Andrew Gold mother was singer Marni Nixon, who provided the singing voice for numerous actresses, notably Natalie Wood in "West Side Story", Deborah Kerr in "The King and I", and Audrey Hepburn in "My Fair Lady"; his father was Ernest Gold, an Austrian-born composer who won an Academy Award for his score for the movie "Exodus". He had two younger sisters. Gold began writing songs at the age of 13. Abroad in England for school, the 16-year-old Gold scored his first recording contract on the strength of a selection of demos he submitted to Polydor Records' London office. That contract resulted in
Marni Nixon Joan Roberts as Heidi Schiller in the Broadway revival of Stephen Sondheim's "Follies". She played Eunice Miller in "70, Girls, 70" in a 2002 production in Los Angeles. In 2003, she was again on Broadway as a replacement in role of Guido's mother in the revival of "Nine". Nixon appeared as Frau Direktor Kirschner in the 2009 Encores! production of the musical "Music in the Air" at New York City Center. Her autobiography, "I Could Have Sung All Night", was published in 2006. She performed in the 2008 North American Tour of Cameron Mackintosh's UK revival of "My Fair Lady"