English actress and singer Julie Andrews was BOTD in 1935. Born in London, she appeared in the West End when she was 13, making her Broadway debut in 1954 with a starring role in the musical The Boyfriend. At 21, she became an overnight star as cockney flower girl Eliza Doolittle in Lerner & Loewe’s musical My Fair Lady, adapted from George Bernard Shaw’s play Pygmalion. A critical and commercial juggernaut, it broke Broadway box office records and won six Tony Awards including Best Musical, followed by a successful London transfer. A musical album of the original production became an international bestseller, bolstering Andrews’ global reputation. She reunited with Lerner & Loewe in 1960, originating the role of Queen Guinevere in the musical Camelot opposite Richard Burton. Warner Bros studio head Jack Warner infamously refused to cast her in the 1964 film of My Fair Lady, replacing her with the more well-known Audrey Hepburn. Undaunted, Andrews starred in Walt Disney’s live-action film of Mary Poppins, based on P. L. Travers’ books about a magical nanny. Radiating moral wholesomeness and good cheer and making easy work of the musical tongue-twister Super-cali-fragilistic-expialidocious, she propelled the film to titanic success, winning the Oscar for best actress. Further success followed as singing nun Maria von Trapp in the 1965 film of Rodgers & Hammerstein’s musical The Sound of Music, which won five Oscars including Best Picture. Seeking to move away from her saintly screen image, Andrews made a series of grittier dramas with her second husband, filmmaker Blake Edwards, including Darling Lili, S.O.B. and 10. She endeared herself to LGBTQ audiences as a cross-dressing nightclub performer in Blake’s 1982 film Victor/Victoria, and played the mother of an HIV+ gay man in the TV film Our Sons, one of the first films to openly address the HIV/AIDS crisis. Botched vocal surgery in 1997 left her unable to sing. After a very profitable lawsuit against her surgeon, she transitioned gracefully into comic roles in The Princess Diaries films, lending her cut-glass diction to the animated films Shrek and Despicable Me and as narrator of racy TV costume drama Bridgerton. Andrews occupies a unique role within LGBTQ culture, fitting neither the alcoholic train-wreck nor bitch goddess archetypes of gay icons, remaining G-rated and good-humoured about the camp appeal of her work, beloved by musical-loving gay men and lesbians who copied her bowl cut in The Sound of Music. Andrews has a daughter with her first husband Tony Walton, and adopted two daughters with Edwards. Since Edward’s’ death on 2010, she lives in the Hamptons in Long Island, New York. Her current relationship status is unknown, though we at SuperGay BOTD headquarters hope she still gets the occasional spoonful of sugar.