Julie Andrews
Actor
Dame Julia Elizabeth Andrews, DBE is a British 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), for which she won the Academy Award for Best Actress, and The Sound of Music (1965): the roles for which she is still best-known. Her voice, which originally spanned four octaves, was damaged by a throat operation in 1997.
Andrews had a 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), the Shrek animated films (2004–2010), and Despicable Me (2010). In 2003 Andrews revisited her first Broadway ... Show more...
Dame Julia Elizabeth Andrews, DBE is a British 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), for which she won the Academy Award for Best Actress, and The Sound of Music (1965): the roles for which she is still best-known. Her voice, which originally spanned four octaves, was damaged by a throat operation in 1997.
Andrews had a 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), the Shrek animated films (2004–2010), and Despicable Me (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. Show less...
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Despicable Me 3 (2017)
As: Gru's Mom (voice)
Gru and his wife Lucy must stop former '80s child star Balthazar Bratt from achieving world domination.
Runtime: 89 min.
Directed by: Pierre Coffin | Kyle Balda
Stars: Kristen Wiig | Trey Parker | Miranda Cosgrove | Steve Carell | Dana Gaier
Final Cut - Ladies & Gentlemen (2012)
A film where anything can happen - the hero and the heroine changes their faces, age, look, names, and so on. The only same thing: The love between man and woman... in an archetypical love story cut from 500 classics from all around the world.
Runtime: 84 min.
Directed by: György Pálfi
Stars: Isabelle Adjani | Julie Andrews | Fanny Ardant | Agustín Almodóvar | Rosanna Arquette
Despicable Me (2010)
As: Gru's Mother (voice)
Villainous Gru lives up to his reputation as a despicable, deplorable and downright unlikable guy when he hatches a plan to steal the moon from the sky. But he has a tough time staying on task after three orphans land in his care.
Runtime: 95 min.
Directed by: Pierre Coffin | Chris Renaud
Stars: Julie Andrews | Will Arnett | Russell Brand | Jason Segel | Steve Carell
Shrek Forever After (2010)
As: Queen (voice)
A bored and domesticated Shrek pacts with deal-maker Rumpelstiltskin to get back to feeling like a real ogre again, but when he's duped and sent to a twisted version of Far Far Away—where Rumpelstiltskin is king, ogres are hunted, and he and Fiona have never met—he sets out to restore his world and reclaim his true love.
Runtime: 93 min.
Directed by: Mike Mitchell
Stars: Mike Myers | Eddie Murphy | Cameron Diaz | Antonio Banderas | Julie Andrews
Tooth Fairy (2010)
As: Lily
When minor-league hockey player Derek Thompson -- who has a penchant for knocking out his opponents' teeth every time he plays -- disillusions a fan, he is sentenced to a stint for one week as a bona fide, tutu-clad, real-life tooth fairy. Soon, Derek is inspired to rekindle his youthful dreams.
Runtime: 101 min.
Directed by: Michael Lembeck
Stars: Julie Andrews | Dwayne Johnson | Ashley Judd | Stephen Merchant | Ryan Sheckler
The Boys: The Sherman Brothers' Story (2009)
As: Herself
A documentary about the troubled sibling relationship between Robert B. Sherman & Richard M. Sherman -- aka The Sherman Brothers -- the Academy Award and Grammy-winning songwriters famous for their iconic Disney and Family Movie hits.
Runtime: 101 min.
Directed by: Gregory V. Sherman | Jeff Sherman
Stars: Julie Andrews | Roy Edward Disney | Richard M. Sherman | Robert B. Sherman
Enchanted (2007)
As: Narrator
The beautiful princess Giselle is banished by an evil queen from her magical, musical animated land and finds herself in the gritty reality of the streets of modern-day Manhattan. Shocked by this strange new environment that doesn't operate on a "happily ever after" basis, Giselle is now adrift in a chaotic world badly in need of enchantment. But when Giselle begins to fall in love with a charmingly flawed ...
Runtime: 107 min.
Directed by: Kevin Lima
Stars: Timothy Spall | Amy Adams | Patrick Dempsey | James Marsden | Rachel Covey
Shrek the Third (2007)
As: Queen Lillian (voice)
The King of Far Far Away has died and Shrek and Fiona are to become King & Queen. However, Shrek wants to return to his cozy swamp and live in peace and quiet, so when he finds out there is another heir to the throne, they set off to bring him back to rule the kingdom.
Runtime: 93 min.
Directed by: Chris Miller
Stars: Mike Myers | Eddie Murphy | Cameron Diaz | Antonio Banderas | Julie Andrews
Broadway's Lost Treasures III - The Best of the Tony Awards (2005)
As: Herself
Broadway royalty and Tony-winners Tommy Tune, Carol Channing, Robert Goulet, and Harvey Fierstein are your hosts for this third compilation of great musical performances from the archives of the Tony Award® broadcasts. Legendary stars from legendary shows strut their stuff in 23 performances that have become part of Broadway history.
Runtime: 95 min.
Directed by: Chris Cohen | Wayne Palmer
Stars: Julie Andrews | Ethel Merman | Angela Lansbury | Ray Walston | Gwen Verdon
The Princess Diaries 2: Royal Engagement (2004)
As: Queen Clarisse Renaldi
Mia Thermopolis is now a college graduate and on her way to Genovia to take up her duties as princess. Her best friend Lilly also joins her for the summer. Mia continues her 'princess lessons'- riding horses side-saddle, archery, and other royal. But her complicated life is turned upside down once again when she not only learns that she is to take the crown as queen earlier than expected...
Runtime: 113 min.
Directed by: Garry Marshall
Stars: John Rhys-Davies | Anne Hathaway | Julie Andrews | Heather Matarazzo | Héctor Elizondo
Shrek 2 (2004)
As: Queen (voice)
Shrek, Fiona and Donkey set off to Far, Far Away to meet Fiona's mother and father. But not everyone is happy. Shrek and the King find it hard to get along, and there's tension in the marriage. The fairy godmother discovers that Shrek has married Fiona instead of her Son Prince Charming and sets about destroying their marriage.
Runtime: 93 min.
Directed by: Andrew Adamson | Conrad Vernon | Kelly Asbury
Stars: Mike Myers | Eddie Murphy | Cameron Diaz | Antonio Banderas | Julie Andrews
The Cat That Looked at a King (2004)
As: Mary Poppins
This short film is a combination of live-action and animation. It is done in the style of the chalk drawings seen in the original "Mary Poppins" film and was produced exclusively for the 40th Anniversary Special Edition DVD released in December of 2004. Julie Andrews and two children magically enter the animated world of the chalk drawings to experience this whimsical tale based on one of the chapters from ...
Runtime: 10 min.
Directed by: Dave Bossert
Stars: Julie Andrews | David Ogden Stiers | Dylan Cash | Olivia DeLaurentis | Sarah Ferguson
Eloise at Christmastime (2003)
As: Nanny
Eloise insists on helping with yuletide nuptials.
Runtime: 89 min.
Directed by: Kevin Lima
Stars: Julie Andrews | Jason Jones | Kenneth Welsh | Debra Monk | Sofia Vassilieva
Eloise at the Plaza (2003)
As: Nanny
This is a comedy about a six-year-old girl who lives at a 5 star plaza and causes havoc.
Runtime: 89 min.
Directed by: Kevin Lima
Stars: Jeffrey Tambor | Julie Andrews | Kenneth Welsh | Debra Monk | Sofia Vassilieva
The Princess Diaries (2001)
As: Queen Clarisse Renaldi
A socially awkward but very bright 15-year-old girl being raised by a single mom discovers that she is the princess of a small European country because of the recent death of her long-absent father, who, unknown to her, was the crown prince of Genovia. She must make a choice between continuing the life of a San Francisco teen or stepping up to the throne.
Runtime: 111 min.
Directed by: Garry Marshall
Stars: Anne Hathaway | Julie Andrews | Mandy Moore | Heather Matarazzo | Héctor Elizondo
Relative Values (2000)
As: Felicity Marshwood
A comedy of discriminating taste and dirty little secrets, the story is set in 1952 England, where Nigel, the Earl of Marshwood, woos Hollywood star Miranda Frayle, upsetting both his mother, Countess Felicity of Marshwood, and her former love, fellow Hollywood star Don Lucas. Right before the engagement party to be held at Marshwood, Moxie, the Countess's personal maid and best friend reveals that Miranda ...
Runtime: 87 min.
Directed by: Eric Styles
Stars: Colin Firth | Julie Andrews | Stephen Fry | William Baldwin | Edward Atterton
One Special Night (1999)
As: Catherine
Builder Robert is visiting his ailing wife in a nursing home and is having problems getting a taxi home due to an intense snow storm. One of the doctors, Katherine offers him a lift home however their car gets stuck and they have to spend the night in an empty cabin nearby. They talk and bond, but afterwards seem to have difficulty beginning a relationship.
Runtime: 92 min.
Directed by: Roger Young
Stars: Julie Andrews | Stacy Grant | James Garner | Stewart Bick | Patricia Charbonneau
20th Century Fox: The First 50 Years (1997)
As: Narrator
If you love movies, you won't want to miss this fascinating and fact-filled chronicle of the first 50 years of Twentieth Century Fox.
Runtime: 150 min.
Directed by: Kevin Burns
Stars: Julie Andrews
Victor Victoria (1995)
As: Victor / Victoria
An out-of-work singer, Victoria Grant (Julie Andrews), meets a just-fired, flamboyant gay man in a diner in 1920's Paris. He convinces her to pretend to be a man who is a female impersonator in order to get a job. The act is a hit in a local nightclub, but things get complicated when a gangster and nightclub owner from Chicago, King Marchan (Michael Nouri) falls in-love with "her." Flimed live on stage on ...
Runtime: 146 min.
Directed by: Blake Edwards | Matthew Diamond
Stars: Michael Nouri | Julie Andrews | Tony Roberts | Devin Richards
Our Sons (1991)
As: Audrey Grant
Our Sons is a 1991 made-for-TV movie starring Julie Andrews and Ann-Margret as two mothers of gay sons, one of whom is dying of AIDS. As a small town waitress, Ann-Margret's character must overcome her own homophobia and learn to love her son unconditionally. In the process, she cements a lasting friendship with Andrews's character. The movie was inspired by the 1987 documentary Too Little, Too Late. ...
Runtime: 96 min.
Directed by: John Erman
Stars: Julie Andrews | Ann-Margret | Hugh Grant | Tony Roberts | Zeljko Ivanek
A Fine Romance (1991)
As: Mrs. Pamela Piquet
In an otherwise bland comedy about unfaithful spouses. Individually and together, Mastroianni and Andrews (an unlikely team) are magic. He plays a slightly clownish Italian and she, an uptight Brit. They come together when their spouses run off together. The ending helps redeem this slight film, watchable only because of the great stars.
Runtime: 97 min.
Directed by: Gene Saks
Stars: Julie Andrews | Marcello Mastroianni | Ian Fitzgibbon | Jonathan Cecil
Duet for One (1987)
As: Stephanie Anderson
When Stephanie, a famous violinist, contracts multiple sclerosis her life begins to fall apart. Her career ends, her husband leaves her for another woman and her favorite pupil leave the country. Unable to bear all this loss, Stephanie attempts suicide.
Runtime: 107 min.
Directed by: Andrei Konchalovsky
Stars: Max von Sydow | Julie Andrews | Rupert Everett | Alan Bates | Margaret Courtenay
That's Life! (1986)
As: Gillian Fairchild
A wealthy architect struggles with a severe case of male menopause at the approach of his 60th birthday.
Runtime: 102 min.
Directed by: Blake Edwards
Stars: Julie Andrews | Robert Loggia | Sally Kellerman | Jack Lemmon | Jennifer Edwards
The Man Who Loved Women (1983)
As: Marianna
1983 Burt Reynolds version -- This is the tale of a sculptor named David who has a major womanizing problem. He goes to seek help from a psychiatrist, Marianna, to cure him of his obsession with women. His story of sexual and romantic exploits with the ladies is told by Marianna.
Runtime: 110 min.
Directed by: Blake Edwards
Stars: Julie Andrews | Marilu Henner | Kim Basinger | Burt Reynolds | Cynthia Sikes
Victor Victoria (1982)
As: Victoria Grant / Count Victor Grezhinski
A struggling female soprano finds work playing a male female impersonator, but it complicates her personal life.
Runtime: 134 min.
Directed by: Blake Edwards
Stars: Lesley Ann Warren | Julie Andrews | James Garner | Alex Karras | Robert Preston
S.O.B. (1981)
As: Sally Miles-Farmer
A movie producer who made a huge flop tries to salvage his career by revamping his film as an erotic production, where its family-friendly star takes her top off.
Runtime: 122 min.
Directed by: Blake Edwards
Stars: Julie Andrews | Marisa Berenson | Robert Loggia | Larry Hagman | William Holden
Little Miss Marker (1980)
As: Amanda
Sorrowful Jones is a cheap bookie in 1930's. When a gambler leaves his daughter as a marker for a bet, he gets stuck with her. His life will change a great deal with her arrival and his sudden love for a woman also involved in gambling operations.
Runtime: 103 min.
Directed by: Walter Bernstein
Stars: Julie Andrews | Walter Matthau | Tony Curtis | Lee Grant | Bob Newhart
10 (1979)
As: Samantha Taylor
A Hollywood songwriter goes through a mid-life crisis and becomes infatuated with a sexy blonde newlywed.
Runtime: 122 min.
Directed by: Blake Edwards
Stars: Julie Andrews | Bo Derek | Sam Jones | Dudley Moore | Robert Webber
The Tamarind Seed (1974)
As: Judith Farrow
During a Caribbean holiday, a British civil servant finds herself falling in love with a Russian agent.
Runtime: 125 min.
Directed by: Blake Edwards
Stars: Julie Andrews | Sylvia Syms | Dan O'Herlihy | Omar Sharif | Anthony Quayle
Julie and Dick at Covent Garden (1974)
As: Herself
The program, deftly taped on a studio sountstage simulating the cobbled streets, stately, facadest colorful produce and quaint shops of the Drury Lane Theater, area in London, is linked to the atmosphere and history of the famous old showcase. Miss Andrews and the two Americans cavort in some very funny slapstick, including a “Cinderella” take‐off of traditional English pantomime. Even a tender, ...
Runtime: 60 min.
Directed by: Dennis Vance
Stars: Julie Andrews | Carl Reiner | Dick Van Dyke
Julie's Christmas Special (1973)
As: Herself
Christmas wouldn't be Christmas without some traditional Christmas favourites such as Julie’s Christmas Special. This special aired on ABC-TV on December 14, 1973 and featured special guests Peter Ustinov and Peggy Lee. Most memorably, Andrews and Lee duet on a trippy, campy medley that delightfully careens from hit to hit over the most fun 8 and a half minutes you'll ever have with your pants on. ...
Runtime: 60 min.
Directed by: Jon Scoffield
Stars: Julie Andrews | Peggy Lee | Peter Ustinov
Darling Lili (1970)
As: Lili Smith (Schmidt)
Set in Paris during World War I. Lili Smith/Schmidt is a German spy being requested to go under cover to help Germany during the war, to try and find out their plans. Her "uncle" wishes her to fulfill the operation, whereas one of his colleagues believed she is not capable of performing such an operation as she is British. She soon finds herself following Major William Larrabee's every move and ...
Runtime: 136 min.
Directed by: Blake Edwards
Stars: Julie Andrews | Jeremy Kemp | Rock Hudson | Lance Percival | Michael Witney
Star! (1968)
As: Gertrude Lawrence
Gertrude Lawrence rises to stage stardom at the cost of happiness.
Runtime: 176 min.
Directed by: Robert Wise
Stars: Julie Andrews | Richard Crenna | Daniel Massey | Michael Craig | Robert Reed
Thoroughly Modern Millie (1967)
As: Millie Dillmount
Millie Dillmount, a fearless young lady fresh from Salina, Kansas, determined to experience Life, sets out to see the world in the rip-roaring Twenties. With high spirits and wearing one of those new high hemlines, she arrives in New York to test the "modern" ideas she had been reading about back in Kansas: "I've taken the girl out of Kansas. Now I have to take Kansas out of the girl!"
Runtime: 138 min.
Directed by: George Roy Hill
Stars: Julie Andrews | James Fox | Mary Tyler Moore | Carol Channing | John Gavin
Hawaii (1966)
As: Jerusha Bromley
Abner Hale, a rigid and humorless New England missionary, marries the beautiful Jerusha Bromley and takes her to the exotic island kingdom of Hawaii, intent on converting the natives. But the clash between the two cultures is too great and instead of understanding there comes tragedy.
Runtime: 189 min.
Directed by: George Roy Hill
Stars: Richard Harris | Max von Sydow | Julie Andrews | Gene Hackman | Carroll O'Connor
Torn Curtain (1966)
As: Sarah Sherman
During the Cold War, an American scientist appears to defect to East Germany as part of a cloak and dagger mission to find the formula for a resin solution, but the plan goes awry when his fiancee, unaware of his motivation, follows him across the border.
Runtime: 128 min.
Directed by: Alfred Hitchcock
Stars: Julie Andrews | Paul Newman | Günter Strack | Ludwig Donath | Hansjörg Felmy
The Julie Andrews Show (1965)
As: Herself
The Julie Andrews Show is a television special that was broadcast by NBC in November 1965. This was Andrews' first solo American TV Special, although she had previously starred in several dramatic television works (High Tor, Cinderella) and co-starred with Carol Burnett in a major special. However by November 1965 Andrews was now a major movie star with both Mary Poppins and Sound of Music still in ...
Runtime: 60 min.
Directed by: Alan Handley
Stars: Julie Andrews | Gene Kelly
The Sound of Music (1965)
As: Maria
A tomboyish postulant at an Austrian abbey becomes a governess in the home of a widowed naval captain with seven children, and brings a new love of life and music into the home.
Runtime: 172 min.
Directed by: Robert Wise
Stars: Julie Andrews | Christopher Plummer | Richard Haydn | Eleanor Parker | Peggy Wood
The Americanization of Emily (1964)
As: Emily Barham
During the build-up to D-Day in 1944, the British found their island hosting many thousands of American soldiers who were "oversexed, overpaid, and over here". That's Charlie Madison exactly; he knows all the angles to make life as smooth and risk-free as possible for himself. But things become complicated when he falls for an English woman, and his commanding officer's nervous breakdown leads to Charlie ...
Runtime: 115 min.
Directed by: Arthur Hiller
Stars: Julie Andrews | James Garner | James Coburn | Joyce Grenfell | Melvyn Douglas
Mary Poppins (1964)
As: Mary Poppins
A magical nanny employs music and adventure to help two neglected children become closer to their father.
Runtime: 139 min.
Directed by: Robert Stevenson
Stars: Julie Andrews | Glynis Johns | Hermione Baddeley | David Tomlinson | Dick Van Dyke
The Broadway of Lerner and Loewe (1962)
As: Herself
A musical special celebrating the fruitful collaboration of Broadway lyricist/librettist Alan Jay Lerner and composer Frederick Loewe. Stars from the current Broadway hit "Camelot" and from past triumphs such as "My Fair Lady," and the film "Gigi" perform the romantic, sophisticated songs of Lerner and Loewe.
Runtime: 60 min.
Directed by: Norman Jewison
Stars: Julie Andrews | Richard Burton | Stanley Holloway | Maurice Chevalier | Robert Goulet
Cinderella (1957)
As: Cinderella
Rodgers and Hammerstein's Cinderella is a musical written for television, with music by Richard Rodgers and a book and lyrics by Oscar Hammerstein II. Cinderella is the only Rodgers and Hammerstein musical written for television. It was originally broadcast live on CBS on March 31, 1957 as a vehicle for Julie Andrews, who played the title role. The broadcast was viewed by more than 100 million people. On ...
Runtime: 90 min.
Directed by: Ralph Nelson
Stars: Julie Andrews | Ilka Chase | Kaye Ballard | Alice Ghostley | Edie Adams