Julie Andrews
Highest Rated: 100% Thoroughly Modern Millie (1967)
Lowest Rated: 14% Unconditional Love (2002)
Birthday: Oct 1, 1935
Birthplace: Walton-on-Thames, Surrey, England, UK
The British actress, comedienne, singer and dancer Julie Andrews stakes a claim to fame for having one of the single most astonishing voices (four octaves!) of any entertainer alive. Yet the breadth of this raw ability is often hugely obscured by Andrews's milquetoast image and onscreen persona. Thus, in the late '60s, Andrews - who began her film career rooted firmly in family-oriented material - traveled far out of her way to expand her dramatic repertoire, with decidedly mixed results. A music-hall favorite since childhood, Andrews spent the war years dodging Nazi bombs and bowing to the plaudits of her fans. Thanks to her own talents and the persistence of her vaudevillian parents, Andrews maintained her career momentum with appearances in such extravaganzas as 1947's Starlight Roof Revue. It was in the role of a 1920s flapper in Sandy Wilson's satire The Boy Friend (1953) that brought Andrews to Broadway; and few could resist the attractively angular young miss warbling such deliberately sappy lyrics as "I Could Be Happy With You/If You Could Be Happy With Me." Following a live-TV performance of High Tor, Andrews regaled American audiences in the star-making role of cockney flower girl Eliza Doolittle in the 1956 Broadway blockbuster My Fair Lady. The oft-told backstage story of this musical classic was enough to dissuade anyone from thinking that Andrews was an overnight success, as producer Moss Hart mercilessly drilled her for 48 hours to help her get her lines, songs and dialect in proper working order. In 1957, Andrews again enchanted TV audiences in the title role of Rodgers & Hammerstein's musical adaptation of Cinderella. Later, Alan Jay Lerner and Frederick Loewe -- also the composers of My Fair Lady -- developed the role of Guinevere in their 1960 musical Camelot with Andrews in mind, and the result was another Broadway triumph, albeit not as profitable as Fair Lady. Although a proven favorite with American audiences thanks to her frequent TV variety show appearances (notably a memorable 1962 teaming with Carol Burnett), Andrews did not make a motion picture until 1964. As Mary Poppins, Andrews not only headlined one of Walt Disney's all-time biggest moneymakers, but also won an Oscar -- sweet compensation for having lost the Eliza role to Audrey Hepburn for the adaptation of My Fair Lady. Andrews hoped that Mary Poppins would not type her in "goody-goody" parts, and, to that end, accepted a decidedly mature role as James Garner's love interest in The Americanization of Emily (1964). However, Andrews' next film, The Sound of Music (1965) effectively locked her into sweetness and light parts in the minds of moviegoers. On the strength of the success of Music, Andrews was signed to numerous Hollywood projects, but her stardom had peaked.Perhaps recognizing this, Andrews started to branch out fairly aggressively by the late '60s, with such "adult-oriented" pictures as Alfred Hitchcock's espionage thriller Torn Curtain. That film, and others (Hawaii, Star!) all flopped. In the late '60s, Andrews fell in love with and married the then white-hot American director Blake Edwards; her decision to collaborate with Edwards on a professional level, to boot, waxed incredibly strategic. Today, many view Edwards in a negative light for cranking out moronic studio fodder such as A Fine Mess and Sunset). In 1969, however, he sat among Hollywood's creme-de-la-creme, notorious for crafting mature genre pictures for adult audiences (The Days of Wine and Roses, Breakfast at Tiffany's, Experiment in Fear and sophisticated slapstick comedies unafraid to take chances (the Pink Panther series, The Party). By marrying Edwards and aligning herself with him creatively, then, Andrews was also consciously or unconsciously bucking to change her image. Unfortunately, the two began at a low ebb to end all low ebbs. The WWI musical farce Darling Lili (1970) featured Rock Hudson, electric musical numbers, stunning dogfight sequences, and - signif
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Highest Rated Movies
Filmography
Movies
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| 58% | Despicable Me 3 | Gru's Mom | $264.2M | 2017 |
| No Score Yet | Sing-a-long-a Sound Of Music | Actor | — | 2011 |
| 81% | Despicable Me | Gru's Mom | $251.5M | 2010 |
| 58% | Shrek Forever After | Queen | $238.4M | 2010 |
| 18% | The Tooth Fairy | Lily | $58.6M | 2010 |
| 90% | The Boys: The Sherman Brothers' Story | Actor | — | 2009 |
| No Score Yet | Johnny Mercer: The Dream's On Me | Actor | — | 2009 |
| 93% | Enchanted | Mary Poppins | $127.8M | 2007 |
| 41% | Shrek the Third | Queen | $320.8M | 2007 |
| No Score Yet | Disneyland: Secrets, Stories and Magic of the Happiest Place on Earth | Actor | — | 2007 |
| No Score Yet | The Sound Of Music Sing-Along Edition | Actor | — | 2007 |
| 21% | The Pink Panther | Producer | $82.3M | 2006 |
| No Score Yet | Broadway's Lost Treasures III: The Best of the Tony Awards | My Fair Lady | — | 2005 |
| No Score Yet | Meet the Cast of Shrek 2 | Actor | — | 2004 |
| No Score Yet | Broadway: The American Musical | Actor | — | 2004 |
| 89% | Shrek 2 | Queen Lillian | $436.5M | 2004 |
| No Score Yet | Broadway: The American Musical | Actor | — | 2004 |
| No Score Yet | Eloise at Christmastime | Nanny | — | 2003 |
| No Score Yet | Eloise at the Plaza | Nanny | — | 2003 |
| No Score Yet | Broadway's Lost Treasures | Actor | — | 2003 |
| No Score Yet | The Cat That Looked at a King | Actor | — | 2002 |
| No Score Yet | One Special Night | Dr. Catherine Howard | — | 2002 |
| 14% | Unconditional Love | Herself | — | 2002 |
| No Score Yet | Richard Rodgers: The Sweetest Sounds | Actor | — | 2001 |
| 48% | The Princess Diaries | Queen Clarisse Renaldi | $107.8M | 2001 |
| 20% | Relative Values | Felicity | — | 2000 |
| No Score Yet | My Favorite Broadway: The Love Songs | Actor | — | 2000 |
| No Score Yet | My Favorite Broadway: The Leading Ladies | Actor | — | 1999 |
| No Score Yet | Rodgers & Hammerstein - The Sound of Movies | Actor | — | 1996 |
| No Score Yet | A Fine Romance | Mrs. Pamela Piquet | — | 1992 |
| No Score Yet | Our Sons (Too Little, Too Late) | Audrey Grant | — | 1991 |
| No Score Yet | Carnegie Hall at 100: A Place of Dreams | Actor | — | 1991 |
| No Score Yet | Hanya: Portrait of a Pioneer | Host | — | 1989 |
| No Score Yet | Julie Andrews Sings Her Favorite Songs | Actor | — | 1989 |
| No Score Yet | The AFI Lifetime Achievement Awards: Jack Lemmon | Host | — | 1988 |
| No Score Yet | Julie Andrews: The Sound of Christmas | Actor | — | 1987 |
| 46% | That's Life! | Gillian Faichild | — | 1986 |
| No Score Yet | Duet for One | Stephanie Anderson | — | 1986 |
| 33% | The Man Who Loved Women | Marianna | — | 1983 |
| 97% | Victor Victoria | Victoria Grant | — | 1982 |
| 82% | S.O.B. | Sally Miles | $14.9M | 1981 |
| No Score Yet | Little Miss Marker | Amanda | — | 1980 |
| 68% | 10 | Samantha Taylor | — | 1979 |
| 80% | The Pink Panther Strikes Again | Singing voice of Ainslie Jarvis | — | 1976 |
| No Score Yet | The Tamarind Seed | Judith Farrow | — | 1974 |
| 40% | Darling Lili | Lili Smith | — | 1970 |
| No Score Yet | Star! | Gertrude Lawrence | — | 1968 |
| 100% | Thoroughly Modern Millie | Millie Dillmount | — | 1967 |
| No Score Yet | The Singing Princess | Actor | — | 1967 |
| 67% | Hawaii | Jerusha Hale | — | 1966 |
| 68% | Torn Curtain | Sarah Sherman | — | 1966 |
| 84% | The Sound of Music | Maria | — | 1965 |
| 100% | The Americanization of Emily | Emily Barham | — | 1964 |
| 100% | Mary Poppins | Mary Poppins | — | 1964 |
| No Score Yet | Cinderella | Cinderella | — | 1957 |
| No Score Yet | Rodgers & Hammerstein's Cinderella | Actor | — | 1957 |
| No Score Yet | The Singing Princess | Princess Zeila | — | 1949 |
TV
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The Late Show With Stephen Colbert 2015 |
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2019 2017 2016 |
| No Score Yet |
The Graham Norton Show 2007 |
Guest |
2019 2014 |
| No Score Yet |
The Talk 2010 |
Guest |
2019 2013 2012 |
| No Score Yet |
Julie's Greenroom 2017 |
Executive Producer Ms. Julie Creator |
2017 |
| No Score Yet |
The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon 2014 |
Guest |
2017 |
| No Score Yet |
The View 1997 |
Guest |
2017 |
| No Score Yet |
Today 2017 |
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2017 |
| No Score Yet |
Rachael Ray 2015 |
Guest |
2017 2016 2015 |
| No Score Yet |
Great Performances 2000 |
Host Cinderella Guest Performer |
2017 2016 2015 2014 2013 2012 2010 2009 2004 2003 2001 |
| No Score Yet |
Colbert Report 2005-2014 |
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2013 |
| No Score Yet |
CBS This Morning 2012 |
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2012 |
| No Score Yet |
The Daily Show With Jon Stewart 1999-2015 |
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2010 |
| No Score Yet |
The Ellen DeGeneres Show 2003 |
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2007 2006 |
| No Score Yet |
American Masters 2001 |
Appearing |
2001 |
| 100% |
The Muppet Show 1976-1981 |
Guest |
1977 |
| 0% |
Julie 1992 |
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QUOTES FROM Julie Andrews CHARACTERS
Mary Poppins says: Mary Poppins, practically perfect in every way.
Queen Lillian says: Harold!
Princess Fiona says: Shrek!
Shrek says: Fiona!
King Harold says: Fiona!
Princess Fiona says: Mom!
Donkey says: Donkey!
Gru says: Hey mom! I build a rocket based on the macarroni model!
Gru's Mom says: Oooohh.....No.
Gru says: Hey, Mom, someday i'll go to the moon too.
Gru's Mom says: I'm afraid that's not possible son, NASA is not sending monkeys anymore.
Narrator says: And they all lived happily ever after.
Gru's Mom says: Okay, I'm out of here. [Kicks the instructor] Hi ya!
Clarisse Renaldi says: Some girls are fair. Some are jolly and fit. Some have a well-bred air or a well-honed wit. Each one's with its one's a jewel with a singular shine, a work of art with its own rare design. Dearl little girl, you are terribly blessed, but it's your heart of gold I love the best. And that will be your crowning glory your whole life through. It'll always be your crowning glory--the most glorious part of you.
Queen Clarisse Renaldi says: A queen is never late. Everyone else is simply early.
Mother Abbess says: Maria, these walls were not meant to shut out problems. You have to face them. You have to live the life you were born to live.
Kurt says: I wonder what grass tastes like.
Captain Von Trapp says: You brought music back into the house. I had forgotten.
Frau Schmidt says: The Von Trapp children don't play. They march.
Captain Von Trapp says: If the Nazis take over Austria, I have no doubt, Herr Zeller, that you will be the entire trumpet section.
Kurt says: Only grown-up men are scared of women.
Maria von Trapp says: When the Lord closes a door, somewhere He opens a window.
Maria von Trapp says: Maria: I can't seem to stop singing wherever I am. And what's worse, I can't seem to stop saying things - anything and everything I think and feel.
Mary Poppins says: In every job that must be done, there is an element of fun.
Maria von Trapp says: When the Lord closes a door, somewhere He opens a window.
Mary Poppins says: Supercallifragilisticexpialidocious!
Mary Poppins says: "I never explain anything"
Mary Poppins says: I never explain anything.
Gru says: Mom, someday, I'm going to go to the moon
Gru says: Mom, someday, I'm going to go to the moon.
Gru's Mom says: I'm afraid you're too late, son. NASA isn't sending the monkeys anymore.
Dorothy Brown says: You're a modern!
Millie Dillmount says: Yes, thoroughly.
Mary Poppins says: Just a spoon-ful of sugar helps the medicine go down…
Mary Poppins says: Just a spoon-ful of sugar helps the medicine go down.