Julie Christie
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Julie Frances Christie (born April 14 1940) is a English Academy Award-winning film actress.
Christie was born on April 14, 1940 in Assam, India, then part of the British Empire, one of two children of Rosemary Ramsden and Frank St. John Christie, who ran a tea plantation. She studied at a convent in India (from which she was expelled) and later at the Central School of Speech and Drama before getting her big break in 1961 in a science fiction series on BBC television, entitled A for Andromeda. The full recordings have now been lost, although the sixth episode and a section of material from the seventh do survive.
Her first major film role was opposite Tom Courtenay in Billy Liar in 1963 and Laurence Harvey in Darling (1965), for which she won an Academy Award as Best Actress. She also played Lara in Doctor Zhivago (1965) Bathsheba in Far from the Madding Crowd (1967), and the lead character (opposite George C. Scott) in Petula (1968).
In the '70's Christie starred in such films as Robert Altman's McCabe and Mrs Miller (1971), The Go-Between (again co-starring Alan Bates, 1971), Don't Look Now (1973), Shampoo (1975), Demon Seed (1977), and Heaven Can Wait (1978).
In the 1970s she moved to Hollywood where she had a high-profile (1967-1974) relationship with actor Warren Beatty, though following the end of the relationship she returned to Europe.
Christie has never married and has made it clear she has no plans to ever do so. Her long-time partner (since 1979) is The Guardian journalist Duncan Campbell, who prompted her reluctant return to Los Angeles, California, as that is where he has been based.
Christie was a leading figure in the glamorous London of the 1960s, and since the 1970's has been politically active and involved in environmental causes. She continues to make movies, including those in the French language, such as 2001's Belphégor - Le fantôme du Louvre opposite Sophie Marceau.
Filmography
- The Secret Life of Words (2005)
- Troy (2004) Thetis
- Finding Neverland (2004) Mrs. Emma du Maurier
- Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban (2004) Madam Rosmerta
- I'm with Lucy (2002) Dori
- Snapshots (2002) Narma
- No Such Thing (2001) Dr Anna
- Hermit of Amsterdam, The (2001)
- Belphégor - Le fantôme du Louvre (2001) Glenda Spender
- Miracle Maker, The (2000) Rachel
- Afterglow (1997) Phyllis Mann
- Dragonheart (1996) Queen Aislinn
- Hamlet (1996) Gertrude
- Railway Station Man, The (1992) Helen Cuffe
- Fools of Fortune (1990) Mrs. Quinton
- Dadah Is Death (Made for TV) (1988) Barbara Barlow
- (1987)
- Power (1986) Ellen Freeman
- Champagne amer (1986) Betty Rivière
- Miss Mary (1986) Miss Mary
- Separate Tables (Made for TV) (1983) Mrs. Shankland/Miss Railton-Bell
- Gold Diggers, The (1983) Ruby
- Return of the Soldier, The (1982) Kitty Baldry
- Quarantièmes rugissants, Les (1982) Catherine Dantec
- Heat and Dust (1982) Anne
- Memoirs of a Survivor (1981) 'D'
- Animals Film, The (1981)
- Heaven Can Wait (1978) Betty Logan
- Demon Seed (1977) Susan Harris
- Nashville (1975)
- Shampoo (1975) Jackie Shawn
- Don't Look Now (1973) Laura Baxter
- The Go-Between (1971) Marian - Lady Trimingham
- McCabe & Mrs. Miller (1971) Constance Miller
- In Search of Gregory (1969) Catherine
- Petulia (1968) Petulia Danner
- Tonite Let's All Make Love in London (1967)
- Far from the Madding Crowd (1967) Bathsheba Everdene
- Fahrenheit 451 (1966) Clarisse McClellan/Linda Montag
- Doctor Zhivago (1965) Lara Antipova
- Young Cassidy (1965) Daisy Battles
- Darling (1965) Diana Scott
- Billy Liar (1963) Liz
- Fast Lady, The (1962) Claire Chingford
- Crooks Anonymous (1962) Babette LaVern
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