Julie Christie
British actress (born 1940) / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Julie Frances Christie (born 14 April 1940)[1] is a British actress. An icon of the Swinging Sixties, Christie is the recipient of numerous accolades including an Academy Award, a BAFTA Award, a Golden Globe, and a Screen Actors Guild Award. She has appeared in six films ranked in the British Film Institute's BFI Top 100 British films of the 20th century, and in 1997, she received the BAFTA Fellowship for lifetime achievement.
Julie Christie | |
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 Christie in Doctor Zhivago (1965) | |
| Born | Julie Frances Christie (1940-04-14) 14 April 1940 (age 83) |
| Education | Central School of Speech and Drama |
| Occupation | Actress |
| Years active | 1957–2017 |
| Spouse | Duncan Campbell |
| Partner | Don Bessant (1962–1967) |
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.[2] She continued to receive Academy Award nominations, for McCabe & Mrs. Miller (1971), Afterglow (1997) and Away from Her (2007).
In the following years, she starred 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 known for her performances in Hamlet (1996), and Finding Neverland (2004), Troy and Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban (both 2004).