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Screen Actors to Honor Julie Andrews with Life Achievement Award |
She made “supercalifragilisticexpialidocius” a household word in the 1960s and brought the hills alive with the “Sound of Music.” In the 1980s, she played a woman pretending to be a man pretending to be a woman in “Victor/Victoria.” Now she is best known as the voice of Queen Lillian in the movie “Shrek 2″ and as the queen trying to train her teenaged granddaughter to be a princess in “The Princess Diaries.”
In more than 50 years as an actress, Julie Andrews has won three Academy Awards, two Golden Globes and two Emmys. Now, her colleagues and co-workers plan to honor her with the Screen Actors (SAG) Life Achievement Award for career achievement and humanitarian accomplishment. Andrews will receive the award at the 13th Annual Screen Actors Guild Awards—the nation’s largest all-union awards show—which premieres live on TNT and TBS Sunday, Jan. 28, 2007, at 8 p.m. EST/PST, 7 p.m. CDT and 6 p.m. MST. SAG represents nearly 120,000 actors in film, television, industrials, commercials and music videos.
Says SAG President Alan Rosenberg:
Julie Andrews is a woman of great generosity, creativity, courage, elegance and wit. She embodies and transcends the memorable roles she has created. Julie has been a positive presence in my life and continues to inspire multiple generations. I believe it is exceptionally significant to be recognized by people who do the same work you do. Julie seems genuinely touched and thrilled to be receiving an award from her fellow actors. I have assured her the honor is ours.
An accomplished best-selling author of children’s books, Andrews, accompanied by her daughter, will ride in this year’s Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade on a float inspired by their recent novel, The Great American Mousical.
As a Goodwill Ambassador for the United Nations Development Fund for Women for 15 years, Andrews traveled as an advocate for women’s human rights and economic security. With her husband, filmmaker Blake Edwards, she is a founding board member of Operation USA, which provides privately funded worldwide relief and development assistance.
As a Lifetime Achievement Award winner, Andrews joins such previous honorees as Paul Newman and Joanne Woodward (1985), Elizabeth Taylor (1997), Ossie Davis and Ruby Dee (2000), Edward Asner (2001), Clint Eastwood (2002) and Shirley Temple Black (2005).
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