Julie Andrews

Julie Andrews (October 1st 1935 with Walton-one-Thames, Surrey), of her true name Julia Elizabeth Wells, is a Actrice and British Chanteuse . She is especially known for her roles in Mary Poppins , the Melody of happiness and Victor/Victoria .

Biography

His/her parents are actors of light comedy and notice that it has a voice which extends on four octave S. They encourage it to make career in the song. What it will do in a remarkable way during its young age and its adolescence.

It makes its beginnings with Broadway in 1954. Two years later, it holds the principal feminine role in the musical comedy My Fair Lady . It will be one strong moment in its career.

By afterwards, she on television plays the part of Cinderella in Cinderella and of Guenièvre in Camelot on scene. In 1963, one does not retain it for the principal feminine role of the film My Fair Lady because it is unknown general public film enthusiast. However Walt Disney proposes to him the role of Mary Poppins . She receives a Oscar for her interpretation and becomes a high-speed motorboat of the big screen.

She turns then the Plays of the love and the war , a Satire on the Second world war. This serious role enables him to show its talents of dramatic actress.

In 1965, it turns in the Melody of happiness and, following the enormous success of this one, a vain image and marsh mallow seize this intelligent and sarcastic actress. Thereafter, its dramatic roles will be less better accommodated by the public and several failures will follow, of which the musical comedy worship Star! of Robert Wise.

She marries in 1969 Blake Edwards. During the Years 1970, it is devoted to its family of 5 children and animates a series of variety programmes which will receive many rewards. At the end of the years 1970, it returns on the big screens, under the control of Blake Edwards, for roles with against-employment (in particular delirious S.O.B. ). The point of organ of this change of image will be reached in Victor/Victoria in 1982.

After a series of films and song recitals, it returns on the boards of Broadway in the scenic adaptation of Victor/Victoria , a musical comedy as successful as exténuante for a 60 year old singer.

Following an surgical operation, it loses its voice and must give up the song. It is devoted then to roles light and written books for children (an activity whom it began in the years 1970). In 2001, she plays the part of the Queen Clarisse in the film Princesse In spite of Her . In 2003, it returns on scene in the capacity as director, for the musical comedy The Boy Friend which had returned it celebrates in 1954.

She is the “  voice off  ” of the pyrotechnical spectacle Remember… Dreams Like True , presented since the fiftieth birthday of the first Disney park, in this same park.

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