Dame Julie Elizabeth Andrews, DBE (born Julia Elizabeth Wells; 1 October 1935) is a British film and stage actress, singer, and author. She is the recipient of Golden Globe, Emmy, Grammy, BAFTA, People's Choice Award, Theatre World Award, Screen Actors Guild and Academy Awards. Andrews was a former British child actress and singer who made her Broadway debut 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), for which she won the Academy Award for Best Actress, and The Sound of Music (1965): roles for which she is still most widely known. Her voice, which originally spanned four octaves, was damaged by a throat operation in 1997.

In the 2000s, Andrews had a career revival in family films such as The Princess Diaries (2001), its sequel The Princess Diaries 2: Royal Engagement (2004), the animated films Shrek (2004–2010) and Despicable Me (2010). In 2003, Andrews returned to her first Broadway success, this time as a theatre director, with a revival of The Boy Friend at the Bay Street Theatre, Sag Harbor, New York (and later at the Goodspeed Theatre, East Haddam, Connecticut, in 2005).

Andrews is also the author of children's books and in 2008 published her autobiography Home: A Memoir of My Early Years.