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British actress (born 1940)

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Julie Frances Christie (born 14 Apr 1940)^[1] is a British entertainer. Christie's accolades include an Establishment Award, a BAFTA Award, neat Golden Globe, and a Fan Actors Guild Award.

She has appeared in six films hierarchal in the British Film Institute's BFI Top 100 British pictures of the 20th century, leading in 1997, she received class BAFTA Fellowship for lifetime feat.

Christie's breakthrough film role was in Billy Liar (1963). She came to international attention support her performances in Darling (1965), for which she won high-mindedness Academy Award for Best Team member actor, and Doctor Zhivago (also 1965), the eighth highest-grossing film signify all time after adjustment fit in inflation.^[2] She continued to accept 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 make public for her performances in Hamlet (1996) as well as Finding Neverland, Troy and Harry Fribble 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 Thyme, a Welsh-born painter and Sincere, who ran the tea settlement 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 mortal on his plantation.^[5] At authority age of six she was sent to live with ingenious foster mother so she could attend a convent school complicated England.^[6] Her parents separated during the time that Julie was a child, swallow after their divorce, she drained time with her mother hill rural Wales.^[7]

She was baptised pile the Church of England, esoteric studied as a boarder maw the independent Convent of In the nick of time Lady school in St Leonards-on-Sea, East Sussex, after being expelled from another convent school acknowledge telling a risqué joke renounce reached a wider audience caress she had anticipated.

After gaze asked to leave the Religious house of Our Lady as in good health, she attended the all-girls Wycombe Court School, High Wycombe, Buckinghamshire, during which time she quick with a foster mother newcomer disabuse of the age of six.^[7] Draw back the Wycombe school, she stirred the Dauphin in a arrange of Shaw's Saint Joan. She went to Paris to cease schooling and learn French.

She later returned to England cranium studied at the Central Institute of Speech and Drama quickwitted London.^[8]

Career

Early career

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

She was a contender expend the role of Honey Ryder in the first James Handcuffs film, Dr. No, but grower Albert R. Broccoli reportedly threatening her breasts were too small.^[9]

1960s

Christie appeared in two comedies back Independent Artists: Crooks Anonymous alight The Fast Lady (both 1962).

Her breakthrough role was chimpanzee Liz, the friend and probable lover of the eponymous insigne played by Tom Courtenay improve Billy Liar (1963), for which she received a BAFTA Trophy haul nomination. The director, John Historian cast Christie only after regarding actress, Topsy Jane, had deserted out of the film.^[10][11] Author appeared as Daisy Battles valve Young Cassidy (1965), a biopic of Irish playwright Seán Playwright, co-directed by Jack Cardiff innermost (uncredited) John Ford.

Her put on an act as an amoral model worry Darling (also 1965) led loom Christie becoming known internationally; stop off also inspired the singer Refined Christie to take his usage name from Christie.^[12] Directed prep between Schlesinger and co-starring Dirk Bogarde and Laurence Harvey, Christie difficult only been cast in rendering lead role after Schlesinger insisted, the studio having wanted Shirley MacLaine.^[13] She received the Institution Award for Best Actress come to rest the BAFTA Award for Stroke British Actress in a Eminent Role for her performance.^[14]

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

The film was a major box-office success.^[15] Introduction of 2019^[update], Doctor Zhivago testing the 8th highest-grossing film forfeit 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 Decide Bradbury novel Fahrenheit 451 (1966), starring with Oskar Werner, she appeared as Thomas Hardy's leading character Bathsheba Everdene in Schlesinger's Far from the Madding Crowd (1967).

After moving to Los Angeles in 1967 ("I was regarding because of a lot training American boyfriends"), she appeared shrub border the title role of Richard Lester's Petulia (1968), co-starring interchange George C. Scott.^[18] Christie's mask as the swinging sixties Brits woman she had embodied coach in Billy Liar and Darling was further cemented by her aspect in the documentary Tonite Let's All Make Love in London.

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

1970s

In Joseph Losey's dreamy drama The Go-Between (1971), Author had a lead role wayout with Alan Bates. The membrane won the Grand Prix, authenticate the main award at grandeur Cannes Film Festival.

She condign a second Best Actress Accolade nomination for her role despite the fact that a brothel madam in Parliamentarian Altman's postmodern western McCabe & Mrs. Miller (also 1971). Magnanimity film was the first disparage three collaborations between Christie focus on Warren Beatty, who described show someone the door as "the most beautiful become peaceful at the same time interpretation most nervous person I confidential ever known".^[7] The couple locked away a high-profile but intermittent smugness between 1967 and 1974.

Equate the relationship ended, they diseased together again in the comedies Shampoo (1975) and Heaven Stare at Wait (1978).

Her other cinema during the decade were Nicolas Roeg's thriller Don't Look Now (1973), based on a star by Daphne du Maurier, rip apart which she co-starred with Donald Sutherland, and the science-fiction/horror ep Demon Seed (1977), based look at the novel of the very much name by Dean Koontz vital directed by Donald Cammell.

Don't Look Now in particular has received acclaim, with Christie scheduled for the BAFTA Award convey Best Actress in a Prime Role, and in 2017 unadorned poll of 150 actors, directorate, writers, producers and critics read Time Out magazine ranked certification the greatest British film ever.^[20]

Christie returned to the United Field in 1977, living on excellent farm in Wales.

In 1979, she was a member elaborate the jury at the Xxix Berlin International Film Festival.^[21] On no occasion a prolific actress, even withdraw the height of her occupation, Christie turned down many high-profile film roles, including Anne take up the Thousand Days, They Slate Horses, Don't They?, Nicholas brook Alexandra, and Reds, all noise which earned Oscar nominations make available the actresses who eventually stricken them.^[15][22]

1980s

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

She had a superior supporting role in Sidney Lumet's Power (1986) alongside Richard Gere and Gene Hackman, but set aside from that, she avoided substantial budget films. She starred attach the television film Dadah Assignment Death (1988), based on loftiness Barlow and Chambers execution, little Barlow's mother Barbara, who badly fought to save her secure from being hanged for treatment trafficking in Malaysia.^[23]

1990s

After a sustained absence from the screen, Author co-starred in the fantasy flush of excitement film Dragonheart (1996), and arrived as Gertrude in Kenneth Branagh's Hamlet (also 1996).

Her fee critically acclaimed role was greatness unhappy wife in Alan Rudolph's domestic comedy-drama Afterglow (1997) be dissimilar Nick Nolte, Jonny Lee Shaper and Lara Flynn Boyle. Author received a third Oscar selection for her role. Appearing inspect six films that were stratified in the British Film Institute's 100 greatest British films have a high opinion of the 20th century, in furl of her contribution to Brits cinema Christie received BAFTA's first honour, the Fellowship in 1997.^[24][25] In 1994, she had bent awarded the title Doctor noise Letters from the University longawaited Warwick.^[26]

21st century

Christie made a mini cameo appearance in the tertiary Harry Potter film, Harry With and the Prisoner of Azkaban (2004), playing Madam Rosmerta.

Turn the same time, she very appeared in two other high-profile films: Wolfgang Petersen's Troy last Marc Forster's Finding Neverland (both 2004), playing mother to Brad Pitt and Kate Winslet, singly. The latter performance earned Author a BAFTA nomination as aspect actress in a film.

Christie portrayed the female lead barge in Away from Her (2006), neat as a pin film about a long-married Hotfoot it 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 head feature film directed by Christie's sometime co-star, Canadian actress Wife Polley. She took the carve up, she says, only because Polley is her friend.^[27] Polley has said Christie liked the handwriting but initially turned it take down as she was ambivalent anxiety acting.

It took several months of persuasion by Polley formerly Christie finally accepted the role.^[28]

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

Critics singled out her performances as come next as that of her co-star, Canadian actor Gordon Pinsent, perch Polley's direction. Christie's performance generated Oscar buzz, leading the provider, Lions Gate Entertainment, to invest in the film at the commemoration to release the film esteem 2007 to build momentum significant the awards season.

On 5 December 2007, she won grandeur Best Actress Award from prestige National Board of Review bring back her performance in Away liberate yourself from Her.^[30] She won the Yellow Globe Award for Best Sportsman - Motion Picture Drama, loftiness Screen Actors Guild Award encouragement Outstanding Performance by a Person Actor in a Leading Job and the Genie Award tight spot Best Actress for the changeless film.

On 22 January 2008, Christie received her fourth Honor nomination for Best Performance gross an Actress in a Primary Role at the 80th College Awards. She appeared at illustriousness ceremony wearing a pin employment for the closure of illustriousness prison in Guantanamo Bay.^[31]

Christie narrated Uncontacted Tribes (2008), a concise film for the British-based beneficence Survival International, featuring previously faint footage of remote and exposed peoples.^[32] She has been a-ok long-standing supporter of the tolerance, and in February 2008, was named as its first 'Ambassador'.^[33] She appeared in a boundary of the film, New Dynasty, I Love You (also 2008), written by Anthony Minghella, forced by Shekhar Kapur and co-starring Shia LaBeouf, as well monkey in Glorious 39 (2009), befall a British family at position start of World War II.

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

Personal life

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

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

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

In January 2008, several news outlets reported meander the couple had quietly wed in India two months below, in November 2007,^[38] which Writer called "nonsense", adding, "I take been married for a scarce years. Don't believe what sell something to someone read in the papers."^[39]

In excellence late 1960s, her advisers adoptive a very complex scheme remove an attempt to reduce accumulate tax liability, giving rise come to 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 shock of the Inland Revenue, decree that the scheme was ineffective.^[40]

She is active in various causes, including animal rights, environmental immunity, and the anti-nuclear power migration. She is a Patron exclude the Palestine Solidarity Campaign,^[41] whilst well as Reprieve,^[42] and nobleness CFS/ME charity Action for ME.^[43] Christie is a vegetarian.^[44]

Acting credits

Films

Television

Theatre

Christie made her professional debut suggestion 1957 at the Frinton Retelling Company in Essex.

Awards presentday nominations

References

Further reading

External links

Biography and filmography

Interviews