Happy 90th birthday to Julie Andrews!

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Her 80th birthday only seemed like yesterday and now the legendary Julie Andrews is celebrating her 90th birthday today. Her movies have meant so much to me over the years. I love her in The Sound of Music and Mary Poppins. She’s also done fantastic voice work in the Shrek and Despicable Me films. It’s impossible not to love a treasure like her. Happy birthday, Julie!

Here are some of my favorite moments for her career:

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90 years young and still going strong, we all love you Julie Andrews.

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Here are some more videos celebrating her milestone birthday.

[CyberCubed]

This is one of those people who like Clint Eastwood, you assume already died years or decades ago and are surprised to find out they're still alive.

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By the time I watched this movie in the mid 90s it felt like it was from another lifetime, I thought she had already died decades ago by the time I watched the movie. To me anything that happened before I was born felt like it was from ancient times. So yeah even stuff from the 80s that was only a couple of years old as a kid already felt like a whole different world. People forget this as they age. That's why to Gen Alpha and Zoomers anything from the 90s & 00s seens as strange and abstract as the 50s in Back to the Future did to kids watching that movie in 1990.

They see us with the same disgust in their eyes as we did to Gen X and older when we were in our teens and twenties. Hell, us millenials are probably just a couple of years away before getting that old people smell that those who are Gen X and older have. Disgusting.

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We definitely idolized Gen X growing up. But yeah they’re old and gross now. Look at Bam Margera lol

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I also love her as the voice of Queen Lillian in the Shrek franchise.





And as the voice of Gru's mother in the Despicable Me franchise.





She also had a surprising role in Aquaman.

[Mayhem]

Shrek and The Princess Diaries I think introduced Julie to a new generation, and she's done pretty well from the last 25 years all things considered!

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Originally Posted by Mayhem

Shrek and The Princess Diaries I think introduced Julie to a new generation, and she's done pretty well from the last 25 years all things considered!

When she lost her singing voice after doing the stage adaptation of Victor/Victoria and a botched vocal surgery, she was heartbroken at first but she remembered what Maria said in The Sound of Music, “When the Lord closes a door, somewhere he opens a window.” That’s when she starting writing children’s books with her daughter and doing voice work in animated films. The Princess Diaries films also were a good way to introduce new audiences to her. I also liked that she got to sing again in the second film despite its flaws.

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Originally Posted by CyberCubed

This is one of those people who like Clint Eastwood, you assume already died years or decades ago and are surprised to find out they're still alive.

Well, people like Julie and Clint are high-profile enough, if they had passed on, it would have been all over everywhere.

It might surprise some people that someone like Roddy Maude-Roxby, the voice of Edgar the butler in The Aristocats, is still alive, and at 95, since he only did a few things in tv/film, and he's spent a majority of his life on creative works, like painting artwork, poetry, and mask-making.