My life in PICTURES Julie Andrews

IN CELEBRATION OF HER 90TH BIRTHDAY, WHO TAKES A LOOK BACK AT THE LIFE OF THE SCREEN LEGEND

- Jennie Noonan

Just shy of celebrating her 90th birthday on October 1, Julie Andrews won an Emmy Award for her Bridgerton voiceover performance at the Creative Arts Emmy Awards.

The win on September 6, which came from her third nomination for her role as Lady Whistledown, is just the latest honour for the beloved star, whose career began as a child in England performing with her mother and stepfather as part of their vaudeville show.

In 1948, when she was just 13 years old, Andrews became the youngest solo performer to appear on stage at the Royal Variety Show. She sang for King George VI there, before moving to the US to make her Broadway debut in 1954's The Boyfriend. Despite garnering a nomination for a Tony Award for her performance as Eliza Doolittle in the original 1965 production of My Fair Lady, Andrews was passed over for Audrey Hepburn when the movie version was made, which opened up her schedule to shoot Disney's 1964 smash Mary Poppins.

“I could not have asked for a better introduction to film – in that it taught me so much in such a short period of time,” Andrews wrote in her 2019 memoir Home Work: A Memoir of My Hollywood Years. “I had, as yet, no idea how to assess my performance or how the film might be received, but I did know that the hard work had not precluded my enjoyment of the process.”