Katharina Buczek
A few years later, at twenty-four, Julie went on to marry her husband, Tony Walton– a British costume and set designer. Soon afterward, she was also approached by Walt Disney with the opportunity to star in the hit film musical Mary Poppins.
When she received the offer, Julie was pregnant with her first child. Thankfully, though, Disney was happy to wait until she delivered her child to begin the film’s production– and boy, are we glad they did.
Mary Poppins was an immediate hit and became the highest-grossing film of 1964. Julie’s performance also won her an Oscar for Best Actress that year and solidified her as a household name.
She went on to star in countless films, appear on television, write books, and work with incredibly influential charities. Julie also went through a divorce with Tony and later remarried director Blake Edwards– with whom she adopted two daughters.
And after taking that step into adoptive motherhood, Julie decided to back away from the screen in order to be more present in her daughters’ lives.
“I wanted to be there. To make a proper protein breakfast for them before school in the morning. To go to parent-teacher interviews. It is important. I do admire women who manage to do both. I tried, and it is extremely difficult,” she said.
In recent years, though, Julie has gotten back into the film scene– lending her voice to major motion pictures and television series such as Despicable Me, Shrek, Aquaman, and Bridgerton.
And the honorary mother figure, whom several decades of children came to look up to, revealed that she still really enjoys being recognized by fans of all ages.
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