Julie Andrews

Actresses

Dame Julie Andrews DBE (born Julia Elizabeth Wells; October 1, 1935) is an English actress, singer, and author. She won the Academy Award for Best Actress in her debut film Mary Poppins (1964), with Dick Van Dyke, David Tomlinson, Glynis Johns, Hermione Baddeley, Karen Dotrice, Matthew Garber, Elsa Lanchester, Arthur Treacher, Reginald Owen, and Ed Wynn.

She received a second Academy Award nomination for Best Actress for Robert Wise’s The Sound of Music (1965), with Christopher Plummer, Richard Haydn, Peggy Wood, Charmian Carr, and Eleanor Parker. Other notable films of the 1960s include Arthur Hiller’s The Americanization of Emily (1964), with James Garner, Melvyn Douglas, James Coburn, Joyce Grenfell, and Keenan Wynn; Alfred Hitchcock’s Torn Curtain (1966), with Paul Newman; George Roy Hill’s Hawaii (1966), with Max von Sydow, Richard Harris, Gene Hackman, and Carroll O’Connor; Thoroughly Modern Millie (1967), with Mary Tyler Moore, Carol Channing, James Fox, John Gavin, and Beatrice Lillie; Star! (1968), with Richard Crenna, Michael Craig, and Daniel Massey.

In 1969 she married filmmaker Blake Edwards (married till his death in 2010) and would appear in many of his films including: Darling Lili (1970), with Rock Hudson, Jeremy Kemp, Lance Percival, Michael Witney, Jacques Marin, André Maranne, and Gloria Paul; The Tamarind Seed (1974), with Omar Sharif, Anthony Quayle, Dan O’Herlihy, Sylvia Syms, and Oskar Homolka; 10 (1979), with Dudley Moore, Bo Derek, Robert Webber, Dee Wallace, and Brian Dennehey; S.O.B. (1982), with Richard Mulligan, Robert Preston, Larry Hagman, Robert Vaughn, Webber, Loretta Swit, Shelley Winters, and William Holden; Victor/Victoria (1982), Garner, Robert Preston, Lesley Ann Warren, Alex Karras, and John Rhys-Davies – which earned her a third Academy Award nomination for Best Actress; The Man Who Loved Women (1983), with Burt Reynolds and Kim Basinger; and That’s Life! (1986), with Jack Lemmon, Sally Kellerman, Robert Loggia, Jennifer Edwards, Rob Knepper, Matt Lattanzi, Chris Lemmon, Cynthia Sikes, Dana Sparks, Emma Walton, and Felicia Farr.

Other notable films include Walter Bernstein’s Little Miss Marker (1980), with Walter Matthau, Tony Curtis, Bob Newhart, Lee Grant, and Sara Stimson; Andrei Konchalovsky’s Duet for One (1986), with Alan Bates, von Sydow, Rupert Everett, and Liam Neeson; Gene Saks’s A Fine Romance (1991), with Marcello Mastroianni; Relative Values (2000), with Edward Atterton, William Baldwin, Colin Firth, Stephen Fry, Sophie Thompson and Jeanne Tripplehorn; Garry Marshall’s The Princess Diaries (2001), with Anne Hathaway, Héctor Elizondo, Heather Matarazzo, Mandy Moore, Caroline Goodall, and Robert Schwartzman; a cameo in Unconditional Love (2002), with Kathy Bates, Everett, Meredith Eaton, Peter Sarsgaard, Lynn Redgrave, Dan Aykroyd, and Jonathan Pryce; Princess Diaries 2 (2004), with Hathaway, Elizondo, Matarazzo, Chris Pine, and Rhys-Davies; Tooth Fairy (2010), with Dwayne Johnson, Ashley Judd, Stephen Merchant, and Billy Crystal; and James Wan’s Aquaman (2018), with Jason Momoa, Amber Heard, Willem Dafoe, Patrick Wilson, Dolph Lundgren, Yahya Abdul-Mateen II, and Nicole Kidman.

Voice credits include the the Shrek franchise (2004-2010), collectively with Mike Myers, Eddie Murphy, Cameron Diaz, Antonio Banderas,, John Cleese, Everett, Jennifer Saunders, Justin Timberlake, Eric Idle, Walt Dohrn, John Hamm, Craig Robinson, and Lake Bell; the Despicable Me/Minions franchise (2010-2022), with Steve Carell, Jason Segel, Russell Brand, Kristen Wiig, Miranda Cosgrove, Will Arnett, Danny McBride, Jack McBrayer, Pierre Coffin, Steve Coogan, Jenny Slate, Dana Gaier, Nev Scharrel, Taraji P. Henson, Michelle Yeoh, Lucy Lawless. Lundgren, Danny Trejo, Jean-Claude Van Damme, and Alan Arkin; plus narration for the live action films Enchanted (2007), with Amy Adams, Patrick Dempsey, James Marsden, Timothy Spall, Idina Menzel, and Susan Sarandon; and The King’s Daughter (2022), with Pierce Brosnan, Kaya Scodelario, Benjamin Walker, William Hurt, Rachel Griffiths, and Fan Bingbing.

TV movies include Cinderella (1957), with Jon Cypher, Edith Adams, Kaye Ballard, and Alice Ghostley; Our Sons (1991), with Ann-Margret, Hugh Grant, Željko Ivanek, and Tony Roberts; On Golden Pond (2001), with Plummer, Glenne Headly, Sam Robards, Brett Cullen, and Will Rothhaar; and Eloise at the Plaza (2003), with Sofia Vassilieva, Jeffrey Tambor, Kenneth Welsh, Debra Monk, and Christine Baranski.

Each review will be linked to the title below.

(*seen originally in theaters)

(**seen rereleased in theaters)

  • The Singing Princess (1949) – directed by Anton Gino Domeneghini – 1952 English Dub
  • Cinderella (1957) – directed by Ralph Nelson – TV movie
  • Mary Poppins (1964) – directed by Robert Stevenson
  • The Americanization of Emily (1964) – directed by Arthur Hiller
  • The Sound of Music (1965)** – directed by Robert Wise
  • Torn Curtain (1966) – directed by Alfred Hitchcock
  • Hawaii (1966) – directed by George Roy Hill
  • Thoroughly Modern Millie (1967) – directed by George Roy Hill
  • Star! (1968) – directed by Robert Wise
  • Darling Lili (1970) – directed by Blake Edwards
  • The Tamarind Seed (1974) – directed by Blake Edwards
  • The Pink Panther Strikes Again (1976) – directed by Blake Edwards – uncredited singing voice
  • 10 (1979) – directed by Blake Edwards
  • Little Miss Marker (1980) – directed by Walter Bernstein
  • S.O.B. (1981) – directed by Blake Edwards
  • Victor/Victoria (1982) – directed by Blake Edwards
  • Trail of the Pink Panther (1982) – directed by Blake Edwards – uncredited
  • The Man Who Loved Women (1983) – directed by Blake Edwards
  • That’s Life! (1986) – directed by Blake Edwards
  • Duet for One (1986) – directed by Andrei Konchalovsky
  • Our Sons (1991) – directed by John Erman – TV movie
  • A Fine Romance (1991) – directed by Gene Saks
  • Victor/Victoria (1995) – directed by Blake Edwards, Matthew Diamond, & Goro Kobayashi – TV movie
  • One Special Night (1999) – directed by Roger Young – TV movie
  • Relative Values (2000) – directed by Eric Styles
  • On Golden Pond (2001) – directed by Ernest Thompson & Martin Pasetta – TV movie
  • The Princess Diaries (2001) – directed by Garry Marshall
  • Unconditional Love (2002) – directed by P.J. Hogan – cameo as herself
  • Eloise at the Plaza (2003) – directed by Kevin Lima – TV movie
  • Eloise at Christmastime (2003) – Kevin Lima – TV movie
  • Shrek 2 (2004)* – directed by Andrew Adamson, Kelly Asbury, & Conrad Vernon
  • The Princess Diaries 2: Royal Engagement (2004)* – directed by Garry Marshall
  • The Cat That Looked at a King (2004) – directed by Dave Bossert & Peter Schneider – short
  • Shrek the Third (2007)* – directed by Chris Miller & Raman Hui
  • Enchanted (2007)* – directed by Kevin Lima
  • Tooth Fairy (2010) – directed by Michael Lembeck
  • Shrek Forever After (2010) – directed by Mike Mitchell
  • Despicable Me (2010)* – directed by Chris Renaud & Pierre Coffin
  • Despicable Me 3 (2017) – directed by Pierre Coffin. Kyle Balda, & Eric Guillon
  • Aquaman (2018) – directed by James Wan
  • The King’s Daughter (2022) – directed by Sean McNamara
  • Minions: The Rise of Gru (2022)* – directed by Kyle Balda, Brad Ableson, & Jonathan del Val