Emma Walton

Emma Walton Hamilton (* 27. November 1962 in London ; native Emma Kate Walton ) is a British actress and writer .

Life

family

Emma Walton-Hamilton was born to actress Julie Andrews and stage designer Tony Walton . Her godmother is the actress Carol Burnett . When Walt Disney offered Julie Andrews the role of Mary Poppins in the film of the same name , she had to tell him that she was pregnant. However, Disney did not accept the actress's rejection, but simply postponed the shooting until after the birth of Emma. So the child spent the first months of his life on the film set in the Disney studios.

After her parents divorced in the late 1960s and Julie Andrews soon married Blake Edwards , Emma grew up in the United States with her step-siblings Geoffrey and Jennifer .

Walton has been married to Stephen Hamilton since 1991, with whom they have a son named Samuel and a daughter named Hope.

Career

Emma Walton made her first appearance in her stepfather's film, The Curse of the Pink Panther . In the further course of her career she was regularly seen in the productions of Edwards, for example in the family production That's Life! Such is life ( That's Life! ), Where she plays next to her mother, her stepsister Jennifer and Jack Lemmon and his son Chris .

Together with her mother, she has been writing the successful children's book series Dumpy the dump truck since 2000 . The illustration of the books is taken over by Walton's biological father.

She is also one of the founders and owner of the Bay Street Theater in Sag Harbor ( Suffolk County, New York ).

Filmography

• 1983: Curse of the Pink Panther (Curse of the Pink Panther)
• 1984: Mickey and Maude
• 1986: A Fine Mess
• 1986: That's Life! That's life (That's Life!)
• 1987: Blind Date - meeting a stranger (blind date)
• 1991: Switch - The woman in the man (Switch)

Literature (selection)

• Anita Shreve, Gabra Zackman, Emma Walton Hamilton: A change in Altitude . 2009, ISBN 978-1-4055-0276-4 .
• Julie Andrews Edwards, Emma Walton Hamilton: The great American mousical . Puffin, London 2006.
• Julie Andrews Edwards, Emma Walton Hamilton: Julie Andrews' Collection of Poems, Songs and Lullabies . 2009, ISBN 978-1-60024-758-3 .
• Emma Walton Hamilton: Raising Bookworms . Beech Tree Books, 2008, ISBN 978-0-9815833-0-3 .
• Julie Andrews Edwards, Emma Walton Hamilton: Dragon . 2004.
• Julie Andrews Edwards, Emma Walton Hamilton: Dumpy the Dumptruck . Hyperion, New York 2000, ISBN 0-7868-0609-5 .

Web links

• Emma Walton in the Internet Movie Database (English)
• official homepage

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Emma Walton on thepeerage.com , accessed August 19, 2015.
2. ↑ Julie Andrews. (No longer available online.) In: celebritywonder.com. Archived from the original on April 16, 2010 ; Retrieved January 4, 2010 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  
3. ↑ THE SERENITY GATE: Interview with Emma Walton Hamilton. In: theserenityroom.blogspot.com. Retrieved January 4, 2010 . 
4. ^ William Harris: THEATER; Where Stars Come Out Every Day. (No longer available online.) The New York Times Company, May 12, 1996, archived from the original on February 12, 2011 ; Retrieved on May 15, 2009 (English): "Actually, the story of Bay Street is something of a fairy tale come true - with a little help from influential friends and relations. It was founded in 1992 by Sybil Christopher (once married to Richard Burton), Emma Walton (the daughter of Julie Andrews and the scenic designer Tony Walton) and Stephen Hamilton (an actor who is married to Ms. Walton). The two women are co-artistic directors, Mr. Hamilton is the executive director and Murphy Davis (an actor) is the theater's producer. “ Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.