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Dame Julia "Julie" Elizabeth Andrews, DBE, (née Wells; born 1 October 1935) is an English film and stage actress, singer, author, theatre director and dancer. Andrews, a former child actress and singer, appeared on the West End in 1948, and made her Broadway debut in a 1954 production of ''The Boy Friend''. She rose to prominence starring in musicals such as ''My Fair Lady'' and ''Camelot'', both of which earned her Tony Award nominations. In 1957, she appeared on television with the title role in the musical ''Cinderella'', which was seen by over 100 million viewers. She made her feature film debut in ''Mary Poppins'' (1964), for which she won the Academy Award for Best Actress. She received her second Academy Award nomination for ''The Sound of Music'' (1965), and won the Golden Globe Award for Best Actress in a Musical. Adjusted for inflation, the latter film is the third-highest grossing film of all time.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=All Time Box Office Adjusted for Ticket Price Inflation )〕 Between 1964 and 1967, Andrews had other box office successes with ''The Americanization of Emily'', ''Hawaii'', Alfred Hitchcock's ''Torn Curtain'', and ''Thoroughly Modern Millie'', making her the most successful film star in the world at the time. In the 1970s, Andrews' film career slowed down following the commercial disappointments of ''Star!'', ''Darling Lili'', and ''The Tamarind Seed''. She returned to prominence with the critical and commercial successes of ''10'' (1979) and ''Victor Victoria'' (1982), receiving a third Academy Award nomination for the latter. During the remainder of the 1980s, she starred in critically acclaimed but commercially unsuccessful films such as ''That's Life!'' and ''Duet for One'', before her career went into eclipse in the 1990s. Andrews' film career revived once more in the 2000s with the successes of ''The Princess Diaries'' (2001), its sequel ''The Princess Diaries 2: Royal Engagement'' (2004), the ''Shrek'' animated films (2004–2010), and ''Despicable Me'' (2010). Her vocal range, which was originally striking, was damaged during a throat operation in 1997 during the Broadway show ''Victor/Victoria''. In 2003, Andrews revisited her first Broadway success, this time as a stage director, with a revival of ''The Boy Friend'' at the Bay Street Theatre in Sag Harbor, New York. Andrews is also an author of children's books, and in 2008 published an autobiography, ''Home: A Memoir of My Early Years'', which includes memories of surviving the London Blitz. In addition to an Academy Award, she has won a BAFTA, five Golden Globes, three Grammys, two Emmys, the Disney Legend honor and the Kennedy Center Honors. In 2000, she was made a Dame by Queen Elizabeth II for services to the performing arts. In 2002, she was ranked number 59 in the BBC's poll of the 100 Greatest Britons. ==Early life== Julia Elizabeth Wells〔(''Julie Andrews'' ). Reel Classics.〕 was born on 1 October 1935, in Walton-on-Thames, Surrey, England.〔(Biography and Video Interview of Julie Andrews at Academy of Achievement. )〕 Her mother, Barbara Ward Wells (née Morris), was married to Edward Charles "Ted" Wells, a teacher of metalwork and woodwork, but Andrews was conceived as a result of an affair her mother had with an unnamed family friend.〔 Andrews discovered her true parentage from her mother in 1950,〔〔 although it was not publicly disclosed until her 2008 autobiography.〔 With the outbreak of World War II, Barbara and Ted Wells went their separate ways and were soon divorced. They both remarried: Barbara to Ted Andrews, in 1939; and Ted Wells to a former hairstylist working a lathe at a war work factory that employed them both in Hinchley Wood, Surrey.〔Spindle, Les. ''Julie Andrews: A Bio-Bibliography''. Greenwood Press (1989)] ISBN 0-313-26223-3. pp. 1–2.〕〔Windeler (1970), pp 20–21〕 Ted Wells assisted with evacuating children to Surrey during the Blitz, while Barbara joined Ted Andrews in entertaining the troops through the Entertainments National Service Association (ENSA). Andrews lived briefly with Ted Wells and her brother John in Surrey. In about 1940, Ted Wells sent her to live with her mother and stepfather, who, the elder Wells thought, would be better able to provide for his talented daughter's artistic training. According to her 2008 autobiography ''Home'', while Julie had been used to calling Ted Andrews "Uncle Ted", her mother suggested it would be more appropriate to refer to her stepfather as "Pop", while her father remained "Dad" or "Daddy" to her. Julie disliked this change. The Andrews family was "very poor and we lived in a bad slum area of London," Andrews recalled, adding, "That was a very black period in my life." According to Andrews, her stepfather was violent and an alcoholic.〔 Ted Andrews twice, while drunk, tried to get into bed with his stepdaughter, resulting in Andrews fitting a lock on her door.〔 But, as the stage career of Ted and Barbara Andrews improved, they were able to afford to move to better surroundings, first to Beckenham and then, as the war ended, back to the Andrews' home town of Hersham. The Andrews family took up residence at the Old Meuse, in West Grove, Hersham, a house (now demolished) where Andrews' maternal grandmother had served as a maid.〔 Andrews' stepfather sponsored lessons for her, first at the Cone-Ripman School (now known commonly as ArtsEd), an independent arts educational school in London, then with concert soprano and voice instructor Madame Lilian Stiles-Allen. "She had an enormous influence on me", Andrews said of Stiles-Allen, adding, "She was my third mother – I've got more mothers and fathers than anyone in the world." In her memoir ''Julie Andrews – My Star Pupil'', Stiles-Allen records: "The range, accuracy and tone of Julie's voice amazed me ... she had possessed the rare gift of absolute pitch"〔Stirling, Richard; Julie Andrews: An Intimate Biography; Portrait, 2007; ISBN 978-0-7499-5135-1; p. 22〕 (though Andrews herself refutes this in her 2008 autobiography ''Home'').〔〔Windeler (1970), pp. 22–23〕 According to Andrews: "Madame was sure that I could do Mozart and Rossini, but, to be honest, I never was".〔Stirling, p. 24〕 Of her own voice, she says "I had a very pure, white, thin voice, a four-octave range – dogs would come for miles around."〔 After Cone-Ripman School, Andrews continued her academic education at the nearby Woodbrook School, a local state school in Beckenham.〔Timothy White (1998) ''The Entertainers'' p. 111. ''Billboard Books'', 1998〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Julie Andrews」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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