Julie Andrews facts
- Julia Elizabeth Andrews (1935), is an English film and stage actress, singer, and author.
- Julie has received three Tony nominations for her work in My Fair Lady, Camelot, and Victor/Victoria, but has never won the coveted statuette.
- Her voice spanned four octaves until it was damaged by a throat operation in 1997.
- Julie Andrews reprises her role of Queen Lillian in the movie, Shrek the Third.
- Andrews has a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame.
- In 1997, Julie won the Tony Theater Wing's "Lifetime Achievement Award".
- Andrews loves fresh flowers and she also arranges them.
- Julie had a major 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), and the Shrek animated films (2004–2010).
- Julie Andrews has blue eyes.
- Julie's many charities she helps out are UNICEF, Save the Children and Operation: USA.
- Andrews once said that she hates wearing wigs.
- Andrews is also an author of children's books, and in 2008 published an autobiography, Home: A Memoir of My Early Years.
- On November 12th 1969, Julie Andrews married director Blake Edwards.
- In 1949, Andrews made her television debut on a BBC program called Radiolympia Showtime.
- In the 1960's, Julie's car had a bumper sticker that read "Mary Poppins is a junkie".
- Julie Andrews actually has a rose named after her.
- In 1965, Andrews won the Academy Award for Best Actress for her role in the 1964 film Mary Poppins.
- Julie Andrews was named a Dame by Britain's Queen Elizabeth II on the Millenium New Year's Honors List on December 31, 1999.
- In 2001, Julie Andrews was a recipient of the John Kennedy Center Honors.
- Julie's bio lists her height at 5'7".
- Disney paid tribute to the great actress by naming the stage where Julie filmed Mary Poppins and 40 years later, The Princess Diaries, The Julie Andrews Stage.
