Julie Andrews to Receive SAG Lifetime Achievement Award

Dame Julie Andrews, the beloved performer whose career has spanned over five decades, has been selected to receive the Screen Actors' Guild's Lifetime Achievement Award, according to BBC News.

Andrews will be presented with the award at the SAG Awards ceremony in Los Angeles on January 28th, 2007.

Andrews, who was dubbed a CBE in 2004, received Tony Award nominations for creating the roles of Eliza in My Fair Lady, Guinevere in Camelot and the title role(s) in Victor/Victoria (based on her hit film), as well as a Theatre World Award for her Broadway debut in The Boy Friend.  She is perhaps best known to film audiences for her Oscar-winning turn in the title role of Mary Poppins, and her Oscar-nominated performance as Maria in The Sound of Music; she also received a nomination for Victor/Victoria.

Andrews has also been seen on stage in Putting It Together, and other films include The Americanization of Emily, Star!, Darling Lili, Thoroughly Modern Millie, 10, S.O.B. and Victor/Victoria, as well as the Princess Diaries films.  She recently sang again in the second film of that series after having suffered severe vocal problems caused by a botched operation on her vocal chords. She is also a noted childrens' book author, and made her directorial debut with the Bay Street Theatre's production of The Boy Friend.