Julie Andrews Will Be Honored With Lifetime Achievement Award at the Venice Film Festival

Julie Andrews will be honored with Golden Lion Award for Lifetime Achievement at this year's Venice Film Festival, according to Variety.

"This Golden Lion is the well-deserved recognition of an extraordinary career which has admirably parsed popular success with artistic ambition, without ever bowing to facile compromises," said Venice Film Festival Artistic Director Alberto Barbera in a statement.

"I am so honored to have been selected as this year's recipient of the Golden Lion for Lifetime Achievement," said Andrews.

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Julie Andrews is an Oscar-winning actress and singer famous for her prolific Broadway and film career in such classics as My Fair Lady, Rodgers and Hammerstein's Cinderella, Camelot, Mary Poppins, The Sound of Music, Thoroughly Modern Millie, Victor/Victoria and The Princess Diaries.

Andrews was born on October 1, 1935, in Walton-on-Thames, Surrey, England. She was a hit on the English stage before duplicating that success on Broadway, where she received Tony Award nominations for her roles in My Fair Lady, Camelot and Victor/Victoria. She won an Academy Award for playing the title role in Mary Poppins and was also nominated for her performance in The Sound of Music. Andrews later worked on a number acclaimed films with husband Blake Edwards, and was made an English dame in 2000.