Dame Julie Elizabeth Andrews, DBE (born Julia Elizabeth Wells on October 1, 1935) is an award-winning English actress, singer, author and icon. She is the recipient of Golden Globe, Emmy, Grammy, BAFTA, People's Choice Award, Theatre World Award, Screen Actors Guild and Academy Award honours. Andrews was a former English child actress and singer who first came to Broadway in 1954 with The Boy Friend, and rose to prominence starring in other musicals such as My Fair Lady and Camelot, and in musical films such as Mary Poppins (1964) The Sound of Music (1965) and Victor/Victoria (1981).

Andrews had a major revival of her film career in the 2000s, in family films such as, The Princess Diaries (2001), its sequel The Princess Diaries 2: Royal Engagement (2004), and the Shrek animated films (2004-2007). In 2005 Andrews revisited her first Broadway success, this time as a stage director, with a revival of The Boy Friend at a theatre on Long Island.

Andrews is also an accomplished writer of children's books, and in 2008 she published an autobiography, Home: A Memoir of My Early Years.