Dame
Julia Elizabeth Andrews, DBE is an
English film and stage actor, singer and writer. She also received
Golden Globe, Emmy, Grammy, BAFTA, People's Choice Award, Theatre World Award,
Screen Actors Guild and Academy Award honors. Andrews was a former
British child actress and singer who made her Broadway debut in
1954 with The Boy Friend, and got famous starring in other musicals such asMy Fair Lady and Camelot, and in musical films like
Mary Poppins, she won the Oscar for
Best Actress and The
Sound of Music in roles that she is still best known. Her voice ranged four octaves until it was destroyed by a throat
operation in 1997.Andrews auditioned for a role in the
Richard Rodgers musical, Pipe Dream. Even if Rodgers would have her for Pipe Dream, he advised her to take part in the Frederick
Loewe and Alan Jay Lerner
musical My Fair Lady, if it were offered to her. In
1956 she starred in My Fair Lady
Eliza Doolittle with Rex Harrison's Henry Higgins. Rodgers was so impressed with
Andrew's talent, as she races in
My Fair Lady, she was in the
Rodgers and Hammerstein television musical, Cinderella. 
