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Date of Birth
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27-November-1962
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Place of Birth
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London
(England, United Kingdom, Great Britain)
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Nationality
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United Kingdom
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Also know as
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Emma Walton, Emma Kate Walton, Emma Katherine Walton, Emma Katherine Walton Hamilton, Emma Walton-Hamilton
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Profession
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Actor, Author, Editor, Educator
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Emma Walton-Hamilton is an actress and an author of children's books. She currently works as an instructor for the MFA program at Stony Brook Southampton.
She is the daughter of actress and singer Julie Andrews and set and costume designer Tony Walton. She has published over 23 books with her mother including The Very Fairy Princess and Dumpy the Dumptruck. In 2011, their Julie Andrews' Collection Of Poems, Songs, And Lullabies won a Grammy Award for Best Spoken Word Album for Children. Her father has illustrated several books written by the mother-daughter duo. Her stepfather was director Blake Edwards, who was married to her mother from 1969 until his death in 2010.
She is married to Steve Hamilton, and they have two children together: Sam Hamilton and Hope Hamilton.
She briefly appeared as a child in Alfred Hitchcock's Torn Curtain, sitting on Hitchcock's knee in his trademark cameo appearance.
Walton-Hamilton attended UCLA Lab School, according to her mother.
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