| Julie Andrews | |
|---|---|
 Julie Andrews | |
| Full name |
Dame Julie Elizabeth Andrews, DBE |
| Born |
1 October 1935 (age 89) |
| Occupation |
Film actress |
| Spouse |
Tony Walton m. 1959-1967 Blake Edwards m.1969- d. 2010 |
| Characters played |
Queen Lillian |
| Movies | |
| — | |
Dame Julie Elizabeth Andrews, DBE (née Wells;[1] born 1 October 1935)[2] 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 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) and The Sound of Music (1965): the roles for which she is still best-known. Her voice spanned four octaves until it was damaged by a throat operation in 1997.
Andrews had a major revival of her film career in the 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). 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.
Andrews portrays Queen Lillian in the Shrek film series. Her character is shown in the following movies: Shrek 2, Shrek the Third and Shrek Forever After. She also voiced the announcer for Shrek the Musical telling the audience to turn off their cell phone or else, a terrifying ogre will leap from the stage and drag you far, far away.
Trivia[]
- There are many references to her iconic films throughout the Shrek franchise.
- In Shrek the Third, after Lillian breaks two stone walls with her head, she hums the song "My Favorite Things" from The Sound of Music.
- Another reference to The Sound of Music is seen in Thriller Night, although more transparent with a faux film called The Music Doth Sound.
- In Puss in Boots: The Last Wish, the iconic carpet bag and umbrella from Mary Poppins are in possession of the main villain, "Big" Jack Horner. The bag is referred to in the film as a "magic nanny bag."