Julie Andrews is one of the greatest actresses to come out of Great Britain finding success on the big screen as well as the stage.
She has enjoyed a career that has spanned over fifty years and brought her an Academy and Golden Globe Award as well as theatre gongs such as the People's Choice Award, Theatre World Award.
And she is back on the big screen this week as she stars alongside Dwayne Johnson in Michael Lembeck's The Tooth Fairy.
After performing with her mother and step-father on stage she got her break in 1947 when she made her solo debut at the London Hippodrome in Starlight Roof.
She stayed at the Hippodrome for twelve months before moving on to work at the London Palladum for the Royal Variety Performance before working in the West End.
By the age of nineteen she was making her Broadway debut when she starred in The Boy Friend. And from there her stage career soared as she went on to star alongside Rex Harrison in My Fair Lady.
But she became a household name with her big screen debut with Marry Poppins. Production on the movie waited for Andrews to give birth to her first child.
And Mary Poppins was a huge success for the actress and an Academy Award for Best Actress came her way.
Just twelve months later she was Oscar nominated again for her role as Maria in The Sound of Music.
Despite missing out to Julie Christie for Darling she once again won the Golden Globe for her central performance.
Throughout the late sixties and seventies she juggled movie roles such as Tom Curtain and Star! with her television work on The Julie Andrews Hour.
But she was in the spotlight again in 1983 when she was nominated by the Academy for a third time for her role in Victor/Victoria.
Andrews stars as British entertainer Victoria Grant. She and an older friend, gay impresario Toddy (Robert Preston), are close to starvation in 1930s Paris.
Desperate for work, he changes her image, introducing her to the cabaret world as Polish female impersonator Victor/Victoria. Victoria, now a woman pretending to be a man in drag, becomes a huge success in the nightclub world.
Chicago gangster King Marchan (James Garner) becomes especially intrigued by Victor/Victoria while visiting Paris with his dim-witted girlfriend, Norma (Lesley Anne Warren), and his ever-faithful bodyguard, Squash (Alex Karras), who's more than a little concerned by his boss's interest in a transvestite.
As Marchan tries to get to the source of his attraction to the entertainer, trying to uncover the truth behind the rhinestone headdress, the farce commences, and the meaning of gender and sexual preference comes into question for all the characters.
It was t5o be her third Oscar nod but she was once again to miss out, this time to Meryl Streep for Sophie's Choice, but she did win the Golden Globe.
Into the nineties and Andrews continued to work in theatre with Putting It Together and Victor/Victoria.
But in 1997 she was forced to pull out of the musical when she developed vocal problems, going on to have surgery which left her unable to sing.
But her big screen career was revived in the noughties with roles in the likes of The Princess Dairies, and it's sequel before going on to voice the character of Queen Lillian in Shrek 2 and Shrek the Third.
She returns to this role later this summer with Shrek Forever After. And voice work is big on Andrews' schedule as Despicable Me is released later this year.
But she is back on the big screen this week with Tooth Fairy. The movie follows Derek Thompson is 'The Tooth Fairy,' a hard-charging minor league hockey player whose nickname comes from his habit of separating opposing players from their bicuspids.
When Derek discourages a youngster's hopes, he's sentenced to one week's hard labour as a real tooth fairy, complete with the requisite tutu, wings and magic wand.
At first, Derek "can't handle the tooth", bumbling and stumbling as he tries to furtively wing his way through strangers' homes, doing what tooth fairies do.
But as Derek slowly adapts to his new position, he begins to rediscover his own forgotten dreams.
The Tooth Fairy is released 28th May
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