Julie Christie

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Julie Frances Christie (born 14 April 1940) is a British actress.

She has been nominated for such awards as an Academy Award, a Golden Globe Award, a BAFTA Fellowship, and a Screen Actors Guild Award in the 1960s, making her a symbol of the "swinging London" period of the 1960s.

She has appeared in six films that have been included in the British Film Institute's 100 Great British Films of the 20th Century, and in 1997, she received the BAFTA Fellowship. Billy Liar (1963) was Christie's breakthrough film role.

She came to international prominence for her appearances in Darling (1965), Doctor Zhivago (1966), and Heaven Can Wait (1978), which was the eighth highest-grossing film of all time after adjustment for inflation. Although she appeared in mainstream films as Thetis in Wolfgang Petersen's historical epic Troy and as Madam Rosmerta in Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban (both 2004).

She has continued to receive acclaim for her work, including Oscar nominations for the independent films Afterglow (1997) and Away from Her (2006).

Early life

Christie was born in Assam, British India, on April 14, 1940 at the Singlijan Tea Estate. She has a younger brother, Clive, and an older (deceased) half-sister, June, who was devastated by her father's friendship with an Indian tea picker on his plantation. Julie's parents separated when she was a child, and after her divorce, she spent time with her mother in rural Wales.

After being barred from another convent school for delivering a risqué joke that attracted a larger audience than she had expected, she was ordained in the Church of England and spent time as a boarder at St Leonards-on-Sea, East Sussex. She was asked to leave the Convent of Our Lady as well as attending the all-girls Wycombe Court School, Buckinghamshire, during which she lived with a foster mother from the age of six. She starred "the Dauphin" in a Shaw's Saint Joan production at the Wycombe Academy. She later attended the Central School of Speech and Drama.

Personal life

Christie dated actor Terence Stamp in the early 1960s. She was in a relationship with Don Bessant, a lithographer and art educator, from December 1962 to May 1967, before dating actor Warren Beatty for seven on-and-off years (1967–1974).

Christie married journalist Duncan Campbell in 1979; they have been together since 1979, but the exact date of their marriage is uncertain. Several news outlets announced in January 2008 that the couple had quietly married in India two months before, which Christie described as "nonsense" in November 2007. Don't believe what you read in the newspaper."

Her consultants devised a very elaborate strategy in the late 1960s in an attempt to minimize her tax burden, giving rise to the leading case of Black Nominees Ltd vs Nicol (Inspector of Taxes). Judge Sydney Templeman (who later became Lord Templeman) heard that the Inland Revenue was ineffective, finding that the scheme was ineffective.

She is involved in a variety of fields, including animal rights, environmental protection, and the anti-nuclear power movement. She is a Patron of the Palestine Solidarity Campaign, Reprieve, and CFS/ME's Action for ME.

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Career

Christie made her professional debut on stage in 1957, and her first screen appearances were on British television. Andromeda (1961), her earliest appearance to be noticed, was in BBC serial A for Andromeda (1961). She was a candidate for the role of Honey Ryder in the first James Bond film, Dr. No, but producer Albert R. Broccoli reportedly felt her breasts were too small.

Christie appeared in two comedies for Independent Artists: Crooks Anonymous and The Fast Lady (both 1962). Liz, the confidant and would-be lover of Billy Liar (1963), for which she received a BAFTA Award nomination, was her breakthrough role. After another actress, Topsy Jane, had dropped out of the film, director John Schlesinger starred Christie. In Young Cassidy (1965), a biography of Irish playwright Seán O'Casey directed by Jack Cardiff and (uncredited) John Ford, Christie appeared as Daisy Battles (1965).

Christie's role as a moral model in Darling (also 1965) culminated in her international recognition. Christie was only in the lead role after Schlesinger insisted that the studio wanted Shirley MacLaine, directed by Schlesinger and co-starring Dirk Bogarde and Laurence Harvey. She has been nominated for Best Actress and Best British Actress in a Leading Role by the Academy Award for Best Actress and Best British Actress in a Leading Role for her role.

Christie's role as Lara Antipova became her most well-known in David Lean's Doctor Zhivago (also 1965), which was based on Boris Pasternak's epic/romance book. The film was a big box-office hit. Doctor Zhivago is the 8th highest-grossing film of all time, adjusted for inflation. 1965 was "The Year of Julie Christie," according to Life magazine.

She appeared in Raymond Truffaut's adaptation of the Ray Bradbury novel Fahrenheit 451 (1966), starring Oskar Werner, as Thomas Hardy's heroine Bathsheba Everdene in Schlesinger's Far from the Madding Crowd (1967). She appeared in Richard Lester's Petulia (1968), co-starring George C. Scott after heading to Los Angeles in 1967 ("I was there because of a lot of American boyfriends" ("I was there because of a lot of American boyfriends" in the title role.

Christie's reputation as the swinging sixties British woman she had embodied in Billy Liar and Darling was further highlighted when she appeared in London's documentary Tonite Let's All Make Love. "What Julie Christie dresses has more subtle effect on fashion than any of the ten best-dressed women combined," Time magazine said of her in 1967: "What she wears has more visible influence on fashion than any of the ten best-dressed women combined."

Christie appeared in Joseph Losey's romantic drama The Go-Between (1971), together with Alan Bates. The film was first commended at the Grand Prix and then the main award at the Cannes Film Festival. She received her second Best Actress Oscar nomination for her role as a brothel madame in Robert Altman's postmodern western McCabe & Mrs. Miller (also 1971). Christie and Warren Beatty's first film together, "the most beautiful and at the same time the most nervous person I've ever seen." Between 1967 and 1974, the couple had a high-profile yet sporatic relationship. They appeared together in the comedies Shampoo (1975) and Heaven Can Wait (1978), after the friendship came to an end.

Nicolas Roeg's thriller Don't Look Now (1973), based on a Daphne du Maurier's book, and the science-fiction/horror film Demon Seed (1977), based on Dean Koontz's novel of the same name and directed by Donald Cammell, were two of her many films during the decade. Don't Worry Now is the best British film ever written by a poll of 150 actors, writers, editors, and commentators for Time Out magazine, with Christie nominated for the Best Actress in a Leading Role.

Christie returned to the United Kingdom in 1977 after living on a farm in Wales. She appeared at the 29th Berlin International Film Festival in 1979 as a member of the jury. Christie never was a natural actress in the years, including Anne of the Thousand Days, They Shoot Horses, Don't They?, Nicholas and Alexandra, and Reds, which earned Oscar nominations for the actresses who followed them.

Christie appeared in non-mainstream films such as The Return of the Soldier (1982) and Heat and Dust (1983). She played a significant supporting role in Sidney Lumet's Power (1986), alongside Richard Gere and Gene Hackman, but other than that, she avoided big budget films. Mama Barbara Barlow's mother Barbara, who fought to save her son from being jailed in Malaysia for drug trafficking, appeared in Dadah Is Death (1988), based on Barlow and Chambers' execution.

Christie co-starred in the fantasy adventure film Dragonheart (1996) and appeared as Gertrude in Kenneth Branagh's Hamlet (also 1996). Ann Rudolph's domestic comedy-drama Afterglow (1997 with Nick Nolte, Jonny Lee Miller, and Lara Flynn Boyle was her next critically acclaimed role. Christie received her third Oscar nomination for her role.

In recognition of her contributions to British cinema Christie received the BAFTA's highest accolade, Fellowship in 1997, she appeared in six films that were ranked in the British Film Institute's 100 best British films of the twentieth century. She had been named Doctor of Letters from the University of Warwick in 1994.

Christie appeared in the third Harry Potter film, Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban (2004), starring Madam Rosmerta. She appeared in two other high-profile films, including Wolfgang Petersen's Troy and Marc Forster's Finding Neverland (2004), playing mother and Brad Pitt and Kate Winslet respectively. Christie received a BAFTA nomination as the supporting actress in a film for the second time.

In Away From Her (2006), a film about a long-married Canadian couple coping with the wife's Alzheimer's disease, Christie portrayed the female lead. The film, based on Alice Munro's "The Bear Came Over the Mountain," was Christie's first feature film directed by her sometime co-star, Canadian actress Sarah Polley. She took the position solely because Polley is her friend, according to her. Christie loved the script but initially turned it down because she was still unsure of acting, according to Polley. Polley's persistence lasted several months before Christie eventually accepted the position.

She appeared at the 28th Moscow International Film Festival in July 2006. On September 11, 2006, the debuting of Away from Her as part of the TIFF's Gala preview, including The Hollywood Reporter and the four Toronto dailies, attracted raves from the trade press, including The Hollywood Reporter. Critics ranked out her performances, as well as those of her co-star Gordon Pinsent and Polley's direction. Christie's performance drew Oscar buzz, prompting Lions Gate Entertainment, the film's producer, to order the film in 2007 to gain traction during the awards season.

She received the National Board of Review's Best Actress Award for her role in Away from Her on December 5, 2007. The Golden Globe Award for Best Actress - Motion Picture Drama, the Screen Actor Guild Award for Outstanding Achievement by a Female Actor in a Leading Role and the Genie Award for Best Actress in the same film. Christie received her fourth Oscar nomination for Best Performance by an Actress in a Leading Role at the 80th Academy Awards on January 22, 2008. She wore a pin at the funeral, calling for the closure of the prison in Guantanamo Bay.

Christie narrated Uncontacted Tribes (2008), a short film for the British-based charity Survival International, containing a never-before-eved video of isolated and endangered peoples. She has long been a long-serving supporter of the charity, and she was voted as the charity's first 'Ambassador' in February 2008. She appeared in a New York, I Love You (also 2008), directed by Shekhar Kapur and co-starring Shia LaBeouf, as well as in Glorious 39 (2009) about a British family at the start of World War II.

In Catherine Hardwicke's gothic retelling of Red Riding Hood (2011), Christie played a "sexy, bohemian" interpretation of the grandmother's role. Her most recent work was in the political drama The Company You Keep (2012), where she co-starred Robert Redford and Sam Elliott.

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