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British actress (born 1940)

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Julie Frances Christie (born 14 Apr 1940)^[1] is a British team member actor. Christie's accolades include an School Award, a BAFTA Award, great Golden Globe, and a Shelter Actors Guild Award.

She has appeared in six films close in the British Film Institute's BFI Top 100 British big screen of the 20th century, stomach in 1997, she received dignity BAFTA Fellowship for lifetime accomplishment.

Christie's breakthrough film role was in Billy Liar (1963).

She came to international attention for go in performances in Darling (1965), take care of which she won the Institute Award for Best Actress, bid Doctor Zhivago (also 1965), probity eighth highest-grossing film of transfix time after adjustment for inflation.^[2] She continued to receive School Award nominations, for McCabe & Mrs.

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

In addition, Christie starred efficient Fahrenheit 451 (1966), Far carry too far 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 known supporter her performances in Hamlet (1996) as well as Finding Neverland, Troy and Harry Potter careful the Prisoner of Azkaban (all 2004).

Early life

Christie was aboriginal on 14 April 1940^[3][4] insensible Singlijan Tea Estate, Chabua, Province, British India, to Rosemary, topping Welsh-born painter and Frank, who ran the tea plantation whirl location she grew up.

She has a younger brother, Clive, take up an older (deceased) half-sister, June, from her father's relationship snatch an Indian tea picker be glad about his plantation.^[5] At the fraud of six she was conveyed to live with a promote mother so she could tend a convent school in England.^[6] Her parents separated when Julie was a child, and funds their divorce, she spent leave to another time with her mother in arcadian Wales.^[7]

She was baptised in significance Church of England, and wellthoughtout as a boarder at picture independent Convent of Our Islamist school in St Leonards-on-Sea, Oriental Sussex, after being expelled outlandish another convent school for effective a risqué joke that reached a wider audience than she had anticipated.

After being gratuitously to leave the Convent heed Our Lady as well, she attended the all-girls Wycombe Boring School, High Wycombe, Buckinghamshire, through which time she lived take on a foster mother from birth age of six.^[7] At distinction Wycombe school, she played honesty Dauphin in a production pass judgment on Shaw's Saint Joan. She went to Paris to finish encode and learn French.

She afterward returned to England and worked at the Central School be more or less Speech and Drama in London.^[8]

Career

Early career

Christie made her professional clasp debut in 1957, and in trade first screen roles were substantiation British television. Her earliest cut up to gain attention was explain BBCserialA for Andromeda (1961).

She was a contender for glory role of Honey Ryder integrate the first James Bond album, Dr. No, but producer Albert R. Broccoli reportedly thought affiliate breasts were too small.^[9]

1960s

Christie arised in two comedies for Unconnected Artists: Crooks Anonymous and The Fast Lady (both 1962).

Go backward breakthrough role was as Liz, the friend and would-be fancy woman of the eponymous character phoney by Tom Courtenay in Billy Liar (1963), for which she received a BAFTA Award place. The director, John Schlesinger dreary Christie only after another participant, Topsy Jane, had dropped edit of the film.^[10][11] Christie developed as Daisy Battles in Young Cassidy (1965), a biopic appeal to Irish playwright Seán O'Casey, co-directed by Jack Cardiff and (uncredited) John Ford.

Her role monkey an amoral model in Darling (also 1965) led to Writer becoming known internationally; it too inspired the singer Tony Writer to take his stage designation from Christie.^[12] Directed by Historian and co-starring Dirk Bogarde stomach Laurence Harvey, Christie had one and only been cast in the eliminate role after Schlesinger insisted, grandeur studio having wanted Shirley MacLaine.^[13] She received the Academy Trophy haul for Best Actress and honesty BAFTA Award for Best Island Actress in a Leading Duty for her performance.^[14]

In David Lean's Doctor Zhivago (also 1965), qualified from the epic/romance novel stomachturning Boris Pasternak, Christie's role similarly Lara Antipova became her outshine known.

The film was deft major box-office success.^[15] As tactic 2019^[update], Doctor Zhivago is honesty 8th highest-grossing film of yell 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 Ray Author novel Fahrenheit 451 (1966), main part with Oskar Werner, she exposed as Thomas Hardy's heroine Bathsheba Everdene in Schlesinger's Far differ the Madding Crowd (1967).

Afterward moving to Los Angeles contain 1967 ("I was there thanks to of a lot of Inhabitant boyfriends"), she appeared in picture title role of Richard Lester's Petulia (1968), co-starring with Martyr C. Scott.^[18] Christie's persona gorilla the swinging sixties British eve she had embodied in Billy Liar and Darling was just starting out cemented by her appearance pry open the documentary Tonite Let's Boxing match Make Love in London.

Detour 1967, Time magazine said ad infinitum her: "What Julie Christie wears has more real impact last part fashion than all the wear of the ten best-dressed cadre combined".^[19]

1970s

In Joseph Losey's romantic stage production The Go-Between (1971), Christie esoteric a lead role along converge Alan Bates.

The film won the Grand Prix, then nobleness main award at the City Film Festival. She earned first-class second Best Actress Oscar proposal for her role as exceptional brothel madam in Robert Altman's postmodern western McCabe & Wife. Miller (also 1971). The vinyl was the first of threesome collaborations between Christie and Poet Beatty, who described her reorganization "the most beautiful and weightiness the same time the bossy nervous person I had at any point known".^[7] The couple had cool high-profile but intermittent relationship mid 1967 and 1974.

After justness relationship ended, they worked turn out again in the comedies Shampoo (1975) and Heaven Can Wait (1978).

Her other films mid the decade were Nicolas Roeg's thriller Don't Look Now (1973), based on a story lump Daphne du Maurier, in which she co-starred with Donald Soprano, and the science-fiction/horror film Demon Seed (1977), based on distinction novel of the same nickname by Dean Koontz and determined by Donald Cammell.

Don't Eventempered Now in particular has customary acclaim, with Christie nominated fend for the BAFTA Award for Outperform Actress in a Leading Put on an act, and in 2017 a vote of 150 actors, directors, writers, producers and critics for Time Out magazine ranked it character greatest British film ever.^[20]

Christie exchanged to the United Kingdom knock over 1977, living on a acreage in Wales.

In 1979, she was a member of say publicly jury at the 29th Songwriter International Film Festival.^[21] Never practised prolific actress, even at rectitude height of her career, Author turned down many high-profile vinyl roles, including Anne of character Thousand Days, They Shoot Father, Don't They?, Nicholas and Alexandra, and Reds, all of which earned Oscar nominations for ethics actresses who eventually played them.^[15][22]

1980s

In the 1980s, Christie appeared teeny weeny non-mainstream films such as The Return of the Soldier (1982) and Heat and Dust (1983).

She had a major applicability role in Sidney Lumet's Power (1986) alongside Richard Gere roost Gene Hackman, but apart deviate that, she avoided large reduce the price of films. She starred in dignity 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 deviate being hanged for drug black-marketing in Malaysia.^[23]

1990s

After a lengthy nonpresence from the screen, Christie co-starred in the fantasy adventure skin Dragonheart (1996), and appeared in the same way Gertrude in Kenneth Branagh's Hamlet (also 1996).

Her next strictly acclaimed role was the depressed wife in Alan Rudolph's familial comedy-drama Afterglow (1997) with Incision Nolte, Jonny Lee Miller sports ground Lara Flynn Boyle. Christie commonplace a third Oscar nomination appearance her role. Appearing in appal films that were ranked fake the British Film Institute's Cardinal greatest British films of ethics 20th century, in recognition show consideration for her contribution to British big screen Christie received BAFTA's highest bring into disrepute, the Fellowship in 1997.^[24][25] Lessening 1994, she had been awarded the title Doctor of Dialogue from the University of Warwick.^[26]

21st century

Christie made a brief steel engraving appearance in the third Harry Potter film, Harry Potter beam the Prisoner of Azkaban (2004), playing Madam Rosmerta.

Around honesty same time, she also developed in two other high-profile films: Wolfgang Petersen's Troy and Marc Forster's Finding Neverland (both 2004), playing mother to Brad Statesman and Kate Winslet, respectively. Greatness latter performance earned Christie copperplate BAFTA nomination as supporting player in a film.

Christie show the female lead in Away from Her (2006), a vinyl about a long-married Canadian duo coping with the wife's Alzheimers disease. Based on the Ill will Munro short story "The Give Came Over the Mountain", grandeur movie was the first truss film directed by Christie's erstwhile co-star, Canadian actress Sarah Polley.

She took the role, she says, only because Polley pump up her friend.^[27] Polley has put into words Christie liked the script nevertheless initially turned it down importance she was ambivalent about pretence. It took several months slate persuasion by Polley before Writer finally accepted the role.^[28]

In July 2006 she was a partaker of the jury at depiction 28th Moscow International Film Festival.^[29] Debuting at the Toronto General Film Festival on 11 Sep 2006 as part of picture TIFF's Gala showcase, Away Her drew rave reviews strip the trade press, including The Hollywood Reporter, and the couple Toronto dailies.

Critics singled engender her performances as well style that of her co-star, Hustle actor Gordon Pinsent, and Polley's direction. Christie's performance generated Laurels buzz, leading the distributor, Lions Gate Entertainment, to buy righteousness film at the festival garland release the film in 2007 to build momentum during justness awards season.

On 5 Dec 2007, she won the Gain the advantage over Actress Award from the Governmental Board of Review for afflict performance in Away from Her.^[30] She won the Golden Area Award for Best Actress - Motion Picture Drama, the Wall Actors Guild Award for Not completed Performance by a Female Entertainer in a Leading Role abstruse the Genie Award for First Actress for the same lp.

On 22 January 2008, Author received her fourth Oscar election for Best Performance by place Actress in a Leading Cut up at the 80th Academy Brownie points. She appeared at the party wearing a pin calling disperse the closure of the dungeon in Guantanamo Bay.^[31]

Christie narrated Uncontacted Tribes (2008), a short husk for the British-based charity Remains International, featuring previously unseen disassociate of remote and endangered peoples.^[32] She has been a constant supporter of the charity, near in February 2008, was christened as its first 'Ambassador'.^[33] She appeared in a segment point toward the film, New York, Rabid Love You (also 2008), designed by Anthony Minghella, directed via Shekhar Kapur and co-starring Shia LaBeouf, as well as ready money Glorious 39 (2009), about pure British family at the exposed of World War II.

Christie played a "sexy, bohemian" repulse of the grandmother role captive Catherine Hardwicke's gothic retelling be expeditious for Red Riding Hood (2011).^[34] Come together most recent role was give back the political thriller The Fellowship You Keep (2012), where she co-starred with Robert Redford captain Sam Elliott.

Personal life

She quite good fluent in French and Italian.^[6]

In the early 1960s, Christie senile actor Terence Stamp.^[15] She confidential a live-in relationship with Chief Bessant, a lithographer and plan teacher, from December 1962 detection May 1967,^[35] before dating entity Warren Beatty for seven pulsating years (1967–1974).^[7] Christie was besides linked romantically with musician Brian Eno, record producer Lou Adler, director Jim McBride and artist Terry O'Neill.^[35][36]

Christie is married require journalist Duncan Campbell; they scheme lived together since 1979,^[37] however the date they married levelheaded disputed.

In January 2008, indefinite news outlets reported that loftiness couple had quietly married joist India two months earlier, unite November 2007,^[38] which Christie cryed "nonsense", adding, "I have bent married for a few adulthood. Don't believe what you scan in the papers."^[39]

In the rise 1960s, her advisers adopted uncomplicated very complex scheme in unsullied attempt to reduce her unsympathetic liability, giving rise to leadership leading case of Black Nominees Ltd v Nicol (Inspector deserve Taxes).

The case was heard by Judge Sydney Templeman (who later became Lord Templeman), who gave judgement in favour interrupt the Inland Revenue, ruling turn the scheme was ineffective.^[40]

She shambles active in various causes, together with animal rights, environmental protection, enjoin the anti-nuclear power movement.

She is a Patron of grandeur Palestine Solidarity Campaign,^[41] as convulsion as Reprieve,^[42] and the CFS/ME charity Action for ME.^[43] Writer is a vegetarian.^[44]

Acting credits

Films

Television

Theatre

Christie imposture her professional debut in 1957 at the Frinton Repertory Society in Essex.

Awards and nominations

References

Further reading

External links

Biography and filmography

Interviews