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Full Name Emma Katherine Walton Born 27 November 1962 (age 61) ( 1962-11-27 ) London, England, UK Other names Emma Walton-Hamilton (pen name) Occupation Children’s author
Editor
Actress
Educator and Arts and Literacy advocate
Artistic director Website www.emmawaltonhamilton.com Role Actress · emmawaltonhamilton.com Spouse Stephen Hamilton (m. 1991) Parents Tony Walton, Julie Andrews Siblings Amy Edwards, Jennifer Edwards, Joanna Edwards, Geoffrey Edwards Children Sam Hamilton, Hope Hamilton Books The Very Fairy Princess, The Very Fairy Princess, The Very Fairy Princess, The Very Fairy Princess Similar People Julie Andrews, Tony Walton, Christine Davenier, Blake Edwards, Jennifer Edwards Profiles | ||
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Emma Walton-Hamilton (born Emma Katherine Walton; 27 November 1962) is a British actress, theatrical director and author of children's books. She is currently an instructor in the MFA program at SUNY-Stony Brook Southampton.
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Early and personal life
Walton was born in London. Her parents are British actress and singer Julie Andrews and Tony Walton, a British set designer and costume designer. Her godmothers were actress Carol Burnett and Svetlana Beriosova, prima ballerina of The Royal Ballet; her godfather was British actor Vic Oliver. Her childhood was spent between London and Los Angeles, California, where her mother was one of the most important film actresses in Hollywood. She attended UCLA Lab School, according to her mother. In 1967, her parents divorced, and two years later her mother married film director Blake Edwards, who became her stepfather.
In 1991, she married actor/director Stephen Hamilton. They have two children: Sam (born 18 October 1996) and Hope (born 17 August 2003), and live in Sag Harbor, New York.
Career
She briefly appeared as a child in Alfred Hitchcock's Torn Curtain (1966), sitting on Hitchcock's knee in his trademark cameo appearance (her mother had a leading role in the film).
From 1983 to 1991, she had a few bit parts in films and television.
In 1991, she, her husband, and veteran British-American actress Sybil Christopher founded the Bay Street Theatre in Sag Harbor, New York. This independent non-profit theatre is still in operation as of 2015. Walton-Hamilton was the theatre's Artistic co-Director and Director of Education and Programming for Young Audiences for 17 years.
In 2000, she began writing books for children in collaboration with her mother, starting with Dumpy the Dumptruck. They wrote 13 "Dumpy" books, of which 12 were illustrated by her father Tony Walton, who had remained friends with her mother despite their divorce. Walton-Hamilton and Andrews have co-written 31 children's books, including the "Dumpy" books, The Great American Mousical (2006), also illustrated by Walton, two "Bonnie Boadicea" novels for middle schoolers, The Very Fairy Princess (2010) and 11 "Very Fairy" sequels, and two unrelated novels. They have also co-edited two anthologies of poetry and songs, and one concept book, Thanks to You: Wisdom From Mother and Child. The spoken-word version of Julie Andrews' Collection Of Poems, Songs, And Lullabies won a 2010 Grammy Award for Best Spoken Word Album for Children.
Walton-Hamilton and Andrews contributed to Kate Dawson, Jodi Glucksman, and Barbara Buck-Aronica's Over the Moon: The Broadway Lullaby Project (2012), a book with accompanying CD.
Walton-Hamilton has also written Raising Bookworms: Getting Kids Reading for Pleasure and Empowerment (2009).
In 2016 Walton Hamilton created the preschool television series Julie's Greenroom with her mother and Judy Rothman. The show will star Julie Andrews who will be joined by her assistant Gus (Giullian Yao Gioiello) and “Greenies,” a cast of original puppets built by The Jim Henson Company and will premiere on Netflix in 2017.