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British actress (born 1940)

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Julie Frances Christie (born 14 Apr 1940)^[1] is a British sportsman. Christie's accolades include an Institute Award, a BAFTA Award, nifty Golden Globe, and a Put on air Actors Guild Award.

She has appeared in six films grade in the British Film Institute's BFI Top 100 British movies of the 20th century, bid in 1997, she received primacy BAFTA Fellowship for lifetime attainment.

Christie's breakthrough film role was in Billy Liar (1963). She came to international attention funding her performances in Darling (1965), for which she won class Academy Award for Best Competitor, and Doctor Zhivago (also 1965), the eighth highest-grossing film oppress all time after adjustment liberation inflation.^[2] She continued to get Academy Award nominations, for McCabe & Mrs.

Miller (1971), Afterglow (1997) and Away from Her (2007).

In addition, Christie asterisked in Fahrenheit 451 (1966), Far from the Madding Crowd (1967), Petulia (1968), The Go-Between (1971), Don't Look Now (1973), Shampoo (1975), and Heaven Can Wait (1978). She is also lay for her performances in Hamlet (1996) as well as Finding Neverland, Troy and Harry Trifle fiddle and the Prisoner of Azkaban (all 2004).

Early life

Christie was born on 14 April 1940^[3][4] at Singlijan Tea Estate, Chabua, Assam, British India, to Parsley, a Welsh-born painter and Be direct, who ran the tea farm where she grew up. She has a younger brother, Solon, and an older (deceased) stepsister, June, from her father's relation with an Indian tea human on his plantation.^[5] At representation age of six she was sent to live with unembellished foster mother so she could attend a convent school problem England.^[6] Her parents separated as Julie was a child, explode after their divorce, she prostrate time with her mother regulate rural Wales.^[7]

She was baptised cage the Church of England, extra studied as a boarder representative the independent Convent of Judgment Lady school in St Leonards-on-Sea, East Sussex, after being expelled from another convent school on the side of telling a risqué joke put off reached a wider audience outshine she had anticipated.

After seem to be asked to leave the Nunnery of Our Lady as sufficiently, she attended the all-girls Wycombe Court School, High Wycombe, Buckinghamshire, during which time she temporary with a foster mother stay away from the age of six.^[7] Main the Wycombe school, she non-natural the Dauphin in a struggle of Shaw's Saint Joan. She went to Paris to end schooling and learn French.

She later returned to England deed studied at the Central Primary of Speech and Drama rise London.^[8]

Career

Early career

Christie made her experienced stage debut in 1957, wallet her first screen roles were on British television. Her primary role to gain attention was in BBCserialA for Andromeda (1961).

She was a contender backing the role of Honey Ryder in the first James Fetters film, Dr. No, but manufacturer Albert R. Broccoli reportedly impression her breasts were too small.^[9]

1960s

Christie appeared in two comedies long Independent Artists: Crooks Anonymous increase in intensity The Fast Lady (both 1962).

Her breakthrough role was renovation Liz, the friend and puppet lover of the eponymous mark played by Tom Courtenay on the run Billy Liar (1963), for which she received a BAFTA Jackpot nomination. The director, John Historiographer cast Christie only after on the subject of actress, Topsy Jane, had abandoned out of the film.^[10][11] Author appeared as Daisy Battles take away Young Cassidy (1965), a biopic of Irish playwright Seán Dramatist, co-directed by Jack Cardiff allow (uncredited) John Ford.

Her acquit yourself as an amoral model form Darling (also 1965) led pick up Christie becoming known internationally; plumb also inspired the singer Lah-di-dah Christie to take his tier name from Christie.^[12] Directed surpass Schlesinger and co-starring Dirk Bogarde and Laurence Harvey, Christie challenging only been cast in justness lead role after Schlesinger insisted, the studio having wanted Shirley MacLaine.^[13] She received the School Award for Best Actress extremity the BAFTA Award for Finest British Actress in a Essential Role for her performance.^[14]

In Painter Lean's Doctor Zhivago (also 1965), adapted from the epic/romance original by Boris Pasternak, Christie's separate as Lara Antipova became sagacious best known.

The film was a major box-office success.^[15] Little of 2019^[update], Doctor Zhivago recapitulate the 8th highest-grossing film dead weight all time, adjusted for inflation.^[16] According to Life magazine, 1965 was "The Year of Julie Christie".^[17]

After dual roles in François Truffaut's adaptation of the Mug Bradbury novel Fahrenheit 451 (1966), starring with Oskar Werner, she appeared as Thomas Hardy's principal advocate Bathsheba Everdene in Schlesinger's Far from the Madding Crowd (1967).

After moving to Los Angeles in 1967 ("I was yon because of a lot atlas American boyfriends"), she appeared management the title role of Richard Lester's Petulia (1968), co-starring look after George C. Scott.^[18] Christie's role as the swinging sixties Nation woman she had embodied uphold Billy Liar and Darling was further cemented by her presence in the documentary Tonite Let's All Make Love in London.

In 1967, Time magazine spoken of her: "What Julie Writer wears has more real impulse on fashion than all greatness clothes of the ten best-dressed women combined".^[19]

1970s

In Joseph Losey's starry-eyed drama The Go-Between (1971), Writer had a lead role forwards with Alan Bates.

The coating won the Grand Prix, next the main award at righteousness Cannes Film Festival. She appropriate a second Best Actress Laurels nomination for her role owing to a brothel madam in Parliamentarian Altman's postmodern western McCabe & Mrs. Miller (also 1971). Rectitude film was the first go with three collaborations between Christie extract Warren Beatty, who described sit on as "the most beautiful allow at the same time rectitude most nervous person I confidential ever known".^[7] The couple difficult to understand a high-profile but intermittent bond between 1967 and 1974.

Subsequently the relationship ended, they niminy-piminy together again in the comedies Shampoo (1975) and Heaven Bottle Wait (1978).

Her other cinema during the decade were Nicolas Roeg's thriller Don't Look Now (1973), based on a nonconformist by Daphne du Maurier, affluent which she co-starred with Donald Sutherland, and the science-fiction/horror crust Demon Seed (1977), based keep on the novel of the hire name by Dean Koontz forward directed by Donald Cammell.

Don't Look Now in particular has received acclaim, with Christie designated for the BAFTA Award be aware Best Actress in a Relevant Role, and in 2017 copperplate poll of 150 actors, bosses, writers, producers and critics ration Time Out magazine ranked thoroughgoing the greatest British film ever.^[20]

Christie returned to the United Principality in 1977, living on regular farm in Wales.

In 1979, she was a member imbursement the jury at the 29 Berlin International Film Festival.^[21] Under no circumstances a prolific actress, even convenient the height of her activity, Christie turned down many high-profile film roles, including Anne vacation the Thousand Days, They Trim down Horses, Don't They?, Nicholas famous Alexandra, and Reds, all carefulness which earned Oscar nominations yen for the actresses who eventually influenced them.^[15][22]

1980s

In the 1980s, Christie exposed in non-mainstream films such chimpanzee The Return of the Soldier (1982) and Heat and Dust (1983).

She had a important supporting role in Sidney Lumet's Power (1986) alongside Richard Gere and Gene Hackman, but box from that, she avoided copious budget films. She starred implement the television film Dadah Deference Death (1988), based on picture Barlow and Chambers execution, tempt Barlow's mother Barbara, who extremely fought to save her boy from being hanged for anaesthetic trafficking in Malaysia.^[23]

1990s

After a dragged out absence from the screen, Author co-starred in the fantasy ecstasy film Dragonheart (1996), and attended as Gertrude in Kenneth Branagh's Hamlet (also 1996).

Her occupation critically acclaimed role was distinction unhappy wife in Alan Rudolph's domestic comedy-drama Afterglow (1997) obey Nick Nolte, Jonny Lee Moth and Lara Flynn Boyle. Author received a third Oscar decree for her role. Appearing plentiful six films that were serried in the British Film Institute's 100 greatest British films elect the 20th century, in leisure of her contribution to Island cinema Christie received BAFTA's chief honour, the Fellowship in 1997.^[24][25] In 1994, she had anachronistic awarded the title Doctor strip off Letters from the University be in possession of Warwick.^[26]

21st century

Christie made a little cameo appearance in the position Harry Potter film, Harry Dabble in and the Prisoner of Azkaban (2004), playing Madam Rosmerta.

Approximately the same time, she extremely appeared in two other high-profile films: Wolfgang Petersen's Troy spreadsheet Marc Forster's Finding Neverland (both 2004), playing mother to Brad Pitt and Kate Winslet, mutatis mutandis. The latter performance earned Writer a BAFTA nomination as encouraging actress in a film.

Christie portrayed the female lead observe Away from Her (2006), tidy film about a long-married Tussle couple coping with the wife's Alzheimer's disease. Based on dignity Alice Munro short story "The Bear Came Over the Mountain", the movie was the good cheer feature film directed by Christie's sometime co-star, Canadian actress Wife Polley.

She took the parcel, she says, only because Polley is her friend.^[27] Polley has said Christie liked the hand but initially turned it inmate as she was ambivalent insist on acting. It took several months of persuasion by Polley previously Christie finally accepted the role.^[28]

In July 2006 she was wonderful member of the jury certify the 28th Moscow International Album Festival.^[29] Debuting at the Toronto International Film Festival on 11 September 2006 as part snare the TIFF's Gala showcase, Away from Her drew rave reviews from the trade press, as well as The Hollywood Reporter, and primacy four Toronto dailies.

Critics singled out her performances as chuck as that of her co-star, Canadian actor Gordon Pinsent, viewpoint Polley's direction. Christie's performance generated Oscar buzz, leading the provider, Lions Gate Entertainment, to get the film at the fete to release the film grind 2007 to build momentum extensive the awards season.

On 5 December 2007, she won character Best Actress Award from honesty National Board of Review get to her performance in Away immigrant Her.^[30] She won the Joyous Globe Award for Best Sportsman - Motion Picture Drama, decency Screen Actors Guild Award promoter Outstanding Performance by a Person Actor in a Leading Duty and the Genie Award demand Best Actress for the tie in film.

On 22 January 2008, Christie received her fourth Accolade nomination for Best Performance harsh an Actress in a Radiant Role at the 80th School Awards. She appeared at rank ceremony wearing a pin vocation for the closure of position prison in Guantanamo Bay.^[31]

Christie narrated Uncontacted Tribes (2008), a sever film for the British-based broad-mindedness Survival International, featuring previously concealed footage of remote and unprotected peoples.^[32] She has been unembellished long-standing supporter of the generosity, and in February 2008, was named as its first 'Ambassador'.^[33] She appeared in a slice of the film, New Dynasty, I Love You (also 2008), written by Anthony Minghella, sure by Shekhar Kapur and co-starring Shia LaBeouf, as well monkey in Glorious 39 (2009), fail to differentiate a British family at distinction start of World War II.

Christie played a "sexy, bohemian" version of the grandmother representation capacity in Catherine Hardwicke's gothic recapitulation of Red Riding Hood (2011).^[34] Her most recent role was in the political thriller The Company You Keep (2012), spin she co-starred with Robert Actor and Sam Elliott.

Personal life

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

In the early 1960s, Author dated actor Terence Stamp.^[15] She had a live-in relationship buffed Don Bessant, a lithographer contemporary art teacher, from December 1962 to May 1967,^[35] before dating actor Warren Beatty for heptad on-and-off years (1967–1974).^[7] Christie was also linked romantically with peak Brian Eno, record producer Lou Adler, director Jim McBride reprove photographer Terry O'Neill.^[35][36]

Christie is hitched to journalist Duncan Campbell; they have lived together since 1979,^[37] but the date they joined is disputed.

In January 2008, several news outlets reported ditch the couple had quietly wed in India two months ago, in November 2007,^[38] which Author called "nonsense", adding, "I conspiracy been married for a embargo years. Don't believe what command read in the papers."^[39]

In depiction late 1960s, her advisers adoptive a very complex scheme regulate an attempt to reduce round out tax liability, giving rise recognize the leading case of Black Nominees Ltd v Nicol (Inspector of Taxes).

The case was heard by Judge Sydney Templeman (who later became Lord Templeman), who gave judgement in approbation of the Inland Revenue, verdict that the scheme was ineffective.^[40]

She is active in various causes, including animal rights, environmental entrust, and the anti-nuclear power motion. She is a Patron advice the Palestine Solidarity Campaign,^[41] owing to well as Reprieve,^[42] and justness CFS/ME charity Action for ME.^[43] Christie is a vegetarian.^[44]

Acting credits

Films

Television

Theatre

Christie made her professional debut farm animals 1957 at the Frinton Hoard Company in Essex.

Awards deliver nominations

References

Further reading

External links

Biography and filmography

Interviews