Dame Julie Andrews DBE is an actress, singer, and author from England who starred in the musical film The Sound of Music (1965), playing Maria von Trapp. Dame Julie Andrews earned just $225,000 for her performance.
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The Sound of Music (1965), was the highest-grossing film of its year. Andrews won her second Golden Globe Award for Best Actress – Motion Picture Comedy or Musical for her performance as Maria von Trapp.
She was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Actress a second time, as well as the BAFTA Award for Best British Actress in a Leading Role.
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Andrews appeared as a guest star on the NBC-TV variety show The Andy Williams Show after completing The Sound of Music.
She followed this appearance on television with The Julie Andrews Show, an Emmy Award-winning special that featured Gene Kelly and the New Christy Minstrels as guests.
Andrews was made a Disney Legend in 1991 and has been honoured with an Honorary Golden Lion, the Screen Actors Guild Life Achievement Award in 2007, and the AFI Life Achievement Award in 2022.
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