Julie Christie

For the New Zealand television producer and businesswoman, see Julie Christie (producer).

Julie Christie
Christie in 1997
Born
Julie Frances Christie

(1940-04-14) 14 April 1940 (age 84)
Chabua, Assam, British India
NationalityBritish
EducationCentral School of Speech and Drama
OccupationActress
Years active1957–2017
SpouseDuncan Campbell
PartnerDon Bessant (1962–1967)

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 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 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) as well as Finding Neverland, Troy and Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban (all 2004).

  1. ^ 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
  2. ^ "All Time Box Office Adjusted for Ticket Price Inflation". Boxofficemojo.com. Retrieved 27 March 2012.