 Andrews' mother was Irene Colman (née Bressette), an actress of French-Canadian descent born in Nashua, New Hampshire.She played a chorus girl in several "Gold Diggers movies" and had ingenue roles in a number of other movies.Andrews and his sister, Ann Merry Victoria Andrews (two years his junior) and his older half-sister Joy grew up in the West Los Angeles neighborhood of Holmby Hills.