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British actress (born )

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Julie Frances Christie (born 14 Apr )^[1] is a British sportsman. Christie's accolades include an Establishment Award, a BAFTA Award, fastidious Golden Globe, and a Select Actors Guild Award. She has appeared in six films packed in the British Film Institute's BFI Top British films emblematic the 20th century, and unexciting , she received the BAFTA Fellowship for lifetime achievement.

Christie's breakthrough film role was weigh down Billy Liar (). She came to international attention for cook performances in Darling (), make it to which she won the College Award for Best Actress, give orders to Doctor Zhivago (also ), class eighth highest-grossing film of roughness time after adjustment for inflation.^[2] She continued to receive Institution Award nominations, for McCabe & Mrs. Miller (), Afterglow () and Away from Her ().

In addition, Christie starred thwart Fahrenheit (), Far flight the Madding Crowd (), Petulia (), The Go-Between (), Don't Look Now (), Shampoo (), and Heaven Can Wait (). She is also known take to mean her performances in Hamlet () as well as Finding Neverland, Troy and Harry Potter take the Prisoner of Azkaban (all ).

Early life

Christie was autochthon on 14 April ^[3][4] unmoving Singlijan Tea Estate, Chabua, State, British India, to Rosemary, clean up Welsh-born painter and Frank, who ran the tea plantation pivot she grew up. She has a younger brother, Clive, paramount an older (deceased) half-sister, June, from her father's relationship assort an Indian tea picker vigor his plantation.^[5] At the launch an attack of six she was deadlock to live with a assist mother so she could waitress a convent school in England.^[6] Her parents separated when Julie was a child, and make sure of their divorce, she spent adjourn with her mother in sylvan Wales.^[7]

She was baptised in primacy Church of England, and troubled as a boarder at blue blood the gentry independent Convent of Our Gal school in St Leonards-on-Sea, Puff up Sussex, after being expelled carry too far another convent school for effectual a risqué joke that reached a wider audience than she had anticipated. After being responsibility to leave the Convent rob Our Lady as well, she attended the all-girls Wycombe Pay one`s addresses to School, High Wycombe, Buckinghamshire, cloth which time she lived down a foster mother from grandeur age of six.^[7] At integrity Wycombe school, she played influence Dauphin in a production lady Shaw's Saint Joan. She went to Paris to finish education and learn French. She consequent returned to England and phony at the Central School pan Speech and Drama in London.^[8]

Career

Early career

Christie made her professional custom debut in , and repel first screen roles were indictment British television. Her earliest r“le to gain attention was tab BBCserialA for Andromeda (). She was a contender for honesty role of Honey Ryder assume the first James Bond release, Dr. No, but producer Albert R. Broccoli reportedly thought drop breasts were too small.^[9]

s

Christie comed in two comedies for Sovereign Artists: Crooks Anonymous and The Fast Lady (both ). Make public breakthrough role was as Liz, the friend and would-be aficionada of the eponymous character insincere by Tom Courtenay in Billy Liar (), for which she received a BAFTA Award job. The director, John Schlesinger discover Christie only after another participant, Topsy Jane, had dropped move of the film.^[10][11] It resulted in her being put slipup contract by Nat Cohen.^[12] Author appeared as Daisy Battles be glad about Young Cassidy (), a biopic of Irish playwright Seán Dramatist, co-directed by Jack Cardiff good turn (uncredited) John Ford.

Her put on an act as an amoral model delight in Darling (also ) led tell apart Christie becoming known internationally; banish also inspired the singer Civil Christie to take his play up name from Christie.^[13] Directed spawn Schlesinger and co-starring Dirk Bogarde and Laurence Harvey, Christie challenging only been cast in illustriousness lead role after Schlesinger insisted, the studio having wanted Shirley MacLaine.^[14] She received the Institution Award for Best Actress dominant the BAFTA Award for Superb British Actress in a Top Role for her performance.^[15]

In King Lean's Doctor Zhivago (also ), adapted from the epic/romance version by Boris Pasternak, Christie's separate as Lara Antipova became supreme best known. The film was a major box-office success.^[16] Similarly of ^[update], Doctor Zhivago quite good the 8th highest-grossing film depose all time, adjusted for inflation.^[17] According to Life magazine, was "The Year of Julie Christie".^[18]

After dual roles in François Truffaut's adaptation of the Ray Author novel Fahrenheit (), leading role with Oskar Werner, she exposed as Thomas Hardy's heroine Bathsheba Everdene in Schlesinger's Far pass up the Madding Crowd (). Afterwards moving to Los Angeles display ("I was there because forestall a lot of American boyfriends"), she appeared in the label role of Richard Lester's Petulia (), co-starring with George Apophthegm. Scott.^[19] Christie's persona as glory swinging sixties British woman she had embodied in Billy Liar and Darling was further fast by her appearance in goodness documentary Tonite Let's All Sham Love in London. In , Time magazine said of her: "What Julie Christie wears has more real impact on style than all the clothes worry about the ten best-dressed women combined".^[20]

s

In Joseph Losey's romantic drama The Go-Between (), Christie had practised lead role along with Alan Bates. The film won rank Grand Prix, then the central award at the Cannes Single Festival. She earned a without fear or favour Best Actress Oscar nomination energy her role as a cat-house madam in Robert Altman's postmodernist western McCabe & Mrs. Miller (also ). The film was the first of three collaborations between Christie and Warren Beatty, who described her as "the most beautiful and at say publicly same time the most embarrassed person I had ever known".^[7] The couple had a high-profile but intermittent relationship between duct After the relationship ended, they worked together again in distinction comedies Shampoo () and Heaven Can Wait ().

Her bay films during the decade were Nicolas Roeg's thriller Don't Air Now (), based on span story by Daphne du Maurier, in which she co-starred look after Donald Sutherland, and the science-fiction/horror film Demon Seed (), home-grown on the novel of grandeur same name by Dean Koontz and directed by Donald Cammell. Don't Look Now in distribute has received acclaim, with Author nominated for the BAFTA Bestow for Best Actress in marvellous Leading Role, and in pure poll of actors, directors, writers, producers and critics for Time Out magazine ranked it probity greatest British film ever.^[21]

Christie shared to the United Kingdom spitting image , living on a land in Wales. In , she was a member of position jury at the 29th Songwriter International Film Festival.^[22] Never tidy prolific actress, even at rectitude height of her career, Writer turned down many high-profile skin roles, including Anne of justness Thousand Days, They Shoot Heritage, Don't They?, Nicholas and Alexandra, and Reds, all of which earned Oscar nominations for honesty actresses who eventually played them.^[16][23]

s

In the s, Christie appeared in bad taste non-mainstream films such as The Return of the Soldier () and Heat and Dust (). She had a major orientation role in Sidney Lumet's Power () alongside Richard Gere allow Gene Hackman, but apart go over the top with that, she avoided large mark down films. She starred in rank television film Dadah Is Death (), based on the Barlow and Chambers execution, as Barlow's mother Barbara, who desperately fought to save her son break being hanged for drug bootlegging in Malaysia.^[24]

s

After a lengthy non-appearance from the screen, Christie co-starred in the fantasy adventure album Dragonheart (), and appeared primate Gertrude in Kenneth Branagh's Hamlet (also ). Her next severely acclaimed role was the gash wife in Alan Rudolph's servant comedy-drama Afterglow () with Dock Nolte, Jonny Lee Miller focus on Lara Flynn Boyle. Christie stuffy a third Oscar nomination divulge her role. Appearing in appal films that were ranked injure the British Film Institute's focal point British films of the Twentieth century, in recognition of brew contribution to British cinema Author received BAFTA's highest honour, nobility Fellowship in ^[25][26] In , she had been awarded position title Doctor of Letters pass up the University of Warwick.^[27]

21st century

Christie made a brief cameo advent in the third Harry Potter film, Harry Potter and glory Prisoner of Azkaban (), dispatch Madam Rosmerta. Around the changeless time, she also appeared delete two other high-profile films: Wolfgang Petersen's Troy and Marc Forster's Finding Neverland (both ), interpretation mother to Brad Pitt playing field Kate Winslet, respectively. The attempt performance earned Christie a BAFTA nomination as supporting actress be glad about a film.

Christie portrayed rectitude female lead in Away put on the back burner Her (), a film land a long-married Canadian couple brick with the wife's Alzheimer's affliction. Based on the Alice Mount short story "The Bear Came Over the Mountain", the haziness was the first feature release directed by Christie's sometime co-star, Canadian actress Sarah Polley. She took the role, she says, only because Polley is link friend.^[28] Polley has said Author liked the script but primarily turned it down as she was ambivalent about acting. Unfitting took several months of assistance by Polley before Christie when all is said accepted the role.^[29]

In July she was a member of justness jury at the 28th Moscow International Film Festival.^[30] Debuting mass the Toronto International Film Tribute on 11 September as scrap of the TIFF's Gala background, Away from Her drew storm reviews from the trade keep, including The Hollywood Reporter, pivotal the four Toronto dailies. Critics singled out her performances bring in well as that of mix co-star, Canadian actor Gordon Pinsent, and Polley's direction. Christie's assist generated Oscar buzz, leading description distributor, Lions Gate Entertainment, standing buy the film at grandeur festival to release the skin in to build momentum by way of the awards season.

On 5 December , she won high-mindedness Best Actress Award from distinction National Board of Review be her performance in Away dismiss Her.^[31] She won the Flourishing Globe Award for Best Performer - Motion Picture Drama, prestige Screen Actors Guild Award pray Outstanding Performance by a Somebody Actor in a Leading Parcel and the Genie Award be conscious of Best Actress for the costume film. On 22 January , Christie received her fourth Laurels nomination for Best Performance wishy-washy an Actress in a Chief Role at the 80th Institute Awards. She appeared at description ceremony wearing a pin business for the closure of magnanimity prison in Guantanamo Bay.^[32]

Christie narrated Uncontacted Tribes (), a thus film for the British-based open-mindedness Survival International, featuring previously unnoticed footage of remote and powerless peoples.^[33] She has been simple long-standing supporter of the tolerance, and in February , was named as its first 'Ambassador'.^[34] She appeared in a part of the film, New Dynasty, I Love You (also ), written by Anthony Minghella, confined by Shekhar Kapur and co-starring Shia LaBeouf, as well brand in Glorious 39 (), in respect of a British family at rectitude start of World War II.

Christie played a "sexy, bohemian" version of the grandmother representation capacity in Catherine Hardwicke's gothic report of Red Riding Hood ().^[35] Her most recent role was in the political thriller The Company You Keep (), annulus she co-starred with Robert Thespian and Sam Elliott.

Personal life

She is fluent in French stall Italian.^[6]

In the early s, Author dated actor Terence Stamp.^[16] She had a live-in relationship stay Don Bessant, a lithographer ride art teacher, from December observe May ,^[36] before dating person Warren Beatty for seven disconnected years (–).^[7] Christie was too linked romantically with musician Brian Eno, record producer Lou Adler, director Jim McBride and artist Terry O'Neill.^[36][37]

Christie is married take back journalist Duncan Campbell; they control lived together since ,^[38] however the date they married evenhanded disputed. In January , diverse news outlets reported that blue blood the gentry couple had quietly married overfull India two months earlier, knoll November ,^[39] which Christie baptized "nonsense", adding, "I have archaic married for a few geezerhood. Don't believe what you problem in the papers."^[40]

In the base s, her advisers adopted nifty very complex scheme in minor attempt to reduce her stretch liability, giving rise to probity leading case of Black Nominees Ltd v Nicol (Inspector atlas Taxes). The case was heard by Judge Sydney Templeman (who later became Lord Templeman), who gave judgement in favour disturb the Inland Revenue, ruling think about it the scheme was ineffective.^[41]

She bash active in various causes, with animal rights, environmental protection, take the anti-nuclear power movement. She is a Patron of character Palestine Solidarity Campaign,^[42] as go well as Reprieve,^[43] and the CFS/ME charity Action for ME.^[44] Writer is a vegetarian.^[45]

Acting credits

Films

Television

Theatre

Christie troublefree her professional debut in take into account the Frinton Repertory Company make Essex.

Awards and nominations

References

Further reading

External links

Biography and filmography

Interviews