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Occupation
  
Actress, activist

Height
  
1.57 m

Years active
  
1957–present

Spouse
  
Duncan Campbell (m. 2008)

Name
  
Julie Christie

TV shows
  
Role
  
Actress


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Full Name
  
Julie Frances Christie

Born
  
14 April 1940 (age 84) (
1940-04-14
)

Alma mater
  
Central School of Speech and Drama

Movies
  
Doctor Zhivago, Don't Look Now, Away from Her, Darling, Far from the Madding

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Julie Frances Christie (born 14 April 1940) is an English actress. An icon of the "swinging London" era of the 1960s, she has won the Academy, Golden Globe, BAFTA, and Screen Actors Guild Awards, and in 1997 she received the BAFTA Fellowship.

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Christie's breakthrough film role was in Billy Liar (1963). She came to international attention for her performances in Darling (1965), for which she won the Academy Award for Best Actress, and Doctor Zhivago (also 1965), the eighth highest-grossing film of all Time after adjustment for inflation.

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In the following years, she starred in Fahrenheit 451 (1966), Far from the Madding Crowd (1967), Petulia (1968), The Go-Between (1971), McCabe & Mrs. Miller (1971), for which she received her second Oscar nomination, Don't Look Now (1973), Shampoo (1975), and Heaven Can Wait (1978).

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From the early 1980s, her appearances in mainstream films decreased, though she held roles as Thetis in Wolfgang Petersen's historical epic Troy and in Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban (both 2004). She has continued to receive significant critical recognition for her work, including Oscar nominations for the independent films Afterglow (1997) and Away from Her (2007).

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Early life

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Christie was born on 14 April 1940 at Singlijan Tea Estate, Chabua, Assam, British India, the elder child of Rosemary (née Ramsden; 1912–1982), a Welsh painter, and Francis "Frank" St. John Christie (1904–1963). Her father ran the tea plantation where she was raised. She has a younger brother, Clive, and an older (now deceased) half-sister, June, from her father's relationship with an Indian woman, who worked as a tea picker on his plantation. Frank and Rosemary Christie separated when Julie was a child.

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She was baptised in the Church of England and studied as a boarder at the independent Convent of Our Lady school in St. Leonards-on-Sea, East Sussex, after being expelled from another convent school for telling a risqué joke that reached a wider audience than originally anticipated. After being asked to leave the Convent of Our Lady as well, she later attended Wycombe Court School, High Wycombe, Buckinghamshire, during which time she lived with a foster mother from the age of six.

After her parents' divorce, Christie spent time with her mother in rural Wales. As a teenager at the all-girls' Wycombe Court School, she played "the Dauphin" in a production of Shaw's Saint Joan. She later studied at the Central School of Speech and Drama.

Career

Christie made her professional stage debut in 1957, and her first screen roles were on British television. Her earliest role to gain attention was in BBC serial A for Andromeda (1961). She was a contender for the role of Honey Rider in the first James Bond film, Dr. No, but producer Albert R. Broccoli reportedly thought her breasts were too small.

Christie appeared in two comedies for Independent Artists: Crooks Anonymous and The Fast Lady (both 1962). Her breakthrough role, however, was as Liz, the friend and would-be lover of the eponymous character played by Tom Courtenay in Billy Liar (1963), for which she received a BAFTA Award nomination. The director, John Schlesinger cast Christie only after another actress, Topsy Jane, had dropped out of the film. Christie appeared as Daisy Battles in Young Cassidy (1965), a biopic of Irish playwright Seán O'Casey, co-directed by Jack Cardiff and (uncredited) John Ford.

Her role as an amoral model in Darling (also 1965) led to Christie becoming known internationally. Directed by Schlesinger, and co-starring Dirk Bogarde and Laurence Harvey, Christie had only been cast in the lead role after Schlesinger insisted, the studio having wanted Shirley MacLaine. She received the Academy Award for Best Actress for her performance.

In David Lean's Doctor Zhivago (also 1965), adapted from the epic/romance novel by Boris Pasternak, Christie's role as Lara Antipova became her best known. The film was a major box-office success. As of 2016, Doctor Zhivago is the 8th highest-grossing film of all time, adjusted for inflation. According to Life magazine, 1965 was "The Year of Julie Christie".

After dual roles in François Truffaut's adaptation of the Ray Bradbury novel Fahrenheit 451 (1966), starring with Oskar Werner, she appeared as Thomas Hardy's heroine Bathsheba Everdene in Schlesinger's Far from the Madding Crowd (1967). After moving to Los Angeles in 1967 ("I was there because of a lot of American boyfriends"), she appeared in the title role of Richard Lester's Petulia (1968), co-starring with George C. Scott.

Christie's persona as the swinging sixties British woman she had embodied in Billy Liar and Darling was further cemented by her appearance in the documentary Tonite Let's All Make Love in London. In 1967, Time magazine said of her: "What Julie Christie wears has more real impact on fashion than all the clothes of the ten best-dressed women combined".

In Joseph Losey's romantic drama The Go-Between (1971), Christie had a lead role along with Alan Bates. The film won the Grand Prix, then the main award at the Cannes Film Festival. She earned a second Best Actress Oscar nomination for her role as a brothel madame in Robert Altman's postmodern western McCabe & Mrs. Miller (also 1971). The film marked the first of three collaborations between Christie and Warren Beatty, who described her as "the most beautiful and at the same time the most nervous person I had ever known". The couple had a high-profile but intermittent relationship between 1967 and 1974. After the relationship ended, they worked together again in the comedies Shampoo (1975) and Heaven Can Wait (1978).

Her other films during the decade were Nicolas Roeg's thriller Don't Look Now (1973), in which she co-starred with Donald Sutherland, and the science-fiction/horror film Demon Seed (1977), based on the novel of the same name by Dean Koontz and directed by Donald Cammell.

Christie returned to the United Kingdom in 1977, living on a farm in Wales. In 1979, she was a member of the jury at the 29th Berlin International Film Festival. Never a prolific actress, even at the height of her career, Christie turned down many high-caliber film roles, including Anne of the Thousand Days, They Shoot Horses, Don't They?, Nicholas and Alexandra, and Reds, all of which earned Oscar nominations for the actresses who eventually played them.

In the 1980s, Christie appeared in non-mainstream films such as The Return of the Soldier (1982) and Heat and Dust (1983). She had a major supporting role in Sidney Lumet's Power (1986) alongside Richard Gere and Gene Hackman, but apart from that, she avoided large budget films. She starred in the television film Dadah Is Death (1988), based on the Barlow and Chambers execution, as Barlow's mother Barbara, who desperately fought to save her son from being hanged for drug trafficking in Malaysia.

After a lengthy absence from the screen, Christie co-starred in the fantasy adventure film Dragonheart (1996), and appeared as Gertrude in Kenneth Branagh's Hamlet (also 1996). Her next critically acclaimed role was the unhappy wife in Alan Rudolph's domestic comedy-drama Afterglow (1997) with Nick Nolte, Jonny Lee Miller and Lara Flynn Boyle. Christie received a third Oscar nomination for her role.

Christie made a brief cameo appearance in the third Harry Potter film, Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban (2004), playing Madam Rosmerta. Around the same time, she also appeared in two other high-profile films: Wolfgang Petersen's Troy and Marc Forster's Finding Neverland (both 2004), playing mother to Brad Pitt and Kate Winslet, respectively. The latter performance earned Christie a BAFTA nomination as supporting actress in film.

Christie portrayed the female lead in Away from Her (2006), a film about a long-married Canadian couple coping with the wife's Alzheimer's disease. Based on the Alice Munro short story "The Bear Came Over the Mountain", the movie was the first feature film directed by Christie's sometime co-star, Canadian actress Sarah Polley. She took the role, she says, only because Polley is her friend. Polley has said Christie liked the script but initially turned it down as she was ambivalent about acting. It took several months of persuasion by Polley before Christie finally accepted the role.

In July 2006 she was a member of the jury at the 28th Moscow International Film Festival. Debuting at the Toronto International Film Festival on 11 September 2006 as part of the TIFF's Gala showcase, Away from Her drew rave reviews from the trade press, including The Hollywood Reporter, and the four Toronto dailies. Critics singled out her performances as well as that of her co-star, Canadian actor Gordon Pinsent, and Polley's direction. Christie's performance generated Oscar buzz, leading the distributor, Lions Gate Entertainment, to buy the film at the festival to release the film in 2007 to build momentum during the awards season.

On 5 December 2007, she won the Best Actress Award from the National Board of Review for her performance in Away from Her. She won the Golden Globe Award for Best Actress - Motion Picture Drama, the Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by a Female Actor in a Leading Role and the Genie Award for Best Actress for the same film. On 22 January 2008, Christie received her fourth Oscar nomination for Best Performance by an Actress in a Leading Role at the 80th Academy Awards. She appeared at the ceremony wearing a pin calling for the closure of the prison in Guantanamo Bay.

Christie narrated Uncontacted Tribes (2008), a short film for the British-based charity Survival International, featuring previously unseen footage of remote and endangered peoples. She has been a long-standing supporter of the charity, and in February 2008, was named as its first 'Ambassador'. She appeared in a segment of the film, New York, I Love You (also 2008), written by Anthony Minghella, directed by Shekhar Kapur and co-starring Shia LaBeouf, as well as in Glorious 39 (2009), about a British family at the start of World War II.

Christie played a "sexy, bohemian" version of the grandmother role in Catherine Hardwicke's gothic retelling of Red Riding Hood (2011). A later role Her most recent role was in the political thriller The Company You Keep (2012), where she co-starred with Robert Redford and Sam Elliott.

BAFTA's highest honour, the Fellowship was awarded to Christie in 1997.

Personal life

In the early 1960s, Christie dated actor Terence Stamp. She was engaged to Don Bessant, a lithographer and art teacher, in 1965, before dating actor Warren Beatty for several years. She is married to The Guardian journalist Duncan Campbell; they have lived together since 1979, but the date they wed is disputed. In January 2008, several news outlets reported that the couple had quietly married in India two months earlier, in November 2007, which Christie called "nonsense", adding, "I have been married for a few years. Don't believe what you read in the papers."

In the late 1960s, her advisers adopted a very complex scheme in an attempt to reduce her tax liability, giving rise to the leading case of Black Nominees Ltd v Nicol (Inspector of Taxes). The case was heard by Templeman J (who later became Lord Templeman), who gave judgment in favour of the Inland Revenue, ruling that the scheme was ineffective.

She is also active in various causes, including animal rights, environmental protection, and the anti-nuclear power movement and is also a Patron of the Palestine Solidarity Campaign, as well as Reprieve, and CFS/ME charity Action for ME.

Filmography

Actress
2017
The Bookshop as
Narrator (voice, uncredited)
2012
The Company You Keep as
Mimi Lurie
2011
Red Riding Hood as
Grandmother
2009
Glorious 39 as
Aunt Elizabeth
2008
New York, I Love You as
Isabelle (segment "Shekhar Kapur")
2006
Away from Her as
Fiona Anderson
2005
The Secret Life of Words as
Inge
2004
Finding Neverland as
Mrs. Emma du Maurier
2004
Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban as
Madame Rosmerta
2004
Troy as
Thetis
2002
I'm with Lucy as
Dori
2002
Snapshots as
Narma
2001
No Such Thing as
Dr. Anna
2001
Belphegor: Phantom of the Louvre as
Glenda Spender
1999
The Miracle Maker as
Rachel (voice)
1997
Afterglow as
Phyllis Mann
1996
Hamlet as
Gertrude
1996
DragonHeart as
Aislinn
1996
Karaoke (TV Mini Series) as
Lady Ruth Balmer
- Friday (1996) - Lady Ruth Balmer
- Wednesday (1996) - Lady Ruth Balmer
1992
The Railway Station Man as
Helen Cuffe
1990
Fools of Fortune as
Mrs. Quinton
1989
Secret Obsession as
Betty Rivière
1988
Dadah Is Death (TV Movie) as
Barbara Barlow
1986
Väter und Söhne - Eine deutsche Tragödie (TV Mini Series) as
Charlotte Deutz
- Auf Ehre und Gewissen (1940-1947) (1986) - Charlotte Deutz
- Macht und Ohnmacht (1932-1938) (1986) - Charlotte Deutz
- Der Konzern (1923-1929) (1986) - Charlotte Deutz
- Lieb Vaterland- (1911-1916) (1986) - Charlotte Deutz
1986
Miss Mary as
Mary Mulligan
1986
Power as
Ellen Freeman
1983
The Gold Diggers as
Ruby
1983
Separate Tables (TV Movie) as
Mrs. Shankland / Miss Railton-Bell
1983
Heat and Dust as
Anne (1982 in Satipur Town)
1982
Les quarantièmes rugissants as
Catherine Dantec
1982
The Return of the Soldier as
Kitty
1981
Memoirs of a Survivor as
D
1978
Heaven Can Wait as
Betty Logan
1977
Demon Seed as
Susan Harris
1975
Nashville as
Julie Christie
1975
Shampoo as
Jackie
1973
Don't Look Now as
Laura Baxter
1971
McCabe & Mrs. Miller as
Constance Miller
1971
The Go-Between as
Marian - Lady Trimingham
1969
In Search of Gregory as
Catherine Morelli
1968
Petulia as
Petulia Danner
1967
Far from the Madding Crowd as
Bathsheba
1966
Fahrenheit 451 as
Clarisse / Linda Montag
1965
Doctor Zhivago as
Lara
1965
Darling as
Diana Scott
1965
Young Cassidy as
Daisy Battles
1963
The Saint (TV Series) as
Judith Northwade
- Judith (1963) - Judith Northwade
1963
Billy Liar as
Liz
1963
ITV Play of the Week (TV Series) as
Betty Whitehead
- J.B. Priestley Season #3: Dangerous Corner (1963) - Betty Whitehead
1962
The Fast Lady as
Claire Chingford
1962
The Andromeda Breakthrough (TV Series) as
Andromeda
- Cold Front (1962) - Andromeda (uncredited)
1962
Crooks Anonymous as
Babette La Verne
1961
A for Andromeda (TV Series) as
Andromeda / Christine Jones
- The Last Mystery (1961) - Andromeda
- The Face of the Tiger (1961) - Andromeda
- The Murderer (1961) - Andromeda
- The Monster (1961) - Christine Jones
- The Miracle (1961) - Christine Jones
- The Machine (1961) - Christine Jones
1961
Call Oxbridge 2000 (TV Series) as
Ann
- Episode #1.3 (1961) - Ann
Miscellaneous
1980
Death Watch (voice dubbing: Thérèse Liotard - english version, uncredited)
Soundtrack
1967
Far from the Madding Crowd (performer: "Bushes and Briars", "The Bold Grenadier")
Thanks
2017
The Bookshop (special thanks)
2017
The Party (thanks)
2000
The Man Who Cried (special thanks)
1981
Reds (dedicatee - as Jules)
Self
-
Midnight Men - A John Schlesinger & Michael Childers Story (Documentary) (filming) as
Self
2015
Arena (TV Series documentary) as
Self
- Nicolas Roeg - It's About Time (2015) - Self
2013
The Company You Keep: Behind-the-Scenes - The Movement (Video short) as
Self
2013
The Company You Keep: Behind-the-Scenes - The Script, Preparation and the Cast (Video short) as
Self
2010
On the Edge of War: Uncovering 'Glorious 39' (Video short) as
Self
2008
AFI Life Achievement Award (TV Series documentary) as
Self
- AFI Life Achievement Award: A Tribute to Warren Beatty (2008) - Self
2008
An Evening at the Academy Awards (TV Special) as
Self
2008
The 80th Annual Academy Awards (TV Special) as
Self - Nominee
2008
Entertainment Tonight (TV Series) as
Self
- Episode dated 28 January 2008 (2008) - Self
2008
14th Annual Screen Actors Guild Awards (TV Special) as
Self - Winner
2008
Golden Globes Announcement Special (TV Special) as
Self
2005
Cycle of Peace (Documentary) as
Narrator
2005
Garbo (Documentary) as
Narrator (voice)
2004
A Letter to True (Documentary) as
Narrator
2003
The 100 Greatest Movie Stars (TV Movie documentary) as
Self
2003
A Decade Under the Influence (Documentary) as
Self
2002
Biography (TV Series documentary) as
Self
- Sharon Tate: Murdered Innocence (2002) - Self
2001
La fabrique aux acteurs (Documentary) as
Self
2001
Belphegor: Making of (Video documentary) as
Self
2000
Starstruck (TV Mini Series documentary) as
Self
- Holding On (2000) - Self
- Looking the Part (2000) - Self
2000
The 72nd Annual Academy Awards (TV Special) as
Self (segment 'Warren Beatty') (uncredited)
1998
The Bookworm (TV Series) as
Self
- Episode #5.6 (1998) - Self
1998
Kiss Kiss Bang Bang (TV Series documentary) as
Self
- Episode #1.5 (1998) - Self
1998
Joseph Losey: The Man with Four Names (Documentary) as
Self
1998
The 70th Annual Academy Awards (TV Special) as
Self - Nominee & Past Winner
1997
To Be on Camera: A History with Hamlet (Video documentary short) as
Self
1997
Cinema 3 (TV Series) as
Self - Interviewee
- Episode dated 31 October 1997 (1997) - Self - Interviewee
- Episode dated 3 October 1997 (1997) - Self - Interviewee
1996
François Truffaut: The Man Who Loved Cinema - Love & Death (TV Movie documentary) as
Self
1995
Close-Up (TV Series documentary short) as
Self
- Episode #1.44 (1995) - Self
1993
Hollywood U.K. British Cinema in the Sixties (TV Series documentary) as
Self - Contributor
- Making It in London (1993) - Self - Contributor
- Northern Lights (1993) - Self - Contributor
1992
Katie and Eilish: Siamese Twins (TV Movie documentary) as
Self - Narrator
1990
This Week (TV Series) as
Self
- The Last Picture Show? (1990) - Self
1988
Daytime Live (TV Series) as
Self
- Episode #2.11 (1988) - Self
1988
Aspel & Company (TV Series) as
Self - Guest
- Episode #6.4 (1988) - Self - Guest
1987
Agent Orange: Policy of Poison (Video documentary short) as
Narrator
1987
Yilmaz Guney: His Life, His Films (Documentary) as
Self
1987
Saturday Review (TV Series documentary) as
Self
- Episode #6.1 (1987) - Self
1986
Ave Maria (Documentary short) as
Self - Host
1983
Open Door (TV Series documentary) as
Self - Presenter
- Why Their News is Bad News (1983) - Self - Presenter
1981
The Animals Film (Documentary) as
Narrator (voice)
1980
This Is Your Life (TV Series documentary) as
Self
- John Schlesinger (1980) - Self
1972
The David Frost Show (TV Series) as
Self - Guest
- Episode #4.202 (1972) - Self - Guest
1971
Film Night (TV Series) as
Self
- Film Night Special: John Schlesinger (1971) - Self
1968
Petulia: The Uncommon Movie (Documentary short) as
Self
1968
The 40th Annual Academy Awards (TV Special) as
Self - Audience Member
1967
Location: Far from the Madding Crowd (Short) as
Self (uncredited)
1967
Film Review (TV Mini Series) as
Self
- Julie Christie & John Schlesinger (1967) - Self
1967
Tonite Let's All Make Love in London (Documentary) as
Self (segment "Movie Stars")
1966
The Merv Griffin Show (TV Series) as
Self - Guest
- Tammy Grimes, Jack Sheldon, Peaches & Herb, London Lee, taped interviews of Burl Ives (in Ireland), Julie Christie & Terrence Stamp (in England) (1967) - Self - Guest
- Taped Conversation from A Weekend in Paris with Anthony Quinn, Virna Lisi, Julie Christie, Terrence Stamp, James Jones, Antonio Sabato, Jessica Walter (1966) - Self - Guest
1967
Cinéma (TV Series documentary) as
Self
- Episode dated 20 April 1967 (1967) - Self
1967
The 39th Annual Academy Awards (TV Special) as
Self - Presenter
1966
Documentary 451 (Documentary short) as
Self
1966
New Release (TV Series) as
Self
- Star/René Clair (1966) - Self
1966
Pariser Journal (TV Series documentary) as
Self
- Episode #6.2 (1966) - Self
1966
The 38th Annual Academy Awards (TV Special) as
Self - Winner
1966
Variety Club of Great Britain Awards for 1965 (TV Special documentary short) as
Self - Winner
1965
Moscow in Madrid (Documentary short) as
Self
1965
Sean O'Casey: The Spirit of Ireland (Short) as
Self
1965
Zhivago: Behind the Camera with David Lean (Documentary short) as
Self
1964
Variety Club of Great Britain Awards for 1963 (TV Special documentary short) as
Self - Winner
Archive Footage
2017
Greta Scacchi and Nickolas Grace Remember 'Heat and Dust' (Video documentary short) as
Anne (1982 in Satipur Town) (uncredited)
2017
Manolo: The Boy Who Made Shoes for Lizards (Documentary) as
Self
2016
Mr. Skin's Favorite Horror Movie Nude Scenes (Video short) as
#6 - Don't Look Now (1973)
2015
Warren Beatty - Mister Hollywood (TV Movie documentary) as
Self
2015
Inside Edition (TV Series documentary) as
Self
- Episode dated 10 July 2015 (2015) - Self
2014
Colorspace Vol. 4 (Video) as
Self
2012
Arena (TV Series documentary)
- Screen Goddesses (2012)
2012
Final Cut: Ladies and Gentlemen
2010
Moguls & Movie Stars: A History of Hollywood (TV Mini Series documentary) as
Self
- Fade Out, Fade In (2010) - Self (uncredited)
2010
20 to 1 (TV Series documentary) as
Lara
- Our All Time Favourite Films (2010) - Lara
2009
50 años de (TV Series documentary) as
Self
- La mujer, cosa de hombres (2009) - Self
2009
David Lean in Close-Up (TV Movie documentary) as
Self
2008
How the West Was Lost (TV Movie documentary) as
Constance Miller (uncredited)
2008
Catalogue of Ships (Documentary) as
Laura
2008
Mon clown (TV Movie documentary) as
Self
2007
Cámara negra. Teatro Victoria Eugenia (TV Short documentary) as
Self
2007
British Film Forever (TV Mini Series documentary) as
Self
- Longing, Loving and Leg-Overs: The Story of British Romance (2007) - Self
2005
Cinema mil (TV Series documentary) as
Self - Interviewee
- Episode #1.11 (2005) - Self - Interviewee
2003
Inventing Grace, Touching Glory (Documentary) as
Self
2003
The Barbarian Invasions as
Self (uncredited)
2001
Legends (TV Series documentary) as
Self
- Julie Christie (2001) - Self
2000
Hollywood Remembers (TV Series documentary) as
Self
- Julie Christie - Self
1998
Headliners & Legends with Matt Lauer (TV Series documentary) as
Self
- Helen Hunt - Self
1996
Robert Altman: Giggle and Give In (TV Special documentary) as
Self / Constance Miller
1995
'Doctor Zhivago': The Making of a Russian Epic (TV Movie documentary) as
Self
1995
Biography (TV Series documentary) as
Self
- Roger Moore: A Matter of Class (1995) - Self
1991
Northern Exposure (TV Series) as
Lara
- War and Peace (1991) - Lara (uncredited)
1985
Big Audio Dynamite: E=MC2 (Music Video) as
Laura Baxter (uncredited)
1971
Portrait of an Actor (Documentary short) as
Petulia Danner
1967
Lionpower from MGM (Documentary short)(uncredited)
1965
Pasternak (Documentary short) as
Self

References

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