Julie andrews biography london 2016
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Julie Andrews
British actress, singer, and author (born 1935)
Dame Julie Andrews (born Julia Elizabeth Wells; 1 October 1935) is an English actress, singer, and author.[1] She has garnered numerous accolades throughout her career spanning over eight decades, including an Academy Award, a British Academy Film Award, two Emmy Awards, three Grammy Awards, and six Golden Globe Awards as well as 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 in 2007, and the AFI Life Achievement Award in 2022.[2] She was made a Dame (DBE) by Queen Elizabeth II in 2000.[3][4][5][6]
A child actress and singer, Andrews appeared in the West End in 1948 and made her Broadway debut in The Boy Friend (1954). Billed as "Britain's youngest prima donna",[7] she rose to prominence in Bro
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--- Books Written bygd Julie Andrews ---
Miss Andrews has written thirty-six children books (on her own and with her daughter Emma Walton Hamilton) using her married name in its two versions: Julie Andrews Edwards and Julie Edwards. She also wrote two autobiographies and only for these some of her more recent booksshe has used her original name.
++ Edwards, Julie (Author) and Westerman, Joanna (Illustrator). ''Mandy''. HarperTrophy, 1972. ISBN 0064402967.
++ Edwards, Julie. ''The Last of the Really Great Whangdoodles''. Harper and Row, 1974. ISBN 000184461X.
++ Edwards, Julie Andrews. ''Little Bo: The Story of Bonnie Boadicea''. Hyperion, 1999. ISBN 0-7868-0514-5.
++ Edwards, Julie Andrews and Walton Hamilton, Emma (Autho
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Call her Dame. Call her Jules. Call her by her pen name, Julie Edwards. Whatever you do, steer clear of calling Julie Andrews wholesome. Candidly conflicted about her spotless public image, actress and singer Julie Andrews—born 80 years ago today, on October 1, 1935—has more than a few spoonfuls of spice to complement her sugary demeanor. It often seems that even Andrews is uncertain of her own character. Catch her in one interview lamenting, “I hate the word wholesome. I don’t want to be thought of as wholesome,” while in another, admitting, “Sometimes I’m so sweet even I can’t stand it!” It’s hardly irrational for a star of her immense talent and caliber to grapple with soul-searching. After a lifetime in the spotlight, how do you solve a problem like a crisis of identity? A better question, perhaps, is how has Andrews’ silver-screen sweetness reigned over a complicated—and sometimes difficult—personality throughout her seventy years in the public eye?
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