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Julie Andrews
Background- She became the youngest ever to performer, solo, in the Royal Command Variety Performance, and since then there was no looking back.
A remarkable woman who has mesmerized the audiences of all ages for over five decades. Julie Andrews made her first professional solo appearance in a musical revue called Starlight Roof, in the year 1947. She received wide round of applause for her performance. The following year she was invited to put up a show in a Royal Command Variety Performance, at the London Palladium, where she performed for King George VI, and also for the members of the Royal Family and became one of the youngest solo performer. She then went on to appear at Educating Archie, a programme that used to appear in radio. She then appeared in Cinderella, a production of the London West End. She made her American debut starring in the Broadway production of The Boy Friend in 1954. She also appeared as Eliza Doolittle, in the musical My Fair Lady, by Frederick Loewe and Alan Jay Lerner. The show was a actually a musical adaptation of the famous novel Pygmalion by George Bernard Shaw, and it became one of the greatest hit of the decade. She became famous overnight. She has also starred in High Tor with Bing Crosby and Rodgers and Hammerstein's Cinderella, a television musicals.
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Artist Biography - Julie Andrews
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 In 1961, she appeared in a period musical as the character Guenevere, starring opposite Richard Burton and newcomer Robert Goulet in the movie Camelot,. The show become a smash hit. After seeing her performance in My Fair Lady, the Walt Disney approached her and asked her to play the character of Poppins in Mary Poppins. She won the Golden Globe Award for Best Actress for her role. In the year 1965, she also won the Academy Award for Best Actress. She and her co-stars won the Grammy Award for Best Album for Children for Mary Poppins, at the Grammy Awards. The following year she was again nominated for an Academy Award for her role as Maria von Trapp in The Sound of Music. After that there was no looking back and she also become one of the most sought-after stars in Hollywood. She also appeared in the three-hour epic Hawaii, in Alfred Hitchcock's Torn Curtain with Paul Newman (both in 1966), and Thoroughly Modern Millie (1967), with Mary Tyler Moore and Carol Channing. During the 80's and 90'she did only a handful of films.
She also won 7 Emmy Awards for one season, on the ABC network that appeared in the year 1972 - 1973, and was critically acclaimed. In 1983, she was conferred the Hasty Pudding Woman of the Year by the Harvard University theatrical society. In the year 2003, she directed the revival of her Broadway debut, The Boy Friend and the show toured in North America, including: Boston, Chicago and Toronto throughout the year 2006. Andrews has also received Kennedy Center Honors and recently has been chosen to receive the Screen Actors Guild's SAG Life Achievement Award in 2007. She also appears in the List of "100 Greatest Britons" that was sponsored by the BBC and was chosen by the public.
She also devote her time to various charity works- UNICEF, Operation USA and Save the Children. She has also served as Goodwill Ambassadoe for UNIFEM.
Julie Andrews, in a recent interview said: "To be honest with you, I've never been busier in my life," She further added "I'm not quite sure what I was supposed to learn from all of that. It did bother me. I can't say that I wasn't devastated. Singing, with an orchestra, being able to sing, was what I'd known my entire life. Whatever happened, I think I found so much to keep me feeling that I'm contributing still."
You don't want to miss her show! So book your tickets now.
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For more information , enjoy the official homepage of Julie Andrews
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