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Julia Elizabeth Wells was born on 1 October 1935, in Walton-on-Thames, England. As a film and stage actress, author, singer, theater director, and dancer, Julie Andrews is considered to be one of the best performers from England, perhaps best known for her starring roles in films such as “Mary Poppins” and “The Sound of Music”,  Her crowning glory was being honored by Queen Elizabeth II in 2000 with  the status of Dame, the female equivalent of a knighthood.

So just how rich is Julie Andrews? Critically acclaimed projects have enabled Julie to accumulate an impressive net worth estimated at $45 million dollars, during a career in the entertainment industry on stage, screen and TV spanning more than 70 years.

After her parents’ divorce Julia lived with her father for a short period of time, but in 1940 he sent his daughter to her mother, when she adopted her stepfather’s surname. Living with her mother and stepfather Andrews’ career launched as early as the 1940s when she started performing with her parents on stage. Later on introduced to impressario Val Parnell, Julie got her big breakthrough at the London Hippodrome. Her talent was soon recognized and Julie became the youngest person ever to sing at the London Palladium. Such a success determined not only the recognition within the critics and peers, but also a huge growth of Andrews’ net worth.

After a successful start in London Hippodrome and London Palladium, where she sang alongside Danny Kaye and Nicholas Brother, Andrews decided to try herself in United States – a decision which made Andrews’ net worth grow immensely. Her debut on Broadway was in 1954 in the musical “The Boy Friend”, and later she appeared in “My Fair Lady”. Her indisputable talent as a singer and theatrical skills won Andrews main roles in such musicals as “My Fair Lady” and “Camelot”.

Julie Andrews’ net worth was boosted even more when she moved from Broadway to the film industry. In 1963 Julie Andrews, Dick Van Dyke and David Tomlinson starred in Disney’s musical film “Mary Poppins”, with her leading role winning Andrews an Academy Award and a Golden Globe for Best Actress. Even bigger success came in 1965 when Andrews performed in “The Sound of Music” alongside Christopher Plummer. “The Sounds of Music” was the most profitable movie at the time and contributed a huge sum of money to Andrews’ net worth.

Julie Andrews then appeared in such movies as “The Man who Loved Women”, alongside Burt Reynolds, “That’s Life”, co-starring Jack Lemmon. She also recorded several solo albums which undoubtedly added  to Andrews’ net worth. However, Julie Andrews’ new golden age in the film industry came in 2001 when she starred in “The Princess Diaries”, and then “The Princess Diaries 2: Royal Engagement” (2004), alongside Ann Hathaway. She also took a part as a voice-over artist in the “Shrek” franchise.

Overall, Julie Andrews has appeared in more than 40 films, and more than 30 times on TV as well as five notable stage productions. She has been nominated for over 60 awards including for singing, and has won an astonishing 38, including on Oscar for Best Actress, five Golden Globes, an Emmy, and a Grammy Lifetime Acheivement Award. She has her own star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame.

Beside a huge success and recognition in film industry, Julie Andrews enhances her net worth by writing. She has several children books in her collection and an autobiography published in 2008.

In her personal life, Julie Andrews was married to Tony Walton (1959-67) with whom she has a daughter, and then to American film director Blake Edwards from 1969 until his death in 2010; they have four children.

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Julie Andrews Trademarks

1. Her very regal mannerisms/behavior
2. Her 4-octave soprano voice

Julie Andrews Quotes

• [on the 2015 celebrations honouring ‘The Sound of Music’] This is a lovely moment to mark. I’ve been saying all long it’s like a very bad joke because surely it’ was only thirty years ago – not fifty. I feel I lost twenty somewhere along the way. A little thing called life got in the way.
• With ‘Star’ and ‘Darling Lili’, it seemed that the big musicals weren’t popular any more. I underwent a career dip. You know the Hollywood saying ‘You’re only as good as your last hit’. Sometimes an enormous hit can carry you along, but not forever.
• [on Max von Sydow] He was the unqualified front runner — the most generous man I’ve ever met. And he had such a lovely light sense of humor. I consider it a privilege to have worked with him.
• Sometimes I’m so sweet even I can’t stand it.
• All kinds of things have been printed, including much gossip and rumour and finally I feel ready to have my say. I want to be as honest as I can.
• Blake [husband Blake Edwards] and I have this wonderful arrangement that while one is working hard, the other tries to be at home as much as possible and vice versa.
• All love shifts and changes. I don’t know if you can be wholeheartedly in love all the time.
• As soon as you have one, all those dormant maternal instincts start popping out all over you, like German measles.
• Bette Davis was always marvelous.
• I’ve learned things about myself through singing. I used to have a certain dislike of the audience, not as individual people, but as a giant body who was judging me. Of course, it wasn’t really them judging me. It was me judging me. Once I got past that fear, it freed me up, not just when I was performing but in other parts of my life.
• [asked where she kept her Oscar] He stayed in the attic a long time. I just didn’t feel worthy . . . When I got to know more about film, I felt safe trotting him out.
• [upon receiving the BAFTA award on October 7, 1989] I am first and always English, and I carry my country in my heart wherever I go. I’ve tried to honour her, and I have the funny feeling that perhaps tonight, in some way, I’ve managed to do just that.
• [on being a gay icon] I don’t know. I’m sort of aware that I am. But I’m that odd mixture of, on the one hand, being a gay icon and, on the other hand, having grandmas and parents being grateful I’m around to be a babysitter for their kids. And I’ve never been able to figure out what makes a gay icon, because there are many different kinds. I don’t think I have the image that, say, Judy Garland has, or Bette Davis.
• A lot of my life happened in great, wonderful bursts of good fortune, and then I would race to be worthy of it.
• I had a teacher who stressed for me the importance of diction in terms of – I want to be very careful about how I say this – in terms of supporting one’s voice when one is singing. In other words, if you hold on to your words, your voice will pull through for you when you’re singing. So be true to your vowels. Supposing you have to sing [from “The Messiah”] “Behold thy king cometh unto thee”. If you do a strong “thee”, it will help you with the “-hold”, which is a much higher note. And it’s the note before the note that matters, then you unpeel a song backwards.
• As my mother said, I never sprang out of bed with a glad shout! My voice needed oiling and then it took off.
• [upon answering whether Mary Poppins and Bert ever got it together]: I hope so. She wouldn’t admit it, but I do hope so.
• Films are much more my level. On stage I never feel quite enough.
• Singing has never been particularly easy for me.
• [1982] Does Mary Poppins have an orgasm? Does she go to the bathroom? I assure you, she does.
• I don’t want to be thought of as wholesome.

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• According to Andrews, Walt Disney originally approached her to read for the part of Mary Poppins after a performance of the Broadway show, Camelot. Andrew’s told Disney she could not take the part because she was pregnant. Disney responded, “That’s alright. I’ll wait.”.
• As of 2016 she is the 8th earliest surviving recipient of a Best Actress Oscar nomination, behind only Olivia de Havilland, Leslie Caron, Carroll Baker, Joanne Woodward, Shirley MacLaine, Doris Day, and a tied Piper Laurie and Sophia Loren. She was nominated (and won) in 1964 for Mary Poppins (1964).
• Her first stage show was at the Hippodrome, London in 1947 (aged 11) where she sang one song ‘Polonaise from Mignon’ for two performances each night. This led to being asked to perform in the Royal Command Performance 1947 (Then aged 12).
• Julie Andrews won the Academy Award for Best Actress for feature film debut in Mary Poppins (1964). Andrews has received 28 awards over her career, but that was her only Academy Award despite being nominated for The Sound of Music. Mary Poppins also earned her and her co-stars the 1965 Grammy Award for Best Album for Children. She was nominated for a Tony Award for her performance in the musical My Fair Lady.
• Is one of 14 actresses to have won both the Best Actress Academy Award and the Best Actress in a Comedy/Musical Golden Globe for the same performance; hers being for Mary Poppins (1964). The others, in chronological order, are: Judy Holliday for Born Yesterday (1950), Barbra Streisand for Funny Girl (1968), Liza Minnelli for Cabaret (1972), Glenda Jackson for A Touch of Class (1973), Diane Keaton for Annie Hall (1977), Sissy Spacek for Coal Miner’s Daughter (1980), Cher for Moonstruck (1987), ‘Jessica Tandy for Driving Miss Daisy (1989), Helen Hunt for As Good as It Gets (1997), Gwyneth Paltrow for Shakespeare in Love (1998), Reese Witherspoon for Walk the Line (2005), Marion Cotillard for La Vie en Rose (2007), and Jennifer Lawrence for Silver Linings Playbook (2012).
• Is one of 26 actresses to have received an Academy Award nomination for their performance in a musical; hers being Mary Poppins (1964), The Sound of Music (1965), and Victor Victoria (1982). The others, in chronological order, are: Bessie Love (The Broadway Melody (1929)), Grace Moore (One Night of Love (1934)), Jean Hagen (Singin’ in the Rain (1952)), Marjorie Rambeau (Torch Song (1953)), Dorothy Dandridge (Carmen Jones (1954)), Deborah Kerr (The King and I (1956)), Rita Moreno (West Side Story (1961)), Gladys Cooper (My Fair Lady (1964)), Debbie Reynolds (The Unsinkable Molly Brown (1964)), Peggy Wood (The Sound of Music (1965)), Carol Channing (Thoroughly Modern Millie (1967)), Kay Medford (Funny Girl (1968)), Barbra Streisand (Funny Girl (1968)), Liza Minnelli (Cabaret (1972)), Ronee Blakley (Nashville (1975)), Lily Tomlin (Nashville (1975)), Ann-Margret (Tommy (1975)), Lesley Ann Warren (Victor Victoria (1982)), Amy Irving (Yentl (1983)), Nicole Kidman (Moulin Rouge! (2001)), Queen Latifah (Chicago (2002)), Catherine Zeta-Jones (Chicago (2002)), Renée Zellweger (Chicago (2002)), Jennifer Hudson (Dreamgirls (2006)), Penelope Cruz (Nine (2009)), Anne Hathaway (Les Misérables (2012)), and Meryl Streep (Into the Woods (2014)). Andrews is the only actress to have been nominated multiple times for her performances in musicals.
• Is one of 4 actresses to win the Best Actress Oscar for her film debut (for Mary Poppins (1964)). The others are Shirley Booth (for Come Back, Little Sheba (1952)), Barbra Streisand (for Funny Girl (1968)), and Marlee Matlin (for Children of a Lesser God (1986)).
• Has had one of her ankle bone joints replaced with a titanium implant to avoid being confined to a wheelchair.
• Was the 61st actress to receive an Academy Award; she won the Best Actress Oscar for Mary Poppins (1964) at The 37th Annual Academy Awards (1965) on April 5, 1965.
• During the Vietnam War, Julie and her husband, Blake Edwards both became involved with the Committee of Responsibility, which brought severely injured children from the war zone to the US for treatment. Their involvement led them to adopt two Vietnamese abandoned children.
• Both Julie and her husband, Blake Edwards, underwent psychoanalysis in the 1970’s as a way to deal with their respective career slumps.
• After the success of ‘Mary Poppins’ and ‘The Sound of Music’, she declined huge offers for more nanny roles with the explanation: “I’ve done that.”
• Over a period of six years, from 1964 to 1970, she performed in four different films as characters with rhyming names, Mary, Emily, Millie, Lili, and each of those names were part of the respective title: 1964 Mary Poppins – Mary; 1964 The Americanization of Emily – Emily; 1967 Thoroughly Modern Millie – Millie; 1970 Darling Lili – Lili. Additionally, during the same period, she portrayed the similar sounding, if not rhyming, Maria in The Sound of Music (1965), where her character’s name was not part of the title. All except Darling Lili were big money makers.
• Doing the voice of “Queen Lillian” in Shrek Forever After (2010). [March 2009]
• Release of her book, “Home: A Memoir of My Early Years”. [March 2008]
• Release of the book, “Julie Andrews: An Intimate Biography” by Richard Stirling. [2007]
• Release of her book, “Thanks to You: Wisdom from Mother and Child” by Julie and her daughter, Emma Walton Hamilton. [2007]
• Release of the book, “Julie Andrews: A Life on Stage and Screen” by Robert Windeler. [1997]
• Thanked only Walt Disney by name in her Oscar acceptance speech.
• Recepient of a 2011 Lifetime Achievement Grammy [December 23, 2010].
• Learned to play the guitar specifically for the role of “Maria” in The Sound of Music (1965).
• Was at one point going to star in The Public Eye (1972).
• Was offered the role of Carol in Once Upon a Time in America (1984), but turned the role down. The part went to Tuesday Weld.
• According to her autobiography, she first saw second husband Blake Edwards at a party while she and first husband Tony Walton were on their honeymoon. She and Blake did not become friends until several years later.
• Turned down her Tony nomination for “Victor/Victoria” for Best Actress in a Musical in 1996 because the rest of the cast and crew were overlooked for consideration.
• Was one of the first women to be named a Disney Legend (and inducted into the Disney Hall of Fame). She was in the 1991 class with animator Mary Blair.
• Her two biological grandchildren are Sam (b. 1996) and Hope (b. 2003) from daughter Emma Walton. Her other grandchildren are: Max Scheff, from adopted daughter Amy Edwards; Kayti and Hannah Schneider, from stepdaughter Jennifer Edwards; Isabelle and Hank, from stepson Geoffrey Edwards.
• Her brother, Christopher Stuart, was born in May, 1946.
• Her daughter, Amy Edwards, married rock musician Lauren Scheff on October 24, 2004. They are now divorced.
• Could sing notes only dogs could hear at the age of seven.
• Mother-in-law of Steve Hamilton.
• As of 2013, she is one of six women who has received a Best Actress Oscar nomination for a performance directed by her spouse, namely for Victor Victoria (1982) directed by Blake Edwards. The other five are Elisabeth Bergner for Escape Me Never (1935) (directed by Paul Czinner), Joanne Woodward for Rachel, Rachel (1968) (directed by Paul Newman), Jean Simmons for The Happy Ending (1969) (directed by Richard Brooks), Gena Rowlands for A Woman Under the Influence (1974) & Gloria (1980) (both directed by John Cassavetes), and Frances McDormand for Fargo (1996) (directed by Joel Coen). Jules Dassin also directed his future wife Melina Mercouri in a Best Actress Oscar nominated performance (Never on Sunday (1960)), but they weren’t married yet at the time of the nomination.
• Received the Screen Actors Guild lifetime achievement award on January 28, 2007.
• Was considered for the role of Susy Hendrix in the film Wait Until Dark (1967) . The role eventually went to Audrey Hepburn as it did in My Fair Lady (1964).
• Grandmother of daughter Emma Walton’s children Samuel and Hope.
• Best friends with Carol Burnett. Carol is godmother of Julie’s daughter, Emma Walton.
• The Americanization of Emily (1964) is the only black and white movie she ever made.
• The song, “Your Crowning Glory” from The Princess Diaries 2: Royal Engagement (2004), was the first time she had sung in public or on screen since she had throat surgery in 1997. She reportedly nailed the song on the first take, and brought tears to the eyes of the crew present.
• Possessed a five-octave coloratura soprano range until a vocal nodule surgery mishap ruined her singing voice.
• Is the only actress to be nominated for (and later win) the Oscar in the Lead Actress category in a Walt Disney film (Mary Poppins (1964)).
• Her performance as Mary Poppins in Mary Poppins (1964) is ranked #45 on Premiere Magazine’s 100 Greatest Movie Characters of All Time.
• She was the youngest person ever to appear in a Royal Command Performance. She performed for King George VI, Queen Elizabeth, Princess Elizabeth/Queen Elizabeth II and Princess Margaret.
• Sings scales rather than songs in the shower.
• Was selected by the Walt Disney Company to become the Offical Ambassador for “The Happiest Homecoming On Earth: Disneyland’s 50th Anniversary Celebration”.
• Filmed a cameo sequence as a chambermaid in Blake Edwards’ 1975 Inspector Clouseau comedy The Return of the Pink Panther (1975), but the sequence ended up on the cutting-room floor.
• Her star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame is directly in front of the new addition to the Chinese Theatre. The star was dedicated on 5 Oct, 1979.
• Was passed over for the role on Eliza Dolittle in favor of Audrey Hepburn for the film My Fair Lady (1964). Unlike Andrews, however, Hepburn was not a natural singer. She took voice lessons and recorded the tracks for the movie, but the producers, without telling Audrey, dubbed her voice with that of Marni Nixon. Nixon appeared with Andrews in The Sound of Music (1965).
• She adopted two children from Vietnam with Blake Edwards, Amy Edwards (b. 1974) and Joanna Edwards (b. 1975).
• Her stepfather was an alcoholic.
• Changed her last name from Wells to Andrews when her mother married her stepfather Ted Andrews.
• Received a standing ovation at The 75th Annual Academy Awards (2003) when she appeared to present a short film celebration sequence.
• Mary Poppins (1964) for Disney, The Sound of Music (1965) for 20th Century Fox and Thoroughly Modern Millie (1967) for Universal were the biggest money-makers yet for their studios. However, her next two films, Star! (1968) and Darling Lili (1970), to put it mildly, failed to get their money back.
• In 1969, when MGM cancelled their proposed Irving Berlin musical biography “Say it With Music” in which she was set to star, she sued the studio and collected her $1,250,000 salary.
• In the 1960s she sported a bumper sticker on her car reading “Mary Poppins is a junkie”.
• Has owned a chalet in Gstaad, Switzerland, for many years. Every year she pays for Gstaad’s Christmas lights. In July she presents the prize for the winner of the annual Gstaad Tennis Open. She once said if she was nervous before a performance on stage, she’d just have to look at a photo from ‘lovely’ Gstaad, and she was reassured.
• Played the same role of “Victoria Grant” in the Broadway musical adaption of Victor Victoria (1982). She turned down a Tony nomination for Best Actress in a Musical.
• In 2002, she was voted the 59th greatest Briton ever in a BBC poll.
• She was a recipient of the Kennedy Center Honors in 2001.
• Has perfect pitch.
• She has a rose named after her.
• When Tony Walton proposed to her, he gave her a broach instead of a ring.
• While she played the original Eliza Dolittle in the Broadway musical “My Fair Lady”, Audrey Hepburn played the part in the movie My Fair Lady (1964). The studio executives did not want Andrews because she hadn’t had any experience in film and thought Hepburn would be the better choice. However, while the film My Fair Lady took home several Oscars in 1964, it failed to win the Best Actress category. That award went to none other than Julie Andrews for her performance in Mary Poppins (1964).
• The London press reported that Miss Andrews’s settlement for her botched throat surgery was nearly 21 million British pounds, or about 30 million U.S. dollars. [2001]
• 7 September 2000 – Her malpractice suit against the 2 New York Mt. Sinai Hospital doctors who allegedly botched her throat surgery was settled for an undisclosed sum.
• Mother, with Tony Walton, of daughter Emma Walton.
• Spent some time in a psychiatric clinic, to help her cope with the trauma resulting from her throat surgery.
• Born at 6:00am-BST.
• Uses the pen-name ‘Julie Edwards’.
• Stepmother of Jennifer Edwards and Geoffrey Edwards.
• Underwent throat surgery. [June 1997]
• Her husband reported that she would probably never sing again because the throat surgery had ruined her voice. [November 1998]
• Was named a Dame by Britain’s Queen Elizabeth II on the Millenium New Year’s Honours List on December 31, 1999.

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