Julie Christie
Julie Christie | |
|---|---|
Christie in 1997 | |
| Born | Julie Frances Christie 14 April 1940 Chabua, Assam, British India |
| Nationality | British |
| Education | Central School of Speech and Drama |
| Occupation | Actress |
| Years active | 1957–present |
| Spouse |
Duncan Campbell
(m. 2005; died 2025) |
Julie Frances Christie (born 14 April 1940)[1] is a British actress. Christie's accolades include 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.
Christie's breakthrough role on the big screen was in Billy Liar (1963). She came to international attention for her performances in Darling (1965), for which she won the Academy Award and the BAFTA 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 addition, Christie 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).
- ^ Although most sources cite 1941 as Christie's year of birth, she was in fact born in 1940 and baptised that year.
First name(s) Julie Frances
Last name Christie
Baptism year:1940
Birth year: 1940
Place: Dibrugarh
Presidency Bengal
Mother's first name(s)-
Mother's last name-
Father's first name(s)-
Father's last name Christie
Baptism date: 1940
Birth date: 1940
Archive reference: N-1-606&607
Folio: #93
Catalogue descriptions: Parish register transcripts from the Presidency of Bengal
Records: British India Office births & baptisms
Category: Birth, Marriage, Death & Parish Records
Record collection: Births & baptisms
Collections from Great Britain - ^ "All Time Box Office Adjusted for Ticket Price Inflation". Boxofficemojo.com. Retrieved 27 March 2012.