Julie Andrews’ Children: Emma, Amy, Joanna Edwards, and 2 Stepchildren

Beloved actress Julie Andrews has a career spanning over seven decades garnering numerous accolades including an Academy Award, a BAFTA Award, two Emmy Awards, three Grammy Awards, and six Golden Globe Awards as well as nominations for three Tony Awards. Julie is one of the last surviving leading actresses from the Golden Age of Hollywood and has long been considered one of the most iconic stars of all time and her generation. The iconic actress has been re-introduced to younger fans through appearances in other popular movies like The Princess Diaries, Shrek, and the hit series Bridgerton. 

Motherhood is a role that Mary Poppins star has been excelling at!  Andrews is a mom to three daughters: Emma Walton Hamilton, Amy Edwards, and Joanna Edwards. She is also a stepmother to two children-  Geoffrey Edwards and Jennifer Edwards. Scroll below to learn more details about her kids.

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The Sound of Music star has been married two times- first to costume designer Tony Walton from 1959 and it ended in a divorce in 1968. She went on to marry director Blake Edwards from 1969 until his death in 2010. Between the two relationships, Julie Andrews has three children and two step-children.

Emma Walton Hamilton is the first child of Julie Andrews

Julie Andrews’s oldest daughter Emma Walton Hamilton was born to her and her first husband Tony Walton on Nov. 27, 1962, in London, England. As of 2023, Emma is 61 years old. Just a few months after having her daughter, the actress moved to Hollywood with then-husband Tony Walton and her daughter to film Mary Poppins,- she revealed in her memoir Home Work.

The mother and daughter have a very close relationship and with both parents being in the arts, it doesn’t come as a surprise that Emma has inherited and learned a wide variety of artistic skills. Julie Andrews’ daughter has done some acting. he appeared in Curse of the Pink Panther, That’s Life, and As The World Turns through the 1980s, according to her IMDb profile. She was also the executive producer of her mother’s children’s show on Netflix Julie’s Greenroom in 2017.

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Julie Andrews and her daughter Emma Walton Hamilton’s close bond goes all the way to when Emma was very young- Talking to the Guardian about her relationship with her daughter, Julie said- “We were bonded from the beginning because of, well, so many reasons,” she told The Guardian. “Emma’s dad, my first husband, and I separated, and that helped us. I knew it was really important for me to make Emma’s childhood as normal as possible, even though it was incredibly abnormal in many ways. But the same team traveled together, we were together as much as possible.“

Emma Walton Hamilton and her mother are also business partners. The mother and daughter have been co-authoring children’s books together, including bestsellers like The Very Fairy Princess and some of Andrews’ memoirs. The doting mother feels special working with her daughter- She told PEOPLE -“It’s pretty special from this mum’s point of view, this is a new learning curve for both of us really — writing for children in television and also the format — to know that you only got this much time and you have to get everything out of it. She’s on the floor every day while I’m performing. She’s holding it all together.“

Aside from her collaborations with her mother, Emma has written several books on her own, including the poetry collection Door to Door and the parenting guide Raising Bookworms. Emma Walton Hamilton tied the knot with her husband Stephen Hamilton in 1991 and the couple are the parents of two children- Hope Hamilton and Sam Hamilton.

Amy Edwards was adapted by Julie Andrews and her husband

Amy Leigh Edwards is the second daughter of the iconic actress. Amy was born in Vietnam and adopted by Julie Andrews and her second husband Blake Edwards in 1974 when she was 2 months old. Talking about her decision to take such a step in adopting her children, she said- “We wanted a child, and it hadn’t happened“- The actress explained in an October 2015 interview with Australian Women’s Weekly.

As of 2023, she is 48 years old. Following in the footsteps of her mother, Amy Edwards is also an actress and a Production Manager per IMDb. She is known for The Princess Diaries 2: Royal Engagement (2004), Musik (2010), and The ’70s (2000). Julie Andrews’ adopted daughter appeared in The Princess Diaries 2 as Lady Blake, in The “70s” as a feminist friend, and as a schoolgirl in Musik (2010). She was also the production manager of Paul Potts: By Royal Command (2017).

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Amy was married to Lauren Scheff, a composer. The couple tied the knot on October 24, 2004, but they ended their marriage a few years later. Amy Edwards is the mother of  Maximillan Scheff.

Joanna Lynne Edwards is Andrews’s second adopted

Joanna Edwards was adopted by Julie Andrews and Blake Edwards from Vietnam in 1975, a year after they brought home Amy. “Amy came into our lives and it was wonderful. Then Saigon began to fall and within three months, we had another one,” Andrews once told The Australian Women’s Weekly, per Closer. “We said [to the orphanage where Amy had come from], ‘We know you are not going to be able to do this for long. Once the South falls [adoptions will cease] so if you care to send us another one, please do.’ So suddenly Joanna was with us, and they were not sisters, but like sisters.“

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As of 2023, Joanna is 47 years old and has chosen to stay out of the spotlight, and the Mary Poppins actress rarely discusses her. However, the actress has made it clear how important all of her kids are to her. 

Julie Andrews is a stepmother to Geoffrey Edwards and Jennifer Edwards

After Julie and her first husband Tony divorced in 1968, the actress moved on and wedded Blake Edwards in 1969, she became a step-mom to his daughter Jennifer Edwards and son Geoffrey Edwards. The Princess Diaries star has opened up about step-parenting and comparing it to her iconic role in The Sound of Music.

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She revealed-“I still went through a lot of step mothering. And it was rarer [than today] because divorce was rarer and there was an idea that stepmothers must be wicked. But Maria, in the film, turned out to be not so wicked,” she said in an interview with The Australian Women’s Weekly in 2015, per Now To Love. Julie Andrews’s step-children – Geoffrey Edwards and Jennifer Edwards are both actors.