Real name Julia Elizabeth Wells, Julie Andrews was born on 1. October 1935 in Walton-on-Thames, Surrey, marriage between an actor and a pianist. At a very young Julie gave small sample of his talent and a great voice, reaching to have a vocal range of four to five octaves, so their parents did to receive singing lessons to develop her vocal skills. His first contact with the entertainment industry came with his parents in a vaudeville show.

Their first performances took place during the Second World War, entertaining British troops throughout the United Kingdom by the young artist also Petula Clark.

His first performance in the theater was in the West End Theater in London, in the year 1947 at the Hippodrome in London with the Starlight Roof work later with a version of Cinderella. His debut in the United States occurred in 1954, production of Broadway The Boy Friend.

In 1956, composers Frederick Loewe and Alan Jay Lerner hire Andrews to star alongside Rex Harrison, the play My Fair Lady, based on the play Pygmalion by George Bernard Shaw. This work was a success both at the box office as audiences, and years later was made into a film, this time starring Audrey Hepburn.

In 1961, the same producers again hire Julie Andrews to star in his new play. This time it's an adaptation of the legend of King Arthur, whom they call Camelot. The representation is again a success and fame starts to give the actress in the art world.

After losing the role in the film version of My Fair Lady, Julie Andrews gets a starring role in a film that eventually would become a classic of Disney: Mary Poppins. For his role in this film, which plays a very special nurse, whose job is to educate the two children of a marriage in London, the actress won a Golden Globe for best actress in a comedy or musical, the Academy Award for Best Actress and, along with the other actors in the film, the Grammy for Best Album for Children in 1965. No less the memory of Andrews in the movie The Americanization of Emily.

The following year, the actress was again nominated for the Oscar for best actress, this time for his portrayal of a novice become a governess in the film The Sound of Music (known in Latin America as The Sound of Music and in Spain as Sound of tears). This year the prize took him Julie Christie for her role in Darling. But this movie was that rose to stardom in Hollywood. Proof of this is that in the next two years she starred in Hawaii, along with Max von Sydow, the film Alfred Hitchcock Torn Curtain, along with Paul Newman and Millie, a modern girl, along with Mary Tyler Moore and Carol Channing.

From that moment, and after starring Star! And Darling Lili, start a small decline in the Andrews' film career, although it still appears in films directed by her second husband, Blake Edwards, including 10 women perfect, (SOB) are honest bandits or Victor Victoria (film that was a great success and apart from him a Golden Globe for best actress in a comedy / musical, and a new Academy Award nomination in 1982 to be his best performance for many ). Despite this success was not so lucky in the following movies, so during the decades of 1980 and 1990, only appear in movies.

At the turn of the century, the actress stars opposite Anne Hathaway film The Princess Diaries (2001) and its sequel. The movies become blockbusters and return to relaunch the career of Andrews. Thus, in 2004 lends his voice to the character of Queen Lillian in the movie Shrek 2, the sequel to the great commercial success in 2001.

In 2000, he received the title of Dame of the British Empire from the hands of Queen Elizabeth II. Also has a star on the Walk of Fame in Hollywood, specifically at 6901 Hollywood Blvd

According to Reader's Diggest, said in an interview she did not return to the stage to sing due to illness in his larynx, being operated in 1998.
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