Julie Andrews is a Tony and Oscar winning actress who starred in the classic musicals Mary Poppins and The Sound of Music. Her career has spanned over 70 years in live-action and voice acting, on stage and on the screen. As the beloved actress celebrates her 90th birthday, we are revisiting memorable moments from her career.

Andrews was born on October 1, 1935 in Walton-on-Thames, Surrey, England, to a mom who was a pianist and her stepfather who was a singer. She started acting on stage in the late 1940s in England, then she moved to the US in the early ‘50s to continue performing in theater. She played Eliza Doolittle in My Fair Lady in ’56 and was in Camelot in ’60, earning Tony nominations for both roles.

Her onscreen career took off in ’64 when she played everyone’s favorite nanny in Mary Poppins. As the charming magical nanny, she sang songs like “A Spoonful of Sugar,” “Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious,” and “Chim Chim Cher-ee.” A year later, Andrews played the governess for the von Trapp family in The Sound of Music, singing the title track, “My Favorite Things,” and “Do-Re-Mi.” She won an Academy Award for Mary Poppins and was nominated for an Oscar for The Sound of Music.

She hosted The Julie Andrews Hour, played singer/actress Gertrude Lawrence in Star!, she was in Darling Lili, The Tamarind Seed, 10, and S.O.B. In 1982, Andrews starred in Victor/Victoria as a woman pretending to be a man pretending to be a woman, earning her third Oscar nod. Then she was in The Man Who Loved Women and That’s Life.

Returning to Broadway in ’96, Andrews starred in the stage production of Victor/Victoria, earning a third Tony nomination. A year later, Andrews suffered damage to her vocal cords during a surgery and could no longer sing with a powerful, precise voice.

After that she played a queen in The Princess Diaries and its sequel, she voiced Queen Lillian in the Shrek film series, voiced the narrator in Enchanted, voiced Gru’s mom in Despicable Me, voiced the sea monster Karathen in Aquaman, and voiced narrator Lady Whistledown in Bridgerton.

Andrews and her daughter, Emma Walton Hamilton, have written several children’s books together, and she wrote the autobiographies, Home: A Memoir of My Early Years and Home Work: A Memoir of My Hollywood Years.

Her many awards and honor included being given the title of Dame by Queen Elizabeth II in 2000, she was given the Screen Actors Guild Life Achievement Award in 2007, and was given Life Achievement Grammy in 2011.