poppins poster7.5Mary Poppins1964The Sound of Music poster7.7The Sound of Music1965Minions: The Rise of Gru poster7.3Minions: The Rise of Gru2022The Princess Diaries poster7.0The Princess Diaries2001Enchanted poster6.8Enchanted2007Shrek the Third poster6.3Shrek the Third2007

Filmography

48 films as actor
  1. 2026With Love, BeatrizMaria (The Sound of Music)
  2. 2022Minions: The Rise of GruGru's Mom (voice)
  3. 2022The King's DaughterNarrator
  4. 2018AquamanKarathen (voice)
  5. 2017Despicable Me 3Gru’s Mom (voice)
  6. 2010Despicable MeGru's Mother (voice)
  7. 2010Shrek Forever AfterQueen Lillian (voice)
  8. 2010Tooth FairyLily
  9. 2010The Sound Of The End Of MusicMaria
  10. 2008Pip's Predicament: A Pop-Up AdventureNarrator (voice)
  11. 2007EnchantedNarrator (voice)
  12. 2007Shrek the ThirdQueen Lillian (voice)
  13. 2004The Cat That Looked at a KingMary Poppins
  14. 2004The Princess Diaries 2: Royal EngagementQueen Clarisse Renaldi
  15. 2004Shrek 2Queen Lillian (voice)
  16. 2003Eloise at ChristmastimeNanny
  17. 2003Eloise at the PlazaNanny
  18. 2001The Princess DiariesQueen Clarisse Renaldi
  19. 2001On Golden PondEthel Thayer
  20. 2000Relative ValuesFelicity Marshwood
  21. 1999One Special NightCatherine
  22. 1996Victor/VictoriaVictoria Grant / Count Victor Grazinsky
  23. 1991A Fine RomanceMrs. Pamela Piquet
  24. 1991Our SonsAudrey Grant
  25. 1991The Very Best of The Ed Sullivan Show (Vol. 1)
  26. 1989Julie Andrews – Live In Concert
  27. 1986Duet for OneStephanie Anderson
  28. 1986That's Life!Gillian Fairchild
  29. 1983The Man Who Loved WomenMarianna
  30. 1982Trail of the Pink PantherCharwoman
  31. 1982Victor/VictoriaVictoria Grant / Count Victor Grazinsky
  32. 1981S.O.B.Sally Miles
  33. 1980Little Miss MarkerAmanda
  34. 197910Samantha Taylor
  35. 1976Peter PanSinger "Once Upon a Bedtime"
  36. 1976The Pink Panther Strikes AgainAinsley Jarvis (singing voice) (uncredited)
  37. 1974The Tamarind SeedJudith Farrow
  38. 1970Darling LiliLili Smith
  39. 1968Star!Gertrude Lawrence
  40. 1967Thoroughly Modern MillieMillie Dillmount
  41. 1966HawaiiJerusha Bromley Hale
  42. 1966Torn CurtainSarah Sherman
  43. 1965The Sound of MusicMaria
  44. 1964Mary PoppinsMary Poppins
  45. 1964The Americanization of EmilyEmily Barham
  46. 1959The Gentle FlameTrissa
  47. 1957CinderellaCinderella
  48. 1956High TorLise