Julie Andrews

Julie Andrews is one of my favorite actresses, so I decided to research her and see what I could find.
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"I was learning on my feet every single performance."

Julie Andrews, born Julia Wells felt right at home on a stage at the age of ten when she joined her mother (a pianist) and her step father (a professional singer) on their family tour.

Julie Andrews spent the early part of her career on Broadway, giving a excellent performance as Eliza Doolittle in "My Fair Lady." After earning an Oscar for her first feature film, Mary Poppins, Julie Andrews was a household name for most people.

After Mary Poppins, she went on to star in one of her most recognizable roles to date, Maria in "The Sound of Music." Her talents as an actress and as a singer were put to the test, due to the extensive music score.

In 1995 Andrews was suffering from vocal cord damage and had surgery to repair it. However the surgery went wrong and caused Andrews to lose some vocal tissue needed to keep singing at her range (four octave). Since then, her acting and singing career has taken a back seat to something else Andrews has longed to do: write childrens books. She currently has 8 children's books published an a memoir, letting her audience a little deeper into her life through words.

Andrews took back up acting by portraying Queen Clarisse in The Princess Diaries. She enjoys being recognized by the younger generation.

"I know, it's phenomenal. There's a whole new generation out there that says 'Do you remember Mary Poppins,' 'yeah.' 'The Sound of Music?' 'yeah,' 'Princess Diaries,' 'oh cool!' and I just love it."
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It was a great interview that started out with a little anecdote about her life and as a child, and then gives more detail and more detail about her life as an actress and singer, and then ends with another little snippet of her life, letting the readers see she is a real person as well as an actress.