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Julie Andrews
Actress + Singer + Author
Female
Born
Oct 1, 1935
Age
77
Hometown
Walton-on-Thames
Nationality
British
Other Names
Wells, Julia Eliz...
Dame Julia Elizabeth Andrews, DBE is an English 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 honors. In 1996, she… Read More
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Timeline
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CHILDHOOD
1935
Birth
Born on October 1, 1935.
1939
3 Years Old
They both remarried: Barbara to Ted Andrews, in 1939; and Ted Wells to a former hairstylist working a lathe at a war work factory that employed them both in Hinchley Wood, Surrey.
1940
4 Years Old
Andrews lived briefly with Ted Wells and her brother John in Surrey. In about 1940, Ted Wells sent her to live with her mother and stepfather, who, the elder Wells thought, would be better able to provide for his talented daughter's artistic training.
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1945
9 Years Old
Julie Andrews performed spontaneously and unbilled on stage with her parents for about two years beginning in 1945. "Then came the day when I was told I must go to bed in the afternoon because I was going to be allowed to sing with Mummy and Pop in the evening," Andrews explained.
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TEENAGE
1947
11 Years Old
Julie Andrews got her big break when her stepfather introduced her to Val Parnell, whose Moss Empires controlled prominent venues in London. Andrews made her professional solo debut at the London Hippodrome singing the difficult aria "Je Suis Titania" from Mignon as part of a musical revue called "Starlight Roof" on 22 October 1947.
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Andrews is a former child actress and singer who appeared on the West End in 1948, and made her Broadway debut in a 1954 production of The Boy Friend, and rose to prominence starring in musicals such as My Fair Lady and Camelot, both of which earned her Tony Award nominations.
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1949
13 Years Old
Julie Andrews followed her parents into radio and television. She reportedly made her television debut on the BBC programme RadiOlympia Showtime on 8 October 1949.
She garnered considerable fame throughout the United Kingdom for her work on the BBC radio comedy show Educating Archie; she was a cast member from 1950 to 1952.
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On 30 September 1954 on the eve of her 19th birthday, Julie Andrews made her Broadway debut portraying "Polly Browne" in the already highly successful London musical The Boy Friend.
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TWENTIES
1962
26 Years Old
Andrews and her husband headed back to Britain in September 1962 to await the birth of daughter Emma Katherine Walton, who was born in London two months later.
1963
27 Years Old
In 1963, Andrews began her work in the title role of Disney's musical film Mary Poppins.
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Between 1964 and 1967, Andrews had other box office successes with The Americanization of Emily, Hawaii, Alfred Hitchcock's Torn Curtain, and Thoroughly Modern Millie, making her the most successful film star in the world at that time.
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She and her co-stars also won the 1965 Grammy Award for Best Album for Children.
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THIRTIES
In 1966, Andrews starred in Hawaii.
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1971
35 Years Old
In 1971, she 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.
1972
36 Years Old
In 1972–73, Andrews starred in her own television variety series, The Julie Andrews Hour, on the ABC network.
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FORTIES
1981
45 Years Old
In 1981, she appeared in Blake Edwards' S.O.B. (1981) in which she played Sally Miles, a character who agrees to "show my boobies" in a scene in the film-within-a-film.
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In 1982, Andrews played a dual role of Victoria Grant and Count Victor Grezhinski in the film Victor Victoria.
1983
47 Years Old
In 1983, Andrews was chosen as the Hasty Pudding Woman of the Year by the Harvard University Theatrical Society.
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FIFTIES
In the summer of 1992 Andrews starred in her first television sitcom, Julie, which aired on ABC and co-starred James Farentino.
1993
57 Years Old
In 1993, she starred in a limited run at the Manhattan Theatre Club in the American premiere of Stephen Sondheim's revue, Putting It Together.
1994
58 Years Old
Between 1994 and 1995 Andrews recorded two solo albums – the first saluted the music of Richard Rodgers and the second paid tribute to the words of Alan Jay Lerner.
LATE ADULTHOOD
1997
61 Years Old
Andrews was forced to quit the show towards the end of the Broadway run in 1997 when she developed vocal problems.
She subsequently underwent surgery to remove non-cancerous nodules from her throat and was left unable to sing. (However, Andrews has recently stated that it was due to "a certain kind of muscular striation that happens on the vocal chords" as a result of strain from Victor/Victoria, adding "I didn't have cancer, I didn't have nodules, I didn't have anything.") In 1999 she filed a malpractice suit against the doctors at New York's Mount Sinai Hospital, including Dr. Scott Kessler and Dr. Jeffrey Libin, who had operated on her throat.
2000
64 Years Old
In the 2000 New Year Honours List, Andrews was made a Dame Commander of the Order of the British Empire (DBE) for services to the performing arts by Queen Elizabeth II at Buckingham Palace.
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In 2001, Andrews received Kennedy Center Honors.
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2003
67 Years Old
Andrews continued her association with Disney when she appeared as the nanny in two 2003 made-for-television films based on the Eloise books, a series of children's books by Kay Thompson about a child who lives in the Plaza Hotel in New York City.
Her production, which featured costume and scenic design by her former husband Tony Walton, was remounted at the Goodspeed Opera House in 2005 and went on a national tour in 2006.
Later, in 2007, she narrated Enchanted, a live-action Disney musical comedy that both poked fun and paid homage to classic Disney films such as Mary Poppins.
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She published Home: A Memoir of My Early Years, which she characterised as "part one" of her autobiography, on 1 April 2008.
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2009
73 Years Old
On 8 May 2009, Andrews received the honorary George and Ira Gershwin Award for Lifetime Achievement in Music at the annual UCLA Spring Sing competition in Pauley Pavilion.
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In January 2010, Andrews was the official USA presenter of the New Year's Day Vienna concert.
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