[11], As the stage career of her mother and stepfather improved, they were able to afford better surroundings, first to Beckenham and then, as the war ended, back to the Andrews's hometown of Hersham. Andrews was born Julia Elizabeth Wells in Walton-on-Thames, England. She would later take the last name of her stepfather, Ted . Julia Wells became Julie Andrews. Prim, posh perfection is the pervasive image of the British-born star of stage and screen. She has also worked hosting performance shows such as Great Performances and narrating the 2004 Emmy-winning series Broadway: The American Musical. Per critics, her best works are "Victor Victoria" (1982) and "Mary Poppins" (1964). At the time, Andrews described her own voice as "extremely high and thin", feeling that it lacked "the necessary guts and weight for opera", preferring musical theatre instead. Andrews was by her husband's side when he died. "I could walk to her house in Malibu," she told the magazine. In the 1970s, Edwards and Andrews adopted two daughters; Amy in 1974 and Joanna in 1975. In 2003, she revisited her first Broadway success, this time as a stage director, with a revival of The Boy Friend. [29] She prerecorded original songs for the film with Henry Mancini and Johnny Mercer. [8] Andrews was conceived as a result of an affair her mother had with a family friend. For a Walt Disney video release, she again portrayed Mary Poppins and narrated the story of The Cat That Looked at a King in 2004. In 1974, the Mary Poppins singer and actress adopted two children from Vietnam with her husband, Blake . Sharon Stone. Prince Andrew's ex-wife Sarah Ferguson adopted the Queen's last 2 corgis, Sandy and Muick. [34][35] The show was broadcast live in colour from CBS Studio 72, at Broadway and 81st Street in New York: CBS' only East Coast colour studio. She then replicated her success on Broadway before earning Tony Award nominations for her work in "My Fair Lady" and "Camelot." Andrews starred opposite James Garner in the comedy-drama war film The Americanization of Emily (1964). After the turn of the new millennium, however, her career had a revival. Though her career has been enough to keep anyone busy, she. British actress Julie Andrews and her daughter Emma Kate Walton, pictured during a 30-minute stopover at London Airport, April 21, 1964. In an exclusive interview with Closer Weekly, beloved star Julie Andrews ' granddaughter Kayti Edwards shares memories of growing up with her famous grandmother. Together, however, they adopted two daughters, Amy and Joanna who both hail from Vietnam. Also in 1966, she starred opposite Paul Newman in Torn Curtain, which was directed by Alfred Hitchcock and shot at Universal Studios Hollywood. 10. See Her Beautiful Bikini Photos, Having Fun at the Beach! Julie Andrews's Step-children. She adopted two girls Andrews and her late second husband, Blake Edwards adopted two daughters shortly after they married. if(typeof ez_ad_units!='undefined'){ez_ad_units.push([[300,250],'hollywoodmask_com-large-leaderboard-2','ezslot_13',171,'0','0'])};__ez_fad_position('div-gpt-ad-hollywoodmask_com-large-leaderboard-2-0'); Within three months of adopting Amy, Andrews got her second adopted daughter, Joanna Edwards. Career Also in 2007, she narrated Enchanted, a live-action Disney musical comedy that both parodied and paid homage to Disney films. [104] Lyndon Terracini announced in August 2015 that Andrews would direct My Fair Lady in 2016 for Opera Australia at the Sydney Opera House. Also in 2022, she reprised her role as Gru's mother in Minions: The Rise of Gru. I followed in her footsteps by starting my own community outreach. Disney; 20th Century Fox; Disney Julie Andrews is best known for "The Sound of Music" (1965) and "The Princess Diaries" (2001). if(typeof ez_ad_units!='undefined'){ez_ad_units.push([[336,280],'hollywoodmask_com-medrectangle-4','ezslot_10',613,'0','0'])};__ez_fad_position('div-gpt-ad-hollywoodmask_com-medrectangle-4-0'); Andrews's first husband was set designer Tony Walton. In the film, Andrews sang on film for the first time since having throat surgery. Actress Julie Andrews glances up after writing her name in concrete at the Jackie Gleason Center for Performing Arts in Miami Beach, Jan. 6, 1988 as cameras record the event. In 1971, she appeared as a guest for the Grand Opening Special of Walt Disney World, and that same year she and Carol Burnett headlined a CBS special, Julie and Carol At Lincoln Center. Andrews said of Stiles-Allen, "She had an enormous influence on me", adding, "She was my third mother I've got more mothers and fathers than anyone in the world". From July until early August 2008, Andrews hosted Julie Andrews' The Gift of Music, a short tour of the United States[73] where she sang various Rodgers and Hammerstein songs and symphonised her recently published book, Simeon's Gift. QUICK FACTS. Julie Andrews with her late husband, Blake Edwards, and their two adopted children, Amy Leigh and Joanna. In 1965, The Cincinnati Enquirer wrote, "Julie Andrews is her name and her reign appears infinite.In an era of blatant nudity on screen and shabby off-screen headlines, Julie, like a princess in some fairy tale, has forced Hollywood to re-evaluate its standards of taste and style in leading ladies." Andrews lived briefly with Wells and her brother, John[15] in Surrey. "[130] Despite the continual encouragement to pursue opera by her voice teacher, English soprano Lilian Stiles-Allen, Andrews herself felt that her voice was unsuited for the genre and "too big a stretch". The play was a huge success with both the audience and critics, though soon after opening she learned she needed to tone down her learned cockney accent so that the American audience could understand her, a change which was reversed at the West End performance a year later. [29] Andrews wrote that her senses were "suffused" with Austria, saying that the music "still" and "always lives in her soul". Her performance earned her a Golden Globe Award for Best Actress Motion Picture Comedy or Musical, as well as a nomination for the 1982 Academy Award for Best Actress, her third Oscar nomination. The 41-year-old told Closer Weekly Thursday she grew up just down the street from beloved British star Julie Andrews. You can find out more and change our default settings with Cookies Settings. In an interview with the TODAY Show Wednesday morning, Andrews, 86, reflected on her tight bond with the cast of the 1965 classic. She guarded us, Kayti adds. Their marriage lasted for eight years from 1959 to 1867. Eloise at the Plaza premiered in April 2003, and Eloise at Christmastime was broadcast in November 2003; Andrews was nominated for an Emmy Award. On 17 March 2005, Andrews appeared onstage during the curtain calls for the musical of Mary Poppins at the Prince Edward Theatre in London's West End, where she gave a speech recalling her own memories from making the film and praised the cast for their new interpretation. She played at the Hippodrome for one year. Mary Poppins star Dick Van Dyke also paid tribute with a recorded message. Termed "Britain's youngest prima donna",[126][127] Andrews's classically trained soprano voice,[128] lauded for its "pure and clear" sound,[129] has been described as light, bright and operatic in tone. 4 Julie Andrews. In 1998, she appeared in a stage production of Dr. Dolittle in London. In 1999, she filed a malpractice suit against the doctors at Mount Sinai Hospital, including Scott Kessler and Jeffrey Libin, who had operated on her throat. She took time off and, at some points, completely stopped working. Opening on Broadway on 25 October 1995 at the Marquis Theatre, it later went on the road for a world tour. [61] She published Home: A Memoir of My Early Years, which she characterised as "part one" of her autobiography, on 1 April 2008. Julie Andrews at 80: Success really did rattle my brains. The Mary Poppins and Sound of Music star had one of the greatest voices in movie musical . [105] In 2016, Andrews created the preschool television series Julie's Greenroom with her daughter, Emma Walton Hamilton and Judy Rothman. As Andrews aged, so did her voice, which began to naturally deepen. 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In February 1980, Andrews headlined "Because We Care", a CBS-TV special with 30 major stars raising funds for Cambodian Famine victims through Operation California (now Operation USA, on whose Board she serves). Beginning in 2020, Andrews voiced the narrator Lady Whistledown in the Netflix series Bridgerton. Gennady Spirin (illustrator). [1] One of the last surviving leading actresses from the Golden Age of Hollywood, she has garnered numerous accolades throughout her career spanning over seven decades, 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. When a young Andrews was taken by her parents to be examined by a throat specialist, the doctor concluded that she had "an almost adult larynx. [102], In 2015, Andrews made a surprise appearance at the Oscars, greeting Lady Gaga who paid her homage by singing a medley from The Sound of Music. Julie Andrews is keeping The Sound of Music family together! [91] On 28 October 2010, Andrews appeared, along with the actors who portrayed the cinematic von Trapp family members, on Oprah to commemorate the film's 45th anniversary. Her famous, four-octave soprano was then reduced to a fragile alto she was quoted at the time as saying "I can sing the hell out of "Old Man River. [103] This became a social media sensation, trending all over the world. Julie Andrews opens up about the complex husband she adored, motherhood, her Hollywood years and the heartbreak of losing her voice. She shares one biological daughter with her first husband Tony Walton, and has two step-children and two adoptive children from her marriage to Blake Edwards. He was 88 years old. April 1, 2008 . Absence Explained, Out for a Swim! In 1969 they tied the knot and went on to welcome their two kids daughters Amy, 45 . [29] Eve Benda recognised her special talent and predicted her stardom. Edwards, Julie Andrews and Emma Walton Hamilton (authors) and Tony Walton (illustrator). [29] Andrews took the role partly to avoid typecasting as a nanny. She also lent her voice for the English dub of the Italian animated film The Singing Princess (1949, her first venture into voice-over work), the Shrek franchise and the Despicable Me franchise (2010present). [62] That year, she co-starred with Burt Reynolds in The Man Who Loved Women. She spoke about her large family with The Australian Women's Weekly during the 50th anniversary celebration of The Sound of Music. [25] She reportedly made her television dbut on the BBC programme RadiOlympia Showtime on 8 October 1949. [1][61] In 1983, Andrews was chosen as the Hasty Pudding Woman of the Year by the Harvard University Theatrical Society. "[50][51] The film was nominated for seven Academy Awards, and Andrews scored a Golden Globe nomination for her performance. Kayti, 41 the child of Jennifer Edwards, Julies husband Blake Edwards daughter from his first marriage grew up down the street from her famous grandparents. I help the homeless.. Take a von Trapp down memory lane! Spindle, p. 2, suggests that Andrews began a few years of stage work with her parents in 1946. During the event, Andrews enjoyed a few other cast reunions including with her Princess Diaries costar Hector Elizondo, plus a virtual appearance from her onscreen granddaughter Anne Hathaway. Julia Elizabeth Wells was born on October 1, 1935, in Walton-on-Thames, United Kingdom. Cookies collect information about your preferences and your device and are used to make the site work as you expect it to, to understand how you interact with the site, and to show advertisements that are targeted to your interests. Julie Andrews with her daughter Emma Walton Hamilton in the 1960s. "Julie, who was described in the official announcement 14 October as 'a 13-year-old coloratura soprano with the voice of an adult,' was the youngest solo performer ever chosen to perform before royalty at the Palladium. . [29], Edwards pitched the concept of Darling Lili to Andrews two years prior to the start of production in 1968. However, they weren't satisfied with one. The evening, though well received by the 20,000 fans present, who gave her standing ovation after standing ovation,[86] did not convince the critics. The pair remained married until his untimely death in 2010 at age 88. By the time Disney offered her the lead as the magical singing nanny in Mary Poppins, Andrews was already pregnant with her first child (daughter Emma Walton Hamilton, 58, now her frequent . Andrews, a child actress and singer, appeared in the West End in 1948 and made her Broadway debut in The Boy Friend (1954). [19][20] Fellow child entertainer Petula Clark, three years her senior, recalled touring around the UK by train to sing for the troops alongside Andrews; they slept in the luggage racks. In 1969, she shared the spotlight with singer Harry Belafonte for an NBC-TV special, An Evening with Julie Andrews and Harry Belafonte. Touch device users, explore by touch or with swipe gestures. While Julie is clearly a loving mother to all of. Films she starred in include The Americanization of Emily (1964), Hawaii (1966), Torn Curtain (1966), Thoroughly Modern Millie (1967), Star! She married her second husband, writer and director, Blake Edward in 1969. Kayti, 41 the child of. They now live with their two adopted Vietnamese daughters, Joanna and Amy, who are 7 and 8 years old. Julie Andrews is a matriarch of a big family. Andrews was raised by a violent alcoholic stepfather, forcing her to install a lock on her room door. She made only two other films in the 1970s, The Tamarind Seed (1974) and 10 (1979), both successful at the box office and by critics' reviews. "What I know now is that there's always something more to learn, because you never stop really," she said in 2017. Her next two films were That's Life! In the 1970s, the couple adopted two daughters; Amy in 1974 and Joanna in 1975. [29] She later wrote that she felt she could "be Eliza, could find and understand her" if only someone were to "gently unravel the knotted string inside my stomach". You'll Never Believe.. And I would rush up onstage and say, 'I'd like one, please.' ", Andrews also had kind memories of fellow costar Christopher Plummer, who played her love interest in the movie and passed away last year. The family took up residence at the Old Meuse, in West Grove, Hersham, a house (now demolished) where Andrews's maternal grandmother had served as a maid. Haberman, Irving. [46] Andrews later said she was "ashamed" to admit that she thought the musical "rather saccharine" before being cast. Between 1994 and 1995, Andrews recorded two solo albums the first saluted the music of Richard Rodgers and the second paid tribute to the words of Alan Jay Lerner. [109], Beginning in December 2020, Andrews voiced the narrator Lady Whistledown in the Netflix period drama series Bridgerton.[110]. One of the last surviving leading actresses from the Golden Age of Hollywood, she has garnered numerous accolades throughout her career spanning over seven decades, including an Academy Award, a BAFTA Award, two Emmy Awards, three Grammy Awards and six Golden Globe Awards as well as . Unfortunately, she declined, citing a recent surgery and she wasn't "ready to go back to work" but "would've loved to have done it". Later this year, she will celebrate her 87th birthday. After a trip to the doctor, she learned that she had non-cancerous vocal nodules in her throat. The name of her parents is Barbara Ward Wells and Edward Charles. [30][29] Cinderella was broadcast live on CBS on 31 March 1957 under the musical direction of Alfredo Antonini and had an estimated 107million viewers. Through her marriage to Edwards, she became a stepmother to Jennifer and Geoffrey Edwards. And she enjoyed raising her kids, especially her adopted children. They first met in 1948 when Andrews was appearing at the London Casino in the show Humpty Dumpty. The actressadopted her first adopted kid, daughter Amy Leigh Edwards, in 1974. After 1986 her workload decreased, appearing in two films in 1991 and not again until 2000. About Her Biological and Adopted Kids. [82] On her promotion tour for the film, she also spoke of Operation USA and the aid campaign to the Haiti disaster. Edwards, Julie Andrews and Emma Walton Hamilton. In addition to being a mother of five children, Julie is also grandmother to nine and great-grandmother to three. [113], Andrews subsequently married director Blake Edwards in 1969;[114][115] becoming stepmother to his children, Jennifer and Geoffrey. They divorced in 1968, and Andrews moved on with director Blake Edwards, marrying him in 1969. In her memoir Julie Andrews My Star Pupil, Stiles-Allen records, "The range, accuracy and tone of Julie's voice amazed me she had possessed the rare gift of absolute pitch",[16] though Andrews herself refutes this in her 2008 autobiography Home. Salma Hayeks Best Bikini Photos, Julie Andrews Can't Wait to See Emily Blunt as Mary Poppins: "I Admire Her Enormously" (EXCLUSIVE). However unlike her other children, both Amy and Joanna. Shes actually a real person, Kayti points out. Amy now has a family of her own. 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Happy Book Birthday to Julie and Emma's newest book, THE FIRST NOTES: The Story of Do, Re, Mi - in stores today! https://www.facebook.com/JulieAndrewsOnline/posts/when-my-grandson-sam-was-about-three-years-old-he-went-to-a-birthday-party-where/10157305523949628/, Christian Camargo and His Wife Juliet Are No Longer Together His CurrentRelationship, Nessa Barretts Tattoos Are Tributes to her Boyfriend, Mom And a Friend, Sarah Paulson Had Everyone Confused on Whether She Was Gay or Not, No time for love-life Madeleine Arthur Is Too Busy To Have a Boyfriend, Bob Balabans Wife Lynn Grossman Made Major Impact in His Career, Sam Jaeger and Wife Ambers Relationship From Best Friends to Parents and Co-stars, Where Are Julie Andrewss Children Now? With her daughter, Emma, she has written several books for children which are published as the Julie Andrews Collection, an imprint of HarperCollins. . At age 12, Andrews made her professional solo debut at the London Hippodrome, singing the difficult aria "Je suis Titania" from Mignon as part of a musical revue, called "Starlight Roof", on 22 October 1947. In 1995, she starred in the stage musical version of Victor/Victoria. Birth date: October 1, 1935. "It's been wonderful to watch two pale, sad-eyed creatures blossom," Andrews told People in 1977. [56] She was nominated for the Golden Globe Award for Best Actress Motion Picture Comedy or Musical, while the film won both the Golden Globe and Academy Awards for Best Original Song. [27] Andrews appeared on West End theatre at the London Casino, where she played one year each as Princess Badroulbadour in Aladdin and the egg in Humpty Dumpty. She has married twice in her 86 years on the earth and has five children from her two marriages. Being born on 1 October 1935, Julie Andrews is 87 years old as of today's date 1st March 2023. Other than this, there is no information about any of the siblings. There's not really any photos out there of them except some baby pics. Advertisement Emma Walton Hamilton Andrews has one biological daughter, Emma from her former husband, Tony Walton. Imagine Julie Andrews atop a mountain, singing no, not that song but "I am . In an exclusive interview with Closer Weekly, beloved star Julie Andrews granddaughter Kayti Edwards shares memories of growing up with her famous grandmother. Edwards, Julie Andrews and Emma Walton Hamilton, (authors). The well known . Julie Andrews, 86, was born in Walton-on-Thames, Surrey. [69] She also appears at No.59 on the 2002 poll of the "100 Greatest Britons" sponsored by the BBC and chosen by the British public. [80] Andrews also had a supporting role in the film Tooth Fairy, which opened to unfavourable reviews[81] although the box office receipts were successful. In 1966, Andrews starred in Hawaii, the highest-grossing film of its year. In 1974 Julie and Blake adopted 2 Vietnamese orphan girls. Joanna Edwards was born in 1975 in Vietnam, hence, she is 47 years of age. Ted Andrews insisted on giving Julie singing lessons and legally adopted her. Originally, the doctors assured Andrews that she should regain her voice within six weeks, but Andrews's stepdaughter, Jennifer Edwards, said in 1999 "it's been two years, and it [her singing voice] still hasn't returned. Julie Andrews, 83 a stage star when she won the role became a sensation, landing the Best Actress Oscar and her part in The Sound Of Music. On 31 March 1957, Andrews starred in the premiere of Rodgers and Hammerstein's written-for-television musical Cinderella, a live, colour CBS network broadcast seen by over 100 million viewers. Andrews continued her association with Disney when she appeared as the nanny in two television films based on the Eloise books, a series of children's books by Kay Thompson about a child who lives in the Plaza Hotel in New York City. Andrews has published several books (mainly children's books and autobiographies) under her name, as well as her married names Julie Andrews Edwards and Julie Edwards. (1981), Victor/Victoria (1982), That's Life! Andrews was the first choice to play the English witch Eglantine Price in Disney's Bedknobs and Broomsticks (1971); Angela Lansbury was cast. She starred in her own variety special The Julie Andrews Hour (1973) for which she received the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Variety Musical Series. "[29], After completing The Sound of Music, Andrews appeared as a guest star on the NBC-TV variety series The Andy Williams Show. She is also an advocate for the rights of children and orphans in Vietnam and Cambodia. With three daughters to take care of in the house, Andrews started to withdraw from acting. While the removal of nodes is a standard procedure that many singers undergo in order to be able to sing safely again . In June 2010, the book, entitled The Very Fairy Princess, reached number 1 on The New York Times Best Seller List for Children's Books. "You don't just grow up and get set, at least you shouldn't.". - Team Julie. When she was the only Tony Award nominee for the production, she declined the nomination saying that she could not accept because she felt the entire production was snubbed.[64]. In the 2000 New Year Honours List, Andrews was made a Dame Commander of the Order of the British Empire (DBE) for services to the performing arts and received the award from Queen Elizabeth II at Buckingham Palace. I could walk to her house in Malibu wed be there all day, she shares. Earlier this month at the 48th AFI Life Achievement Award ceremony, Julie Andrews reunited with five of the seven actors who played the von Trapp kids in 1965's "The Sound of Music." During an . Julie Andrews and her daughter, Emma Walton Hamilton. if(typeof ez_ad_units!='undefined'){ez_ad_units.push([[580,400],'hollywoodmask_com-medrectangle-3','ezslot_7',612,'0','0'])};__ez_fad_position('div-gpt-ad-hollywoodmask_com-medrectangle-3-0'); Emma Kate Walton was born on November 27, 1962, at The London Clinic in London. [72] In 2004, Andrews voiced Queen Lillian in the animated blockbuster Shrek 2 (2004), reprising the role for its sequels, Shrek the Third (2007) and Shrek Forever After (2010). We won't post to any of your accounts without asking first. [29] Andrews referred to production as "unrelenting" given the physical exertion and technical details, saying that she "could not have asked" for a better introduction to film.[29]. [65] Despite this, Andrews kept busy with many projects. Oct 14, 2015 12:00am. Julie Andrews is 87 years old as of today. Julie adopted her daughters, Amy Leigh and Joanna Lynne, at two months and five months old, from an orphanage in Vietnam just as US troops were being airlifted out after a long, miserable war. (Photo: Source) Joanna was just five months old when she became a part of the Edwards household in 1975. Andrews is also known for her collaborations with Carol Burnett including the specials, Julie and Carol at Carnegie Hall (1962), which received a Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Variety Special nomination, as well as Julie and Carol at Lincoln Center (1971), and Julie and Carol: Together Again (1989). She been honoured with an Honorary Golden Lion, the Kennedy Center Honors in 2001, the Screen Actors Guild Life Achievement Award in 2007, and the AFI Life Achievement Award in 2022. Julie Andrews (Dame Julie Andrews) is an actress, singer, and novelist from the United Kingdom. It was her first appearance in a Broadway show in 35 years. By the time she adopted her daughters, they were almost grown-up. "Amy came into our lives and it was wonderful," she said of adopting Amy during an interview with Now To Love in October 2015. [10] Andrews's stepfather sponsored lessons for her, first at the independent arts educational school Cone-Ripman School (ArtsEd) in London, and thereafter with concert soprano and voice instructor Madame Lilian Stiles-Allen. Details, Pink Is a Total Rockstar! Mary Poppins became the biggest box-office draw in Disney history. On 9 June 2022, Andrews was honoured by the American Film Institute with a Lifetime Achievement Award, where she reflected on her career, and had tributes by multiple artists. They live in the slum area as her father had a very low income. [29], During rehearsals, director Moss Hart spent forty-eight consecutive hours solely with Andrews, where they "hammered through each scene"; Andrews later stated that "the good man had stripped [her] feelings bare[] moulded, kneaded, and helped [her] become the character of Eliza [..] [and made] her part of [her] soul. Julie Andrews has been married on two occasions and she is blessed with two known children: Emma Walton Hamilton, Amy Edwards, and Joanna Edwards. Published on June 22, 2022 02:37 PM. ", "It really was the most beautifully crafted movie," she said to host Hoda Kotb. [96][97] In her memoir, Home Work (2019), Andrews discussed being offered the role of Aunt Emma by Martin Scorsese for his film The Wolf of Wall Street (2013). [18], Beginning in 1945, and for the next two years, Andrews performed spontaneously and unbilled on stage with her parents. Two years later, she was reunited for the third time with Carol Burnett for a variety special which aired on ABC in December 1989. [29][36] In 1957, Andrews released her debut solo album, The Lass with the Delicate Air, which harked back to her British music hall days. p. 101 Routledge. Julie Andrews' early encounter with her late husband Blake Edwards was either "corny" or "wonderfully Hollywood", depending on who you asked. Andrews married set designer Tony Walton on 10 May 1959 in Weybridge, Surrey. She told People magazine the corgis are "national icons" and said she panics when "they run chasing a . Nov 1, 2022. Despite having a blended family, the couple was a perfect match and successful in their respective fields. Julia Elizabeth Wells[3] was born on 1 October 1935 in Walton-on-Thames, Surrey, England. "We do keep in touch, but not on a really regular basis," Andrews explained to TODAY. 1975 in Vietnam, hence, she became a part of the siblings for eight years 1959... 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